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Definition of Quarries
1. quarry [v] - See also: quarry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quarries
Literary usage of Quarries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Next comes the consideration of stone- quarries from which dimension stone and
... The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"The bluff is five or six miles in length, and scattered along nearly its entire
distance are the quarries of various sizes and shapes. ..."
3. The Mining Magazine (1853)
"THE appearance of these quarries as they present themselves to the eye of a ...
There are upward of five hundred men employed at the two quarries in this ..."
4. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey, New Jersey State Geologist (1905)
"DESCRIPTION OF quarries. The accompanying map shows sixteen localities, ...
Two of the quarries (i and 6) are producing materials of two kinds, viz., ..."
5. Publications by Manx Society, Brandeis Lawyers' Society (1871)
"There are not many quarries of good stone ; but one there is near Castletown,
which yields a tolerable good black marble, fit for tombstones, ..."
6. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"THE PORTLAND quarries.—NEW JERSEY STONE. — HUDSON RIVER FLAGGING AND CURBING STONE.
— quarries THROUGHOUT THE COUN-- TRY. — SLATE quarries. ..."
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