paving stone

Tha are verry tuff ov life, and will outlive an injun rubber shoe, and don't seem tew gro old enny faster than a paving stone duz.

In case of a row, a paving-stone in trouser-pocket is worth a Krupp's Battery in the bush.

Don't you know what happens if you lay a heavy weight, such as a big paving-stone, on the ground?

At every step he crushed a flint, or split a contractor's paving-stone, and an asphalt walk was a quagmire to him.

A sheet of wet paper would afford as much resistance to a paving-stone as the walls of a steamboat cabin to a six-pound shot.