mason
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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 was built by a master mason called Robert MacMillan Clive, who was my great-grandfather.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
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
Cliff Douglas, the mason, said he had assessed several fireplaces along one street and returned to find the tiles gone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Thoughts began swirling in my mind like fireflies in a mason jar.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
"We have no-one to work in the hotels, drive our buses or work in construction; we don't have masons or mechanics," warns Francis Candil, deputy minister for welfare.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The group plans to start paying the masons from a GoFundMe that has now raised more than $100,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Fiber reinforcement has been around since the first masons were mixing horsehair into their mud.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023
There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo; The rankit aiks it overthrew, Had braved a’ weathers; The strang sea-gleds it took an’ blew Awa’ like feethers.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Marlowe of masoned clouds, and Marston, in his better moments, of the fragmentary vigour of a Roman ruin,’ one begins to regret that any one ever thought of the unity of the arts.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
No, no: nor was the Pyramid of Cheops masoned in a month; though, once built, the sands left by the deluge might not have submerged such a pile.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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
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