Here is a mass of such a rock sent to me from Halifax: here are other masses from thequarries of Over Darwen in Lancashire.
Guided by a friend who knew the country, I became acquainted with its chief beauties, and concluded the expedition by a visit to Bangor and the neighbouring slate quarries of Penrhyn.
Those who have visited the slate quarries of Cumberland and North Wales will have witnessed the phenomena to which I refer.
Have you become an amateur of damp quarries and skimming dishes?
He had just ordered at this time the construction of the two southern pylons at Karnak, and there was great activity in the quarries of Silsileh.
He worked the sandstone quarries for his building materials, and continued the custom of celebrating the feasts of the inundation at Silsileh.
He either built a temple to the Theban god, or enlarged the one which his father had constructed at Karnak, and even opened new quarries at Syene and Silsileh for providing granite and sandstone for the adornment of this monument.
All this district is imperfectly explored, but we know that it contains mines and quarries some of which were worked as late as in the time of the Mameluk Sultans.
Acting on this information, he brought together all those who suffered from physical defects, and confined them, to the number of eighty thousand, in the quarries of Tûrah.
The island has at all times been noted for its quarries of white marble which supplied the material for several famous buildings of antiquity (e.
Greek: lychnos], a lamp) in allusion to the fact that the quarrieswere worked by the light of lamps.
The marble was derived from the quarries of Mount Pentelicus in Attica.
Limestone quarries and sulphur mines supply building stone and sulphur to the regions of central Italy; chalk and petroleum are also found.
In India we find important quarries at Makrana in Rajputana,--a locality which is said to have yielded the marble for the famous Taj Mahal at Agra.
This stone was largely used in the buildings of Carthage and Rome, but the quarries which yielded it were not known to modern sculptors until 1849, when it was rediscovered near Oued-Abdallah.
The mountain which has supplied Athens with marble for twenty-five hundred years is only a few miles from the city and its quarries are still unexhausted.
The obelisks were cut in a single shaft, most of them from granite quarries near Assuan.
From one end of the Nile valley to the other the quarries were reopened, and the arts, stimulated by the orders which flowed in, soon flourished anew.
The quarries were deserted, the pocket in the valley, where the Israelites had pitched their tents, was as solitary as it had ever been.
Rachel wrapped her wimple about her face and removed it once only to gaze at thequarries of Masaarah.
It is said the Hebrews of these quarriesrose against the new driver and drove him out of the camp, crying, 'Return us our Atsu, return us our Atsu.
The quarries had not been worked for half a century.
The glamour that had made the quarries sufferable had passed; all the realization of her enslavement, with the accompanying shame, came to her, and her hope for Israel was lost in the destruction of her personal happiness.
One morning he saw her at the quarries and, taken with her beauty, asked her at the hands of the Pharaoh, for the hatefullest bondage pure maidenhood ever knew.
When Atsu emerged from the mouth of the little valley into the quarries some time after the midday meal, he was confronted by the murket and the royal scribe.
Therefore, the convicts whose misdeeds were too serious to be punished adequately by the bastinado or the fine, and yet not grave enough to merit a sentence to the quarries or the mines, were sent to the canals.
The author has taken liberty with accepted history in the age of Meneptah's first-born and in placing Hebrews in the quarries at Masaarah.
Half-way across the field toward the quarries Rachel was coming, with a scroll in her lifted hand.
He went again to the line of rocks and threw the shovel with a sure aim and a strong arm into the quarries across the valley.
Nari went on: "But the soldier told me further that the Israelites had spent the night chanting and dancing before their God, and it seems from this spot that the quarries are empty.
As they passed the stone wharf at Masaarah, Nari looked toward the quarries with a show of interest on her face.
Away to the south, behind them, were the quarries of Masaarah.
The hard life of the quarries hath not robbed thee in the least of thy radiance.
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.
Fatigued by the wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes in the lime-kilns, sometimes in the abandoned quarries of Montmatre or Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers.
Sibley quarries in limestone near Trenton may be visited.
By means of their disguise they planned to distribute themselves on the road, among the guides of the escort, and massacre them, their rallying-point being the quarries of Nanterre; but their plots were for the second time foiled.
To furnish materials for this construction many quarries were opened or taken over from the French road service.
All design of diaper, canopy, lettering, and quarries is so, in all the examples selected.
It seemed that Fritz had the range of the Quarries to an inch and was in the habit of sending over "minnies" at intervals just to let us know he wasn't asleep.
The dug-outs here in the Quarries were the worst I saw in France.
We were two days in the Grouse Spots and were then relieved, going back to the Quarries and taking the place of Number 9 in support.
After a few days in theQuarries we were moved to what was known as the Warren, so called because the works resembled a rabbit warren.
I seem to have wandered far from the Quarriesand the Grouse Spots.
I know it, but how many quarries are there near the lodge?
There are coal and iron mines and lime quarries in the vicinity, and in the town there are large iron-works.
Every one of these enormous flag stones must have been brought, at least sixty miles, the nearest mountains where quarries of granite are found being those that divide China from Mantchoo Tartary, near the great wall.
Stone quarries above ground as well as below, the old Flemish façades crumbled like sheets of barley sugar.
In many of the valleys there are quarries which have been worked for centuries.
At Bourré (Loir et Cher) are extensive quarries in the face of the hill.
Those who desire to discover the inhabitants must descend into the quarries to these rabbit warrens.
They were originally, like those of Syracuse, quarries for the construction of the calcaire grossier for building the city, down to the seventeenth century.
CII) that the aglaophotis "is found growing among the marble quarries of Arabia, on the side of Persia," just as the Egyptian didi was obtained near the granite quarries at Aswan.
The prolific granite quarries in the surrounding hills have furnished the stone for these imposing mills, and also for the chief buildings.
Rockport is a town of quarries extended around Sandy Bay, protected by breakwaters, behind which vessels come to load stone almost alongside the quarry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
