The edifice itself is the most beautiful of the works by McKim that I have seen.

More than half a century after the period of which we are writing, this little edifice, peculiar in its form, its ruinous condition, and its materials, has suddenly become the study and the theme of that very learned sort of individual the American antiquarian.

Still on his left, in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitoline, though he could not see it, concealed from view by the great Temples of Vesta and of Castor, and the still greater edifice known as the Basilica Julia, was the quarter called the Velabrum, extending to the river, where the Pons Aemilius crossed it,a low quarter of narrow streets and tall houses where the rabble lived and died.

But the most remarkable edifices in Bologna are the watch-towers, represented in the engraving.

St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Preston, is of a retiring disposition; it occupies a very southern position; is neither in the town nor out of it; and unlike many sacred edifices is more than 50 yards from either a public-house or a beershop.

This edifice that you perceive here, in a line with the chimneys of the first house, is New St. Paul's, Mr. Grant's old church, as orthodox a house, in its way, as there is in the diocese, as you may see by the windows.

Our first public edifice was a log schoolhouse about twenty feet square.

A good picture is the admiration of a few; a magnificent edifice is the pride of thousands.

In the lower town the most striking edifices are the palace of the Wallenstein family, descendants of the famous Wallenstein, so distinguished in the Thirty Years war.

The edifice wherein our Unitarian friends assemble every Sunday, is an old-fashioned, homely-looking, little buildinga tiny, Quakerised piece of architecture, simple to a degree, prosaic, diminutive, snug, dull.

The edifice before us was an ancient tombthe tomb of VIRGIL!

This stone edifice was evidently a prison.

The church edifice was the gathering-place, as once had been the marae, the native temple.

But we find that ecclesiastical edifices were not the only ones which were adorned with this high building; for town-halls were not infrequently distinguished by immensely lofty spires, as at Brussels.

Whether Sir Nicholas Lestrange, in the beef-eating days of Old Harry and Elizabeth, was a nervous man, and subject to apprehensions of this kind, I cannot tell; but it is certain that he speedily rid himself of the spoils of the Church, and that, within twenty years afterwards, the edifice became the property of the famous Dudley, Earl of Leicester, brother of the Earl of Warwick.

It seems probable then that this enormous religious edifice was the growth of many ages, each adding something to enlarge and perfect the work of former days.

Again, edifice is a generic category of thought.

This edifice that you perceive here, in a line with the chimneys of the first house, is New St. Paul's, Mr. Grant's old church, as orthodox a house, in its way, as there is in the diocese, as you may see by the windows.

The most important edifice of the street is the Hôtel de Sens, built in the sixteenth century by the Archbishop Tristan de Salazar.

An edifice for a gallery or museum of art should be fire-proof, sufficiently isolated for light and effective ornamentation, and constructed so as to admit of indefinite extension.

The tenth edifice of the great temple at Tenochtitlan was a wall surrounding an artificial rockery planted with these bushes.

'The new edifice' was, no doubt, the library of which he took the touching farewell.

The vast edifice he constructed was exclusively the work of his own hands, and he was the keystone of the arch; but the gigantic construction was essentially wanting in its foundations, the materials of which were nothing but the ruins of other buildings.