stone-cutter's

He describes the escapades of the Son of God -- from his time as a stone-cutter's apprentice in Nazareth to his journeys to modern-day Afghanistan, China, and India in search of the magi who attended his birth; to his return to his homeland to gather his disciples and fulfill his destiny.

Lamb by Christopher Moore: Questions 2002

What is called in Masonry a common gavel is a stone-cutter's hammer; it is one of the working tools of an Entered Apprentice, and is a symbol of the purification of the heart.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

So in after years the great master often said that if his mind was worth anything, he owed it to the clear pure mountain air in which he was born, just as he owed his love of carving stone to the unconscious influence of his nurse, the stone-cutter's wife.

Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters Amy Steedman

The stone-cutter's hand must have been as weary when he blundered over the word humble as the poet's brain evidently was when he reached the line which limps so lamely to the conclusion.

Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

The classics, the ingenuous arts, lovely woman -- always interwoven when times are happiest -- flourished in that sunny place: it was not really wonderful that Ippolita the stone-cutter's daughter, classically fair, indisputably a beauty, should win all seeing eyes and be the despair of all rhymers.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

The boys, baggage, and I found the only nearby place of shelter in a stone-cutter's inclosure, filled with new and ornate tombstones.

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

They turned off into a quiet street, and presently entered the old stone-cutter's shop.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

The boys, baggage, and I found the only nearby place of shelter in a stone-cutter's inclosure, filled with new and ornate tombstones.

An American Idyll Parker, Cornelia Stratton, 1885- 1919

They had left shoemaker's awl and stone-cutter's chisel to act as guides to her.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

One of them was used as a stone-cutter's yard, and cheap monuments, crosses, and slates were set out for sale, bearing inscriptions beginning with "Sacred to the Memory of."

The Lost Prince 1914