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  • He sat quietly, almost dozing, waiting for something to happen, really aware of nothing at all except that things were happening down below, that whole edifices of make,believe were being erected, judged, found wanting, and torn down again in the wink of an eye.†   (source)
  • It was while the two were in midair, their hands about to meet, that lightning struck the main pole and sizzled down the guy wires, filling the air with a blue radiance that Harry Avalon must certainly have seen through the cloth of his blindfold as the tent buckled and the edifice toppled him forward, the swing continuing and not returning in its sweep, and Harry going down, down into the crowd with his last thought, perhaps, just a prickle of surprise at his empty hands.†   (source)
  • Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.†   (source)
  • His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.†   (source)
  • The huge edifice seemed to sway overhead, hundreds of feet high, a sheer cliff of stone.†   (source)
  • Thus a relatively small population was left to wander among what remained of the majestic edifices of the city's former glory.†   (source)
  • It seemed one would have to bolt the edifice, which was at least two and a half feet tall, to its bony bedrock in order to keep it from toppling over.†   (source)
  • The Teacherage, which stands opposite the up-to-date school, is an out-of-date edifice, drab and poignant.†   (source)
  • Across the ravine from it, reached by a wooden bridge, stood a pretentious frame edifice, a boarding-house built by the Gloriana mill for the use of its office force and mechanics.†   (source)
  • Some large permanent brick edifices have already been reared on the scene of the ruins, and many others are in the process of erection….†   (source)
  • Just the mothership silently hovering in orbit for the first ten days caused cracks in the human edifice.†   (source)
  • It was inside this dark edifice that a small training staff was told in November of 1944 that "Island X" was Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • He gestured ahead at the steep rock face of the canyon, where an enormous edifice seemed to have been carved into the stone itself, in much the same manner as Paralon.†   (source)
  • But this was often private; I was left for an hour haunting the carved edifices of Notre-Dame, or sitting at the edge of a park in the carriage.†   (source)
  • But the fragile edifice of their love would certainly come tumbling down.†   (source)
  • Built some forty years before, it comprised a handsome main edifice, two stories tall with a bell tower and arcaded wings joining smaller "offices" at either end, all of it done in red brick.†   (source)
  • Felicia went with Hugo Villaverde to the Hotel Inglaterra, an ornate wedding cake of an edifice opposite the Parque Central.†   (source)
  • Beyond it stood another temple, a red stone edifice as stern as any fortress.†   (source)
  • My eyes searched the dark narrow passage to the right of the wide square edifice under the tower.†   (source)
  • He poured it on like Niagara—school spirit, the traditional sale that had never failed, the Headmaster lying sick in the hospital, the brotherhood of Trinity, the need for funds to keep this magnificent edifice of education operating on all gears.†   (source)
  • The nation built the white marble edifice as a personal present to one of its greatest men.†   (source)
  • The house of my roommate was as splendid an edifice as I would ever enter without paying admission.†   (source)
  • He felt a twinge of guilt over this and liked to work on its stately, weathered edifice whenever possible.†   (source)
  • We're gliding on the narrow two-lane road toward the old part of the village, the edifices of the dark brick town fire station and the turreted stone post office (once a mill) nobly guarding the entrance.†   (source)
  • He wanted her to be permanent, an edifice whose piles touched the heart of the earth.†   (source)
  • Or alter the nature of love entirely, so as to reduce to absurdity the idea of loving an ant, or a salamander, or a viper, or a toad, or a tarantula, or a rabies virus—or even blessed and beautiful things—in a world which permitted the black edifice of Auschwitz to be built?†   (source)
  • And—a small bonus here—a woman who was, in George's observation, "built like a brick edifice.†   (source)
  • And suddenly this seemed to her one of those moments out of the future, just as she had found one small brief one out of the past; this was far, far ahead of herpicking up the shells, one, another, another, without time moving any more, and Easter abandoned on a little edifice, beyond dying and beyond being remembered about.†   (source)
  • It means that between us there is a basis of understanding on which we can build the edifice of our future.†   (source)
