quarryman
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The tireless collecting of retired quarryman Dave Brockhurst, who has spent the last 30 years uncovering fossils from Ashdown Brickworks, was key to the discovery.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
An old quarryman came to talk to us.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
At about 17:30 GMT on 11 March, quarryman William Horsefield spotted a crack in the embankment "only about wide enough to admit a penknife" and alerted a number of local workmen.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2014
The 41-year-old singer-songwriter, raised in Dorset and Somerset, had parents – a quarryman and a stonemason – who were friends with several musicians.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2011
At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
As machines came, its capacity and ambition were increased, while the knowledge and instinct of the quarrymen were steadily lost.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
For one piece, he collaborated with Brier and sculptor Sharon Fullingim to create a memorial for the quarrymen of southern Indiana, with hopes of placing it somewhere in the Bloomington community.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2017
I see quarrymen holding their palms against the rock face as though taking its temperature, as though it were living - some enormous beast.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2016
In November, 1924, lime quarrymen found a small skull embedded in breccia near the South African town of Taung.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
You should have seen this mountain when the quarrymen finished with it in 1905.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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