He took an interest in the work of the farm, drove to the quarry two or three times a day in his gig, was present whenever a new piece of work was started, and would often throw off his coat and take a hand in it.
The men in the stone-quarry were the strongest men in the world.
They didn't catch him, but he must have come back to the quarry to hide himself, for one day when they were blasting there, his body came out among the bits of rock, all smashed up.
Then there was hell and heaven, and the stone-quarry where they struck one another with heavy hammers when they were drunk.
One day they came from the quarry and complained that they had had no wages for three weeks.
It was too dark to go across the fields, so they took the quarry road south to get down to the high-road.
Karl Johan to the two quarry drivers, who were married and lived up near the quarry, but came down for meals.
He went to work in the quarry when we'd been at the farm a couple of years and he'd done me all the harm he could.
What was there away beyond the cliffs where the stone-quarry lay?
Leading her, he started cautiously down, taking advantage of every tuft of cover until, arrived at the foot of the draw, he discovered that some oaks effectually screened his quarry from sight.
On our way over to the Sepulvida rancho, we're liable to put up a panther or a coyote, and if we can get our quarryout into the open, we'll have a glorious chase.
When of a suitable age he was apprenticed to the trade of his choice--that of a working stone-mason; and he began his laboring career in a quarry looking out upon the Cromarty Firth.
Indeed, character consists in little acts, well and honorably performed; daily life being thequarry from which we build it up, and rough-hew the habits which form it.
At the pipestone quarryand on the march after leaving that region the medicine man of the band had undertaken to treat her--and the treatment seemed to help her.
Their first stopping-place, after nearly two weeks of uninterrupted marching, was at the great red pipestone quarry in southwestern Minnesota.
To the red men these lakes had been a sort of Mecca, second only to the red pipestone quarry to the northwest, for the silent adoration and worship of the Spirit.
I noticed Sam looking with keen intentness at our quarry where they were seated at a table across the room.
But later they made another tiger-spring for theirquarry in the courts.
The stone was crushed from a quarry operated by the State on Deer Creek which was near the center of the job and consisted of an altered basalt of rather coarse texture.
Crushed trap rock was secured from a quarry near the city limits, and suitable binder material was found near at hand.
At which point his mysterious quarry entered the shrubbery I do not know.
Within two hours the pony men succeeded in circling the quarry and stopping it in a mimosa thicket.
His little command rode into and through the thicket at full speed, only to find their quarry gone, gone all save one.
So pleased was the duke, that he honoured the place where the hawks took their quarry by giving it the name of Hawksyard otherwise Hawksearth; a place which before then was unnamed.
Probably John of Gaunt and his friends from Markeaton watched the hawking from the top of Lady Edge and the undulating land which lies between Lady Edge and Hawksyard, the quarry being taken within a distance of half a mile to the north-east.
This gentleman worked in the Penrhyn Quarry until he was twenty years old.
Some of them are to-day quarry managers, professional men, certificated teachers, and ministers of the Gospel.
Indeed, so savage was the bearing of their quarry that the Sepharians hesitated, then came to a full stop a few paces away.
Do you find the pits more to your taste than being in charge of the quarry slaves?
Had I his whose foresight rare Piles the stones with lordliest art, From the quarry of my heart Love should climb a heavenly stair!
Like the knots of a serpent the play of his flesh As he tore to the quarry in Allah's mesh!
A few houses immediately below the quarry were emptied, but the people from them did not move far.
They, however, ordered that work should cease in the quarry till the following spring, whereat the workmen murmured.
The mass of the mountain above the quarry showed a tendency to grow unstable, yet blasting went forward merrily, and no precautions were taken.
In 1878, when the concessions lapsed, the commune, by a small majority, decided to work the quarry itself.
In 1876 a large crack split the rock across above the quarry roof, and four years later the mass thus outlined fell away.
Every burgher considered that he had a right to work in the quarrywhen the weather was unsuitable for farm labour.
Huntsman Elmer was on his doorstep looking at the quarry through a telescope.
We took up the pursuit again, and ran the quarry to earth, and I got my captaincy.
He readily explained the creation of quarry and cave by telling them of the vein of antimony embedded in the rock near the fault.
Then he went to examine the corpse of the man who lay in the open near the quarry path.
Of all places in the island the Dyaks least imagined that their quarry had lain all night within earshot of their encampment.
After dusk a party of coolies cleared the quarry of its former occupants.
