Crossword-Solution: STONIER 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

She pattered across the damp, stony lower hall and I followed her up the high staircase--stonier still, as it seemed--without an invitation.

Beyond these rose a further wall of mountain, the lower heights still overgrown with beautiful grass and plants, above which were stonier slopes, covered only with scrub, that led gradually up to the steep, bare rocky summits.

The truth is,” his tone grew somber, “I was desperate! I _had_ to have work!” The candor of his smile would have disarmed a stonier-hearted person than Miss Cornelia.

Ratcliffe's grey eyes grew colder and stonier than ever as he gradually perceived that Baron Jacobi was carrying on a set scheme with malignant ingenuity, to drive him out of Madeleine's house, and he swore a terrible oath that he would not be beaten by that monkey-faced foreigner.

But for the Romans, they were indeed getting ready to cross the ford when the mist should have risen; and on the bank it was thinning already and melting away; for a little air of wind was beginning to breathe from the north-east and the sunrise, which was just at hand; and the bank, moreover, was stonier and higher than the meadow's face, which fell away from it as a shallow dish from its rim: thereon yet lay the mist like a white wall.