Sentence examples for quarrying of from inspiring English sources

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.

Mechanized quarrying of marble provides a further export, and a small tourist industry has developed.

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

The extractive industries include the mining of mineral ores, the quarrying of stone, and the extraction of mineral fuels.

There is some iron mining and quarrying of clay (for pottery) in the area and some farming.

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.

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

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

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

But the quarry of my travels is an aura, rather than any one particular icon.