1279 collocations for building

They moved from St. Remy, selling the chateau, and built a house on the top of a green hill near Rouen, quite shut in by big trees, and with a lovely view from the Rond Pointthe highest part of the garden, over Rouenwith the spires of the cathedral in the distance.

We rowed in, constructed a hasty fireplace of stones, spread our blankets, and built an unnecessary fire near the beach.

Listen again and you will hear the voice of the catbird, the brown thrush, the chervink, the little chickadee, the wood robin, the blue-jay, the wood sparrow, and a hundred other nameless birds that live and build their nests and sing among these old woods.

Mary also wanted to build a church and school at Ifako.

" "Why don't you build a false wall?" "Well, I don't know; we hadn't thought of it.

The quaint and beautiful old town fell short in nothing of her expectations, in spite of the fact that she had previously read John Charteris's tales of Lichfield,"those effusions which" (if the Lichfield Courier-Herald is to be trusted) "have builded, by the strength and witchery of record and rhyme, romance and poem, a myriad-windowed temple in Lichfield's honorexquisite, luminous, and enduringfor all the world to see.

He had not read the Arabian tales as yet; but be sure that there are other folks who build castles in the air, and have fine hopes, and kick them down, too, besides honest Alnaschar.

He therefore set his men to work to build a strong fort.

Who built the Brooklyn Bridge?

It has built cities, bridged rivers, united continents, and sent the myriad spindles of trade whirring under a thousand changing skies.

Mahomet took his wife and came to his father's city, where he built himself a palace.

They had built us huts from the wreck, collecting stateroom doors for the sides, and hatches for the roofs, huge and solid, with iron rings in them.

Let us read: "The Indians cannot build a ship.

From that we went on to the use of bricks, and to-morrow we are going to dig, and make bricks to build a town.

"My husband wants to build a home where tired missionaries can rest and rebuild their strength for their wonderful work.

On the banks of the Chazy and near the outlet, a half-breed, that is, half French and half Indian, had built him a log cabin, and cleared about an acre of land around it.

"And so, no doubt, he did, building the Tower for that purpose.

"The man he was talkin' about, Mac, was the man we had all built our hopes on.

The abbot bought these houses in order to have room to build himself a town house, and it is said that at the same time he built a hostelry for travellers; at any rate three years later we find him applying to the Bishop of Winchester for leave to build a chapel "near the inn."

We were out yesterday morning cutting down trees to build a boat.

In their country the government was building roads and setting up courts.

Now it happened that a certain man named PYKE did build him a costly mansion on the street which is called Twenty-third, and did therein have foreign singers and dancers, and players upon the violin, which is called the fiddle, and upon the bass viol, which is called the big fiddle, and upon sheets of parchment, which are called the drum, and upon divers other instruments.

The workmen of Massachusetts tended the looms, built the railroads, and read the newspapers.

I have heard that there is an old story, told amongst the country people, to the effect that the devil built the place.

So he bought a mile o' forest an' built a mill, an' they do say things is hummin' up to the new settlement.

1279 collocations for  building