Buildings

Examples

• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Over 2,000 buildings were constructed besides the remodeling of 1,500 buildings turned over by the French company. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• So I picked out the worst dilapidated street there was, and found I could only get two buildings, each 25 feet front, one 100 feet deep and the other 85 feet deep. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Ursula saw a man with a lantern come out of a farm by the railway, and cross to the dark farm-buildings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was very difficult to get the land he wanted for his central station, but he finally bought two old buildings on Pearl Street for $150,000. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• How do Big Buildings Get their Granite? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The outsides of the buildings somewhat resembled the cement houses which have been put up in later days, a coat of clay being spread on the outside walls and carefully smoothed off. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms being in the central block of the buildings. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The boiler house, which furnishes the steam for heating the entire plant, is located in the rear of these buildings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is enclosed by a wall of two feet high, and twenty feet distance from the buildings. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Among the five or six buildings supplied with the new lighting were the _Herald_ offices and the Drexel Building, at the time one of New York City’s show places. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The arc light is adapted for streets and great buildings, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The last of these original buildings, No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the latter case, pipes closely wrapped with a non-conducting material carry steam long distances underground to heat remote buildings. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The air in crowded buildings, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Stone buildings can be converted into good silos by furring out and double boarding on the inside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Recent examples of such construction are the Woolworth and Equitable buildings in New York City; in this last instance a thousand horse-power was used in digging the foundations alone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Steam power was now installed, and the plant, increased by new buildings and machinery, ran day and night. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It must be borne in mind that the laboratory is only the core of a group of buildings devoted to production on a huge scale by hundreds of artisans. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The buildings are usually grouped together at a favorable spot on the banks of the Amazon or one of its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He remained in Columbia until the roads, public buildings, workshops and everything that could be useful to the enemy were destroyed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the conventual buildings attached to this church are the state archives of Venice. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In Syria there were slaves in sufficient quantity to make real buildings, but the artistic spirit is as debased as anything made by machinery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I crossed the track and came out between some buildings and down onto the street. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They could look down upon the buildings, the yard; they could see the road beyond. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Practically all railroad rails, iron girders and beams for buildings, nails, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• His first cultivation before that came about must have been rather in the form of garden patches near the house buildings than of fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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