Edifice

Examples

• During my journey I might dream, and with buoyant wings reach the summit of life's high edifice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The doctor said: Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One family built the whole edifice, and have got money left. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In its history from the first, and in its tremendous associations, it is the most illustrious edifice in Christendom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• 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? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Now one was not a child, and one knew that the soul was a prisoner within this sordid vast edifice of life, and there was no escape, save in death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus was the edifice of my brief dream of happiness dashed, broken, to the ground of reality. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What a wonder of architectural beauty and grandeur this edifice must have been when it was new! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• For more than an hour his eloquence (assisted by his glorious voice) thundered through the sacred edifice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For quickly the fair proportion of this edifice would be more defaced, than are the sand-choked ruins of the desert temples of Palmyra. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• One portion of this noble old edifice is suggestive of the quaint fashions of ancient times. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These edifices were all built of the whitest Pentelic marble, but have a pinkish stain upon them now. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In modern times the art of building has had such an upward trend that edifices looming far into the air, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These pillars are small, and doubtless the edifices they adorned were distinguished more for elegance than grandeur. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You decorated our towns with edifices, you bestowed on us useful establishments, you gifted the soil with abundant fertility. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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