Seagoers are great monument builders; converting a memory into something as concrete, and as resistant to time, as a monument is at least one way of compensating for their helplessness before nature.

By the late 1800s, the German-Americans had also become prodigious monument builders, and they erected at least fifteen additional monuments to the poets prior to World War I.

He ultimately became known as a monument builder, and he built more monuments around the world than any other Filipino sculptor.

Yet it was one thing to be a monument builder, lord of diesel armies, reconfiguring the topography.

Because of new fine-tipped drills available to monument builders, it is even possible to have one's photograph engraved on a tombstone, which Mr. Sorrentino has done for show.

Not having time to hunt and farm would make them rely on others to such an extent that specialised farmers would emerge who provided not only for themselves but also for the monument builders.

Rhys-Davies, John, "Riddles of the monument builders: Who built the Sphinx", Time-Life Video, 1995.

Kim Adams, the show's only semi-conventional monument builder, recycles wrecked cars, old trucks and abandoned houses as public sculptures.

On the south side is Karrakatta Cemetery, which began service in 1899, with a small industrial area occupied by monument builders, associated companies and the depot for City of Nedlands.