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Sentences ending with building

I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
Once in a while a tall princely-looking man, with a beautiful young woman and a train of courtiers and servants, came to inspect the building. [10]
If the danger were pressing, there was a door, known only to the initiated, which led to the steps and out of the building. [10]
It outlasted their walk and detained them long on the steps of the 'Every Other Week' building. [8]
Even on the verge of the last ambushed passage her senses came back; but they came with a stark realization of the peril ahead: it looked out of her eyes as a face shows itself at the window of a burning building. [11]
Burnt bitumen was used by Assyrians for cement in building. [10]
I've been breaking up this last year, just when we've been knitting the cracks in the building. [11]
Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
I really ought to move into another building. [9]

Short sentences using building

We are building up monopolies! [9]
The building was half full. [9]
The building would fall down! [9]
We think of building. [5]
She entered the building quickly. [11]
Building. [5]

Sentences containing building two or more times

That building is the capitol; gossips will tell you that by the original estimates it was to cost $12,000,000, and that the government did come within $21,200,000 of building it for that sum. [5]
If I were inclined, I could describe it building by building. [4]
I did not care much for the new Academy building on my right, nor for the new library building on my left. [6]
From every land came monks to join; they came even as the fishes come, in shoals; and the monastery added building to building, and yet others to these, and so spread wide its arms and took them in. [5]
And nuns came, also; and more again, and yet more; and built over against the monastery on the yon side of the vale, and added building to building, until mighty was that nunnery. [5]

