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stone dead

Rur. dead; unquestionably dead; long dead. The cat was stone dead and stiff as a board by the time we got to him. Old Tom is stone dead and in the ground.

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He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead. Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context The hog, hit by the electric ball, fell stone dead. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context I HAVE heerd say, mim, that the illnesses of some ladies was all pretensions, and that they could faint away, stone dead, whenever they had the inclinations so to do. Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context			stinking rich stinking with stir stir around stir into stir to stir up stir up a hornet's nest stir-crazy stitch stitch in time saves nine stitch onto stitch up stock stock in trade stock up stock with stoke up stoked on stolen stolen fruit is sweetest stomach stomp stomp on stone stone dead stone sober Stone the crows! stone's throw away stool stoop stoop down stoop over stoop to stoop to doing stop stop at stop at nothing stop behind stop by stop cold stop dead in tracks stop for stop from doing stop in tracks stop off stop on stop on a dime stop one dead in tracks stop over stop short			Stone City Kennel Club Stone coal Stone coal Stone Cold Bush Stone Cold Killers Stone Cold Steve Austin Stone Cold University :-) Stone coral Stone County Stone County Economic Development Partnership Stone County, AR Stone County, Arkansas Stone County, Mississippi Stone County, Missouri Stone County, MO Stone County, MS stone crab Stone crawfish stone cress Stone crush stone curlew stone curlew stone curlews stone curlews Stone Cutters Axe stone dead stone deaf stone die stone die stone die stone die stone disease stone drain stone drill stone dust Stone eater Stone Edge Order Manager Stone Effect Moulded Monuments Ltd. Stone ender stone facing stone facing Stone falcon Stone Federation Great Britain Stone fern Stone fish Stone fish Stone fish Stone Flies stone fly stone fruit stone fruit stone fruits stone fruits Stone Fruits Virus Stone Gate Stone-Gators Stone Glass Works

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