Even the stone - a real material that provides the Beck's formal decoration - represents the earth in abstract form.

Another stone at the farm may represent the remains a primitive cheese press.

"The stones represent much more than even the great power stored within them," Elbryan went on, his voice controlled and even.

A stone in a field represents typical one kind of information for the geologist, another for the archaeologist.

Every stone together represented an anagram of Earth, its whole composition and continuity.

For all her friends' teasing, she wanted desperately what the stone represented.

The stones in the house may represent either stones or trinkets.

Some people think these stones were brought here by their remote ancestors and represent a kind of primitive religion.

The questions arising from this are, "A stone may represent a man but how?