lay the first stone
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"This is the government and legislature that have the ambition to lay the first stone and start building this blessed project," said Matteo Salvini, the infrastructure minister and head of the League coalition party.
From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2022
They came, however, that Mrs. Fordyce might act lady of the house, and Anne be bridesmaid, as well as lay the first stone of St. Cecily’s restored chapel.
From Chantry House by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The master mason who helped to lay the first stone assisted in fixing the last in the lantern.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh will then proceed to lay the first stone.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
I go to lay the first stone of a house upon a Property I have—that house shall be my decoration.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
