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Sentences starting with built

Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
Built up conically of poles, with a hole in the top for the smoke to escape, and often set up a little from the ground on a timber foundation, they are as pleasing to the eye as a Chinese or Turkish dwelling. [4]

Sentences ending with built

He appeared taller, wider of shoulder, deeper-chested, more powerfully built. [13]
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. [7]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
However, his memory was born in him, I think, not built. [5]
The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations have been built. [5]
That was the value of an idea that the day would come when the Cape to Cairo Railway would be built. [5]
You see, I've tried to restore it as it must have been when it was built. [9]
How was he to tell her of the rocks upon which his love was built? [9]
It was due to her that it was built. [9]
I have been thus detailed in sketching his early years because upon these strange foundations the structure of his great fame and service was built. [7]

Short sentences using built

We built it ourselves. [10]
Colleges are built on it. [6]
It is built of marble. [5]
Richardson had built it. [4]
We built a Humboldt house. [5]
Nimrod built that city. [5]
The dam shall be built. [11]
I built it. [11]

Sentences containing built two or more times

It has stood there for thousands of years, the wonder and admiration of travelers; but who built it, or when it was built, are questions that may never be answered. [5]
We realise that the edifice of public justice is built of precedents, from the ground upward; but we do not always realise that all the other details of our civilisation are likewise built of precedents. [5]
Some say that that wise old pagan, Kamehameha I planned and built it, but others say it was built so long before his time that the knowledge of who constructed it has passed out of the traditions. [5]
Who built this temple, and how was it built, and when, are mysteries that may never be unraveled. [5]
It is of such high antiquity that no man knows who built it or when it was built. [5]
What should you say, sir, to a city, built up like the rod of Aladdin had touched it, built up in two years, where now you wouldn't expect it any more than you'd expect a light-house on the top of Pilot Knob? [5]
The road could not have been better built if Napoleon the First had built it. [5]
He did not know that the brick buildings, built to plan, were being built by serfs whose manorial labor was thus increased, though lessened on paper. [2]
To please his harem he built a mosque; to please himself he built an English church. [5]
These summer homes are commodious, well built, and well furnished--facts which sufficiently indicate that the owners built them to live in themselves. [5]

