quarry-man

A quarry-man, seeing a little boy so engaged, looked with that pitying eye which the benevolent assume when viewing the insane.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

The shank forms a veritable saw, but with two parallel sets of teeth; and it is so strongly made that it may well be compared, the question of size apart, to the great saw of a quarry-man.

Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It was getting too near dark to go by the moor tops, so I made off towards a cottage in the next clough, where an old quarry-man lived, called "Jone o'Twilter's."

Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853

It had gone down into the deep sands, there to become fossilised -- perhaps after the lapse of many ages to be turned up again by the spade and pick-axe of some wondering quarry-man.

The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Mayne Reid 1850

The projecting ledges of bluestone that have horizontal seams form half caves from the falling apart of the lower layers of the cliff caused by rain and ice and often aided by the fine roots of the black birch, rock oak, and other plants, until nature has worked long enough as a quarry-man and produced half caves large enough to shelter a stooping man (Figs. 8, 9, and 10).

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The projecting ledges of bluestone that have horizontal seams form half caves from the falling apart of the lower layers of the cliff caused by rain and ice and often aided by the fine roots of the black birch, rock oak, and other plants, until nature has worked long enough as a quarry-man and produced half caves large enough to shelter a stooping man (Figs. 8,

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895