1 There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.
2 Huge boulders, far too big to be used as they were, were lying all over the bed of the quarry.
3 Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.
4 For a long time the quarry was full of snowdrifts and nothing could be done.
5 And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry.
6 A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 7 Good, thought Huck, they will bury it in the old quarry.
8 But they never stopped at the quarry.
9 When he emerged at the quarry he felt secure, and so he picked up his nimble heels and flew.
10 They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence.
11 There was a quarry, empty and abandoned, near a building which was still like those in the city.
12 , who just waited in silence, and took their top hats off while they looked round the quarry and wiped the sweat off their brows with their handkerchiefs.
13 As he looked round, he saw the top floor of the building next to the quarry.
14 In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back.
15 Nevertheless, I stole furtive glances behind me now and then to see that no avenging mate, older and bigger than my quarry, was racing up from the rear.