adv. [f. STONY a. + -LY2.] In a stony manner. Chiefly fig.: cf. STONY 5.
a. 1845. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Blasph. Warn., 722. And very few saw … A small stony Saint…. Beckon stonily downward to some one below.
1859. W. H. Gregory, Egypt in 1855–6, II. 35. The huge columns of the central hall, the colossal figures gazing stonily upon me … fell like a waking nightmare upon my imagination.
1899. Conan Doyle, Duet, 248. Harrison began to laugh, and then turned stonily solemn.
