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It's still large enough, mentally and materially, to build all sorts of things. Over here, the sites are frightfully crowded. " "And what do you think we are building now? And what do you think you are building over here?" "What are we building now? I believe we have almost grown up. I believe it is time we began to build in earnest. For good. ." "But are we building anything at all?" "A new world." "Show it me," she said.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
To Charles T. Lark, in New York:
HAMILTON, BERMUDA. April 6, 1910. DEAR MR. LARK,--I have told Paine that I want the money derived from the sale of the farm, which I had given, but not conveyed, to my daughter Jean, to be used to erect a building for the Mark Twain Library of Redding, the building to be called the Jean L. Clemens Memorial Building. I wish to place the money $6,000.00 in the hands of three trustees,-- Paine and two others: H. Lounsbury and William E.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 6》
The number of visitors is steadily increasing, and numbered 14,637 in the month of February, 1910; just about one-third of this number, or 4,925, made use of the library during the month. A new building is therefore urgently needed, and it is ardently hoped that a new fireproof building which is adequate for the purpose may soon be provided, to relieve the great stress now so apparent in many parts of the building, as well as to preserve its interesting collections and valuable library.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
Early in the present century the old ruinous college buildings of St. Salvator's ceased to be habitable, except by a ghost! There is another spectre of a noisy sort in St. Leonard's. The new buildings are mere sets of class-rooms, the students live where they please, generally in lodgings, which they modestly call bunks. There is a hall for dinners in common; it is part of the buildings of the Union, a new hall added to an ancient house.英文原著 · 《R. F. Murray》
Tell them it is too hot and that I am too painful. Aunt M--- sends love to all. Remember me to all friends. I must leave details till I return. "Most truly and affectionately,
"R. Lee."
The building of the church here referenced to was the Episcopal church in Lexington, which it was proposed to take down and replace with a larger and better building. My father was a vestryman, and also a member of the building committee. Buckler, whom my father had consulted in July, was at this time on a visit to Baltimore, having lived abroad with his family since 1866.英文原著 · 《Recollections and Letters of Lee》
He was just their excuse for doing it all." "Sky-scrapers?" she conceded. "An early display of the sky- scraper spirit. You are doing your best to make me feel thoroughly at home." "You are more at home here still than in that new country of ours over the Atlantic. But it seems to me now that I do begin to remember building this cathedral and all the other cathedrals we built in Europe. It was the fun of building made us do it. " "H'm," she said. "And my sky-scrapers?" "Still the fun of building. That is the thing I envy most about America.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
Went fine, if not quite as vigorous a session as I might like, but building to it, building to it.美剧 · 《Billions》
He says I should put it into a building firm, WP Moss, or, if not them, then into some other building opportunity.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I actually cannot afford my first and second mortgages on my apartment building, and that means I'm gonna have to sell my building.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Because I talked about what makes a building a building of science. because I talked about what makes a building a building of science.演讲 · 《Building uniqueness ~ Moshe Safdie》
It hit the building. And the building was poorly placed, actually. It hit the building. And the building was poorly placed, actually.演讲 · 《Nature vs. humans ~ Paul MacCready》