The house which Lady Maulevrier had built for herself and her grandchildren had not been created all at once, though the nucleus dating forty years back was a handsome building.

PALAIS ROYAL, a pile of buildings in Paris, of which the nucleus was a palace built in 1629 by Lemercier for Richelieu, and known afterwards as the Palais Cardinal, and which at length by gift of Louis XIV. became the town residence of the Orleans family; these buildings suffered much damage in 1848 and in 1871, but have been restored since 1873.

The nucleus of the developing civilization was also the nucleus of an empire.

In fact, the nucleus of the Communist Party, which was officially created as late as 1921, was a student organization including some professors in Peking.

The nucleus of this rising was a secret society.

Its nucleus was the island of Crete.

The great nucleus of these Shelouh Jews is in Jebel Melge, or the vast ridge of the Atlas capped with eternal snows; and they hold communications with the Jews of Ait Mousa, Frouga or Misfuvâ.

The nucleus of Swiss freedom was the German-speaking cantons about the Lake of Lucerne; Tell was a German, and he was glorified by the German Schiller.

The nucleus of that group was a family named Ts'ui, of which there is mention from the Han period onward and which maintained its power down to the tenth century; but it remained in the background and at first held entirely aloof from direct intervention in high policy.

Each nucleus was a center of planned production; accumulating wealth, growing population and expanding authority.

The nucleus is the market-place, and the fibres are the few lanes diverging from it.

They do not constitute a unified code, but rather are made up of a series of smaller groups of laws, the older nucleus being the Holiness Code found in chapters 17-26 of Leviticus (cf.

The nuclei of civilized life have been cities concerned primarily with trade, commerce, industry, financeplanned, organized and administered by businessmen, their professional and technical associates and assistants.

Its nucleus, or germinating kernel, was the old partition of subject and predicate, derived from the art of logic.

The picture is now No. 1 in the National Gallery, the nucleus of which collection was once the property of John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823).

Its original nucleus was probably a small group of popular proverbs that had been transmitted orally from the days before the final destruction of Jerusalem.

The nucleus of the Egyptian Empire was a dictatorship by a self-perpetuated elite, headed by lords spiritual and temporal.

The nucleus is the hub from which the spokes of empire and of civilization radiate.