stone-quarry

Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino: The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie: The House of Fame, from the French or Italian: and poor Gower he uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.

Representative Men 2006

The proprietor of the estate on whose grounds these ruins are located used this mound as a stone-quarry.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

It looked strangely bleak, for, of all things, there can hardly be a more desolate sight than an abandoned stone-quarry, where the weeds and thistles have grown up, and puddles of water abound.

The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path Donald Ferguson

A stone-quarry for which we were searching was not found, but a teamster was, who, while everything solemnly stood still and waited, and amid the agonies of an indescribable stutter, finally managed to enlighten us somewhat as to its whereabouts.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

The road was more like a stone-quarry than a carriageable public highway, so encumbered was it with granite fragments, heaped ready for top-dressing and finishing; and the bridge led on to a raised embankment, coming to a sudden fissure, where the old coach-road crossed it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

It seems they have used this monument as a stone-quarry.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Under supervision the peons worked at moderately good speed; indeed, they compared rather favorably with the rough American laborers with whom I had recently toiled in railroad gangs, in a stone-quarry of Oklahoma, and the cotton-fields of Texas.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Here, where it ends and the flat country begins, I descended into the "cut," dry and waterless, with a stone-quarry bottom.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

It was rougher than any stone-quarry pitched at impossible angles, and the attraction of gravity for my burden passed belief.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Just where this line of bank sloped down again to the level, a by-road turned off and led to the other side of the rise, where it was broken into very capricious hollows and mounds by the working of an exhausted stone-quarry, so long exhausted that both mounds and hollows were now clothed with brambles and trees, and here and there by a stretch of grass which a few sheep kept close-nibbled.

I. In the Red Deeps. Book V—Wheat and Tares 1917