Edifices
[edəfɪsiz]
Examples
- 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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