  • It gave beauty to the old edifice, and seemed to make it a part of nature.   (source)
    edifice = building
  • …across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick.   (source)
  • That edifice is colossal.   (source)
  • A tin pipe ascends through the ceiling, and forms a medium of vocal communication with other parts of the edifice.   (source)
  • The edifice—originally projected on a scale adapted to the old commercial enterprise of the port, and with an idea of subsequent prosperity destined never to be realized—contains far more space than its occupants know what to do with.   (source)
  • A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.   (source)
  • On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.   (source)
  • They approached the door, which was of an arched form, and flanked on each side by a narrow tower or projection of the edifice, in both of which were lattice-windows, the wooden shutters to close over them at need.   (source)
  • The pavement round about the above-described edifice—which we may as well name at once as the Custom-House of the port—has grass enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous resort of business.   (source)
  • I remembered to have read (probably in Felt's "Annals") a notice of the decease of Mr. Surveyor Pue, about fourscore years ago; and likewise, in a newspaper of recent times, an account of the digging up of his remains in the little graveyard of St. Peter's Church, during the renewal of that edifice.   (source)
  • Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.   (source)
  • It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslant-wise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.   (source)
  • Next rose before her in memory's picture-gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall, grey houses, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen scholar: a new life, but feeding itself on time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall.   (source)
    edifices = buildings
  • Langdon's thoughts were a blur as they raced toward the edifice.†   (source)
  • One does not make love to a minor religious edifice.†   (source)
  • And up ahead on the left, the massive rectangular edifice of the Vatican Museum.†   (source)
  • There he and the others stopped to gaze at the imposing edifice that was Aroughs.†   (source)
  • He landed and the whole edifice swayed drunkenly.†   (source)
  • The chance to hear the voice that lurks behind the walls of this enormous edifice.†   (source)
  • Sacrifice is the cement which unites human bricks into the great edifice of society.†   (source)
  • The logistics of construction were as outsized as the edifice itself.†   (source)
  • The wealth required to build and maintain such an edifice was more than he could comprehend.†   (source)
  • The only name that appeared on the giant edifice was that of the sculptor, de Weldon.†   (source)
  • Located at 4210 Silver Hill Road just outside of Washington, D.C., the museum is a massive zigzag-shaped edifice constructed of five interconnected pods—each pod larger than a football field.†   (source)
  • Adorned with 140 statues of saints, martyrs, and angels, the Herculean edifice stretched two football fields wide and a staggering six long.†   (source)
  • According to the Web site, this unusual edifice was built as a sacred mystical shrine, designed by …. and designed for …. an ancient secret order.†   (source)
  • The gray granite edifice of Hurd's Church, which was so plain it might have been a Registry of Deeds or a Town Library or a Public Water Works, seemed to have composed itself around old Mr. Scammon's gouty limp and his sepulchral features.†   (source)
  • C#89 CHAPTER 89 Cathedral College is an elegant, castlelike edifice located adjacent to the National Cathedral.†   (source)
  • This colossal edifice, located at 1733 Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, D.C., was a replica of a pre-Christian temple—the temple of King Mausolus, the original mausoleum …. a place to be taken after death.†   (source)
  • Most of the edifices lining the drive were expensive apartment buildings, with doormen in livery waiting inside.†   (source)
  • On the crown of the hill rose a dark stone edifice, pillared and soaring, with a glittering tower at each cardinal direction point: four in all.†   (source)
  • Behind him was the backdrop of water and stone, canal and bridges, not a single modern edifice in sight.†   (source)
  • It was clearly designed to look like one of the luxury apartment complexes that had been built on Manhattan's Upper East Side before the Second World War, but the modern touches gave it away—the high sheets of windows, the copper roof untouched by verdigris, the banner signs draping themselves down the front of the edifice, promising LUXURY CONDOS STARTING AT $750,000.†   (source)