More example sentences with the word building in them

Once removed, he would be building on rock. [9]
In a long wooden building, divided into two main apartments, twenty to thirty operators are employed. [4]
When a building with dry rot catches fire, Rench, can you put limit to how much of it will burn? [9]
As the day will probably come when every man in Hartford will live in his own mammoth, five-story granite insurance building, it may not be unreasonable to expect that every man will sport his own Gothic church. [4]
The building is wholly of wood, reddish brown in tint, a very pleasing color. [5]
I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire. [6]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
The Russian Revolution, which we must seek to understand and not condemn, the Allied defeats that are its consequences, can only make our purpose the firmer to put forth all our strength for the building up of a better world. [9]
His hidden gold, which was safe with him, would have allowed of his building a far finer one in its stead, but the fact that it should be his fellow-citizens who had destroyed it was worst of all. [10]
The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
Although Henderson gave what time he could spare to the design and erection of the building, it pleased him to call it Margaret's house, and to see the eagerness with which she entered into its embellishment. [4]
Somers and Gates were busy building two cedar ships, the Deliverer, of eighty tons, and a pinnace called the Patience. [4]
He yielded, but went out to learn whether Herr Casper was still in the office, and in a short time returned, exclaiming angrily: "The old Eysvogel seems to be building his nest here! [10]
How grand and well-proportioned was the plan of this immense building through which the steward Keraunus, who returned with his fine curls complete all round, now led the Romans. [10]
In this building we saw many interesting relics of the war. [5]
At this point we observed that an English flag had just been placed at half-mast on a building a hundred yards away. [5]
The little schoolhouse was the only building in Brampton he had glanced at as he came through. [9]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
Half the building was store, and half was dwelling house. [5]
After the operation was over, I followed her downstairs to where she was standing with her father in front of the building, waiting for their carriage. [9]
The new building was in what may be called the florid shingle-Gothic manner. [6]
But the residue was in trust for the building and endowment of an Industrial School on the East Side, with a great library and a reading-room, all to be free. [4]
This great building was filled, like this great theatre, with rejoicing villagers, and my friend and I started down the centre aisle. [5]
The huge building was filled in all parts by the followers of the embassy, nearly three hundred in number, and by the high guests themselves, to whom every possible attention was paid. [10]
Presently our attention was drawn to a marble medallion portrait on the corner building of an ordinary-looking row of houses. [6]
Still, the Serapeum was built for eternity; the ram might bring down a wall, but it could not destroy or even shake the building itself. [10]
The sick man was borne round the eastern side of the huge building, which covered a space on which a whole village might have stood. [10]
Her family, indeed, was an old one on the island, and was prominent long before the building of the stone bridge on Canal Street over the outlet of Collect Pond. [4]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
I did not wake till morning, and then it was to find the governor's nephew building up the fire again. [11]
One need not wait to see the smoke coming through the roof of a house and the flames breaking out of the windows to know that the building is on fire. [6]
The roar of voices subsided--he waited for it--and silence was broken only by the crackle of the burning building, the tramp of Montcalm's soldiers in Mountain Street, and the tolling of the cathedral bell. [11]
The building seems very airily situated. [5]
The latter was vehement in his gesticulations; I expected some violent termination to my drama; but an angle of a building interfered and closed the scene. [4]
It is a vast mass of building, compactly crusting a hill, and is cloven in all directions by an intricate confusion of cracks which stand for streets. [5]
The various words used in building them are in the dictionary, but in a very scattered condition; so you can hunt the materials out, one by one, and get at the meaning at last, but it is a tedious and harassing business. [5]
There was a use for every one who could heave a stone or flourish a sword; and when he thought over the number of his troops he believed he might succeed in holding the building for some considerable time. [10]
It only depended upon whether a suitable room could be found in the crowded city, and Thyone believed that such a one could not be lacking in the great building at her disposal. [10]
We look out upon many objects of interest from the dome of St. Peter's; and last of all, almost at our feet, our eyes rest upon the building which was once the Inquisition. [5]
They were intent upon building up the colony. [4]
Here we came upon a new board shanty, and found some men engaged in building a stone house; so the Schwarenbach was soon to have a rival. [5]
Now he glanced up to see whether young Herr Crafft, to whom the building now belonged, had not also added an ornament to it. [10]
He got him up and supported him--almost carried him indeed--out of the building and into a carriage. [5]
Another thing Mark Twain did that winter was to buy some land on Farmington Avenue and begin the building of a home. [5]
The call of tubas and bugles rang without ceasing through the great building, to the frequent accompaniment of the most horrible sound of all in this hideous spectacle--the heavy fall of a dead man dropping from above into the gulf. [10]
He towed us tottering away into same room in that building, and we sat down there. [5]
He gave thanks to the Returning Officer, and then, with his agent, left the building by the back door. [11]
The long building to the left was the weaving shop and her nurse Perpetua lived there, in the upper story. [10]
No need now to stand up for twenty miles on a hot day; and more cars are building, and more engines; likewise some rates have been lowered. [9]
I should like to show the Egyptian Princess that we understand the art of building as well as her own ancestors. [10]
That you needed to rub against the plain men who were building up the West. [9]
A runner came to me with the tidings, where I was building a fort on the Mississippi, and I took Willis here and Saunders, and came. [9]
