Sentence examples for on the quarry from inspiring English sources

The remains of seven obelisks, each 60 feet long, still rested on the quarry floor.

On this February morning, the two men watched as a front-end loader dug into the last of the rapidly waning piles of fist-sized stone on the quarry floor.

Deer, chipmunks and other wildlife dart in and out of the bushes and trees that seem to sprout from the rock itself, and hawks soar on the updrafts of the quarry's miniature palisades, level with the back windows of the houses perched on the quarry's perimeter.

Despite poor food, inadequate clothing in the wet and windswept Cape winter, and heavy labour in the island's lime quarry, where  Mandela's sight was damaged by the blinding glare of the sun on the quarry's blanched walls, he remained unbroken.

"A great darkness descended on the quarry.

The attack on the quarry workers took place around midnight on Monday.

Council officers recommended the application to allow extraction until 2035 be approved on the grounds that "the principle of the quarry development on this site is established".

Another spring came, once again birds nested in bushes on the sides of the quarry.

On the outcropping of the quarry three contestants were strapped into the jet packs and onto the zip line, sweating in the midafternoon heat.

German troops employing flamethrowers managed to penetrate the Canadian line north of the quarry on the morning of 18 August before being driven out.

'We're going to project a photograph of the quarry wall on to the quarry wall, and warp it.