Sentence examples for cutting stones from inspiring English sources

"When I was young," Ms. Tooley said, "he spent a lot of time just cutting stones.

The Ventura society's show in Ventura, Calif., will include a demonstration of cutting stones into the rounded shapes called cabochons.

They always consult each other to agree on two first courses, and then share them, dividing the third scallop, say, with the precision of a jeweler cutting stones.

(20) Briefly, to harvest a crystal, the section of the capillary tube containing the desired crystal was cut out with a capillary cutting stone.

For example, in the application of a supply chain model in construction to control silica exposure, a new cut-off saw for cutting stone and concrete with a novel electronic control system to optimise water supply for dust suppression was launched.

As a stonemason, Peskett repairs old homes where stonework has been damaged or broken by cutting stone (often by hand) and fixing it into place.

He was 20 when he arrived at Taliesin, where apprentices learned by doing: drafting, cutting stone, making plaster, preparing cement, keeping Wright's pencils sharpened.

Péqueux has discovered that two completely different ways of cutting stone, one European and the other Ottoman, were used on the bridge.

According to Edmondson, God appeared at the head of his bed and announced he had come to confer the gift of cutting stone.

Péqueux decided that the only way to do the job properly was to persuade the French government to finance a school of stonecutters in Mostar to teach a new generation these two old ways of cutting stone.

They also perform work ranging "from tending vegetables and emptying septic pits to cutting stone blocks and construction work".