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
There is a Strong Shoulder mason jar, but it’s only about three inches tall.
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
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
An estimated 2,000 masons, carpenters, restorers, roofers, foundry-workers, art experts, sculptors and engineers worked on the project - providing a huge boost for French arts and crafts.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
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
Most of the masons went home for the winter because mortar work cannot be done in cold weather.
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
It was discovered about forty years ago, and it may be seen in the vestry within the Norman chapter-house, where it is masoned into the wall over the chimney-piece.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
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
Simms keeps his valuable papers in the masoned safe at the bank, you know.
From Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
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 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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