stone-cutters

Some of the masons and stone-cutters tried their hand at baking, and made us as good bread as that of Paris….

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Some of the masons and stone-cutters tried their hand at baking, and made us as good bread as that of Paris….

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The first of these cities had a corporation of architects and sculptors in 1212; the statutes of the sculptors and stone-cutters of Venice date from 1307; those of the carpenters and cabinet-makers in the same city from 1385.

The Guilds 2007

Mykel sent all three to the quarry to serve as laborers for the stone-cutters for a week.

Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

Five hundred pounds to the stone-cutters would have served to carve the whole catalogue, and paid the poor compliment of recognition to men who died in doing their duty.

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

Thus stones that lie under ground and, plant-animals have softer parts than those that lie above; and therefore stone-cutters bury the stones they would work, as if they designed to have them prepared and softened by the heat; but those that lie above ground are by the cold made hard, rigid, and very hurtful to the tools.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Thus stones that lie under ground and, plant-animals have softer parts than those that lie above; and therefore stone-cutters bury the stones they would work, as if they designed to have them prepared and softened by the heat; but those that lie above ground are by the cold made hard, rigid, and very hurtful to the tools.

Symposiacs 2004

Kennedy, “the foundations were being dug and the stone-cutters were at work.”

Phineas Finn 2004

Venus, not standing, as other stone-cutters had used to do, but sitting.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Venus, not standing, as other stone-cutters had used to do, but sitting.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002