The black stone is a fondly held concept in our area, where snakebites are common and sometimes fatal.

The IVQ test has scotched a prejudice - as fondly held in France, it seems, as it is in Britain - that young people are less well-educated than their elders and that the problem gets worse every year.

Structural theories, as fondly held for ages, had thoroughly collapsed already when "unconscious" fog and pain had been penetrated to discover the engram as an aberrative unit.

Furthermore, the glint in his eyes suggested he would not be averse to adding a half-elf to his collection of fondly held memories.

At 10:13 27th Dec 2011, JunkkMale wrote: Growth in audience figures may be seen by some, and indeed claimed by them as an impressive demonstration of fondly held notions.

The editors who introduced the spread said that the death of Jesus was 'summarily blamed upon the Jews', until this 'fondly held belief seemed destined to fade forever' after Vatican II.

But the memories are fondly held.

At best, he shows us, these fondly held "self-evident" truths are woefully misguided.

Pat Adcock had had fondly held hopes blighted before.

Of course, in the French countryside they are not so unpatriotic, but the old, fondly held belief that you cannot eat badly anywhere in France, however so humble the little hole-in-the-wall establishment may be, is no longer truly tenable.