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1. Two guards dragged her through dark narrow hallways and down a dank stairway framed by walls of roughly quarried stone
2. It’s divided into sections; the hedged area with swings and benches and footpaths paved with quarried flagstones
3. As you know, the walls of our church at Lindisfarne were made of stone that had been quarried from an ancient Roman ruin
4. armies toiled to carve the huge blocks of special quarried stone
5. An impressive structure of wood and quarried stone, with great windows, long
6. quarried between thirty and fifty thousand years ago
7. Built by women for women’s use, the 6,000+-year-old ‘community centers’ that dot the islands were constructed of huge blocks of stone that had to be quarried, transported a great distance and raised, then fitted with incredible precision…in a period when no mechanical devices existed! Local legend tells of an Amazonian woman who carried the stones and set them in place
8. have quarried and perfectly cut such giant blocks with
9. At their feet fell the precipice where the limestone was quarried away
10. Four huge stones were piled on its flatbed, rough-hewn and incised with the mark of the man who had quarried them
11. That rose-colored stone, marked by dense swirling patterns and quarried from the de Castro Mountains in North Harchong, was the favorite medium of the Church’s sculptors and architects
12. More likely, thought William, the towers had been quarried whole out of granite, and somewhere in Vermont twin holes plunged a thousand feet into the bedrock
13. The smallfolk hereabouts called it the Milkhouse, for its walls and keeps and towers were made of finely dressed white stone, quarried in the Vale and brought over the mountains at great expense
14. What a hot and strong grasp he had! and how like quarried marble was his pale, firm, massive front at this moment! How his eye shone, still
15. Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox
16. What of that? Who's afraid of black's afraid of me! I'm quarried out of it!
17. The sandstone is for the most part gray, in some parts spotted red and brown, forming, as the section represents, the last stratum seen; the beds of sandstone are but a few inches in thickness, and the last (17) becomes less than an inch; it is probable, however, from the relative situation, from the dip and direction, that these strata are a continuation of others seen on the other side of the hill, where they are of sufficient thickness to have been quarried for the purposes of architecture
18. Steatite is common, and is quarried in Litchfield
19. Some of the Storeton Stone, if free from clay galls, although very soft when quarried, becomes hardened by exposure, and will stand the weather much better than a harder and more pretentious material
20. That the Pelasgicum was of considerable size is known from the fact that it was one of the sacred precincts occupied when the people came crowding in from the country at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, 117 and from the inscription 118 which forbade that stone should be quarried in or carried from the precinct, or that earth should be removed therefrom
1. There were also mines and stone quarries
2. On Cefn Croes in Wales the developer built a complete concrete factory on the site, which is not unusual, as well as opened quarries to provide rock for new roads -- neither of which activities were part of the original planning application
3. 19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, O king, who said, Keep silence; And all that stood by him went out from him
4. 26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath
5. stones were all located and supplied by Ghanbar Rahimi, whose knowledge of the quarries was second
6. “There are no quarries on the island
7. other rock bearing quarries
8. other local quarries that have
9. Quarries do not use fire to a large extent because it is too expensive to pay laborers on a twenty-four hour a day basis to keep the fires fed
10. Horan has to go to the limestone quarries in Vermont, which is cost, time and trouble for him
11. The man was traveling from the stone quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts and they had agreed by mail upon the meeting time and date
12. He was employed at quarries during the warm weather months but had to search for other work when the quarry ceased operation in the winter
13. This method was not used at large quarries because they closed down for the winter
14. “I have seen that done at the quarries when they were shy of gun powder to blast or lacked laborers to pound conical iron rods
15. The city’s industry and quarries were located to the north, on the edge of the inhospitable and mysterious Northland, so that the approach from the south was unsullied
16. Paths and lanes were constructed through which the granite blocks were moved after being transported from the quarries of Upper Egypt by boats traveling up the Nile
17. Her earlier intuition regarding quarries and chisels had been sharp--razor sharp
18. So Paul and Arthur scoured the coppices and woods and old quarries, so long as a blackberry was to be found, every week-end going on their search
19. "I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries
20. He was called count, he was said to possess 50,000 livres per annum; and his father's immense riches, buried in the quarries of Saravezza, were a constant theme
21. A learned man, before whom the last circumstance was mentioned as a fact, declared he had seen the quarries in question, which gave great weight to assertions hitherto somewhat doubtful, but which now assumed the garb of reality
22. given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time
23. "The fine stone employed in the construction was brought from quarries in Sweden, Scotland, Italy, Algeria, Finland, Spain, Belgium and France
24. Great stores of goods and food, and beer, were found that had been hidden away by the ruffians in sheds and barns and deserted holes, and especially in the tunnels at Michel Delving and in the old quarries at Scary; so that there was a great deal better cheer that Yule than anyone had hoped for
25. That close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of the savage and the citizen, those vast desert nooks where the garrison drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those hermits by day and cut-throats by night, that clumsy mill which turns in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with sunshine and full of butterflies,—all this attracted him
26. Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the plain of Issy, in one of the abandoned quarries which are so numerous in that side of Paris
27. Some quarries of this rock have been opened in Massachusetts; and in Vermont are extensively wrought
28. It is also in the valley of this river, and not far from its famous passage through the Blue Ridge, that immense quarries of beautiful Breccia have been opened
29. Most of you will, no doubt, have observed the sort of marbling or grain upon the stone of our old buildings, such as the Town-Hall, which I believe was obtained from quarries occupying the site of the St
30. I may mention, however, that the quarries of Grinshill, between Shrewsbury and Hawkstone, yield a beautiful white sandstone, of a finer grain than Storeton, but of a similar quality
31. Toutain had commenced researches in two necropoli of the city hoping to find tombs and epitaphs of the freedmen and slaves employed in the neighbouring quarries
32. —, —, —, of Cheirotherium, at the Storeton quarries, xxxvi, 394; xxxvii, 223
1. The amount of minerals and the quality rock used to produce rock dust depends on the location of the for quarry, and the mining process
2. I remember having to go up to the quarry on fire watch duty sometimes … you can see clear across the village from there … right over to Wales on a good day
3. When the church in the Boulevard copped it, you could see the smoke and flames from the quarry quite clearly
4. I’ve discovered that he lives in a house up by the quarry on the western boundaries of the village – I’ve not seen it but he says there are fantastic views over the village from his bedroom window … I contemplate what it would be like to find out … then read myself the riot act for being so … so … optimistic
5. But there was no sign of the authorities and now the Cyclops took its time on the horizon half hidden by the glare - the predator had sighted its quarry
6. As he came around a rather large piece of machinery he saw his quarry
7. Red puffed up his feathers; and what of your quarry?
8. The ladies espied Harry before he was aware, and marveled at his technique and the fluid movement of the silk line as it snaked back over his head and then with a flick of his wrist, sped by his hat and flew out toward his quarry
9. He charged up to the gate as soon as he lost sight of his quarry, but lost him in the crowd
10. Since then he had the Music Manufacturing lobby staked out, but so far he had not regained his quarry
11. Corrente was impatient to lay his hands on his quarry, so it
12. directly to his quarry
13. recognised his quarry the moment he saw him
14. detailed description of his quarry
15. would find his quarry
16. In order to rebuild Lock Core, they must now travel halfway to the Eternal Sea in order to quarry their stone
17. They regularly asked after their quarry, but –
18. at least five days on their quarry
19. aching, hopeful that their quarry had arrived during the
20. unaware that their quarry was now – somehow – behind
21. miles shy of his quarry as they bedded down to sleep that
22. nothing of their quarry, and had reached the point where
23. quarry before nightfall, but when they approached the
24. A good stone quarry in the
25. She could almost think there was more in the way his eyes watched her than a machine guarding its quarry the way Viktor's eyes were
26. The value of a free-stone quarry, for example, will necessarily increase with the increasing improvement and population of the country round about it, especially if it should be the only one in the neighbourhood
27. The market for the produce of a free-stone quarry can seldom extend more than a few miles round about it, and the demand must generally be in proportion to the improvement and population of that small district ; but the market for the produce of a silver mine may extend over the whole known world
28. As they came abreast and between Reia and Jista's cover, the two sprang out and pulled their quarry behind the separate doors
29. A few hairs were all that remained of their rodent quarry
30. We were about twenty feet from our quarry when
31. Seeing his quarry, Dorro gingerly moved towards the back of the shop
32. Ollie Harris stood on the doorstep, rain dripping from his raincoat onto the quarry tiles in the hallway
33. We fought a number of encounters, but our quarry still eluded us
34. Maybe she was having a final dream of chasing through the forest, running down her quarry with the unique whelping noise she made
35. Fortunately, as well as innocently, as Man had followed in pursuit of his favored quarry, he began to discern the patterns of their existence
36. Had he been so fortunate as to stumble onto his quarry so soon? He tried the strange word that he had learned
37. They looked frustrated because their quarry was gone
38. The rest of us continued south picking our way over some high mountains to reach our next quarry, a people called the Q’asa-marka
39. But I know nothing of such things except of course that I could tell a mine from a quarry
40. If you stand on your toes you can make out an old rock quarry and the train tracks that run past it
41. They saw their quarry leave and pulled sneakily out of the layby to follow the black cab
42. My anonymous quarry took part in the conversation like an old friend, her voice
43. In all instances, the ‗hound‘ had to be a dog built to outrun its quarry with speeds
44. The call often culminated a period of intense digging and research by Park that gave him insight into the personality and vulnerabilities of his quarry
45. He hated the place fiercely but knew that there would be no other way to get to his quarry
46. The Son of Theron was now in the deeper parts of Aiken, why? It turned about in search of it quarry it would have its revenge
47. He is hooked—this threat of leaving shows the executioner more than any actions could that his quarry is willing to stay
48. Once the pack has scented the wolf, it will neither rest nor turn aside to other quarry until the chosen prey is dispatched
49. And so it happened that when the black and the bronze appeared as distant specks high above, it was to observe their quarry lounging on a huge white silk tablecloth that was scattered with glinting silver dishes and pitchers and centered by a twelve-flame candelabra, leisurely enjoying a fine repast
50. His eyes never wavered from his quarry