There they shone for one whirling moment around a mottled, hand-sized stone floating alone in midair.

Its buttressed walls were of mottled blue stone, and the structure was moulded to the slope.

One is a roughly octagonal column of mottled gray-brown stone, toppled on its side and held off the floor by glass marbles scattered beneath it.

It was a tiny knife, carved from some strange type of mottled stone, almost the same color as its owner.

The big domed forehead, bigger and more domed because the hair had fallen from it, looked like a great mottled stone or lump of fungus.

I stood beside the marker: a mortared pile of nine mottled, gray-green stones chipped to fit snuggly together.

The effect was paralleled in cups made of mottled stone.

She found a good toehold and scrambled the rest of the way up the mottled stone.

Before him, the mist swept back, revealing mottled stone steps the stretched endlessly toward great oaken doors.

Less than 50 yards away, providing a curiously formal backdrop to this encounter, Parliament's huge west wing presents an imposing façade of mottled brown stone.