There is a constant struggle on the part of nature to build up and beautify, to strengthen and recuperate, against the results of human excesses.

She is a very frail little woman at present and must build up her health and strength before submitting to the operation I have mentioned.

Few realise in the present taxes anything but coercion and waste, but most people would soon see that a share of every man's income is due for common purposes and that there are many limitations to the economical management of public institutions; we would begin once again to contribute directly, build up and maintain national institutions in the place of those that now mysteriously spring up and live under Government orders.

This proved him to be a man of a noble spirit and a disinterested mind, and, I say, worthy our strictest imitation; for to what nobler purpose can we dedicate our time than in endeavoring to build up the broken places which are made in the walls of our Zion?

They are by far the most popular of his works, and since their first publication in 1851, they have done much to build up his fame.

It is, at all times, difficult to say within what limits the novelist is entitled to resort to portraiture in order to build up the fabric of his romance.

These little worlds are by some regarded as the atoms which, by composition, and differentiation, build up our palpable universe.

" "A skilled playwright could take the heart of your story and build up a clever comedy.

Thirty yards away he saw a man lying prone and busily at work with his trenching-tool, endeavoring to build up a scanty cover.

And after c. 1750, population pressure continued to build up to the present time.

In order to build up his kingdom he was compelled to impose heavy taxation, and this made him unpopular with his own followers: they had to pay taxes under the Chinese, but the Chinese collection had been much less rigorous than that of Yakub Beg.

They are proud to serve in your armies, to fight for you, to work for you, to build up the greatness of your kingdom.

Build up a standard of noble living in the Church.

But who can build up an image of the Alp? We visited the factory on the estate, where wine and oil are made.

Suppose he could see how his Rafael were destroying at a single stroke what it had cost him so many years to build up, just because of a woman!...

The rest is merely introduced to build up a piece; these are the "pure Nature," and all that.

They were good settlers; they made good material out of which to build up a great state.

Both might then leave abstract thinness behind them, and seek together, as scientific men seek, by using all the analogies and data within reach, to build up the most probable approximate idea of what the divine consciousness concretely may be like.

He may likewise learn by experience, and through the comparing and recalling of experiences and their consequences may build up rules of conduct which will restrain him from doing certain things that he otherwise would do.

With these materials, and those that I had borrowed from Mrs. Kosminsky, I began rapidly to build up a pair of life-sized guysone male and one female.

I met loads of lumber which were going out for Buck Gowdy's big house away out in the middle of his great estate; and other loads for Lithopolis, where Judge Stone was making his struggle to build up a rival to Monterey Centre.

These forms must be actually observed by the pupil, mental pictures obtained, in order that he may be enabled to build up in his mind other mental pictures of similar unseen forms.

She made known to Lord Cedric her desires to build up these poor cottages.

I don't at all want to die; I've got my hands as full as they can hold of pretty and delightful things; and I don't at all want to be cut down like the copse, and to have to build up my branches again.

Nothing holds me; I will indulge in my sacred fury; I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.