mason

"I am afraid of terrorists here," said Shahid Sofi, a 24-year-old mason from Bihar who previously worked in Delhi and Mumbai.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

Hockey is like that of a medieval mason who helped lay a forgotten stone in a cathedral’s foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

My hands were deep in a tub of soapy water, cleaning out one dusty mason jar after another, while Miss Sadie rocked steadily in her porch rocker.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

All these tasks required master craftsmen, masons, architects and artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Finding enough skilled masons was the group’s first challenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

The first firefighters were recruited from tradesmen including slaters, carpenters and masons, aged 17 to 25, because they knew how buildings were constructed.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024

Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

They weren’t carpenters or masons, and I had to teach them everything from books I bought.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

The tracery windows on the south side are masoned up, but much of the original tracery remains.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various

Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.

From I and My Chimney by Herman Melville

Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought. 

From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.

From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson

A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.

From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos