From scarpèd cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.
These investigations have also developed certain fundamental facts relative to the effects of blasting (as compared with channeling or cutting) on the strength and durability of quarried building stone.
Pillars and rafters were quarriedfrom an adjoining bluff, distant only some fifty yards from the ruins.
The name is explained by a story that the god or hero Maui brought the massive stones in a gigantic canoe from Uea (Wallis Island), where the great holes in the rock from which he quarried them may still be seen.
The peasants quarried stone and brought material, the young men dressed it, and the masons raised the lofty piers and fashioned the groined roof beneath the eye of the 'master of the work.
Though the stratifications of this sparry limestone are horizontal, the rock is little divided by seams and fissures, and would undoubtedly afford a valuable marble, not unlike the Darling marble quarried on the Hudson.
Small specimens from many parts of this stratum could not be distinguished from the red sandstone quarried at Nyae in New Jersey, and used in great quantities in the cities of New York, Albany, &c.
Its texture is vesicular, yet it is sufficiently compact to admit of being quarried with advantage, and the stones are applied to the purposes of milling with the best success.
As it is dug up or quarried from the adhering spar, it presents a very rich appearance.
The Wenlock limestone is exposed at Falfield mill and Whitfield, and quarried for burning at May hill.
The series of sandy shales and sandstones which, as Downton sandstones and Ledbury shales, form a transition to the Old Red Sandstone are quarried at Dymock.
Iron, lead, copper, coal and marble are worked to a small extent, and millstones are quarriedin some places.
Extensive remains of this village exist, though they are being rapidly quarried away for building; some inscriptions of great importance have been found here.
The general thickness of the sheet is from a foot to a foot and a half; and this is the chief source from which the fermier draws the ice, as it is much more easily quarried than the solid floor.
The limestone, moreover, which is of so late a date in geological chronology, was quarried for building those ancient temples of Girgenti and Syracuse, of which the ruins carry us back to a remote era in human history.
So firmly is the lowest portion consolidated, that it is quarried for mill-stones.
The main street is now quarried through this lava, which supplied building stones for new houses erected where others had been annihilated.
The earliest building on the site is a small rectangular structure, with walls of polygonal masonry, built of the rock quarried on the spot.
Both the Upper Old Red and Triassic sandstones have been largely quarriedfor building purposes.
The branches are then lopped off, and, with portions of the trunk, are heaped into a roughly constructed oven formed of quarried stone.
Strange to say, the stone was not quarried in Cyprus, but is a kind of blue granite which must have been imported from either Cilicia, or Egypt.
The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges.
Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years.
It is abundant in America and is largely quarried in the United States for building purposes, especially in New England.
The core is of roughly quarried rubble, mixed with rubbish and limestone fragments hastily bedded in layers of mud, or piled up without any kind of mortar.
It is built entirely of limestone, quarried from the neighbouring hills.
Here the cliffs were quarried from above, and under the open sky.
The transport of quarried stone was effected in various ways.
At Santa Ana they become more fissile and slaty in character and in several places are quarried and used for roofing.
The plucking action of ice has an excellent chance for expression, since the granite may be quarried cleanly without the production of a large amount of spoil which would load the ice and diminish the intensity of its plucking action.
They were probably quarried by Giblite "stone-cutters," but placed in their present position during the middle ages.
The shrine is built of a certain number of large blocks, which have been quarried and brought to the spot; it has a stone roof with an entablature, and attains an elevation above the court of not less than twenty-seven feet.
Nor was there much less danger where a mountain was quarried for the sake of its metallic treasures.
They have been quarried in the island itself, and the beds of rock from which they were taken may be seen at no great distance.
Its central position, in the middle of an excavated court, and its mixed construction, partly of native rock and partly of quarried stone, have been already described.
The cell is formed of fourquarried blocks, which are laid one over the other.
It is easy to assume that, because a granite in a certain locality is profitably quarried and used, some other granite in the same locality has equal chances.
In Kentucky most of the sandstone quarried is known locally as "freestone.
As to the monolithic tombs, they were abandoned to any one who cared to have them, and for many centuries have been regarded as stones quarried ready for use.
The road, though carried skilfully along each easy slope or ledge of quarried rock, still winds so much that nearly an hour is spent in the ascent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
