Use erected in a sentence
Sentences starting with erected
- Erected by his friend, Galt Roscoe, H.B.M.N. [11]
Sentences ending with erected
- In later times the statues of the unfortunate Queen adorned the places where they had been erected. [10]
- You brought something new, whose foundation seemed to me sound, and on which further additions might be erected. [10]
- The chief streets had been decked with ropes of flowers strung from mast to mast and from house to house, and by the harbor, close to the river shore, statues of Hadrian and his wife had been erected. [10]
- A brighter light glowed from behind the general's quarters, where, under a sort of shed, several confessionals and an altar had been erected. [10]
- Silver mines were being vigorously developed and silver mills erected. [5]
- He said that an entirely new house must be erected. [10]
Sentences containing erected two or more times
- He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire. [10]
More example sentences with the word erected in them
- I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
- The officials intrusted with the examination of the ringleaders had remained during the day in this hastily erected open hut. [10]
- After his death, which took place during his defence of a friend in the public court, a temple was erected to him by his countrymen. [10]
- Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
- When the scaffolding was erected in the winter riding-school, he went there under the court-artist's direction, to measure, arrange and finally transfer the painter's sketches to the wide surfaces. [10]
- The gaiety and warmth of the hut erected in the Public Gardens which houses the British Officers' Club were a relief. [9]
- The gallows Herr Van Bronkhorst had erected for men like you, is still standing by the Blue Stone. [10]
- Some had slept under the open sky beside the dog kennel hastily erected for Daphne's pack of hounds. [10]
- Resting among them under a hastily erected canopy he related, with sparkling eyes, the deeds his son had performed. [10]
- Thousands went out to meet him, as though he were the Saviour; they erected triumphal arches, even folks of my creed--no one thought of hanging back. [10]
- The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
- He also caused to be erected, in the same mouldy cabin, an old ship's stove with a rusty funnel to carry the smoke through the roof; and these arrangements completed, surveyed them with ineffable delight. [12]
- A chapel was to be erected on the scene of her self-immolation, and if the patriarch thought her worthy of the honor, it was to bear the name of the Chapel of Susannah and Katharina. [10]
- Where charity was to be bestowed on a large scale--if hospitals or almshouses were to be erected or endowed--she was appealed to first, and if she promised her quiet but valuable assistance, the result was at once secured. [10]
- At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music. [2]
- Only in the three fortified guardhouses, which had been hastily erected here, the feeble light of a lantern illumined the gloom. [10]
- Pontius had erected this slight structure expressly for Hadrian's nightly observations. [10]
- He has made this show to suit himself, he has pushed out several iron piers into the sea, and erected, of course, a skating rink on the end of one of them. [4]
- The Mayor ordered this memorial to be erected to perpetuate the event. [5]
- Though not yet thirty, he had directed--first as his late father's assistant and afterwards as his successor--the construction of the huge buildings erected by Cleopatra in Alexandria. [10]
- The purity of the water was sadly dimmed, and the billows dashed foaming toward the sky, threatening in their violent assault to shatter the marble dike erected along the shore. [10]
- 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]
- Close beside it the Israelites had erected on a tall wooden pillar a clay image of the Egyptian god Seth, which one of his Hebrew worshippers had brought with him to protect himself and his family. [10]
- The statues of the gods had, before Caesar's arrival, been placed on the pedestals erected for them to prevent any risk of a demonstration at the appearance of the deified emperors. [10]
- He states that the ear-tufts or neck-plumes are erected, so that they meet over the crown of the head. [1]
- His wife bought the carpet, and then she erected a monument to his memory. [5]
- She heard that the burning house was the pavilion erected by Ani for the king's residence; Rameses she was told was in the utmost danger, and the fire had beyond a doubt been laid by traitors. [10]
- The basement of the building, on which stood the grandest temple ever erected by the Hellenes, presented a smooth and slightly scarped rampart of impregnable strength to the foe. [10]
- The populace hailed the announcement that tents would be erected for the sick in the desert, with applause from a thousand voices. [10]
- Opposite to the tent stands were erected for the Council, the patrician families, and the other ladies and gentlemen whom the city had invited to the festival. [10]
- One of the Tabernacle--a vast iron hood or dome erected over rows of benches that will seat two or three thousand people--represents the building when it is packed with an audience intent upon the preacher. [4]
- He would be sure to find him at the triumphal arch which was being erected on the shore of the Bruchium. [10]
- When the twin statues were only waiting to be erected in front of the Theatre of Dionysus, Dion sought him. [10]
