Sample Sentences for
masonry
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    What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates,  (source)
    masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall
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    A bird hooted in the masonry; wind rustled the trash.†  (source)
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    Somewhere a wall goes to pieces, a thousand kilograms of masonry crashing down.†  (source)
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    As they walked, Hazel ran her hands along the masonry.†  (source)
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    Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.†  (source)
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    Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.†  (source)
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    Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.†  (source)
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    Instantly, the room was a tornado of flying glass, chairs, masonry, articles of clothing, and human limbs.†  (source)
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    The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.†  (source)
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    He said he lugged pails of water back and forth, dragged bags of masonry cement and builder's sand heavier than himself.†  (source)
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    Not to consider here anything except the Christian architecture of Europe, that younger sister of the great masonries of the Orient, it appears to the eyes as an immense formation divided into three well-defined zones, which are superposed, the one upon the other: the Romanesque zone*, the Gothic zone, the zone of the Renaissance, which we would gladly call the Greco-Roman zone.†  (source)
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    I stepped out into a broader patch of sunlight and approached an altar stripped of all decoration except for chips and cracks caused by falling masonry.†  (source)
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    I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.†  (source)
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