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Example sentences for "quarryman"

Lexicographically close words:
quarried; quarriers; quarries; quarry; quarrying; quarrymen; quart; quarta; quartan; quarte
  1. At last the good-natured lineaments of the red-shirted quarryman fastened themselves upon the major's remembrance.

  2. Everything about the quarryman seemed to be the exact opposite of what he himself possessed.

  3. By this time the skill of the quarryman and of the slater found some new plan continually.

  4. So the quarryman takes care to cut a V-shaped groove in the rock he is to break, along which groove the break takes its way.

  5. An inventor of quite other type is next introduced,--Nobel, who gave dynamite to the quarryman and miner, smokeless powder to the gunner and sportsman.

  6. If a visitor to a quarry were standing on a piece of rock, which a quarryman had occasion to blast, and the man fired the train regardless of the visitor, the latter would be incidentally killed.

  7. Old Quarryman was away, and I was in the chair.

  8. Mrs. Pendyce said: "Your husband and Lord Quarryman are talking of poachers; I can tell that by the look of their hands.

  9. Many of the spectators regarded this gloomy vehicle with dismay, but the quarryman and his band redoubled their horrible jokes.

  10. Whilst the missionary lifted Father d'Aigrigny by holding him under the arms, the quarryman took the legs of the almost inanimate body.

  11. Ciboule and the quarryman went before, crying: "Wake way for the corpse!

  12. Such was the thought of Father d'Aigrigny, as the quarryman rushed upon him.

  13. The tall form of the quarryman was conspicuous amongst the rest; with inflamed eyes and swollen features, he yelled at the top of his voice: "Death to the body-snatchers!

  14. The quarryman remained motionless, whilst the crowd, strangely impressed with this incident, approached a little nearer the railing, without daring to come within the gate.

  15. We have said that a few seconds before the quarryman and his band entered the body of the church, several persons had fled from it.

  16. But when the quarryman succeeded in reaching him, Goliath was overpowered and thrown down.

  17. If he emigrates, he repeats the old, wild life as a pick-and-shovel man in Queensland or a quarryman in New South Wales.

  18. She was brought home by a quarryman yesterday morning.

  19. Where does that quarryman live who picked her up and brought her home?

  20. Then the quarryman spoke after this fashion: "Men have said, 'This mountain is ours.

  21. So spoke the gentle Fra Giovanni, and the unhappy quarryman thought to himself: "This man clad in a shroud and girt with a cord has proclaimed new tidings.

  22. At last the quarryman looked up at him sullenly, and growled: "I shall have no peace till I am dead.

  23. But the quarryman made no answer, and did not so much as turn his head.

  24. And I tell you verily, quarryman and brother, the poor man of Jesus Christ, in doing these things, gave to the world an example of Justice, and one day his foolishness shall shine forth as wisdom.

  25. The quarryman swung his pasty bag and smote his breast with it.

  26. There was no churchyard interfered with, so that I supposed the grave was prehistoric, and at once exclaimed to the quarryman engaged in the excavation that this was a grave.

  27. The quarryman staggered back, and I had just time to spring to his aid.

  28. The quarryman covered his eyes with his hands--he was ashamed to look up.

  29. His father was a quarryman who was killed by a fall of rock, and his mother died not long after, never having recovered from the shock of the loss of a dearly loved young husband.

  30. The Hoosier Quarryman had not been a week in Washington before he was heartily home-sick for Indiana.

  31. The relief of the Quarryman surprised himself.

  32. The door opens to admit Tom Davis, a sturdy quarryman dressed in his best and wearing a large nosegay.

  33. I must pay the quarryman for the stone; my workmen cannot live on air.

  34. He got her married afterwards to a quarryman at the quarries.

  35. The town was invisible, but now and then the silence there was broken by the iron tramp of a quarryman upon the stone paving.

  36. At first fear that the quarryman might have been mistaken, and that perchance Lygia was among the victims, benumbed him completely; but when he heard the voices, "Pro Christo!

  37. Thou didst act with her like a quarryman from the Alban Hills.

  38. The quarryman in whose hut the Apostle baptized thee, lord.

  39. The hut of the quarryman is near; in it we shall find Linus, and Lygia, with her faithful servant.

  40. The quarryman offered to guide him, and declared that he would find Peter there.

  41. But betaking himself to that quarryman in whose hut he was baptized, he learned that there would be a meeting outside the Porta Salaria in a vineyard which belonged to Cornelius Pudens.

  42. In a village at the foot of Snowdon an old quarryman died, and before he passed away expressed the wish that he should be laid by the side of his daughter, who was buried in the graveyard of the Church of England.

  43. While the quarryman was speaking, all the bells of the churches of Laon began to chime in with the peals of the belfry.

  44. Two months after the victory of the Commune of Laon over its seigniorial suzerain, the Bishop of Laon, and its episcopals, Fergan the Quarryman died on the ramparts of the city, defending them against the troops of Louis the Lusty.

  45. Hardly had the quarryman pronounced these words when the door flew open, and a young and attractive woman entered with a pert air.

  46. If such was the intention of Louis the Lusty, if he had accepted the offer of the Commune, he would have notified the Mayor," the quarryman answered, sadly shaking his head.

  47. The owner of the horse is Colombaik the Tanner, a communier of Laon and son of Fergan, master quarryman of the mill hill.

  48. The sorceress, alarmed, pushed the child back and ran toward the turret at the moment that Fergan the Quarryman stepped in, pale, bathed in perspiration and holding in his hand his iron pick.

  49. Immediately, menacing and terrible to behold, Fergan the Quarryman threw himself into the middle of the hall armed with a cudgel and calling out loudly to Joan and Colombaik.

  50. Inside the belt the quarryman carried several pious mementos, that had been handed down from generation to generation in his family, and which, before finally marching away with the troop of the Crusaders, he had taken with him.

  51. Already within but two paces, and believing the quarryman to be within reach of his sword, the bailiff had sought to strike him down by leaning over the neck of his horse.

  52. Making a sign to the quarryman to draw near, he said to him in an agitated voice: "Will you join me in an endeavor to avert the frightful misfortunes that this city is threatened with?

  53. For an instant the family of the quarryman remained silent, each seeking to guess the object of the King and the bishop in ordering the assemblage.

  54. Divining the explanation he waited for footsteps, and in a few moments a quarryman passed him on his journey home.

  55. The quarryman proceeded on his way, and Pierston, deeply remorseful, knocked at the door of the minute freehold.

  56. The quarryman 'pitched his nitch,' and explained to the seeming stranger that there had been three families thereabouts in the stone trade, who had got much involved with each other in the last generation.

  57. This pleasantry was received with shouts, hootings, and furious stamping of feet, to which the stentorian voice of the quarryman put a term by roaring: "Silence!

  58. The pang of this bite forced Agricola to make a movement, which enabled the quarryman to disengage his leg.

  59. The crowd, with the quarryman at their head, and Ciboule not far from him, brandishing a stick, advanced tumultously towards one of the great doors.

  60. Some of the most determined of the assailants were about to rush in at this entrance; but the quarryman stepped back, extending his arm as if to moderate their ardor and impose silence.

  61. Recovering from his first feeling of surprise and involuntary emotion, the quarryman advanced a step towards Gabriel, and said to him: "No mercy for the poisoner!


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