stone-cutter

Although he trained as a stone-cutter and was apprenticed to a marble works in the United States, he enjoyed Phrenology, describing it as “fairly profitable, and … a real good and useful profession.”

It’s all in your head: Phrenology and the Victorians 2008

Although he trained as a stone-cutter and was apprenticed to a marble works in the United States, he enjoyed Phrenology, describing it as “fairly profitable, and … a real good and useful profession.”

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

So memorable in fact that when he succumbed to pneumonia in October 1863, his imprisoned shipmates banded together with their Union captors to raise $75 to pay a Boston stone-cutter to carve a 1,000-pound granite slab into a grave marker for the well-loved seaman.

Homeward Bound 2007

Pak Mong-se, a local sailor residing under the city wall, pretending to be a stone-cutter and went to the quarry but played with his neighbor´s dog, so I ordered him flogged with 80 blows

1590s Military Technology Gaps 2005

Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could not have made him so ill, though he had been but two hours at the trade.

King Lear 2004

At the sound of the voice the stone-cutter looked round, but could see nobody.

The Crimson Fairy Book 2003

One day the stone-cutter carried a gravestone to the house of a rich man, and saw there all sorts of beautiful things, of which he had never even dreamed.

The Crimson Fairy Book 2003

But one day he heard a strange noise at his feet, and when he looked down to see what it could be, he saw a stone-cutter driving tools into his surface.

The Crimson Fairy Book 2003

A stone-cutter lay on his stomach on a large slab of granite, at the side of me, and cut inscriptions.

Hunger 2003

‘Certainly our good people do occupy some space here; more regular attendants in church, than, I fear, they formerly were; and their virtues more remarked, perhaps, than before the stone-cutter was instructed to publish them with his chisel,’ answered

Wylder's Hand 2003