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• But his favorite pastime was building. (5)
• The architect bowed and left the building. (13)
• The bigger the building, the better for me. (13)
• The question now is of building up strength. (14)
• Lapham turned away and looked up at the building. (9)
• Like this Chinese building, so was Society then formed. (8)
• Fire first came in 1887 and destroyed the main building. (21)
• It was a handsome modern building, well situated on rising ground. (4)
• She looked up at the building; a monstrous granite tomb, all dark. (8)
• It was buried under tons of brick and iron in the wrecked building. (13)
• He pointed out to her some of the devices used to skimp the building. (13)
• Then she unfolded more plainly her purpose of building in Forest Park. (13)
• It was his building which was being eaten up like grass before the flame. (13)
• It was his first visit to the Law Courts, and the building struck him at once. (8)
• For a long time he played, while the building darkened slowly down there below him. (8)
• He made me the treasurer of his company, and I was the architect for the building. (13)
• The upper floors had collapsed, slipping down into the inner gulf of the building. (13)
• Determine total area of the building on the ground floor, including all projections. (17)
• One day, however, he had occasion to go to the building, and took his wife with him. (13)
• He was still engaged in building it when the French general marched upon Fort Edward. (19)
• An elephant came as far as the door of the building, then turned back into the flames. (21)
• It was not a bad piece of work, after all, as Chicago building was done, he reflected. (13)
• Many of the museum and menagerie curiosities were in the burned building and were destroyed. (21)
• He appealed to Pemberton, whom he took for one of the passers-by gaping idly at the building. (13)
• As they were leaving the place the contractor drove up to the building for his daily inspection. (13)
• It really faced nothing but a high breast of rock, the rear of the building being set into a hill. (1)
• Maida Rainbow told me over there in Paris that you were building the Bushfields an immense house. (13)
• In fact, our building codes show no uniformity of opinion on the matter, and our experts disagree. (17)
• From the hour that the contract was signed, the building rose from nothingness by leaps and bounds. (13)
• Determine the average height of the building from the cellar floor to the average height of the roof. (17)
• When the spring opened Colonel Lapham showed that he had been in earnest about building on the New Land. (9)
• There was no explosion; the rifle had been discharged as it dropped from his hand when the building fell. (1)
• There should have been an iron ladder between every two tiers of bay windows on this side of the building. (13)
• Towards the end of his life he moved to London, where, building on until he died, he was buried at Highgate. (8)
• The coroner motioned toward the roll of plans that had been taken from the files of the Building Department. (13)
• The exercises were held in the pretty little auditorium which occupied one wing of the large school building. (13)
• The light began to break as well as the prices, and we find the cost of building materials dropping suddenly. (17)
• This is not so important a consideration with the light wooden frame building as it is with the masonry house. (17)
• He had dealt with building committees before, and he had found that trustees usually took their duties lightly. (13)
• He remembered that the Powers Jackson gift for a school would call sooner or later for a large public building. (13)
• It had long been her pet plan that her uncles should benefit themselves and Bosinney by building country-houses. (8)
• There had not been one word of comment on the house itself, on the building as a home for generations of people. (13)
• Some are crowded to the doors; some are empty like monuments; and yet you will ever find new ones in the building. (2)
• There was no finer building under the sun and artists and connoisseurs flocked from all parts of the world to see it. (5)
• He was really building several other houses, but he gave the Laphams the impression that he was doing none but theirs. (9)
• The building rose sheer and massive, six stories above their heads, with rows of unglassed windows like sightless eyes. (13)
• As Jackson well knew, Graves was waiting to close that arrangement which he had proposed for building an apartment house. (13)
• The crowd grew denser every moment, and surged again and again nearer the building, packing solidly about the fire lines. (13)
• That was the building her husband had done for the disreputable contractor, who had made it a mere lath-and-plaster shell. (13)
• The architect had moved lately to the top story of a large new building on Michigan Avenue, where his office had expanded. (13)
• Here they toiled, together with a number of Huron converts, in building a stronghold which would defy the dreaded Iroquois. (19)
• Things in the trade were slack; and as Soames had reflected before making up his mind, it had been a good time for building. (8)
• It is sufficient if one knows those qualities which mean satisfactory building and durability when applied to the structure. (17)
• Why, I worked for a man once who put up a first-class flat building, slow-burning construction, heavy woodwork, and all that. (13)
• The man looks at it without stopping; he merely keeps turning his head more and more backward as he leaves the building behind. (1)
• Her musical leaders went bravely to work, importing such composers as Mendelssohn and Wagner, and building up great music schools. (3)
• Building up her attributes on a splendid climax, he declared she was pious, charitable, witty, and really an extraordinary artist. (10)
• The architect should also hold back the final payment, if there are any liens existing against the building, until they are removed. (17)
• He was kept busy these days by consultations with the trustees and the director of the school, getting their ideas about the building. (13)
• It was with this intention, therefore, that Felix entered the building where the justice of that neighborhood was customarily dispensed. (8)
• Later, Dr. Everest spoke warmly to Pemberton of the intelligent young architect, whom he understood might be asked to design the building. (13)
• Her short-winged hive set to work in her head as usual, building scaffoldings of great things to be done by Chillon, present evils escaped. (10)
• His uplifted face, with the awed and wistful look which faces take on themselves in church, was whitened to a chalky hue in the vast building. (8)
• Many architects conscientiously tried to reduce the cost of construction of the small house by inventing cheaper ways and methods of building. (17)
• He had also built along the terrace a broad veranda, which contrasted strangely with the weather-beaten, hand-made clapboards of the old building. (13)
• Crossing over to the river side, he noted the building, white and cheerful-looking, with green sunblinds, seen through a screen of plane-tree leaves. (8)
• The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only emotion which could spring from a consideration of the building. (4)
• A post-chaise drew up in front of the headquarters and two gentlemen disguised in great-coats emerged from the building and made their way to the carriage. (18)
• This apartment building stood out from its vulgar neighbors with a kind of aristocratic distinction that called the passer-by to admire its frugal plainness. (13)

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