1308 examples of builder in sentences

The race is a creed-builder, as well as a builder of pyramids, cathedrals, and triumphal arches.

The race is a creed-builder, as well as a builder of pyramids, cathedrals, and triumphal arches.

Laburnum Villa was in a long street, which resembled the other streets as one tree resembles another; and you had to traverse a great many of these streets before you got into the open country, that is, away from the red-bricked and stucco villas, and still smaller and uglier houses, which had been run up by the enterprising jerry-builder.

But perhaps the most important fact which hypnotic experiments have demonstrated is that the subjective mind is the builder of the body.

Now these are facts fully established by hundreds of experiments conducted by a variety of investigators in different parts of the world, and from them we may draw two inferences of the highest importance: one, that the subjective mind is in itself absolutely impersonal, and the other that it is the builder of the body, or in other words it is the creative power in the individual.

Their work, beautiful as it often is, ingenious as it almost always is, marked invariably by the individuality of the district and the builder, seems to be tentative, experimental.

How much more easy to construct a box, and then say, "Come, let us cover its inside with an incongruous and inappropriate but imposing parade of learning," than to lift some light and genial thing of beauty aloft into the air, as did the modest builder of the staircase to the hall at Christ Church, Oxford!

There we find no evasion of the builder's duty by mere surface-decoration, no subordination of the edifice to plastic or pictorial uses.

A builder of genius, working on the library, might indeed have displayed his science and his taste by some beautiful invention adapted to the awkward locality; as Baldassare Peruzzi, in the Palazzo Massimo at Rome, converted the defects of the site into graces by the exquisite turn he gave to the curved portion of the edifice.

I have been a fool and an iconoclast instead of a builder.

The builder surrenders to the rich man, with the key of his palace, all pleasure and all right there, and never shares with him in the enjoyment of it.

One of her adorers and adjutants, into whose ear she whispered something, went directly to call the Architect, to desire him, and, if he would not come, to drag him up, as master-builder, to draw the grave for the mausoleum, and to tell him at the same time that he was not to play the statist, but enter earnestly into his part as one of the performers.

Their national ballads, the achievements of the warrior, the fisherman, the woodsman, the canoe-builder, and the artist, had been orally recorded and impressed in this manner in the conclaves of the Arioi.

Now I should have declined to admire that odd house, or to express the least sympathy with its builder.

The builder of my chaise-cart was irritated at the handsome barouche in which my family now moved above the heads of mankind.

By Professor T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A. Timber, stone, earth, are the three materials most used by the builder in all parts of the world.

I am a great master builder.

'Bless you, soldier, she couldn't do more'n fourteen knots when she come out o' the builder's yard, and that's two

He was a sign of the break-up of Catholicism; but he was not a builder of Protestantism.

After the Conquest, the city fell to the share of Hugh Lupus, a nephew of William the Conqueror, who was created Earl of Chester, and was the builder of the first castle.

This Clay-and-Paint Age Fifteenth Chapter: The Story of the Mother Sixteenth Chapter: "Through Desire for Her." Seventeenth Chapter: The Plan of the Builder Eighteenth Chapter: That Park Predicament Nineteenth Chapter:

"In New York, I suppose you would go to a boat-builder," said Forester.

THE CHILD BUILDER.

Mog, the mound builder.

Dorothy M. Hamid (A); 30Mar61; R274244. HAMILTON, EDWIN T. The boy builder.

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