It was gone, fallen away from him along with bis world, the world of the Promise, the barren stone.

The barren stone was like his inefficacy-irreducible and binding.

At first glance, the Sinai Desert behind the hotel is a forbidding place, nothing but dry, barren stones and sheer granite slopes.

The waves washed against the barren stone, making froth.

And I must linger cold, alone, and loveless as a barren stone!

Stronger are your feet than the barren stone!

With its dark ledge of barren stone...

But what had seemed an adventure into once-upon-a-time at its outset, came down to ordinary, barren stone, with more spits of sleet to sting their faces.

Arhu lay there gazing down at the barren black stone of the floor, and did not move or think, at least for any of them to hear.

Ten years ago, the killer had carefully avoided obvious paths, concentrating his movements across barren stone or through water.