stonelike

She wished she might greet her squatter friends as of yore, but her heart was sad and lay stonelike in her breast.

It was wholly impossible for them to crush the stonelike casing with their bills.

Claire René would watch the flamelight spread over the stonelike face.

She winced almost as if he had struck her; and then the parted lips closed, her whole face assumed a stonelike dignity.

The first fire—a slow one—baked the clay into a rigid stonelike sheath inside the logs and presently the sticks were burned away.