1 The Swiss are a very intelligent race and keenly alive to architectural beauty.
2 He referred to her lovely house as an architectural horror and said he would rather live in a well-regulated hotel than a home.
3 Mrs. Fisher lived in an East side street near the Park, and as the two men walked down Fifth Avenue the new architectural developments of that versatile thoroughfare invited Van Alstyne's comment.
4 His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out.
5 The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood.
6 Without it, there was the dome without the lantern; with it the architectural demands of the mass were satisfied.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 7 She walked back through Wilmette and Evanston, discovered new forms of suburban architecture, and remembered her desire to recreate villages.
8 Perhaps he'd create some entirely new form of architecture.
9 But the little man suggested that the architecture of Gopher Prairie was haphazard, and that it was sottish to let the lake-front be monopolized by the cinder-heaped wall of the railroad embankment.
10 Tis but indifferent architecture to make a blind dome; here's one.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter. 11 He escorted them to the house, which was one of a long row of the typical frame dwellings of the neighborhood, where architecture is a luxury that is dispensed with.
12 Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money.
13 Holmes walked slowly, taking keen note of the architecture of the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 14 There were some really curious pieces of mediaeval domestic architecture within.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 15 I began to recognize our own pretty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower.