Edifice

(n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

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• During my journey I might dream, and with buoyant wings reach the summit of life's high edifice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The doctor said: Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The house of Lazarus is a three-story edifice, of stone masonry, but the accumulated rubbish of ages has buried all of it but the upper story. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very warlike aspect. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• One family built the whole edifice, and have got money left. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In its history from the first, and in its tremendous associations, it is the most illustrious edifice in Christendom. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Fact being, I presume, that Mr. Bounderby the Banker does _not_ reside in the edifice in which I have the honour of offering this explanation? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Now one was not a child, and one knew that the soul was a prisoner within this sordid vast edifice of life, and there was no escape, save in death. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Thus was the edifice of my brief dream of happiness dashed, broken, to the ground of reality. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• What a wonder of architectural beauty and grandeur this edifice must have been when it was new! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• For more than an hour his eloquence (assisted by his glorious voice) thundered through the sacred edifice. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For quickly the fair proportion of this edifice would be more defaced, than are the sand-choked ruins of the desert temples of Palmyra. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• One portion of this noble old edifice is suggestive of the quaint fashions of ancient times. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These edifices were all built of the whitest Pentelic marble, but have a pinkish stain upon them now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In modern times the art of building has had such an upward trend that edifices looming far into the air, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These pillars are small, and doubtless the edifices they adorned were distinguished more for elegance than grandeur. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You decorated our towns with edifices, you bestowed on us useful establishments, you gifted the soil with abundant fertility. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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