They can afford to isolate themselves, but I'm thrown professionally with the men who are building up this city. [9]
The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell. [5]
If she wished to find out who they were who had been sacrificed to the fury of the tyrant, it must be done at once, for the immense building of the temple already cast long shadows. [10]
It was necessary to enter, but the smoke and dust which filled the air seemed to preclude this, and, besides, a high wall above the cleared space in the building threatened to fall. [10]
They were able to do this night what they had not done for days --dig a great grave of snow, and building a fire of pine wood at each end of this strange house, get protection and something like comfort. [11]
The building had to be long, because the grave of the honored old navigator is two hundred and ten feet long itself! [5]
Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof. [9]
Presently they came to a gothic-looking stone building, with a mediaeval bridge thrown across the stream in front of it, and massive gates flung open. [9]
Those good old times are gone when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his troubles to sleep simply by getting out his bricks and mortar and building an addition to a church. [5]
There was no time to see the interior of the building, for Pyrrhus expected his guest to join him at the harbour at sunrise, and the eastern sky was already brightening with the approach of dawn. [10]
Before he got through with it he was claiming that the enemy had flung a building at him. [5]
Great applause rang through the building. [11]
A buzz passed through the building, yet I noted, too, with gladness that there were tears on many faces. [11]
The thought darted through his mind that his friend the architect desired to erect the luckless statues of the royal lovers in front of this stately building. [10]
And here we three meet again as exiles on one pretext or another, and you will notice that while we are absent there is a pleasing tranquillity in America--a building up of public confidence. [5]
Church has many thousands of members more than its building can accommodate. [5]
Look at all this country, not another building within ten miles, no other navigable stream, lay of the land points right here; hemp, tobacco, corn, must come here. [5]
Everything connected with this building, dedicated to death, was grave and massive, suggesting by its indestructibility the idea of eternity. [10]
If, like Haman, they should hang upon the gallows of their own building, I shall not be among the mourners for their fate. [7]
Over their coffee they both talked from long distances towards the point of attack and struggle, Ismail carelessly throwing in glowing descriptions of the palaces he was building. [11]
Few saw, and these gave no indication of surprise, though they were little used to strangers, and none of the name borne by this lady had entered the building for many years. [11]
In one place there was a public building which was fenced about with a thick, rusty chain, which sagged from post to post in a succession of low swings. [5]
Yet, even on the worst days, he was busy at his place in the piazza, where the cathedral, which he had been building for three years, was nearing completion. [10]
But without corn, the work of fortifying and building had to be abandoned, and the settlers dispersed to provide victuals. [4]
The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building. [10]
They especially forbade the use of wood in house-fronts and windows, both on account of the danger from fire, and because all the timber in the kingdom, which was needed for shipping and other purposes, was being used up in building. [4]
He is in the Tremont Building. [9]
She was building the superstructure of her social ambitions on that foundation for the present. [11]
We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. [5]
It hung in the shadow of a door-way and watched him as he approached the door of the big building where Adrian Fellowes lived. [11]
We climb to the roof of the quaint old building, and sit there to drink in the strange oriental scene. [4]
But there are the quarries--" Petrus did not let his companion finish his sentence, but interrupted him with all the warmth of youth, exclaiming: "And do you mean to say that fame cannot be won by the arts of building? [10]
That splendid building, the pride of the city and the delight of men's eyes, destroyed--swept away like dust from the road! [10]
As soon as the prefect had disappeared within the building, the praetorian ranks fell out again. [10]
I differ from the other side when it says that they are bound to exercise no more care than was taken before the building of the bridge. [7]
I remembered how the omnipresent spire of the great cathedral, three miles away, looked down upon the grounds about the building as if it had been their next-door neighbor. [6]
All features of the noble building are distinct now, but soft and dreamy, for the sun is lightly veiled with clouds. [5]
They say that the new temple of Zeus, now being built of glorious marble by Kallaeschrus, Antistates and Porinus (who must be known to you, Theodorus), will surpass every building that has yet been erected by the Hellenes. [10]
Now then; as the most valuable capital or culture or education usable in the building of novels is personal experience I ought to be well equipped for that trade. [5]
They say it's the most magnificent college building south of Washington. [4]
It belonged to the most distinguished merchant in the place, and consisted of a large open courtyard in the form of a square, surrounded by the building and its communicating wings. [10]
Don't you know the moment you look on a landscape, on a splendid building, whether it is beautiful to you? [11]
The roof of the main building was capped by a lantern, the home of countless pigeons. [9]
The boiler in the Kubisch cloth factory had burst, a part of the huge building near it was in flames, and a large portion of the walls had fallen. [10]
I can understand the impulse which led the red caps to make a wreck of this grand old historical building. [6]
When Barbara entered the huge building a ray of light shone from the private chapel at the left, dedicated to Saint Dorothea. [10]
Idling members of the House flocked to their seats, nervous gentlemen sprang to their feet, pages flew hither and thither, life and animation were visible everywhere, all the long ranks of faces in the building were kindled. [5]
When they reached the hospital there came a soft command and, as the troop passed, every face was turned towards the building. [11]

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