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quarries
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n. (plural of quarry English)
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Quarries - (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (see Zedekiah's Cave ) — not found in Scripture — is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha , on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns stones, a hard ...
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Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. Quarries . [OE. querre, OF. cuiri['e]e, F. cur['e]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L. corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the akin of the beast. See Cuirass .] A part of the entrails of the beast taken, ...
Usage examples of quarries.
Been taking care of stupid sheep most of me life, Quarries mumbled, staggering over to the bed.
Then, when the person waved to her, she realized it was young Quarries, with Dubh beside him.
She assumed Quarries had a good impression of her, for he listened to her words and often nodded vigorously in agreement while making her laugh.
Gilberto Topolino to go back to the quarries, that would have been unfair.
If they cannot find what we need you must go yourself to the quarries and find our marble.
He waded through water up to his knees to clean off the loose debris, remembering the months he had spent in the quarries searching for the purest bed, supervising the cutting of the big blocks from the mountainside, lowering them down the precipitous slopes on cables and rollers, loading them on wagons which took them to the beach, rolling them gently over the sand onto the boats at low tide, all without a chip or crack or stain.
Their life in the quarries was so dangerous that when they parted from each other they did not say, "Good-by"
They were asking him about yesterday's search through the quarries of Grotta Colombara and Ronco.
The Polvaccio, at the extreme end of the Poggio Silvestro, produced good statuary white, but the surrounding quarries of Battaglino, Grotta Colombara and Ronco contained ordinary marbles with slanting veins.
But as he had spent his days in the quarries, detecting intuitively the hollows, bubbles, veining, knots.
Here he looked and felt no different from all the other men returning home from the quarries or marble shops.
Pelliccia owned important marble quarries, yet he did not use his friendship as an excuse to press his output upon Michelangelo.
Afterwards he asked about the Pope's plan for opening quarries in Pietrasanta, news of which had seeped through from Rome.
Had he been yearning for the Pope to open the Pietrasanta quarries, even while he proclaimed the feat impossible?
If he could start the marble columns flowing out of the quarries and onto the beach by October, his job would be done.