In these colleges the professors contrive new rules and methods of agriculture and
building, and new instruments, and tools for all trades and manufactures; whereby, as they undertake, one man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last for ever without repairing.
Our party had halted at the entrance to the
building, and at a sign from the leader I had been lowered to the ground.
For it is strange to see, now in Europe, such huge
buildings as the Vatican and Escurial and some others be, and yet scarce a very fair room in them.
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.
It soon reached the door of the academy, where the party alighted and entered the
building.
As the front of it passed under the warring
buildings, both went into action again--one
building dropping bombs into the street, being attacked from across the street, and in return replying to that attack.
And then Turan came to a point where the avenue turned to the right, to skirt a
building that jutted from the inside of the city wall, and as he rounded the corner he came full upon two warriors standing upon either side of the entrance to a
building upon his right.
After the smashing of the City Hall and Post-Office, the white flag had been hoisted from a tower of the old Park Row
building, and thither had gone Mayor O'Hagen, urged thither indeed by the terror-stricken property owners of lower New York, to negotiate the capitulation with Von Winterfeld.
And yet they have one already, and are
building another.
One afternoon, while Clayton was working upon an addition to their cabin, for he contemplated
building several more rooms, a number of their grotesque little friends came shrieking and scolding through the trees from the direction of the ridge.
When it became known in the town that we were discussing the plans for a new, large
building, a Southern white man who was operating a sawmill not far from Tuskegee came to me and said that he would gladly put all the lumber necessary to erect the
building on the grounds, with no other guarantee for payment than my word that it would be paid for when we secured some money.
By this singular manner of
building, strength is continually given to the comb, with the utmost ultimate economy of wax.