...water laughing softly down a black stone wall.
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed soundlessly in the wind like lost souls.
You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.