mason
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Pour the slices into a mason jar or glass container and mash with a fork.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 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
An Orkney stonemason has turned "snow mason" to build an impressive igloo with a working fire and chimney.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026
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
But I get a good feeling after arriving at the third one and spotting a Strong Shoulder mason jar like we drink iced tea from in the neighborhood.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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
Among the finds at the dig were a section of wall, cut stones with a masons mark, pottery, slate and a Henry III coin dating from around 1270.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
The week-long recruitment drive began on Tuesday, with a 15-member Israeli team overseeing the process and expecting to fill over 5,000 positions for masons, carpenters and other construction workers in Israel.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Laborers carried the mortar down the ladders to the masons who would lay the stones on top of each other, troweling a layer of mortar between each stone and each layer of stones.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
The stream poured solid and green through the narrow, masoned course of the forebay, sweeping in a lucent arc over the lip of the fall.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
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 Melville, Herman
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.
From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis
So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought.
From Fables by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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