lay the first stone
Example Sentences
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"This is the government and legislature that have the ambition to lay the first stone and start building this blessed project," said Matteo Salvini, the infrastructure minister and head of the League coalition party.
From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2022
The master mason who helped to lay the first stone assisted in fixing the last in the lantern.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Where, above all, are the signs of that combined generosity, firmness and foresight in statesmen or soldiers which alone could lay the first stone of reconciliation?
From The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)
After dinner, her eyes red with weeping, she went to the convent to try and soften Gerard, and lay the first stone at least of a reconciliation.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
But there were still such multitudes, that it was with great difficulty I got through them, to lay the first stone.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