  • For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.†   (source)
  • She was easily the size of three or four women, an enormous edifice of flesh and silk with two ebony hairpins containing a curtain of rich black hair that might have reached the floor unbridled.†   (source)
  • Tummeler parked the Curious Diversity on a broad avenue at the intersection of streets below the towering edifice and motioned them to a bridge that led to two great applewood doors.†   (source)
  • They were being used to keep track of them, the humans like Evan Walker, solitary and dangerously enhanced, scattered over every continent, armed with knowledge that could bring the whole edifice crashing down if the program downloaded into them malfunctioned—as it clearly did in his case.†   (source)
  • He was, however, the community's most widely known citizen, prominent both there and in Garden City, the close-by county seat, where he hardheaded the building committee for the newly completed First Methodist Church, an eight-hundred-thousand-dollar edifice.†   (source)
  • Local citizens had provided the funds in the hope that an edifice worthy of the new republic would inspire Congress to make New York the permanent capital.†   (source)
  • Roran called out greetings, and Jormundur replied in kind and shouted, "Once we reach that fountain"—he pointed with his sword toward a large, ornate edifice that stood in a courtyard several hundred yards in front of them—"take your men and head off to the right.†   (source)
  • Their love was an oddly asymmetrical construction: it was supported by the absolute certainty of her fidelity like a gigantic edifice supported by a single column.†   (source)
  • …arrived at Lansing after an eight-hour, four-hundred-mile car ride from Garden City, the newcomers had been stripped, showered, given close haircuts, and supplied with coarse denim uniforms and soft slippers (in most American prisons such slippers are a condemned man's customary footwear); then armed escorts marched them through a wet twilight to the coffin-shaped edifice, hustled them up the spiral stairs and into two of the twelve side-by-side cells that comprise Lansing's Death Row.†   (source)
  • Yet the great whitewashed stone building, the largest house in America—as large as the half of the Capitol that had been erected—was truly a grand edifice, noble even in its present state.†   (source)
  • Visitors wrote in praise of its "very exactly straight streets," its "many fair houses and public edifices," and of the broad, tidal Delaware, alive in every season but winter with a continuous traffic of ships great and small.†   (source)
  • At one time this low rambling edifice with its slanted slate roof had been a storage warehouse for vegetables, and the Germans obviously found its architecture congenial to their purpose; the large underground grotto where turnips and potatoes had been piled high was perfectly suited to the asphyxiation of people en masse, just as the adjoining anterooms were so naturally fit for the installation of cremation ovens as to appear almost custom-made.†   (source)
  • Before them, stood a stately white-stone edifice set in the midst of the green park.†   (source)
  • So you see, Mr. Roark, though it is to be a religious edifice, it is also more than that.†   (source)
  • He felt nothing but immense uncertainty when his sketches were ready and the delicate perspective of a white marble edifice lay, neatly finished, before him.†   (source)
  • Misuse of public funds, waste and corruption had reached such proportions during his administration that the edifice was toppling of its own weight.†   (source)
  • He lived in the spartan shell of the largest edifice in the county, not excepting the courthouse itself, whose threshold no woman had so much as seen, without any feminised softness of window pane or door or mattress; where there was not only no woman to object if he should elect to have his dogs in to sleep on the pallet bed with him, he did not even need dogs to kill the game which left footprints within sight of the kitchen door but hunted it instead with human beings who belonged…†   (source)
  • The new courthouse will be built on yonder hill, the undertaker and the village bakery will occupy handsome edifices of pressed brick just above you.†   (source)
  • Charlotte came in herself, like a big bridal edifice in her veil and other lace, carrying long-stemmed flowers.†   (source)
  • She had begun chipping at the cornices of the firm's edifice and now she was swinging at the foundation stones with a pickaxe.†   (source)
  • But no abundance of sensation or fineness of perception would avail unless she could build up out of the fleeting and the personal the lasting edifice which remains unthrown.†   (source)
  • These things not appearing so threatening to me as they ought to appear, I was, on this topic anyhow, a fool to her, one who also could be stuck, leg-bent, in that white spiders' secretion and paralyzed inside women's edifices of safety.†   (source)
