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Where larger rooms were excavated, pillars of stone were left unquarried to support the ceilings.

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019

As in a dream, strange epitaphs I see,   Inscribed on yet unquarried stone,   Where wither flowers yet unstrown— The Campo Santo of the time to be.

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

Quarr′ying-machine′, a rock-drill; Quarr′y-wa′ter, the water contained in the pores of stone while unquarried, or newly quarried, before its evaporation.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The unquarried marble of Pentelicus Deny its hue of snow, and even the dawn Forget her stainless birthright for thy sake!

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

If so, her righteousness was a poor thing, her cleanness, that of the outside of the cup and platter, her purity, that of unquarried marble.

From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)