Stonebound

Quick meaning: Stonebound is an adjective meaning Bounded by stone.

Meaning

Bounded by stone.

Example Sentences

Austere, foreboding, it rises on a stonebound table over a tributary of the Loire.

We crossed a stream you couldn’t see from the road, feet drumming the floorboards of the wooden bridge to send a heartbeat through the mute village of stonebound, narrow lanes.

To the west lay the great basin of the Nile, a stonebound, godless waste, scarce redeemed by wide-spreading acacias and the green-streaked courses of innumerable streamlets that oozed from the sun-baked hills and struggled through the dancing heat of the lowlands to join the Nile.

The desolate images of rocks, of “stonebound suffering,” are every now and then juxtaposed with messages of inspiration like those of the epiphany of light in the lemon trees, of the re-creation of the winter wonderland of childhood, and of the sunflower, “crazed with light,” which can be found where “life evaporates as essence.”

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