Quarries
[kwɔ:ri:z]
Definition
(pl. ) of Quarry
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The best known quarries are those of New England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Stephanie