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"text": "Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.",
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"ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 32:",
"text": "Yet theſe are the men cry'd out againſt for ſchiſmaticks and ſectaries; as if, while the Temple of the Lord was building, ſome cutting, ſome ſquaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there ſhould be a ſort of irrationall men who could not conſider there muſt be many ſchiſms and many diſſections made in the quarry and the timber, ere the houſe of God can be built.",
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"ref": "1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century V”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries. Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Published after the Authors Death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, One of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is Added Articles of Inquiry, Touching Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. As also the Life of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Never Added to this Book before. [...] With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things Contained in the Ten Centuries, 9th and last edition, London: Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [et al.], →OCLC, paragraph 850, page 183:",
"text": "There have been found certain Cements under Earth, that are very ſoft, and yet taken forth into the Sun, harden as hard as Marble: There are alſo ordinary Quarries in Sommerſet-shire, which in the Quarry cut ſoft to any bigneſs, and in the Building prove firm, and hard.",
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"ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
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[
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"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
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"word": "քարհանք"
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"word": "pedreira"
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "ქვის სამტეხლო"
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{
"code": "el",
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"code": "grc",
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"code": "grc",
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"code": "grc",
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"code": "he",
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"code": "hi",
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{
"code": "id",
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"word": "tambang"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"word": "cairéal"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"tags": [
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],
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{
"code": "it",
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"alt": "さいせきじょう, saisekijō, さいせきば, saisekiba",
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"alt": "いしきりば",
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"word": "石切場"
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"word": "тас қашалған орын"
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"code": "kk",
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"roman": "karer",
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"word": "карьер"
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"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "rĕəʼtaʼnaa yɔɔtnaʼ",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "រតនាយតនៈ"
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"alt": "採石場",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chaeseokjang",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "채석장"
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{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "taş cıgarıluucu jay",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "таш чыгарылуучу жай"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "karyer",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "карьер"
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{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "bǭ hīn",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "ບໍ່ຫີນ"
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"code": "la",
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"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"tags": [
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"word": "akmeņlauztuve"
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{
"code": "lv",
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"tags": [
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"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
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"lang": "Belarusian",
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],
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{
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "ကျောက်မိုင်း"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
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],
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{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "coi² sek⁶ coeng⁴",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "karjäär"
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"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "murd"
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{
"code": "fo",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "grótbrot"
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "louhos"
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "canteira"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pedreira"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "kvis samṭexlo",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "ქვის სამტეხლო"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "კარიერი"
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"code": "de",
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],
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"neuter"
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],
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{
"code": "ms",
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{
"code": "mi",
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "site for mining stone",
"word": "کھان"
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"code": "ur",
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"roman": "khadān",
"sense": "site for mining stone",
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"code": "uz",
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"code": "cy",
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"ref": "1794, James Donaldson, “Miscellaneous Observations and Hints for Improvement”, in General View of the Agriculture of the County of Elgin or Moray, Lying between the Spey and the Findhorn; including Part of Strathspey, in the County of Inverness. With Observations on the Means of Its Improvement, … Drawn up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, London: Printed by C. Clarke, →OCLC, page 34:",
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"4": "",
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"4": "",
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"ref": "1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] VI. A Dog and a Shadow.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "What's an Eternal Circulation of the ſame Things, as well as the ſame Steps, without Advancing one Inch of Ground towards his Journey's End, but Ixion in the Wheel? And all this while, with Cares, and Horrors at his Heart, like the Vultur that's Day and Night Quarrying upon Prometheus's Liver.",
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"word": "quarry tile"
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"ref": "1615, Anthony Nixon, The Scovrge of Corruption. Or A Crafty Knave Needs No Broker, London: Printed at London, for Henry Gosson, and William Houlmes, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace, →OCLC, page 20:",
"text": "The boyes playing at ſtooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glaſſe, whereupon he complayned to the Towneſhip, and either had, or did his utmoſt to haue the poor boy whipt, […]",
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"ref": "1767 April, “a pen” [pseudonym], “The Adventures of a Pen”, in William Phorson, editor, The Berwick Museum, or, Monthly Literary Intelligencer. Being a View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the Times. Forming an Universal Repository of Amusement and Instruction, volume III, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberlnd: Printed by W. Phorson, →OCLC, page 155:",
"text": "A window towards the eaſt (whoſe fractured quarries proclaimed the ravages of time) admitted a dim, ſhadowy light, over the whole manſion.",
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