lay the first stone
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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
Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King’s College chapel, “that, if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.”
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Where he stopped to rest, there would they lay the first stone.
From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Cory, Fanny Y.
I go to lay the first stone of a house upon a Property I have—that house shall be my decoration.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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 Mee, Arthur
