"I think the stonecutter is another perfect metaphor for the process of growing into our full potential. From Wordnik.com. [Colors on my mind] Reference
At the time, for a Midwestern kid from "stonecutter" Bedford, Indiana, it was kind of like going to work for Google today. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The stonecutter / New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2009. From Wordnik.com. [New Library Comics: July 2009] Reference
It's of a brisk stonecutter boy returning from his work. From Wordnik.com. [Stonecutter Boy] Reference
The other was an Itaskian stonecutter named Thom Callison. From Wordnik.com. [An Ill Fate Marshalling]
Uncertain how to carve a bird, the stonecutter made a lamb instead. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
This third stonecutter replied joyously: "I am building a cathedral.". From Wordnik.com. [Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli] Reference
The king silenced their protests and turning to the stonecutter, said. From Wordnik.com. [Steel] Reference
The visitor passed on and put the same question to another stonecutter. From Wordnik.com. [Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli] Reference
They stopped at the fountain the stonecutter Callison had been building. From Wordnik.com. [An Ill Fate Marshalling]
He told her about Gales and the stonecutter and the assassin who had died in the park. From Wordnik.com. [An Ill Fate Marshalling]
Every now and again an apprentice or a laborer asked to be upgraded to mason or stonecutter. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
They could even identify the stonecutter who inscribed the tombstone: H&H Monuments on Sandpit Road. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]
A visitor to the site of where one of the medieval cathedrals was being built asked a stonecutter what he was doing. From Wordnik.com. [Cheerfulness (A psychosynthesis technique), by Roberto Assagioli] Reference
It was while working as a clerk at a Brazilian stonecutter and exporter that he became enchanted with Brazil's gemstones. From Wordnik.com. [He Mined a Passion for Brazil] Reference
His first cassock was hand-sewn by his mother, who became a seamstress after her stonecutter husband died when Joseph was 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference
Not right away, but soon as she spelled her name -- not her given name, but the one Ma'am paid the stonecutter for -- I knew. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved]
Here's how other husbands fared: MUSICGoing Pop He's been a poet, a stonecutter and a member of an experimental theater group. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Starr In The Courtroom, Behind The Curtain,] Reference
The stonecutter said there was too much inscription for so small a surface, but was told to go ahead and "squeeze it on somehow.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
And my father's case, my paternal grandfather, whom I never knew, named Patrick Leahy, died as a stonecutter in Very (ph), Vermont. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2006] Reference
There have been instances where tornadoes have shaved off the stone sides of buildings as if they had been sliced away by a stonecutter. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
He's no clumsy American stonecutter with thumbs for fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921] Reference
"I am Antonio Canova, the grandson of Pisano, the stonecutter.". From Wordnik.com. [Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life] Reference
Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, a stonecutter, and his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
Louis Brusa, a Barre stonecutter, died in 1937 at age 50 from silicosis. From Wordnik.com. [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference
He wronged nobody but himself, as I made the stonecutter say over his grave. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
Britt had secured special rates by ordering two statues from the stonecutter. From Wordnik.com. [When Egypt Went Broke] Reference
Obviously, the stonecutter isn't strong enough to break a rock in one blow and no one is. From Wordnik.com. [Colors on my mind] Reference
The bottom one shows a stonecutter sitting under a tent awning on the face of the Wilkeson quarry. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"My name is Antonio Canova," said the boy, "and I have had no teacher but my grandfather the stonecutter.". From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Famous Stories Retold] Reference
It seems that the stonecutter omitted a final "e" in the last word, and tried in vain to squeeze it in above the line. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Cooperstown] Reference
The father of Socrates was a stonecutter and his mother a midwife, so very naturally the son had a beautiful contempt for pedigree. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference
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