mason
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"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
Pour the slices into a mason jar or glass container and mash with a fork.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
We loaded them into a giant mason jar, but it was too late.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
We saw a low ring of stones built up with cement and wondered who the mason was who knelt there and studied the shapes before fitting them to-gether.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
All these tasks required master craftsmen, masons, architects and artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Kajal's brothers worked as masons in Moradabad town.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
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
Bamouyi Trao Traoré, one of Djenné’s lead masons, says they work as a team from the very start.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 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
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 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
The material was a grayish stone, rudely cut and masoned into walls of surprising thickness and strength; along two of which walls—the side ones—were distributed as many rows of arched and stately windows.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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