More example sentences with the word built in them

The stockholders of your corporation, perhaps, are bound to suffer some from the fact that you have taken its life-blood to pay dividends, and the public will demand that it be built up into a normal and healthy condition. [9]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
During the long years he had been coming to Fairview, even before the new house was built, when Victoria was in pinafores, he had never understood her. [9]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
Darius left a worthy monument of his greatness in the glorious palace which he built on Mount Rachmed, the ruins of which are the wonder and admiration of travellers to this day. [10]
Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
Must she die without knowing how much the fire had injured the newly built convent, on whose site she had enjoyed the springtime of love, and how the good Sisters fared? [10]
They were connected with each other by colonnades, or by little bridges, under which flowed canals, that watered the gardens and gave the palace-grounds the aspect of a town built on islands. [10]
The monument, overgrown with blossoming vines, before which she paused, was a singular structure, that had been built of brick between her own and her uncle's garden. [10]
He built it with a tail, teeth, fourteen legs, and a snout, and said it ate grass, cattle, pebbles, and dirt with equal enthusiasm. [5]
So he, on whose faithful devotion she had built as on a rock, was no less self-seeking and fickle than other men. [10]
Will she, for whom my heart has built a shrine, Take from me all that makes this world divine? [11]
Louisville grew amazingly; white frame houses were built, and even brick ones. [9]
The streets through which the procession moved were broad and straight, the houses on either side, built of brick, tall and handsome. [10]
The way in which the house is built might admit of it. [6]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
It faced the west, and was built half-way up Clear Mountain. [11]
Two frame houses were built that year, and several persons were added to the population. [5]
The slanting walls were built as firmly as if they were intended to last for centuries and defy a violent assault. [10]
If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. [5]
The railroad connecting Weimar and Rudolstadt, near which Keilhau is located, was built long after, so we continued our journey in an open carriage and reached Rudolstadt about noon. [10]
Our first pilgrimage was to the Church of St. Apollinare Nuova; but why it is called new I do not know, as Theodoric built it for an Arian cathedral in about the year 500. [4]
Chief among these was the Duncan house--still so called, although Mr. Duncan, who built it, had been dead these fifteen years, and his daughter and heiress, Janet, had married an Italian Marquis and lived in a Roman palace, rehabilitated by the Duncan money. [9]
This wanting things was the corner-stone of my character, and I believe that the science of the future will bear me out when I say that it might have been differently built upon. [9]
This log horse was the compactly built town, and all creation was its suburbs. [5]
To her it was shameful that Carnac should be eliminated from all share in the abundant fortune John Grier had built up. [11]
The farm mentioned was one which he had bought at Redding, Connecticut, where, later, he built the house known as "Stormfield. [5]
But considerable provision was made for the unfortunate and deserving poor--poorhouses were built for them, and collections taken up. [4]
Its first brick was laid and its first house built by a passing convict. [5]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
I think it was built in Spanish days, as an outlook for Barbary pirates. [4]
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]
Meantime, a home was being built for them in Hartford, and in the autumn of 1874 they took up residence in ita happy residence, continued through seventeen years--well-nigh perfect years. [5]
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]
Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
It was a very quiet place, as such a place should be, save for the cawing of the rooks who had built their nests among the branches of some tall old trees, and were calling to one another, high up in the air. [12]
In the afternoon Venters built a gate across a small ravine near camp, and here corralled the calves; and he succeeded in completing his task without Bess being any the wiser. [13]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
It could be used only after breeding-time, and consisted of a hut built of boughs where the birdcatcher lodged. [10]
Shortly we came upon an ancient stone aqueduct, built upon arches, and from that time forth we had ruins all about us--we were approaching our journey's end. [5]
She had built up, after each invasion, her defences more carefully and solidly than before, only to be again astonished and dismayed by the next onslaught, until at length the question had become insistent--the question of an alliance for purposes of greater security. [9]
The pigeon-house, built up of clay pots and Nile-mud, stood on the top of the storehouse, which lay adjoining the southern boundary wall of the temple. [10]
Dyck had built up for himself a reputation as no one in all the history of the island had been able to do. [11]
I crept away, unmarked, through the garden of herbs behind the lodge, to a moss but which my banished cousin had built up for me, in a covert spot between two mighty beech-trees, while I was yet but a school maid. [10]
Mardiou and your uncle Zeno saw with their own eyes the strange swallows drive away those which had built their nest on the helm of the Antonias, and kill the young ones with their cruel beaks. [10]
He has built two or three breeds of American coquettes out of anecdotes-- mainly "biased" ones, I suppose; and, as they occur "in literature," furnished by his pen, they must be "all libelous. [5]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
Occasionally the forest trees have been left, and the galleries built around them. [4]
In that old town they have not altered a house nor built one in 1500 years. [5]
His faith was too large and too deep for the formulae he found built into the pulpit, and he was too honest to cover up his doubts under the flowing vestments of a sacred calling. [6]
Dupont was coming to-night--Dupont who had profited by the crime, and had not spent his profits, but had built upon them to further profit; for Dupont was avaricious and prudent, and a born criminal. [11]
This was a tongue of land stretched like a finger into the sea, on whose point stood a little palace which Cleopatra, incited by a chance remark of Antony, had had built there to surprise him. [10]
They took him to the upper end of the field, where there were some sheds built of charred planks, beams, and battens, and led him into one of them. [2]
He ran straight to the bank of the river by the side of which the village of Alderbank was built, a little farther down the stream than the house in which he was living. [6]
