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These abuses include the murder of inmates’ infants, a fact that galvanizes the pregnant Alouette (the father of her child, Étienne, is a quarryman) into joining a plan for escape through the Paris sewers.—Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026 For over 250 years, quarrymen manually extracted large white stone blocks, locally called conci, which were shipped by boat to mainland Sicily and North Africa.—
Lindsay Cohn,
Vogue,
6 Nov. 2025 The remains of any living creatures were crushed and compressed, producing the limestone sold by a long line of local quarrymen that is ending with Bromberek.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Sep. 2023 The quarryman offered to drive us in his old truck around some of the dirt roads that were the only points of access to this part of the island.—New York Times,
19 Apr. 2022