Builder

Examples

• Disappearance of a Well Known Builder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? Plato. The Republic.
• We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• John Stevens, the most celebrated boat builder and engineer of his day, was actively experimenting in America in the same line. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He engaged Charles Brownne, a ship-builder on the East River, to lay down the hull. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. Plato. The Republic.
• Unless the demand is such as to afford the builder his profit, after paying all expenses, he will build no more houses. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were practically unknown then, and when he went to an engine builder and said that he wanted a 150 horse-power engine that would run 700 revolutions per minute he was told it was impossible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The problem of the builder is to get the heavy bowlder out of the ground, to load it on a wagon for transportation, and finally to raise it to the tower. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• General Dodge, besides being a most capable soldier, was an experienced railroad builder. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The safety-lamp had been given to the miner, the caisson to the bridge-builder, the anti-friction metal to the mechanic for bearings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But to his honor be it said that he was the first steam-engine builder. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The reaper was a very vital factor in the development of that country, and McCormick deserved the credit of being one of the greatest profit-builders of the land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The builders had attained the art of using cement, and of roofing a building,--great improvements on the original Burgh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• These vessels directed the attention of ship-builders to two prominent features, the shape of the bow and the length of the vessel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They were expert builders, and possessed the engineering skill to erect obelisks weighing hundreds of tons. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They were empire builders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They result by a criminal neglect of builders or engineers to provide themselves with such devices, or by a most ignorant or careless management and operation of simple actuating mechanisms. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They may have been the first agriculturists and the first temple builders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What builders they were, these men of antiquity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were great builders, and left many monuments and inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Car-builders were set to work repairing the locomotives and cars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As a result all the nations demanded that a non-explosive fuel should be used, and builders turned to the Diesel engine as offering a solution to the difficulty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The company was able to pay large dividends, and the builders found that they could have made no better investment. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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