  • …nieces nephew-in-law herself and all—with the blind irrational fury of a shedding snake; who had taught Miss Rosa to look upon her sister as a woman who had vanished not only out of the family and the house but out of life too, into an edifice like Bluebeard's and there transmogrified into a mask looking back with passive and hopeless grief upon the irrevocable world, held there not in durance but in a kind of jeering suspension by a man (his face the same which Mr Coldfield now saw…†   (source)
  • It was a three-floor edifice, part marble, part stucco, adorned with gargoyles and carriage lanterns.†   (source)
  • …that country so much that he was even glad when he saw it drifting closer and closer to a doomed and fatal war; that he would have joined the Yankee army, Father said, only he was not a soldier and knew that he would either be killed or die of hardship and so not be present on that day when the South would realise that it was now paying the price for having erected its economic edifice not on the rock of stern morality but on the shifting sands of opportunism and moral brigandage.†   (source)
  • They seem to tell us that none may rise too high above the restraint of the common human level, that all is held and shall be checked, even as this proud edifice, by the stringcourses of men's brotherhood….†   (source)
  • We have noted the gigantic proportions of religious edifices, the soaring lines, the horrible grotesques of monster-like gods, or, later, gargoyles.†   (source)
  • The Shah ordered him to construct an edifice of this kind.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X
    Carley's edifice of hopes, dreams, aspirations, and struggles fell in ruins about her.†   (source)
  • A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice.†   (source)
  • The well-crafted social edifice, the perfection of humanity, the new Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • From the edifice a tall leaning tower of smoke went far into the sky.†   (source)
  • The key of a beautiful edifice is thrust into my hand, and I'm told to walk in and admire.†   (source)
  • All the edifices which I had admired the night before were of the same kind.†   (source)
  • It was in the green burial-place of this edifice that Mrs. Touchett consigned her son to earth.†   (source)
  • He admires the size of the edifice and wonders what it's all about.†   (source)
  • Her presence imparted an indescribable grace and faint witchery to the whole edifice.†   (source)
  • An edifice ought to be, moreover, suitable to the climate.†   (source)
  • This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden.†   (source)
  • They have a marvellous edifice of that pattern which endures for ever--the ant-heap.†   (source)
  • It is an edifice of the transition period.†   (source)
  • Few strangers visited this edifice, no passer-by looked at it.†   (source)
  • Daedalus is the base; Orpheus is the wall; Hermes is the edifice,—that is all.†   (source)
  • A subterranean edifice erected in common by all the miserable.†   (source)
  • At that time every edifice was a thought.†   (source)
  • Hence the edifice bore the name of the Gorbeau house.†   (source)
  • And it actually was an edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street!†   (source)
  • The symbol felt the need of expansion in the edifice.†   (source)
  • The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow.†   (source)
  • *The book is about to kill the edifice*.†   (source)
  • The printed book, the gnawing worm of the edifice, sucks and devours it.†   (source)
  • The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice.†   (source)
  • An edifice is no longer an edifice; it is a polyhedron.†   (source)
  • The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill the edifice.†   (source)
  • One would have said that he made the immense edifice breathe.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the prodigious edifice still remains incomplete.†   (source)
  • Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.†   (source)
  • Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.†   (source)
  • However, all these shades, all these differences, do not affect the surfaces of edifices only.†   (source)
  • , at the Hôtel de Ville, two edifices still in fine taste;—the Paris of Henri IV.†   (source)
  • There were also fine edifices which pierced the petrified undulations of that sea of gables.†   (source)
  • The nearest edifices to them were the bishop's palace and the church.†   (source)
  • Here were situated several edifices, the most prominent of which was a church built of wood, whitewashed, and remarkable, according to Withers, for the fact that not a nail had been used in its construction.†   (source)
