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  • Witnesses at Beit Fajar, a major stone-cutting center south of Bethlehem, said that a car carrying several people pulled up at the mosque about 3 a.m. and that a fire was blazing after they left.

    Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town Joel Greenberg 2010

  • (Soundbite of machinery) FLINTOFF: The electricity fires up stone-cutting machines at a factory that shape a distinctive greenish form of local onyx into tiles and tabletops.

    Reviving 'Little America' In An Afghan Province 2010

  • The 83 stone-cutting implements, some with enough blood residue on them to identify the animals they had been used to butcher, are believed to have belonged to a nomadic people who probably buried the tools for later retrieval, but never returned, Professor Bamforth said.

    huge cache of ancient tools found in colorado backyard 2009

  • Each horseman is to carry shield and spear, long-sword and short-sword, bow, quivers and arrows, and your carts are to contain implements of various kinds - axes and stone-cutting tools, augers, adzes, trenching-tools, iron spades and the rest of the implements which an army needs.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

  • Its programme of events will include a re-enactment of military, social and economic scenes of early medieval life, as well as falconry, stone-cutting and archery demonstrations.

    Athenry medieval gate uncovered 2007

  • Its programme of events will include a re-enactment of military, social and economic scenes of early medieval life, as well as falconry, stone-cutting and archery demonstrations.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Plexiglas panels, blue plastic-looking panelled sidings all railroad tracked up with windows and aluminum frames, tacky, rising up amongst older lower brick and stone creations that were built by skilled hands and not construction jockeys with power hammers and riveting equipment--power screwdrivers--power stone-cutting machines.

    Who Are You? #2 The Daily Growler 2006

  • He explained that they had come equipped with glass cutters and battery-operated saws with stone-cutting blades.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • He explained that they had come equipped with glass cutters and battery-operated saws with stone-cutting blades.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • A passage to cross, where the warder, with his rifle, walked up and down every half-hour all night; then a big courtyard; then another smaller door in the wall; then the outer yard for those prisoners who are allowed to work at stone-cutting or out-of-door trades.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

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