1 On the farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial log-house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roomy villa.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 Stone would have to be carried and built up into walls, then the sails would have to be made and after that there would be need for dynamos and cables.
3 On the third Sunday after Snowball's expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all.
4 It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun.
5 We have built the walls far too thick for that.
6 It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
7 It was a pity that the man who had built Pointz Hall had pitched the house in a hollow, when beyond the flower garden and the vegetables there was this stretch of high ground.
8 Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
9 It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
10 For by some lucky chance a wall had been built continuing the house, it might be with the intention of adding another wing, on the raised ground in the sun.
11 No house had been built; no town had sprung up.
12 My brother says, they built the house north for shelter, not south for sun.
13 An anecdote was on the tip of her tongue, about a public lavatory built to celebrate the same occasion, and how the Mayor.
14 The hall, when they entered it, was brightly lighted up; the fire was built high; and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a flock of sheep.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 15 He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.