Sentence examples for quarries of from inspiring English sources

While still a young man, Michelangelo kept a residence among the white stone quarries of Carrara.

Can we turn them into half-wild swimming holes, like the granite quarries of New England?

The quarries of Shōdo Island are believed to have yielded the rock from which the first Ōsaka Castle was built.

Nicole Farhi's collection was inspired by memories of a visit to the marble quarries of Carrara in Tuscany.

Chace's crisp account, brightened by well-chosen quotations, is a rebuke to monster biographies lugged from the cold quarries of detail.

PETER LATZ grew up playing in the bombed ruins and abandoned quarries of Germany's industrial Ruhr district after World War II.

Sitting in a shacklike office in the middle of this quarry- of-a-hundred-cathedrals is Gehry himself in a black T-shirt and jeans.

The economy of the Pennines is based mainly on sheep farming and the quarrying of limestone.

To the ancient Greeks this constellation represented the quarry of the hunter (and neighbouring constellation) Orion.

Viticulture, dairying, and quarrying of granite, limestone, marble, and iron are also economically important.

Agriculture, woolen manufacturing, and the quarrying of coloured marbles are the chief occupations.