1 When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
2 There were young ex-soldiers who lacked the courage to face the long years necessary to build up fortunes.
3 But we will build back, because we have hearts like yours to build upon.
4 The apathy which had clutched them immediately after the war had completely disappeared and they were too busy building their own fortunes to help her build hers.
5 You'll want me to bank you, at some incredibly low interest, so you can buy more mills and more mules and build more saloons.
6 She had sold him lumber to build his house.
7 And while we are on the subject of real estate, Scarlett," he said, "I am going to build a house.
8 He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour.
9 I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.
10 The poor little working-girl who had found strength to gather up the fragments of her life, and build herself a shelter with them, seemed to Lily to have reached the central truth of existence.
11 Man wanted to tear down, not build up.
12 Well, you'll have plenty of privacy when we build a new house.
13 It was a humble wife who followed the busy doctor out to the carriage, and her ambition was not to play Rachmaninoff better, nor to build town halls, but to chuckle at babies.
14 Perhaps some day the farmers will build and own their market-towns.
15 She wanted to go on talking, to get this threshed out, to build a sane friendship.