In Chinese, we say that you can bore a hole in a stone by the steady dripping of water.

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He used this stone to knock a hole through the plaster, lathing, and masonry of the supposed sky, and when the stone rattled off into emptiness on the other side he reached up into the hole and pulled himself through.

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It was later found to fit exactly into a large rectangular stone with a worn hole which was located at the base of the Canna cross.

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When the train stopped at a station in that country, the police dragged Narayana off the train and put him in a small eight-foot-by-eight-foot room with a cold stone floor and a hole in the corner that served as a toilet.

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