Meanings of marble quarries in English

The method of quarrying is not unlike that of the marble quarries on the earth.

He had invested a small legacy received about that time in abandoned marble quarries and sugar-maple orchards.

In good time next morning, we got some ponies, and went out to see the marble quarries.

The mineral wealth of Alemtejo is little exploited, although there are copper and iron mines and marble quarries.

He adds, 'Several prime seamen were yesterday taken disguised as labourers in the different marble quarries round the town.'

At Stockbridge we visited the marble quarries, and to-morrow at Lanesborough shall visit the quarries of fine white marble there.

But Paros boasted not only its marble quarries, but the valour of its inhabitants, and the vehement song of Archilochus.

Its sides were mangy with the scars of logging, and the lower slopes were pitted with slate and marble quarries.

There are valuable deposits of gypsum on Chicagof Island, and marble quarries are being developed on Prince of Wales Island.

This," he took up another smaller one, "I found after a long search in the marble quarries of Vermont.

Traversing a savage gorge, we soon come to the marble quarries of Chassal and Molinges, also, at the former place, ochre quarries.

Early next morning, we passed the promontory of Cyzicus, and the Island of Marmora, the marble quarries of which give name to the sea.

Scott gave him this title from the Arabian Nights, on occasion of his becoming the lessee of some marble quarries in the Isle of Anglesea.

Christopher Raeburn, Nicole Farhi and Margaret Howell opened the day with different shades of white which drew inspiration from marble quarries and 1950s escape maps.

Marble Quarries in the Isle of Pines, 6.

Marble quarries, mines of salt, platina, gold, and coal are worked here on a large scale.