Quarriers

Gourlay's "quarriers" -- as the quarry horses had been named -- came through the town last week-end. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

Toward dusk the reddish ants, which may be termed quarriers, gave up work, and this was the signal for the workers below to return home. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

In the height of construction, in 1286, the workforce was "546 general labourers... 115 quarriers, 30 blacksmiths, 22 carpenters and 227 stonemasons." ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

The quarriers came down the stump pushing the laborers, rather rudely as I thought, out of their way; and then forming in what might be called “light skirmishing order,” they marched to the lower entrance of the town, meeting as they went the column of workers going up to the stump. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

They began as fur traders, cord-wainers, salters and smokers of bacon, went on into glassmaking, became selectmen, builders of tanneries, quarriers of marble. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)

The tool-marks of the tomb-quarriers should be examined, as they sometimes reveal interesting technical points. ❋ Various (N/A)

There must be quarriers before there can be architects: the hewers of wood and drawers of water are the basis of all civilization. ❋ Various (N/A)

Him, it came in his mind to build a house for God's service, of most curious worke: the which that it might be done with greater glory and splendor, he caused artificers to be brought from other regions and forraigne kingdomes, and caused dayly to be abundance of all kinde of workmen present: as masons, carpenters, smiths, barrowmen, and quarriers, with others. ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

Tools were to be found in plenty that the miners and quarriers and builders of old had used; and at such work the dwarves were still very skilled. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1938)

The face of the hill was all bare of trees, and seemed to be nothing but rock; and jagged and broken as if quarriers had been there cutting and blasting. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The quarriers came down the stump pushing the laborers, rather rudely as I thought, out of their way; and then forming in what might be called "light skirmishing order," they marched to the lower entrance of the town, meeting as they went the column of workers going up to the stump. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

There were groups of bodies in the streets, washed from toil to enjoy the quiet air; dandering slowly or gossiping at ease; and they all turned to watch the quarriers stepping bravely up, their heads tossing to the hill. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

But the quarriers had cut across it above the point of contraction; and no danger of access occurring to lord Herbert or Mr. Salisbury, while they found a certain service in the tiny waterfall, they had left it as it was. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Higher authorities than the quarriers, -- among the rest, the late Dr. Mantell, -- have been disposed to regard these polygonal markings as the fossilized spawn of ancient Batrachians; but there now seems to be evidence enough from which to conclude that they are the remains, not of the eggs of an animal, but of the seed of a plant. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

When first laid open, these meshes are filled each with a carbonaceous speck; and, from their supposed resemblance, in the aggregated form, to the eggs of the frog in their albuminous envelop, the quarriers term them "puddock [frog] spawn." ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)

If so, the quarriers should be instructed to look hard for organic remains, -- the broad-headed Cephalaspis, so characteristic of the formation, and the huge Crustacean, its contemporary, that disported in plates large as those of the steel mail of the later ages of chivalry. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)