With imagination and many hands a house-raising in Melaque, Jalisco makes bigger into better.    From Wordnik.com.  [With imagination and many hands a house-raising in Melaque, Jalisco makes bigger into better. © Gerry Soroka, 2009] Reference

Marshall Clemens, born August 11, 1798, was the eldest — becoming male head of the family at the age of seven, when his father was accidentally killed at a house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

“Of course,” Charlotte said, producing keys to unlock the monster SUV, which she would never have gotten down the trail had Mac Devlin not opened the way for the house-raising the previous May.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking, is matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

For instance, the first specification I would take out of the box in which it was kept, would perhaps have to do with house-raising without disturbance to the foundations, the second would prove to be an article half umbrella, half revolver, while in the third I would perhaps find an extremely quaint notion for a portable pocket corkscrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891] Reference

Before long, others got involved in the house-raising project.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

At the house-raising a good dinner was provided, and of course, plenty of liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

It showed itself in all the petty details of daily life, in assistance in housework and in the field, in house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

Sometime in the month of August, a large number of Wyandotts were collected at a house-raising, and Stewart being present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.] Reference

The next day these logs would be hauled or dragged to the place where the cabin was to be built, and the "house-raising," would take place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).] Reference

Before long, others got involved in the house-raising project, including employees and management from Alcoa's Wenatchee Works, where Lindman worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Every house-raising, every ploughing match, every meeting at which farmers congregated, had unlimited quantities of rum as one of its leading features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilmot and Tilley] Reference

When we got ready to put up a new building, we would have what we called a house-raising and would invite all the men in the neighborhood to come out and help us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-five years in the Black Belt,] Reference

Mr. Mathieson had not come home to dinner, being busy with the house-raising; so they had had no opportunity to invite him, and Nettie was now on her way to do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carpenter's Daughter] Reference

My hiding-place on a granite crag allowed me a good view of the work, -- the cutting and transportation of the little logs, the dam-building, and the house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference

Ansley, who had previously participated in a house-raising with Serve Wenatchee Valley for a local family, suggested that Grace Convenant members spearhead a similar project for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Everybody came, things went off finely, not an accident during the day and all went home sober, having learned, for the first time, that there could be a house-raising without liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years] Reference

No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking is a matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Death of Garfield] Reference

For the school-master had now made up his mind finally -- he would go out into the world and make his way out there; and nobody but Chad noticed that his decision came only after, and only a little while after, the house-raising at the head of the creek.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come] Reference

Sewall was ever ready to signify his good will and interest in his neighbors 'advancing fortunes, by driving a nail at a ship-building or a pin at a house-raising, by laying a stone in a wall or a foundation of a house, the latter, apparently, in the case of some very humble homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

The small farmers who continued to dwell nearby included Dabney at first in their rustic social functions; but when he carried twenty of his slaves to a house-raising and kept his own hands gloved while directing their work, the beneficiary and his fellows were less grateful for the service than offended at the undemocratic manner of its rendering.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference

I'll be back by dark or at late moonrise, and you rest yourselves, because to-morrow or the next day we go at house-raising. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [It, and Other Stories] Reference

A feast for all members of her clan who have helped in the house-raising, and the guests come bearing small gifts for the home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi] Reference

The people who couldn’t make it to the house-raising contributed materials or phone minutes or ran around for me in Anchorage or sent gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grave Denied]

1798, was the eldest -- becoming male head of the family at the age of seven, when his father was accidentally killed at a house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866] Reference

11, 1798, was the eldest -- becoming male head of the family at the age of seven, when his father was accidentally killed at a house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

October 2nd they had a house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Not long after, I was invited to a house-raising.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography. Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, from My Green Brier House. Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom] Reference

Rochester, house-raising at, 410.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

There's that house-raising to-morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carpenter's Daughter] Reference

They make such a time after a house-raising. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carpenter's Daughter] Reference

The log rolling, the house-raising, the husking bee, the apple paring, and the squatters 'associations whereby they protected themselves against the speculators in securing title to their clearings on the public domain, the camp meeting, the mining camp, the vigilantes, the cattle-raisers' associations, the "gentlemen's agreements," are a few of the indications of this attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frontier in American History] Reference

The colonist turned to any and all who lived around him, and never turned in vain for help in sickness, or at the time of death of members of his household; for friendly advice; for culinary aids to a halting appetite; for the preparation for feasting an exceptional number of persons; in short, in any unusual emergency, as well as in frequent every-day coöperation in log-rolling, stone-piling, stump-pulling, wall-building, house-raising, etc., -- all the hard and exhausting labor on the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference