Builders

Examples

• 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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