Steady as a rock.

Used to be like a rock.

He's got a head like a boulder.

You've got to be like stone, like the rock of judgement.

As you say, sir, she's as steady as a rock.

A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock solid compared to their debt heavy counterparts in the US and Europe.

Who gives but little , and is niggardly ?

And he gave a little , then refrained ?

and gives a little , and then grudgingly ?

And gave little , and then stopped ?

And gave a little , then stopped ( giving ) ?

And gave a little , and held back ?

who gave a little , and then stopped ?

And gave a little , then was grudging ?

gave a little and held off ?

and gives a little , grudgingly ?

And gave a little and then refrained ?

and grudgingly spends very little for the cause of God ?

And gives a little and ( then ) withholds .

who at first gave a little , then later held back ?

Gives a little , then hardens ( his heart ) ?

We find it intuitively easy to grasp ideas like, when a rabbit moves at the sort of medium velocity at which rabbits and other Middle World objects move, and hits another Middle World object like a rock, it knocks itself out.

We are evolved denizens of Middle World, and that limits what we are capable of imagining. We find it intuitively easy to grasp ideas like, when a rabbit moves at the sort of medium velocity at which rabbits and other Middle World objects move, and hits another Middle World object, like a rock, it knocks itself out.