The hammers clinked on the stone all night.

That work has been carried on by Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox ecumenical officers and theologians engaged in interchurch dialogue.

Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, / And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour.

It is equally self-defeating to reduce people to objects that may be possessed, or to interpret (i.e., overcode, classify, categorize) people or books.