If he carved any statues in his early days as a stonecutter, they are unknown. |
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Before choosing the career of a writer, Remarque tried a series of jobs from stonecutter and a test-cardriver to sports journalist. |
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It was ordered at the stonecutter in Machov, who made it of one sandstone rock. |
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Ney was the daughter of a stonecutter, and from him she inherited artistic ambitions. |
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It is handmade by Mustapha Messaoudi, a stonecutter with the French Historic Monuments department. |
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We need to remember that a rough emerald of a beautiful dark colour may become clearer when the stonecutter, in shaping it too closely without regard for the optical axis, may alter the crystal's original colour. |
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In this open air exhibition visitors can easily imagine how the so called layer, the stonecutter, excavated the basalt lava and brought it up to the surface to be worked upon. |
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At the end of eighteen months, he went up to Murree, to the stonecutter, and said that he wanted the very best gravestone in the shop, and carved marble to sheathe the rest of the grave. |
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The words of the inscription may be painted upon the stone slab first as a guide for the stonecutter, and the effect of his cut letters may be heightened by later painting or gilding them. |
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Though first apprenticed as a stonecutter, his father's trade, he showed such a marked interest in painting that in his 14th year he was apprenticed to a painter named Antonio Badile, whose daughter Elena he later married. |
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Wölfli, who was born near Bern, was the seventh son of an alcoholic stonecutter who abandoned his family to dire straits when the boy was five years old. |
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