  • It had windows all round, from which an outlook over the whole town and its edifices could be gained.†   (source)
  • The social fabric of orderly, peaceful life, when every man was sure of to-morrow, the edifice raised by Jim's hands, seemed on that evening ready to collapse into a ruin reeking with blood.†   (source)
  • She looked microscopically at the lines of her flanks, wondering how soon the fine, slim edifice would begin to sink squat and earthward.†   (source)
  • The wind, playing upon the edifice, produced a booming tune, like the note of some gigantic one-stringed harp.†   (source)
  • The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple.†   (source)
  • Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building, and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while with a smile at my astonishment, towards a vast grey edifice of fretted stone.†   (source)
  • But in my dreams of Combray (like those architects, pupils of Viollet-le-Duc, who, fancying that they can detect, beneath a Renaissance rood-loft and an eighteenth-century altar, traces of a Norman choir, restore the whole church to the state in which it probably was in the twelfth century) I leave not a stone of the modern edifice standing, I pierce through it and 'restore' the Rue des Perchamps.†   (source)
  • She puzzled out the Italian notices--the notices that forbade people to introduce dogs into the church--the notice that prayed people, in the interest of health and out of respect to the sacred edifice in which they found themselves, not to spit.†   (source)
  • To any one understanding the architecture of the edifice, the Persian's action would seem to indicate that Erik's mysterious house had been built in the double case, formed of a thick wall constructed as an embankment or dam, then of a brick wall, a tremendous layer of cement and another wall several yards in thickness.†   (source)
  • It was an ancient edifice of the fifteenth century, once a palace, now a training-school, with mullioned and transomed windows, and a courtyard in front shut in from the road by a wall.†   (source)
  • …a possible undercurrent of falsehood which debased for him all that had remained most precious, his happiest evenings, the Rue La Perouse itself, which Odette must constantly have been leaving at other hours than those of which she told him; extending the power of the dark horror that had gripped him when he had heard her admission with regard to the Maison Doree, and, like the obscene creatures in the 'Desolation of Nineveh,' shattering, stone by stone, the whole edifice of his past….†   (source)
  • Against these far stretches of country rose, in front of the other city edifices, a large red-brick building, with level gray roofs, and rows of short barred windows bespeaking captivity, the whole contrasting greatly by its formalism with the quaint irregularities of the Gothic erections.†   (source)
  • And yet he could see some things now and then: a gathering of firs, a brook or ditch, whose blackness, caught between overhanging layers of snow, stood out against the terrain; and when just for variety's sake his route led him downhill again—against the wind now—he spied at some distance, as if hovering there in the storm-swept tangle of veils, the outline of a man-made edifice.†   (source)
  • In the nave of the edifice were two or three villagers, and when the clergyman came to the words, "What God hath joined," a woman's voice from among these was heard to utter audibly: "God hath jined indeed!"†   (source)
  • …stone stairway leading down to it from the ground floor did indeed create the impression of a descent into a basement, this was almost entirely an illusion, the reasons for which were, first, that the ground floor sat rather high, and second, that the whole edifice had been built on a steep, mountainous slope, so that the "basement" rooms faced the front and looked out onto the garden and the valley—a state of affairs countered and negated, as it were, by the effect of the stairway.†   (source)
  • "You Christians studied them," Settembrini exclaimed, "studied the classical poets and philosophers until you broke out in a sweat, attempted to make their precious heritage your own, just as you used the stones of their ancient edifices for your meeting houses.†   (source)
  • Many men must have been needed to finish such an edifice; ay, and men gifted with strength and skill too!†   (source)
  • At some distance from the railroad Mr. Smooth-it-away pointed to a large, antique edifice, which, he observed, was a tavern of long standing, and had formerly been a noted stopping-place for pilgrims.†   (source)
  • He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red brick, with granite copings and an enormous fanlight over the door, standing in a street within five minutes' walk of the City Hall, which saw its best days (from the social point of view) about 1820.†   (source)
