One of the small girls slipped on the wet patch left by Sharpe's holystone.

God, was that his voice - a rasping croak like a holystone being dragged across a dry deck?

Holystone is a small village in Northumberland, England.

I swear we'll wear out the wood afore we've finished,' Stafford said, giving the holystone he was holding an extra flourish.

Holystone is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

En route, she befriends the ship's open-minded steward, Holystone.

At daylight, with a clear horizon, the guns were secured and head-pumps rigged to scrub and holystone the deck.

'Mr Simmons, be so good as to select our very best hands with holystone and swab and send them aft.

Holystone is a soft and brittle sandstone that was formerly used for scouring and whitening the wooden decks of ships.

Davidson's dogs descended from earlier terrier owning families, including the Allans of Holystone, Northumberland.

He became a breeder of greyhounds and one of his dogs, Holystone Lifelong, won the Waterloo Cup in 1953.

In the early 12th century Holystone became the home of a priory of Augustinian Canonesses.

Chip War happens three times in a day, where the winning race obtains the right to control the guardian of the mines - the dreaded Holystone Keeper.

It then transpires that Holystone is an incarnation of Arthur, who for a thousand years had lain in suspended animation on an island in the missing lake.

As of Episode 2, Giga 1 (Crimson Dawn), the Holystone Keeper will be vulnerable for 30 minutes after a control chip has been broken.

Killingworth (Palmersville, Holystone and half of Killingworth)

There, they befriend gangsters Jacuzzi Splot and Nice Holystone and the immortal boy Czeslaw Meyer.

Whilst their ultimate origin remains unknown, dogs owned by the Allans of Holystone, Northumberland in the early 1700s are thought to have been involved in their early origins.

The two ships were so close that a Confederate sailor began shouting insults at Lackawanna's crew; Smith responded by throwing a holystone into one of Tennessee's portholes at him.

You're sitting here chatting, you're not standing watches, you'll sleep soundly tonight in a bed with no chance of being roused out to take in a reef, and there's no deck to holystone tomorrow morning.

'Our Father, which art in Heaven'--and strengthened by the second verb in the predominant construction and usage, 'Get down on your chart 'n 'eavens and holystone the deck.'

It passes Harbottle, near which relics of the Stone Age are seen, and Holystone, where it is recorded that Bishop Paulinus baptized a great body of Northumbrians in the year 627.

Once broken, the player who has dealt the last blow on the chip must touch base at the center of the mine caverns, to earn his race an extra 60 minutes of mining time guarded by the Holystone Keeper.

He flung the cape back over his shoulders, like a bird settling its wings, and rubbed a hand over the stubble along the side of his jaw, the rasping reminding Ramage of a holystone sliding along a dry deck.

Holystone, Monkseaton, North Shields and Seatonville were used for the last time in 2003, and replaced by 4 new wards; Killingworth, Monkseaton North, Monkseaton South and Preston.