"No single stone should have stopped me like that."
Let us make an end: run, some of you, and find stones to stop the burrow, for now the sport is done.
The stones would delay the humans, but not stop them.
"The stone throwing which we have seen in this country should stop now."
Only fire killed Thread on land: only stone and metal stopped its progress.
The clattering stones sound stopped and the Other got out.
Stone and dust diminished in size, until some of the party said the stone had stopped.
But if they're peons, as seems more likely, stones will stop them.
After all we have been through I don't mean to let a mere stone stop me.
He stopped twisting the handle in surprise, and the stone stopped moving.