cut-stone

• “In January 1910 the Seine rose some 26 feet above normal, spilling over cut-stone banks and washing through the city.”

  Newsweek: After, and Before, the Flood

• “From here, Pothier took me under an old vaulted cut-stone conduit -- the former bed of the Little Saint Pierre.”

  Montreal Underground

• “The massive, unlit, cut-stone church stood like a shadow in one corner of the plaza, with the same solidity and strength it had shown a hundred or more years ago.”

  Puebla: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico

• “Returning to the terrace 80 feet above the river valley, the workers set the rocks, bags and all, inside cut-stone retaining walls that formed the rectangular base of a pyramid that would eventually rise 60 feet.”

  Newsweek: New World Pyramids

• “The houses on the east side of Jyoha were one story and of mud brick, unlike the cut-stone dwellings in Dramuria.”

  Alector's Choice

• “The car service dropped me off in front of the gray cut-stone townhouse that housed the Gotham Rose Club on Sixty-eighth Street between Park and Madison on the Upper East Side.”

  Ms Longshot

• “It was a large mansion, if not made of stone yet looking very stony, with thirty windows at least, all of them with cut-stone frames, requiring, let me say, at least four thousand a year for its maintenance.”

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

• “His bearing, his size, the way his cut-stone gaze locked on her, made Jermsen's breath falter.”

  The Pillars of Creation

• “Men marveled at the fluted stone columns rising to hold the massive, cut-stone corbel along the length of the side walls at the base of the gathering hall's barrel ceiling.”

  Soul of the Fire

• “I took my picture and walked on, and I can still hear the clip-clop behind me of the horse-drawn car you can see in the middle distance, and the footsteps on that cut-stone walk of the long-skirted woman under the umbrella a block away.”

  Time and Again

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