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
For the small areas of solid wall the stone mason would actually construct two parallel walls of cut stone.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
Kajal's brothers worked as masons in Moradabad town.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 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 tiles must be removed by trained masons, and Save the Tiles now has four crews ready every day, made up of volunteers and workers whose employers are covering their wages.
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
Other crews—carpenters, masons, electricians, and plumbers—worked on the interior.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.
From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph
Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.
From I and My Chimney by Melville, Herman
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 Melville, Herman
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
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
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
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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