quarry
/ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/ sustantivo C1En español: cantera, pedrera, pedrero, tajo
- A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate. · Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
Plural quarries
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“My quarry.
A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
There, fearing that perhaps I had come in the wrong direction after all, I mounted a hill from which I could command a view—the same hill which is cut into the dark quarry.
He was called count, he was said to possess 50,000 livres per annum; and his father’s immense riches, buried in the quarries of Saravezza, were a constant theme.
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