The seaward side of Storm's End perched upon a pale white cliff, the chalky stone sloping up steeply to half again the height of the massive curtain wall.

The pillars were painted red in the Middle Ages, and ship images scratched into the soft, chalky stone would have been much more conspicuous than they are now.

Except for the sparse green sea grass along the shore, the island seemed little more than a heap of chalky white stone tossed up from the seabed.

Large boulders were mixed in the deposit, too, but the woman's eyes narrowed when she saw several medium-size, chalky gray stones.

Then she reached for the chalky gray stone and positioned it on the anvil.

Historically, Chailluz quarries provided the chalky, blue and beige mottled stone from which the majority of old buildings in the center of Besançon were built.

More lumps of the hard flint encased in a white opaque crust jutted out from the somewhat less hard chalky stone.

Blood spilled on the white pavement and on the chalky stones of the pyramid itself.

It looks achingly perfect from a distance, like an outsize egg, its chalky white stones gleaming in the harsh winter light.

There was a great flat floor, flagged in white stone, now chalky, broken and inter-thrust by weeds.