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Every spring, mason Mohammad Ghulam Sarwar boards a train to Indian Kashmir, seeking higher wages despite the risk of being targeted by militants in the disputed Himalayan region.

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

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

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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

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

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

Living near them were other enslaved people with special skills, such as masons and carpenters like Sambo Andersen.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Simms keeps his valuable papers in the masoned safe at the bank, you know.

From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

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; 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

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

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI 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