The wooden houses generally are well-built frames, and. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
He was a large, well-built man, then about sixty years old. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
He saw in the well-built youth the makings of a fine player. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
The Veys of both sexes are well-built, erect, and somewhat stately. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"It's just a very well-built young man with the requisite hairiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Sir, That's My Baby] Reference
In a well-built city house the insertion of a latchkey and opening of. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Barracks, a well-built Prison, a Town Hall, the Administrator's Office. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
They are handsome, well-built little creatures, about the size of a small terrier. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The house itself was well-built, commodious, and fitted with all the conveniences of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The guy I chatted with, Glen, was tall and well-built, looked as if he materialized from a cornfield. From Wordnik.com. [Small Change] Reference
The vehicles were light, well-built farm wagons, arranged and fitted for economy of space and weight. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Mitchell County had been to partition off a room in the well-built barn for the accommodation of the men. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
"It's just what I expected," said Norman Hallett, a tall, well-built boy, who was the eldest in the school. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
You did see -- and you do see -- I have one of them on right now -- that my clothing fits a well-built man. '. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
A well-built house implies a conscientious builder, and a well-painted picture implies a conscientious artist. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It was well-built, well-arranged, and had many conveniences I did not expect to find in a back-woods dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Skirting a few houses and a timber yard I approached a large well-built iron railway bridge spanning the canal. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
On the Mabolo road there is a Leper Hospital, and the ruins of a partly well-built jail which was never completed. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But it should be remembered that the houses of those days were not the firm, well-built structures of modern times. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
They are stout, well-built, and pleasing in countenance, resembling Europeans, except in having a darker complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
He was well-built and not many inches above Jane's own height; and perhaps when one has said that he was fair with that. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
“Time to go,” Kevin announced and bundled all four of us into my Fairlane, extolling the virtues of a well-built car. From Wordnik.com. [Sometimes You Just Have to Get Out of the Car] Reference
He is a tall, well-built man of thirty, who knows a seaplane backwards, and it has been woe to the enemy when he met him. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
He said: "There is an American," pointing out a large, well-built man, who seemed to be known by the passengers around him. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Marie was a healthy, well-built, lithe lassie, with raven-black hair and eyes which snapped equally with pleasure or with wrath. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
He was quite young, probably not more than one or two and twenty, tall and well-built, although he walked with a slouching gait. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The cyclist was a good-looking, short, but well-built man, clad in a light, home-spun suit, with knickerbockers and a Panama hat. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
A better equipment would include a well-built bench, such as that shown in Fig. 243, the top and back of which are covered with zinc. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
A broad-shouldered, well-built young man walked into the room and kissed the old lady right in the mouth, before she could say a word. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
The long two and a half mile drive from the wharf of Cagayan to the town proper is lined on either side with well-built nipa dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
In the course of a few years a handsome, well-built city arose on the site of old Fort Garry, and with the construction of the Canadian. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
And she came to the well-built house of man-slaying Hector, and found therein her many handmaidens, and stirred lamentation in them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The grass was growing as high as the head of a tall man, where now well-built streets and public squares are traversed by hurrying crowds. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
They were all in the big pool last week, candidates for governor in a special recall election Oct. 7, plus this well-built guy from Austria who makes movies. From Wordnik.com. [Only in California] Reference
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