Jenks was watching her, watching the remaining Dyaks, from whom a spluttering volley came, picking out his quarry with the murderous ease of a terrier in a rat-pit.
We heard over there this afternoon about Stoner's body being found, and that you were thinking he must have fallen over into the quarry in the darkness.
I went up there by Hobwick Quarryon Sunday afternoon--to do a bit of thinking.
Long experience of the moorlands and their nooks and crannies enabled Mallalieu to make his way down to the bottom of the quarry by a descent through a brake of gorse and bramble.
The Kitely affair faded into insignificance--except amongst the cute and knowing few, who immediately began to ask if the Hobwick Quarry murder had anything to do with the murder on the Shawl.
After munching his sandwich and drinking his ale at the Highmarket Arms, Mallalieu had gone away to Hobwick Quarry and taken a careful look round.
And when the superintendent and the two policemen who had been with him up to Hobwick Quarry had answered that they had found nothing at all, he had hard work to repress a sigh of relief.
Mallalieu went close to the edge of the quarry and looked down.
He went down to the quarry as it got dusk--he was there some time.
But the night was dark, and solitary as the moors and the quarry where he dared not risk the taking of a lantern.
At the spinney overhanging Hobwick Quarry he had seen Mallalieu and Stoner, and had at once noticed that something in the shape of a quarrel was afoot.
Up to that moment he had firmly believed that he had got away from Hobwick Quarry unobserved.
An hollow crystal pyramid he takes, In firmamental waters dipt above; Of it a broad extinguisher he makes, And hoods the flames that to their quarry drove.
Let reason, then, at her own quarry fly, But how can finite grasp infinity?
Across the quarry background are bands slanting from the left down to the right bearing the motto, "Honi soit qui mal y pense.
In the midst of these quarry panes are placed little scenes, circular in form and decorated with enamel paint in grey and stain, each bearing a German inscription.
Turning to the three lights in the north wall we find the usual brassy canopies against a quarry background, surrounded by a coloured border.
They both have quarry backgrounds with coloured borders, but the one to the north is much more attractive.
Note the narrow one at the north of the small chancel--quarry background with a large figure standing on a bracket, very reminiscent of sundry prototypes at St. Neot in Cornwall.
Within coloured borders are quarry lights across which are drawn bands slanting downward from left to right which bear the word "Drede" often repeated.
In the vestry, which is off the north aisle, are three small lancets upon which appear figures against quarrybackgrounds not as usual ensconced in canopies.
In addition to this more common style of glazing there is another type, which has a number of examples here--a saint standing upon a bracket and displayed against a quarry background, but lacking a canopy.
The expedition and facility with which the Slates are thus conveyed from the Quarry to the Ships is very remarkable.
Often we cannot see the angel in the quarry of our lives, the statue of manhood, until the blasts of misfortune have rent the ledge, and difficulties and obstacles have squared and chiseled the granite blocks into grace and beauty.
We are here, my brother, to be hewed and hammered and planed in God's quarry and on God's anvil for a nobler life to come.
The site which might be considered as possessing the greatest interest is an aboriginal quarry and workshop where material for stone implements was obtained and shaped into desired forms.
I put on my cloak, took my spade and the handle of the bier in my right hand, and holding the mask over my face with my left, I made my way to the quarry field.
One summer evening I went by myself after tea into a steep little field at the back of our house, with an old stone-quarry at the top, on the ledges of which, where the earth had settled, I used to play at making gardens.
The business which took him to the quarry must be of special importance, she mused.
She suggested that I go to the quarry and make inquiries, which I did.
Captain Tobin heard the story when he visited the quarry during the morning.
As soon as we reach the quarry you'll have to light out.
John wanted to have a search made at the quarry in order to find the one who did it.
He arrived at thequarry yesterday afternoon, and has been hanging around ever since.
If it wasn't for leaving Flo alone I'd foot it every step of the way to the quarry this blessed night; that's what I'd do.
Great excitement reigned at the quarry when the men learned of the accident which had befallen Miss Randall.
I am very grateful for what you have already done, and as soon as I reach the quarry I shall leave you at once.
It must be very important business, John, that will keep you at the quarry so long.
The sledge upon which it has been dragged from the quarry is rotted beneath it, while the pillar remains as fresh and sparkling as if hewn but yesterday.
There was once a noted old wrecker called Kinsman: he lived in my father's time; and when no wreck was onward, he would get his wages by raising stone in a quarry by the sea-shore.
Have you not seen, when whistled from the fist, Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, And with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind?