  • This, at least, is the theory of Mr. Charles Darwin, who thus explains the formation of atolls—a theory superior, in my view, to the one that says these madreporic edifices sit on the summits of mountains or volcanoes submerged a few feet below sea level.†   (source)
  • That dreadful question, "What for?" which had formerly destroyed all his mental edifices, no longer existed for him.†   (source)
  • The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.†   (source)
  • Chapter III IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions.†   (source)
  • That unlucky word had undone the work of many a year—the long laborious edifice of a life of love and constancy—raised too upon what secret and hidden foundations, wherein lay buried passions, uncounted struggles, unknown sacrifices—a little word was spoken, and down fell the fair palace of hope—one word, and away flew the bird which he had been trying all his life to lure!†   (source)
  • On this faith, dear reader, the Pharisees or Separatists—the latter being rather a political term—in the cloisters and around the altars of the Temple, built an edifice of hope far overtopping the dream of the Macedonian.†   (source)
  • Take a typical church in a small Virginia town: it is the "First Baptist"—a roomy brick edifice seating five hundred or more persons, tastefully finished in Georgia pine, with a carpet, a small organ, and stained-glass windows.†   (source)
  • The surface of the earth is covered with a granite sand and huge irregular masses of stone, among which a few plants force their growth, and give the appearance of a green field covered with the ruins of a vast edifice.†   (source)
  • Giovanni, who had but a scanty supply of gold ducats in his pocket, took lodgings in a high and gloomy chamber of an old edifice which looked not unworthy to have been the palace of a Paduan noble, and which, in fact, exhibited over its entrance the armorial bearings of a family long since extinct.†   (source)
  • The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dropped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.†   (source)
  • All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert all sorts of dark edifices.†   (source)
  • In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away.†   (source)
  • It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.†   (source)
  • These children of the woods stood together for several moments pointing at the crumbling edifice, and conversing in the unintelligible language of their tribe.†   (source)
  • Reversals of this kind, strange deformities, tremendous paralyses, are often seen to be inflicted by trade upon edifices—either individual or in the aggregate as streets and towns—which were originally planned for pleasure alone.†   (source)
  • The soft and gentle river Don sweeps through an amphitheatre, in which cultivation is richly blended with woodland, and on a mount, ascending from the river, well defended by walls and ditches, rises this ancient edifice, which, as its Saxon name implies, was, previous to the Conquest, a royal residence of the kings of England.†   (source)
  • He had commenced his labors, in the first year of their residence, by erecting a tall, gaunt edifice of wood, with its gable toward the highway.†   (source)
  • Those simple edifices might have been permitted to retain all of sacred embellishment that their Puritan founders had bestowed, even though the mighty structure of St. Peter's had sent its spoils to the fire of this terrible sacrifice.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the thing I resented was, that of all your edifices there has not been one at which one could not put out one's tongue.†   (source)
  • You have made a fortune, you have built up an edifice, you are a financial, commercial power, you can travel about the world until you have found a soft spot, and lie down in it with the consciousness of having earned your rest.†   (source)
  • …century bridge, which spans the canal before the museum, nor that immense cenotaph of Thorwaldsen's, adorned with horrible mural painting, and containing within it a collection of the sculptor's works, nor in a fine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautiful renaissance edifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dilated in the sea breeze like the sails of a ship.†   (source)
  • You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, 'Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!'†   (source)
  • You have laid a foundation that any edifice may be raised upon; and is it not a pity that you should devote the spring-time of your life to such a poor pursuit as I can offer?'†   (source)
  • The Palais de Justice communicated with the prison,—a sombre edifice, that from its grated windows looks on the clock-tower of the Accoules.†   (source)
