mason
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"I am afraid of terrorists here," said Shahid Sofi, a 24-year-old mason from Bihar who previously worked in Delhi and Mumbai.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Others include the adonis blue butterfly, the armed nomad bee and the red-tailed mason bee, the shining pot beetle and the large scabious mining bee.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
It’s a high-tech twist on the classic mason jar, using a silicone lid with a degassing valve and an AirGone Argon Gas Canister to flush out oxygen.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Rosaleen was in the honey house washing a new shipment of mason jars, a job that belonged to me, but she’d volunteered for it, seeing how badly I needed to write everything out.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Kajal's brothers worked as masons in Moradabad town.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Before that he was a young boy, born on Halloween, frolicking among unmarked headstones as the son of funerary masons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The team of masons, covered in dust and sweat, had been working in the ruins of the Altadena house for hours when a shout echoed across the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
Most people, though, liken it, in that part, to a razed observatory, masoned up.
From I and My Chimney by Herman Melville
So, in the end, I masoned up my lockers and pantries; and save the two used for mittens, the white jacket ever after was pocketless.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
The masoned house it dinled through; It dung the ship, it cowped the coo'.
From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson
So the King’s daughter sat in her vaulted chamber in the masoned house, and she thought upon the thought.
From Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson
The flower beds, circled with masoned rims and built up like wired bouquets, held only twisted and broken stems.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
A moment comes, presently, when the harvesting is interrupted and the masoning resumed.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
No matter: the Bee who was masoning will mason.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
She was doing mason's work; and, once on that tack, guided by the unconscious impulse, she has to keep masoning, even though her labour be useless, superfluous and opposed to her interests.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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