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Sentences ending with edifice

But how pitilessly what she heard here overthrew the proud edifice! [10]
Our chapel in the rear is as Gothic as the rest of it, --a beautiful little edifice. [4]
Some of its stones show marks, as it is thought, of having belonged to a Saxon edifice. [6]
The congregation was not proportioned to the size of the great edifice. [6]
But there is no smell in our church, except of bad air,--for there is no provision for ventilation in the splendid and costly edifice. [4]
Flower's guidance we got into one of his boats, and were rowed up the stream to the Memorial edifice. [6]
This, and the fact that the meeting-house was nearer than the chapel, determined him, when the new rector, who was not quite up to his mark in education, was appointed, to take a pew in the "liberal" worshippers' edifice. [6]
The sky had clouded again, and a keen northwest wind was blowing across the Haidplatz and waving the banner on the lofty square battlemented tower at the right of the stately old edifice. [10]
The doctor said: "Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! [5]

Sentences containing edifice two or more times

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself. [5]

More example sentences with the word edifice in them

How much rock would have to be cut away, how much patient chipping before the edifice of which he had been dreaming could be reared! [9]
A partition, covered with ill-wrought images and a few gilt ornaments, divided it from the main body of the church, and the whole edifice produced an impression that was neither splendid nor particularly edifying. [10]
When I contrast what I have achieved in my measurably brief life with what he has achieved in his possibly briefer one, the effect is to sweep utterly away the ten-story edifice of my own self-appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar. [5]
The place, as well as the edifice, is a study for the antiquarian. [6]
In the afternoon we went to a garden-party given by the Princess Louise at Kensington Palace, a gloomy-looking edifice, which might be taken for a hospital or a poorhouse. [6]
The church bell was rung in the shaky edifice, and the emaciated colonists assembled and heard the "zealous and sorrowful prayer" of Chaplain Buck. [4]
Although its owner was a professed believer in republican simplicity, no such edifice ornamented any town to the west of the state capital. [9]
No cement was used, but the edifice is firm and compact and is capable of resisting storm and decay for centuries. [5]
The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple. [5]
To die there, to perish there with her lover, did not seem hard; nay, she felt proud to think that she might await death in the noblest edifice ever raised to a god by mortal hands. [10]
The edifice recalled to me a similar phenomenon I had once looked upon,--the famous Caffe Pedrocchi at Padua. [6]
It is beginning to be discovered that the Gothic sort of church edifice is fatal to the Congregational style of worship that has been prevalent here in New England; but it will do nicely (as they say in Boston) for private devotion. [4]
This edifice, which, though its exterior was almost wholly devoid of ornament, nevertheless presented a majestic aspect on account of its vast size, adjoined a splendid park, whose leafy groups of ancient trees merged into the forest of Soignies. [10]
One portion of this noble old edifice is suggestive of the quaint fashions of ancient times. [5]
These were the things talked about, and yet the portions of this noble edifice, rich as they were, habitually occupied by the family had another character--the attractions and conveniences of what we call a home. [4]
One family built the whole edifice, and have got money left. [5]
Her people built the Mother-Church edifice on it, at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. [5]
To go into the great edifice is almost like going outdoors. [4]
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 part of the edifice had been a baronial chapel, and here were effigies of warriors stretched upon their beds of stone with folded hands--cross-legged, those who had fought in the Holy Wars--girded with their swords, and cased in armour as they had lived. [12]
The palace on the Dam (square) is a square, stately edifice, and the only building that the stranger will care to see. [4]
Who was to tell these solid, educated business men that the crazy industrial Babel they had helped to rear, and in which they unconsciously dwelt, was no longer the simple edifice they thought it? [9]
It was the swinging of the suspended lamp in that edifice which set his mind working on the laws which govern the action of the pendulum. [6]
Alight scaffolding still surrounded it, but the lofty first story, containing the real tomb, was completed, and Dion admired the art with which the exterior of the edifice suggested its purpose. [10]
It is not strange, therefore, that the edifice was completed by a Chicago contractor who had less self-respect than Mr. Willis, the latter having abruptly refused to have his name tacked on to the work. [9]
In each act someone's edifice of hope, or of ambition, or of happiness, goes down in ruins. [5]
How many chimneys smoked, how many hands were toiling for this edifice, which was to comprise a royal residence, a temple, a peerless library, a museum and a tomb. [10]
I've seen much showier buildings tenanted by animals not very different from those your edifice is meant for. [6]
If this were removed it would be possible to carry the street through the old man's garden, perhaps even to the sea-shore, and we should have had space for a gigantic edifice and still left room for a fine garden. [10]
It is upon precedents that the enduring edifice of jurisprudence is reared. [5]
A new edifice or two may be put up, and a new library begun in the course of the same century; but these places are poor, for the most part, and cannot afford to pull down their old barracks. [6]
The ruined edifice of the Serapeum, the masterpiece of Bryaxis laid in fragments in the dust, and thousands of wailing heathen! [10]
All the registers of burial in the church were destroyed by the great fire of 1666, which burnt down the edifice from floor to roof, leaving only the walls and tower standing. [4]
What a wonder of architectural beauty and grandeur this edifice must have been when it was new! [5]
All the population of a town might have found refuge in the vast edifice and its effect on the mind was like that of a harmonious symphony of adoration sung by a chorus of giants. [10]
The singing was not without a certain power; indeed, it was marvelous how some of the voices really filled the vast spaces of the edifice, and the choruses rolled in solemn waves of sound through the arches. [4]
Early in the morning and at evening it was pleasant to stay in the arbour, a room open in the front, extending the whole length of the edifice, where one could breathe the fresh air even during rainy weather. [10]
This suggestion of medieval symbolism, aided by a minute turret in which a hand-bell might have hung and found just room enough to turn over, was all of outward show the small edifice could boast. [6]
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time? [6]
The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. [5]
The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and in maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? [7]
Amidst all the imposing recollections of the ancient edifice, one impressed me in the inverse ratio of its importance. [6]
I confess that I did not think of it chiefly as a sacred edifice, or as the resting-place, more or less secure, of the "_grands hommes_" to whom it is dedicated. [6]
Then he mounted his chariot and drove through the Bruchiom along the shore to the great edifice known as the Caesareum. [10]
The tender snow had compassionated the beautiful edifice for all the wrongs of time, and so hid the stains and ugliness of decay that it looked as if just from the hand of the builder--or, better said, just from the brain of the architect. [5]
Once the edifice had been on the road, but the road had long ago been removed to a respectful distance, and Austen entered between two massive pillars built of granite blocks on a musical gravel drive. [9]
The edifice had four rooms on the ground-floor, and an attic sleeping-room above. [4]
The house is extended in a long wooden edifice, with galleries and outside stairs, the whole front being nearly seven hundred feet long. [4]
This protecting wall extended along both sides of the long, plain edifice, and prevented the water from overflowing the open space which belonged to it. [10]
Without stopping to examine this edifice, I executed a flank movement to the right and crossed the bridge over the Findelenbach, after first testing its strength. [5]
The sumptuous edifice erected by the Art of the nineteenth century, to hold the treasures of its Industry, could show nothing fairer than the court which copies the Moorish palace that crowns the summit of Granada. [6]
This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. [5]
They did the duty that lay nearest to them; and the duty done today, perhaps without prescience of its consequences, becomes a permanent stone in the edifice of the future. [4]
There was another college higher up on an airy summit--a bright new edifice, picturesquely and peculiarly towered and pinnacled--a sort of gigantic casters, with the cruets all complete. [5]
Those who passed by, even in broad sunshine, could not distinguish it from all the other blocks of which the ground-floor of the edifice was built. [10]
French Canadian might be heard on the main square as well as Yankee; and that revolutionary vehicle, the automobile, had inspired there a great brick edifice with a banner called the Bremerton House. [9]
He was delighted at the unexpected rapidity of his pupil's progress, but could not abandon the edifice of argument he had laboriously constructed. [2]
Let me add a few words which shall not be other than cheerful, as I bid farewell to this edifice which I have known so long. [6]
No silent palace "sleeping in the sun," no edifice decreed by Kubla Khan could have worn more glamour than the house of Cousin Robert Breck. [9]

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