Stones. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Stones


I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. St. Luke, Chap. xix. Ver. 40.	1
I hold it truth with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.—In Memoriam, I. Verse 1.	2
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Habakkuk, Chap. ii. Ver. 11.	3
What, worst of villains! for thou on thy part wouldst enrage the temper even of a stone. Buckley’s Sophocles.—(Œdipus Tyr., Page 13.)	4
But were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citizens.)	5