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
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 John Forster
It was understood that Lady Lechester was to lay the first stone of this grand mansion when they returned from the wedding trip.
From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies
"Now hand me up a branch," she cried, "and I will lay the first stone of our house!"
From The Eagle's Nest by S. E. Cartwright
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
