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Then he returned hastily, shut his door carefully, and began to study, like a clever architect, the plan Andrea had left him.

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architect
 n.  one who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Going round a hole where the workmen were slaking lime, he stood still with the architect and began talking rather warmly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
2  Vronsky, having finished his talk with the architect, joined the ladies, and led them inside the hospital.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 20
3  The architect wore a swallow-tail coat.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
4  The architect he had already introduced to her at the hospital.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
5  But Anna, seizing the first pause, at once turned to the architect to draw him out of his silence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
6  Likewise, the architect's best efforts had failed to cause the pediment to stand in the centre of the building, since the proprietor had had one of its four original columns removed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
7  "To be sure, your excellency," replied the architect.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
8  The architect had told him that it was necessary, and Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house done up.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
9  To the one camp belonged the old prince, Mademoiselle Bourienne, and the architect; to the other Princess Mary, Dessalles, little Nicholas, and all the old nurses and maids.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
10  Neither could the architect Michael Ivanovich, who on being sent for came in with sleepy eyes, tell Princess Mary anything.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
11  Danglars and his architect, who had been selected to aid the baron in the great work of improvement solely because he was the most fashionable and celebrated decorator of the day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47. The Dappled Grays.
12  Then he returned hastily, shut his door carefully, and began to study, like a clever architect, the plan Andrea had left him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
13  The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  The baronet has been in communication with the architect who prepared the plans for Sir Charles, and with a contractor from London, so that we may expect great changes to begin here soon.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
15  The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  They commissioned an architect to design the new library.
2  The winning design came from an architect in Glasgow.
3  The architect was given / presented with a blank cheque to design a new city centre.
4  Each man is the architect of his own fate.
5  Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
6  Sometimes a project of this kind will involve working alongside an architect and interior designer.
7  Therefore, he went to work in an architect's office in order to learn how to design buildings.
8  The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
9  He is the architect who planned the new shopping centre.
10  She is acting as architect on this project.
11  One of the first things we did when we moved in, to the chagrin of the architect, was to replace the leaded windows.
12  Today's complex buildings require close teamwork between the architect and the builders.
13  The architect drew the house in section.
14  Simon Conder, a British architect, is responsible for this beautiful conversion of a group of farm.
15  Rather than get discouraged, the architect saw great potential in the dilapidated house.