quarry's Usage Examples:

Lord Mongo prowls mad angry in a quarry, adopting various guises and railing his gob against a gyrating void.

The mineral resources of Holland give no encouragement to industrial activity, with the exception of the coal-mining in Limburg, the smelting of iron ore in a few furnaces in Overysel and Gelderland, the use of stone and gravel in the making of dikes and roads, and of clay in brickworks and potteries, the quarrying of stone at St Pietersberg, 'c.

overshoott overshot the runway ' ended up overhanging the quarry at the end.

His immense learning served him rather as a storehouse of illustrations, or as an armoury out of which he could choose the fittest weapon for discomfiting on opponent, than as a quarry furnishing him with material for building up a completely designed and enduring edifice of systematized truth.

A ferret's hold on its quarry is as obstinate as that of a bulldog, but can easily be broken by a strong pressure of the thumb just above the eyes.

It is built in the simple Doric style, of grey limestone taken from a quarry owned by the state, near the city; is 304 ft.

gelt quarry, unit unnamed (see next example ), work by Mercatius and with a consular date.

whinstone quarry at New Row to the line.

In 1885 the governor found it necessary to use the state militia to suppress riots in Will and Cook counties occasioned by the strikes of quarrymen, and the following year the militia was again called out to suppress riots in St Clair and Cook counties caused by the widespread strike of railway employees.

For alabaster the principal quarry was that of Hanub in the desert 10 m.

Some fine mosaics have been here unearthed and immediately destroyed, in sheer wantonness, by the natives quarrying building-stone.

The leading industries are linenweaving, tanning, brewing, horse-dealing and the quarrying of marble and gypsum.

MOULIN QUIGNON, a quarry near Abbeville, France, celebrated for the discovery in 1863 by Boucher de Perthes of a human jaw-bone believed to be referable to the Quaternary period.

Synonyms:

excavation, stone pit, gravel pit, chalk pit, chalkpit, pit,

Antonyms:

ride, deposit, natural object, Heaven,