Read full poem →138. played the patron, rested patronizingly on her hair.
140. halls, college buildings.
141. dowager, the widow of a nobleman.
Dictionary Entry
The act or process by which something is built; construction.
In a Sentence
“The building of the bridge will be completed in a couple of weeks.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. buildingsbuildings publicbuildings newbuildings schoolbuildings office
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Poetry examples for “buildings”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →A nunnery first gave it birth,
(For virgin buildings oft brought fortli,)
And all that neighboar-ruin shows
Read full poem →And vice infects the very wall ;
But sure those buildings last not long,
Founded by folly, kept by wrong.
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But sure those buildings laat not long.
Founded by folly, kept by wrong.
Read full poem →innumerable falls, through the mountainous wilderness, and
finally through the wilderness of buildings?”
Read full poem →Must keep their taxes down
On buildings, presses, stocks
In gas, oil, coal and docks.
Read full poem →Repayring her decayed fashion,
Renewes herselfe with buildings rich and gay;
That one would iudge that the Romaine Daemon*
Read full poem →Shook the sand from my shoes at night,
That now am caught beneath great buildings,
Stricken with noise, confused with light.
Read full poem →SELWYN & BLOUNT,
12, YORK BUILDINGS, ADELPHI, W.C. 2.
1918.
Read full poem →Churches, Castles and Other Buildings Go Back Beyond the Dark
Ages—Lympne, Quaint and Ancient, Deeply Interests the