  • This new pause was to enable Deerslayer to survey the singular edifice, which was of a construction so novel as to merit a particular description.†   (source)
  • But he had only to forget the artificial train of reasoning, and to turn from life itself to what had satisfied him while thinking in accordance with the fixed definitions, and all this artificial edifice fell to pieces at once like a house of cards, and it became clear that the edifice had been built up out of those transposed words, apart from anything in life more important than reason.†   (source)
  • …the habits, the ruling passions, and, in short, of all that constitutes what is called the national character; we should then find the explanation of certain customs which now seem at variance with the prevailing manners; of such laws as conflict with established principles; and of such incoherent opinions as are here and there to be met with in society, like those fragments of broken chains which we sometimes see hanging from the vault of an edifice, and supporting nothing.†   (source)
  • Within the shadow, I may figuratively say, of that religious edifice immortalized by Chaucer, which was anciently the resort of Pilgrims from the remotest corners of — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, 'in the immediate neighbourhood of the Cathedral.'†   (source)
  • But the Titan of innovation,-- angel or fiend, double in his nature, and capable of deeds befitting both characters,--at first shaking down only the old and rotten shapes of things, had now, as it appeared, laid his terrible hand upon the main pillars which supported the whole edifice of our moral and spiritual state.†   (source)
  • When Deerslayer drew nearer to the castle, however, objects of interest presented themselves that at once eclipsed any beauties that might have distinguished the scenery of the lake, and the site of the singular edifice.†   (source)
  • Eventually Judge Temple concluded to bestow the necessary land, and to erect the required edifice at his own expense.†   (source)
  • This stone edifice consisted of a central mass and two wings, whereon stood as sentinels a few slim chimneys, now gurgling sorrowfully to the slow wind.†   (source)
  • "Would you account the fall of a corner-stone, from the foundations of the edifice of learning, a matter of indifference to contemporaries or to posterity?" interrupted Obed.†   (source)
  • He found them on the threshold of the low edifice, already prepared to depart, and surrounded by a clamorous and weeping assemblage of their own sex, that had gathered about the place, with a sort of instinctive consciousness that it was the point most likely to be protected.†   (source)
  • He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed.†   (source)
  • It instantly opened and admitted him into a clean, cold-looking court, from beyond which a dull, plain edifice looked down upon him.†   (source)
  • A great church like the Bethel of Philadelphia has over eleven hundred members, an edifice seating fifteen hundred persons and valued at one hundred thousand dollars, an annual budget of five thousand dollars, and a government consisting of a pastor with several assisting local preachers, an executive and legislative board, financial boards and tax collectors; general church meetings for making laws; sub-divided groups led by class leaders, a company of militia, and twenty-four…†   (source)
  • He surveyed the edifice from the outside and admired it greatly; he looked in at the windows and received an impression of proportions equally fair.†   (source)
  • Fact being, I presume, that Mr. Bounderby the Banker does not reside in the edifice in which I have the honour of offering this explanation?'†   (source)
  • The chateau burned; the nearest trees, laid hold of by the fire, scorched and shrivelled; trees at a distance, fired by the four fierce figures, begirt the blazing edifice with a new forest of smoke.†   (source)
  • And we may ask the scornful themselves: If our hope is a dream, when will you build up your edifice and order things justly by your intellect alone, without Christ?†   (source)
  • "What?" said he to himself, while the lamp and the wax lights were nearly burnt out, and the servants were waiting impatiently in the anteroom; "what? this edifice which I have been so long preparing, which I have reared with so much care and toil, is to be crushed by a single touch, a word, a breath!†   (source)
  • When free from the trammels of passion,' Mrs General closed her eyes at the word, as if she could not utter it, and see anybody; 'when occurring with the approbation of near relatives; and when cementing the proud structure of a family edifice; these are usually auspicious events.†   (source)
  • The next remarkable object was a large edifice, constructed of moss-grown stone, but in a modern and airy style of architecture.†   (source)
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