Some of the former attain gigantic dimensions, and the quarrymen in the Scotch Old Red give them the name of "seraphim" from their singular scale-like ornamentation.
By means of chosen emissaries, they applied to those quarrymen and stonecutters of the neighborhood, whose bad conduct had aggravated their misery.
Moreover, a great number of the quarrymen and stonecutters, being peaceable and hard-working people, had refused, though Wolves themselves to join this hostile manifestation against the Devourers of M.
The village was for the most part inhabited by quarrymen and stonecutters, employed in working the neighboring quarries.
They have said that quarrymen are brutes, only fit to torn wheels in a shaft, like dogs to turn spits," cried an emissary of Baron Tripeaud's.
I could give many more instances of the resolute and self-denying spirit with which the young quarrymen of Bethesda sought to educate themselves.
It was the first time for many a year that all his men, quarrymen and carriers, carters of cheese and carters of grain, had led their teams down the brae together in the full view of his rivals.
Quarrymen have, ever since the introduction of blasting, tried to direct the blast so as to save stock.
This led quarrymen to look for a means by which the hole might be shaped in accordance with a prescribed direction of cleavage.
Holwell Tor was at one time surrounded by a stone rampart, but quarrymen have sadly injured it, and it is not now easy to decide whether the inclosure was merely a pound, like Grimspound, or a stone camp, like Whit Tor.
A harshly glaring piece that the quarrymen have cut is touched with fine specks that spread into black and crocus-yellow circles, and tone down the stone to a sober tint.
Roos Tor, which the Ordnance surveyors playfully render Rolls Tor, possessed two logan stones, but quarrymen have destroyed one, together with the fine mass of rock on which it stood.
The evidence of our most experienced quarrymen is that a block of gypsum of sufficient size to make this figure was never found in this region.
One of Williams's quarrymen drifted in with the story just a little while ago.
We're needing quarrymen and concrete handlers, and we could use a few more rough carpenters on the forms.
Those were the island's snores--the noises of the quarrymen and stone-sawyers.
Ascending the steep incline to where the quarrymen were chipping just as they had formerly done, and within sound of the great stone saws, he looked southward towards the Beal.
The superstitious prejudice of the quarrymen in North Wales regarding Holy Thursday has been cited.
In June, 1878, the South Wales Daily News recorded a superstition of the quarrymen at Penrhyn, where some thousands of men refused to work on Ascension Day.
The valiant quarrymen whom I encountered battling against the rock with monstrous hammers which seem never made for the hand of man, I could willingly believe to possess the resistant force of the sandstone and the iron heart of the oak.
Illustration] All the life of the forest centres in the quarrymen and the ants.
These, then, are the true inhabitants, the true soul of the desert; the ants toiling in the sand, the quarrymen working in the sandstone.
Few quarrymenlive beyond forty years of age; and those first carried off are invariably the most skilful and ardent at their work.
Even now should suspicion rest upon Eben the quarrymen might prove very troublesome.
One of the quarrymen then spoke and motioned his hand in the direction the boy had gone.
Our quarrymen would not search this pool until the sunlight fell on it, because it was a place of dread with a legend hovering over it.
The quarrymen drew aside briskly, and I was about to move somewhat hastily, when the great, swarthy man who was holding the gun withdrew it, and lifted his hat to me, proudly and as an equal.
It was in 1780 that he purchased of the quarrymen the magnificent fossil head, exceeding six feet in length, which has since so exercised the sagacity of naturalists.
There happened to be in the neighbouring town "three merry maids," who heard of this tall talk and secretly determined to put the vaunted courage of the quarrymen to the test.
The three merry maids of Taunton, who as gangsmen put the Denny Bowl quarrymen to rout, were of course impostors.
The hardy miners and quarrymen of the intervening moorlands loved nothing so much as knocking the gangsman on the head.
I remember what happened when I landed you at Douglas--and a poaching escapade with some Creetown quarrymen on the same cruise.
The quarrymen get six shillings a week," he said, "with bread and tea and butter and meat three times a week.
In the hill behind the station, called the Bell-knowe, the ancient quarrymen have left numerous wedge-holes and other indications of their labours.
Before crossing the Cambeck-water it may be well to remind the reader, that the river Gelt, on whose rocky banks the Roman quarrymen have left lettered memorials of their toil, is about four miles to the south of this place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarrymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
