Example Sentences

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Once, it was said, they had quarried immense blocks of ice from frozen lakes deep in the haunted forest, dragging them south on sledges so the Wall might be raised ever higher.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The sun was halfway to the horizon, and Earth was a crescent in the sky when Evans had quarried all the ice that was available in the cave.

From All Day September by Dongen, H. R. van

If the workmen had quarried faulty stones in the caverns, the temple would have been spoiled.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

And again his thoughts began to encroach stealthily on that forbidden ground, in whose insurmountable barriers the preacher's words themselves had quarried access.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

In the old days convicts had quarried lime rocks.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman