Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of quarry.
Examples
“Besides working on the building, slaves worked in quarries extracting the stone for the Capitol.”
“Her quarries are the names behind the faces in 50,000 antique negatives left in the town's shuttered Casasola photography studio.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Old El Paso, This Detective Story
““Our quarries are the roads, our veins the dark alleys.””
“The carrying of burdens and the irksome work of excavating the quarries was assigned to the remnant of the Canaanites (1Ki 9: 20; 2Ch 8: 7-9) and war prisoners made by David -- amounting to 153,600.”
“At the back of ponds, just inside the enclosure of woods, angles of corn-fields, old quarries, that is where to find grasses, or by the sea in the brackish marsh.”
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
“One concern caused by the quarries is their environmental impact.”
“Their main "quarries" are those houses that have fallen down or workplaces abandoned for many years by the apathetic State.”
“Those occurring at or near the surface, and called "quarries," "placer deposits,”
“Sabarim, 1 (Jos., vii, 5; D.V.: "quarries"), on the descent from Hai towards the Ghôr.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3: 19), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘quarries’.
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FYS100
Word discovery & discussion by CSUMB first-year students, to help with required texts.
trippy, bantam, patience, Roseto, Froth, legit, patronage, quarries, compatriot, intact, baby boomer, virtuosos and 35 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Tristram Shandy, Chapter 15
Some words following upon each other's succession in a legal contract in this book I've just started.
let, suit, trouble, disturbance, molestation, discharge, hindrance, forfeiture, eviction, vexation, interruption, incumbrance and 73 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for quarries.
bilby That's a bit like saying Red Rooster is a nature-made outcrop of stultifying glugburbia where wildfowl summarily disrobe and commit chicka-kiri, throw themselves into conveniently-placed geysers of hot oil, mysteriously jump out again, roll in the local salt-lick and hurl themselves into foil bags that tumble into the hubba-hubba greasewagons of slavering bogans at the drive-thru. This wondrous cycle repeats 24/7, despite the naturally fugly blue and red plastic sign being currently short of internal glow-worms during the nocturnal hours. Sep 28, 2011
msquires2 I think Quarries are some sort of nature-made ditch where a lot of rocks are taken from for building materials and such? I don't really know how this relates to Outliers though, unless my definition is totally off, which is very likely. Sep 28, 2011