We have put our roots in narrow and stony ground.

The shores around the lake were stony ground.

Islamabad is a city built on dry, stony ground, so the police and demonstrators had ample supplies of stones.

She went down the slope and rode across the dark, stony ground and came to where he lay.

The moon shed a pale light over the flat, stony ground as she moved round the curve of the escarpment.

This species of land snail lives in Madeira on dry, stony ground.

The grave was a square pit in very stony ground.

That would seem to show that if you can free the man from the machine, the seed does not fall upon altogether stony ground.

Instead the cord kept running out, with its quiet whine, until suddenly his feet touched solid, stony ground.

They walked along the broken, stony ground for several minutes.