- It is the stateliest and the costliest ever erected to the memory of any man. [5]
- Yet on that spot had also been erected the wooden platform from which Althea had showed him the transformation into the spider, and the recollection of the foolish error into which the Thracian had drawn him disagreeably clouded the pleasant thought of Daphne. [10]
- The designs were speedily completed, and the triumphal arch erected in a court-yard of the Alcazar, for here, within the narrow circle of the court, not publicly, before the whole population, had the suspicious monarch resolved to receive and honor the victor. [10]
- It appears from some inscriptions on the staffs of the Pylons, that if the former were not actually erected for lightning-rods, it had been noticed that they attracted the electricity. [10]
- Even were it small and modest, it should be erected on a firm foundation and afford a safe abode for its inmates. [10]
- We knew the situation before the train stopped by the crosses erected on the conspicuous peaks of the serrated ashy--or shall I say purple--hills that enfold the fertile valley. [4]
- In order to secure the only suitable site for the statues to be erected to Cleopatra's honour and fame, I enter into judgment with her foes, expose myself to the insult with which boastful insolence is permitted to vent its wrath upon me. [10]
- A hastily erected scaffold, which was to support the pulleys for raising the statues, had collapsed. [10]
- There are no provisions for foundations, thickness of walls, size of timbers and columns, and if these houses had been deliberately erected to make a bonfire they couldn't have answered the purpose better. [9]
- Anubis took great pleasure in the pretty creatures, and by the permission of his superiors a dovecote was erected on the roof of the treasurer's house. [10]
- A sort of platform had been erected around the flag-staff and on it a drunken little habitant was talking treason. [11]
- Paaker, the king's pioneer, had caused it to be erected after the death of his father, in the place of the more homely dwelling of his ancestors, when he hoped to bring home his cousin, and install her as its mistress. [10]
- Their new leader, our friend Aristomachus, stood with a few of his own officers apart from the Egyptians, by the colossal statues of Psamtik I., which had been erected on the space above the steps, their faces towards the river. [10]
- It was not only at the festivals of the dead that he went to the Greek cemetery, where he had had a magnificent monument erected for his dead mother. [10]
- It reminds me of what Robert Burns' mother said when they erected a stately monument to his memory: "Ah, Robbie, ye asked them for bread and they hae gi'en ye a stane. [5]
- When a copy of this statue had been erected in Alexandria, an evil tongue had made a speech which was often repeated among the citizens. [10]
- These much-envied favours of Fortune had little to do with the indestructible monument which she erected in her heart to her son and her lover. [10]
- On the 19th of April, 1875, the hundredth anniversary of the "Fight at the Bridge," Emerson delivered a short Address at the unveiling of the statue of "The Minute-Man," erected at the place of the conflict, to commemorate the event. [6]
- One of the obelisks erected by Rameses at Heliopolis is now standing in the Place de la Concorde at Paris, and has been lately translated by E. Chabas. [10]
- During these visits my interest in Schleiermacher was awakened, for his grave--he died in 1834, three years before I was born--lay near our lot, and we often stopped before the stone erected by his friends, grateful pupils, and admirers. [10]
- But the name most likely to arrest us is that of Giordano Bruno, the same philosopher, heretic, and martyr whose statue has recently been erected in Rome, to the great horror of the Pope and his prelates in the Old World and in the New. [6]
- In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of Deseret," with Brigham Young as its head. [5]
- It is a monument erected by white men to Maoris who fell fighting with the whites and against their own people, in the Maori war. [5]
- Large and small manufactories of it were everywhere erected, in which all the earthly goods of their owners were invested. [7]
- Gorgias had erected it, and whoever wished to visit the hermit was forced to go by sea and request admittance, which was granted to few. [10]
- Before they reached it the equipage passed the sumptuous tents which had been erected for the royal pair and their attendants. [10]
- The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting and in maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? [7]
- Statues surrounded the hurriedly erected palaestra where the Ephebi every morning practised their nude, anointed bodies in racing, wrestling, and throwing the discus. [10]
- As token of his gratitude Cimon caused a monument to be erected in their honor in "the hollow way" near Athens. [10]
- She increased before his eyes to an enormous size and alighted upon the pharos erected by Sostratus. [10]
- On the right hand and on the left, two cedar-trunks were erected as masts to carry standards; he had had them felled for the purpose on Lebanon, and forwarded by ship to Pelusium on the north-east coast of Egypt. [10]
- She, whose heart had remained free from jealousy of the woman who stood between her and the man she loved, like a solid bulwark erected by Fate itself, was now suddenly overmastered by this passion. [10]
