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  • He was also proud that two of his grandsons followed him into the stonemason's trade.

    Peter Cleland, National Cathedral mason 2010

  • The sound of the stonemason's tools painstakingly grinding and gouging at the stone and his pride as he stepped back to look at the finished words in neat, precise rows like the ranks of eager soldiers whose lost lives they would represent.

    How a clumsy Italian stonemason brought home the sorrows of war 2010

  • Housed in a small building that was a stonemason's workshop and bookmakers in previous lives, this buzzing wine bar-cum-restaurant retains an industrial feel with exposed sandstone walls and roof beams, mixed with sleek dark-wood furniture and hanging lamps.

    Ashes fans' guide: Sydney's new drinking dens 2010

  • Along the way stood one or two undertaker's and stonemason's.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • At 6, Celina Peres dos Anjos (a pseudonym) fled a stepfather who used to beat her with anything he could get his stonemason's hands on.

    Dead End Kids 2008

  • Instead of a library, the chamber now looked like a medieval stonemason's workshop, with cutting tools and fragments of decayed masonry piled all over the floor.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The stonemason's field, like many areas of construction, is rife with illegal alien workers.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007 2007

  • Instead of a library, the chamber now looked like a medieval stonemason's workshop, with cutting tools and fragments of decayed masonry piled all over the floor.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Several ashlar blocks still carry quarry or stonemason's marks (to identify the workmen for their payment per stone).

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 2 2003

  • My eyes lifted, as casually as if I were idly waiting, to where my pulley and beam overhung the stonemason's area.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

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