Example Sentences

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Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.

From I and My Chimney by Melville, Herman

"It stood there," he indicated a fallen shed beyond a masoned channel, choked with the broken stones of its walls and tangled shrubbery.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

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

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 Melville, Herman

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

From Fables by Stevenson, Robert Louis