- The old man had long gazed gloomily at the ground, but he suddenly interrupted the silence and said: "In Succoth I erected a heap of stones and called upon the Lord to be a witness between us. [10]
- But every arrangement had already been made for the approaching ceremony--a broad wooden estrade was erected in the centre of the courtyard, and richly decorated with garlands of flowers, blossoming branches, flags, and streamers. [10]
- This time he had again succeeded; for when he released me we were standing opposite to a newly erected tribune. [10]
- The Council had had a magnificent tent erected for him, Duke Maurice, and the court, and in order to ornament the interior suitably had allowed the use of the beautiful tapestries in the town hall. [10]
- The Glyptothek, a Grecian structure of one story, erected to hold the treasures of classic sculpture that King Ludwig collected, has a beautiful Ionic porch and pediment. [4]
- On all his estates Pierre saw with his own eyes brick buildings erected or in course of erection, all on one plan, for hospitals, schools, and almshouses, which were soon to be opened. [2]
- Finally, statues were erected to many. [10]
- Statues had been erected of himself, of his father, his mother, and even of his favorite heroes, above all of Alexander the Great; triumphal arches without number had been constructed. [10]
- The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that, to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. [7]
- 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]
- Tall platforms were erected at almost speaking distance from each other, where sentinels kept watch for French frigates or privateers. [11]
- In front is erected an altar with a broad, carpeted platform; and a strip of the platz before it is inclosed with a railing, within which are praying-benches. [4]
- The guides have erected a table of spruce bark, with benches at the sides; so that breakfast is taken in form. [4]
- It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. [7]
- On the Telegrafo di Mare Cuccola is a rude signal-apparatus for communication with Capri,--to ascertain if wind and wave are propitious for entrance to the Blue Grotto,--which probably was not erected by Eolus, although he doubtless used this sightly spot as one of his stations. [4]
- We moved the desk to the very front of the platform, and erected behind it a high, square board screen, like a section of tight fence round the fair-grounds. [4]
- Flower, is more deeply interested, perhaps, than any other individual in the "Shakespeare Memorial" buildings which have been erected on the banks of the Avon, a short distance above the Church of the Holy Trinity. [6]
- Look at the countless statues which have been erected during the last three thousand years, in all the temples and palaces from Naukratis up to the Cataracts. [10]
- A temporary structure, clothed and canopied with flags, has been erected at the hotel front, and connected with the second-story windows of a drawing-room. [5]
- The spectators occupy chairs on the platform in front of the bath-houses, or sit under tents erected on the smooth sand. [4]
- He erected station buildings and dug wells. [5]
- In 1836 the British Parliament erected it--still a solitude--into a Province, and gave it a governor and other governmental machinery. [5]
- Often, with a brief prayer, she laid flowers or a round cake on the altar that stood beside her seat, and which her ancestor had erected to the nymph of the spring--but today she had not come for this. [10]
- Had a plainer boundary-stone ever been erected between a past and a future time? [10]
- Hermon now again beheld himself, with his mother, garlanding, anointing, and twining with fresh fillets the mausoleum erected by his uncle Archias to his brave brother. [10]
- So it had been with her soul, only she had flung the ripening grain into the fire and, with blasphemous hand, erected a dam between the fructifying moisture and the dry earth. [10]
- A flag-staff had been erected in the centre of the village, and upon it had been run up the French tricolour. [11]
- It represents Mark Antony, in whose honour it was erected by the city. [10]
- The disturber was Antinous who was waiting here for the Emperor who was still gazing at the stars from the watch-tower Pontius had erected for him. [10]
- Between the thicket and the road stood a little chapel which had been erected by the Mendel family on the spot where a son of old Herr Nikolaus had been murdered. [10]
- They were shaped and finished as nicely as if they were breastpins for the Titans to wear, and on their polished surfaces were engraved in imperishable characters the records they were erected to preserve. [6]
- He longed--as he always did in moments when the balance of his mind had been disturbed--for an hour of solitude, and retired to the tent which had been hastily erected for him. [10]
- We older pupils afterwards had a tall tower erected there as a monument to Barop, and the prospect from its lofty summit, which is more that a thousand feet high, is magnificent. [10]
- And when you add to that the temporary tribunes erected under the dome for seating the ladies, the entire nave is shut off from a view of the gorgeous ceremony of high mass. [4]
- In the grounds about his house, he caused to be erected between forty and fifty wooden statues of great men and allegorical figures, together with four lions and one lamb. [6]
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