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Each house had a paved “stoep” in front, with a masoned seat at either end.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.

From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"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

No, no: nor was the Pyramid of Cheops masoned in a month; though, once built, the sands left by the deluge might not have submerged such a pile.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman