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  1. n. Plural form of masonry.

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  • “The bags were originally intended for construction companies and masonries.”

    The Wall Street Journal: For Entrepreneurs, Disaster Brings Eureka

  • “Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret.”

    The Haunted Bookshop

  • “An Egg Samuel Butler, for the notebook of housewives, may be summarized as a pyramid, based upon toast, whereof the chief masonries are a flake of bacon, an egg poached to firmness, a wreath of mushrooms, a cap-sheaf of red peppers; the whole dribbled with a warm pink sauce of which the inventor retains the secret.”

    The Haunted Bookshop

  • “Ealer would not be convinced; he said a man could learn how to correctly handle the subtleties and mysteries and free-masonries of any trade by careful reading and studying.”

    Is Shakespeare Dead?

  • “I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.”

    Salut au Monde

  • “The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.”

    Jude the Obscure

  • “Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.”

    Jude the Obscure

  • “Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.”

    Jude the Obscure

  • “Ealer would not be convinced; he said a man could learn how to correctly handle the subtleties and mysteries and free-masonries of ANY trade by careful reading and studying.”

    What Is Man? and Other Essays

  • “I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of”

    Leaves of Grass [1867]

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