unquarried
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unquarried (not comparable)
- Not quarried.
- 1888, Harry A. Lewis, Hidden Treasures[1]:
- The granite for his monument lies unquarried nor is its erection needed.
- 1912, Charles Warren Stoddard, In the Footprints of the Padres[2]:
- He touched the heights of the Misty City and the sea-fog that had walled it in through the night as with walls of unquarried marble--albeit the eaves had dripped in the darkness as after a summer shower--and anon the opaque vapors dissolved and fled away.