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It is as a builder of gigantic works that Urukh is chiefly known to us. The basement platforms of his temples are of an enormous size; and though they cannot seriously be compared with the Egyptian pyramids, yet indicate the employment for many years of a vast amount of human labor in a very unproductive sort of industry. The Bowariyeh mound at Warka is 200 feet square, and about 100 feet high.
This was due to the fact that the builder was not on speaking terms with the tape-line or two-foot rule. No, adventure is not dead, and in spite of the steam engine and of Thomas Cook & Son.
At last one day the great work was completed, and turned out to be, not a coffin, but what the happy builder called a boat. But to call it a boat was a misnomer, for the thing was to be propelled not by oars but by a paddle. And certainly through all the ages since the construction of the ark of Noah was never such a boat as this.
The glimpse which I had of the descending figure appalled me for the moment. It was like that grim guardian which, according to the Arabian historian Ibn Abd Alhokin, the builder of the Pyramids, King Saurid Ibn Salhouk placed in the Western Pyramid to defend its treasure: 'A marble figure, upright, with lance in hand; with on his head a serpent wreathed.
They were to have their canoe and all the sport that that meant. It was to be a safe craft -as good as new! For Hiram Driggs was a dependable and skilful boat builder. "Hey, too bad you fellows got stung so fearfully," cried a grammar school boy in passing. "I'm mighty sorry." "Thank you," Dick answered. "But we're going to have the canoe repaired.
We are glad that so few of them are ever poor and hungry. Beaumont, Aviator. The late Lincoln Beachy, Aviator. A man of consummate physical courage and coolness. Col. George W. Goethals, Builder of the Panama Canal and Governor of Canal Zone. Of the intellectual but bony and muscular type. Short, stocky, enduring, and resistant. A natural-born executive for construction or mechanical work.
Positively the pillars and arches of the choir are so very beautiful that they give the impression of being exquisitely polished, though such is not the fact; but their beauty throws a gleam around them. I thank God that I saw this cathedral again, and I thank him that he inspired the builder to make it, and that mankind has so long enjoyed it, and will continue to enjoy it. July 14th.
He stood beside me at the window with one in the uniform of a naval captain, and we looked, all three of us, at that which few might behold unmoved. "She's a beauty!" said the Captain. "She's all speed and grace from cutwater to sternpost." "I've been building ships for sixty-odd years and we never launched a better!" said the Master Builder. As for me I was dumb.
What kind of builder, sir?" "Bricks and mortar. Cottages. I don't want an architect. I'll employ the man we used in Hampshire." "You mean to build?" "I mean to build." Mr. Clisson coughed. "The late Mr. Masters found it did not pay " "Mr. Clisson," said Christopher firmly, "let us understand one another from the beginning. I do not intend to work on the same lines as my father worked.
He alone was both their architect and their builder, working at them with inexhaustible industry and labour, for generally the thickest walls had to be broken into and large stones excavated, requiring stronger arms than were attached to a body so diminutive as to give him the nickname of 'Little John, and by this his skill many priests were preserved from the prey of persecutors.
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