The Toltecan type was represented by the primitive inhabitants of Mexico and by the Mound-builders of our Mississippi Valley; the American proper, by the Indians.
The Mound-builders made elegant pottery, of various design and accurate shapes, worked bone and all sorts of stones, and even forged copper.
America then possessed but four animals which had appreciable economic value; the dog, the reindeer at the north, which the Mound-builders used as a draft animal but the Indians did not, and the llama and the paco south of the equator.
The Indians were wretched husbandmen, nor had the Mound-builders at all the diversity of agricultural products so familiar to us.
What purity, what love of rectitude, what strength of will did not the builders of America carry forth from that family altar!
It is so surrounded by the scaffolding its builders are using, it is so deformed with the materials of their work, that its true plan can not yet be made out.
He looks back to the time when gamma Draconis occupied that conspicuous position, and the builders of the great pyramid, B.
Mr. Ruskin calls the pines and firs and their relations the builders with the sword, because of their narrow, pointed leaves, and the broad-leaved trees he calls the builders with the shield.
Kinura with Vowel Cavity Attached] Builders who have not mastered the art of so curving their reed tongues that buzz and rattle are impossible have endeavored to obtain smoothness of tone by leathering the face of the eschallot.
Few builders have failed now to adopt the leathered lip.
William Hill & Sons are also the builders of the organ in the Town Hall, Sydney, Australia, once the largest in the world; it has 126 speaking stops.
Much confusion of ideas prevails on this point, and cheap builders used to take advantage of it by providing two stop-knobs for each row of pipes, thereby making their instruments appear to contain more pipes than were actually there.
The builders write as follows: "The inserted tube, or complementing chamber, in the pipe is such in length as to complete the full length of the pipe.
The writer had this experience with the batteries at two different churches and had some difficulty in getting the organ-builders to see what was the matter.
When adopting this system in part, he would speak of "unifying" this, that or the other stop, and this somewhat inapt phrase has now been adopted by other builders and threatens to become general.
Walker, in England, and Henry Erben, in this country, continued to produce Diapasons having a larger percentage of foundation tone and they and a few other builders thus helped to keep alive the old traditions.
Every organist fully acquainted with his work endorses it, and upwards of thirty organ-builders have honored themselves by writing similar testimony.
This bending of the tuning wires, however, takes place to a much larger extent than most organ builders imagine.
The Church outwardly to-day is very much as the fifteenth century builders left it.
Robert of Bellême was one of the most celebrated château builders of his day, being possessed of so great an ability that he was known as a most famous military engineer under Philippe I.
They do not always, for in substantial Philadelphia some machine tools used by machine builders stand upon second floors, or, perhaps, higher up.
Machine tool builders do not believe this, simply because they have not tried it.
Do they dream of rearing fine sons and noble daughters, or will they be satisfied to become child-bearers at best rather than builders of men and women?
The continuity of parental functioning is suggested by the Hebrew origin of the term, child, which is etymologically connected with builder, parents being not the architects of a moment but the builders of a lifetime.
They are placed with us for a time in trusteeship and now that they are old enough to leave us and to stand upon their own feet, it is well for them to make their own homes and become the builders of their own lives.
Thus architecture is probably the oldest of the arts; yet we still have many builders but few architects, that is, men whose work in wood or stone suggests some hidden truth and beauty to the human senses.
A satirist is like a laborer who clears away the ruins and rubbish of an old house before the architect and builders begin on a new and beautiful structure.
The amateur state-builders were obliging officers of the two armies, and behind them were speculators and concession-hunters.
It is but fair to say that the enterprise to which they set their hands was the vastest that ever tempted lofty ambitions since the tower-builders of Babel strove to bring heaven within reach of the earth.
It consists, too, of the wages of buildersand brick-makers, which he has reimbursed in the contract price of erecting his factory.
He pointed it out to the builders and they set to work, whilst he directed them, and they wrought till they builded him a Hammam that had not its like.
After this he sent builders with him saying to them, "Build him a Hammam in what place soever shall please him.
One of the greatest builders among them was Untas-GAL (the pronunciation of the second element in the name is uncertain).
He was succeeded by his son who was followed on the throne by his brother, one of the great builders of Elam.
This was a concession on the part of the later builders which ensured harmony in the whole; but on each side the tracery is varied.
This raking of the vertical rolls was a device whereby the old builders in some measure got over their difficulty by inducing a fixed expansion and contraction.
The curious raking of the lead rolls to the nave roof is noticeable; the mediæval builders did this with a view of counteracting the "crawl" of the lead.
It seems to have been divided into two portions, at which the builders worked simultaneously.
In the retro-choir there are earlier examples of this kind of pier, showing how the builders experimented with the grouping of the shafts before they attained the perfect proportions of the pillars in the nave and choir.
If, in proportion to the interest of money, the trade of the builders affords at any time much greater profit than this, it will soon draw so much capital from other trades as will reduce the profit to its proper level.
Its builders aimed rather at simplicity such as their forefathers used--plain gray walls, unornamented columns and arches, and few paintings.
In the roof of each house the cunning builders had left several tiny, crooked openings for ventilation, and the warm air steaming up through these made little chimney holes in the snow above.
In consequence of this, most organ builders for sixteen years were obliged to work as carpenters and joiners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "builders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