It is needless to say that it was built by a Philadelphian--that is to say one born with a genius for hotel-keeping. [4]
The matter came to nothing, of course, but the fact that Daly should have thought a story built from an old discarded play had a play in it seems interesting. [5]
If the opportunity to make an attack arrived, a powerful fleet would be at her disposal, for which smaller ships also should now be built at Klysma, on the basis of the experience gained at Actium. [10]
The hut seemed to have been built at a point where east and west and south the great gulf could be seen and watched. [11]
Presently people began to gossip, and a story crept round that, in a new shed which he had built behind his shop, Francois was chiselling out of stone the nude figure of a woman. [11]
A canoe was to be built out of a cotton-tree large enough to carry eight or ten oars. [11]
Her tomb was to be built and, if destiny was fulfilled, to receive her lover and herself. [10]
It was impossible to apply to business an individual code of ethics,--even to Perry's business, to Tom's business: the two were incompatible, and the sooner one recognized that the better: the whole structure of business was built up on natural, as opposed to ethical law. [9]
I had hoped to aid in crushing the hated foe, and now perhaps it was I who had built for him the bridge to victory, to sovereignty, to our destruction. [10]
The cannon-balls tore through its slight buildings, wrecking them as if they had been built of cards; and every moment or two one would see a huge rock come curving through the upper air above the smoke-clouds and go plunging down through the roofs. [5]
They saw the thousand places where cities could be made, and built their fires on the sites of them, and camped a day, and were gone, leaving them waiting and barren as before. [11]
At first her thoughts wandered to and fro like a dove ere it chooses the direction of its flight; but after the question why she was having a tomb built so hurriedly, when she would be permitted to live, her mind found the right track. [10]
The sons of those who owned them have built westward, and west-ward again, until now they are six miles from the river. [9]
I wonder what this wall is built of? [5]
And what was this system which he had built up among these rural communities? [9]
Besides, I don't think you remember what great revelations of himself the Creator has made in the minds of the men who have built up science. [6]
Always the first thing you want to do is to find the keystone a man's character is built on--then you've got it. [5]
They changed nothing, they built nothing, they left nothing behind them to remember them by, nothing to hold their disciples together, nothing to solidify their work and enable it to defy the assaults of time and the weather. [5]
One meets with these venerable scraps at every turn, especially in the neighboring Mosque el Aksa, into whose inner walls a very large number of them are carefully built for preservation. [5]
Young George was there, Mr. Hutchins's nephew, who was daily becoming more and more of a factor in the management of the mills, and had built the house of yellow brick that stood out so incongruously among the older Hutchinses' mansions, and marked a transition. [9]
During its progress there came and went a missionary from China, a pianist, an English lady who had heard of the Institution, a Southern spinster with literary gifts, a youthful architect who had not built anything, and a young lawyer interested in settlement work. [9]
Under one of them that stood near a spring, which is now called the Fresh Spring, an old carpenter who came to the Poor-house built a bench. [10]
These people built their houses a good deal alike. [5]
The famous Globe Theatre, which was built in 1599, was burned in 1613, and in the fire it is supposed were consumed Shakespeare's manuscripts of his plays. [4]
One family built the whole edifice, and have got money left. [5]
This led into the viridarium, a spacious quadrangle, paved at the edges and planted in the middle, where a fountain played; round this square the Governor's residence was built. [10]
We rode across the Valley of Hinnom, between two of the Pools of Gihon, and by an aqueduct built by Solomon, which still conveys water to the city. [5]
When morning came the train was industriously toiling along through the fat lands of Lancaster, with its broad farms of corn and wheat, its mean houses of stone, its vast barns and granaries, built as if, for storing the riches of Heliogabalus. [5]
Every day of the three hundred and sixty-five the only pages of the world's countless newspapers that are read by all the human beings and angels and devils that can read, are these pages that are built out of Associated Press despatches. [5]
Some time before the tavern took down its sign the landlord had built a hall, where many a ball had been held, to which the young folks of all the country round had resorted. [6]
He can discern the seven hills upon which Rome is built. [5]
The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills cease, and that the two hundred miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. [5]
The houses along the road were not for the most part neatly kept; the garden fences were poorly built of laths or long slats, and very rarely of trim aspect. [6]
The tragic and the ridiculous here joining hands, she remembered that Reggie Farwell had told her that he had recently made a trip to western New York to inspect a house he had built for a "remarried" couple who were not wholly unknown. [9]
The wind howled, the rain lashed with fury against the windows, the mob tore through the streets of the town, sacked the wine-shops, built great fires at the corners. [9]
Here, tradition says, the prophet Samuel was born, and here the Shunamite woman built a little house upon the city wall for the accommodation of the prophet Elisha. [5]
In that day the peasant of the high altitudes will have to carry a lantern when he goes visiting in the night to keep from stumbling over railroads that have been built since his last round. [5]
The experiences of the past few days had swept through the peace of her young soul like a tempest, overthrowing firmly built structures and fanning glimmering sparks to flames. [10]
For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse. [2]
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]
Her people built the Mother-Church edifice on it, at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. [5]
The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north, propped up by musket rests, and a campfire was built before it. [2]
Its finest street, the Maximilian, built by the late king of that name, is of a novel and wholly modern style of architecture, not an imitation, though it may remind some of the new portions of Paris. [4]
He had built the Manor House, he had put up his gallows, he had his vassals, he had been made a lord. [11]

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