The oldest part of the buildings now existing represents a church founded in 1020 by Richard, second Duke of Normandy, and constructed under the direction of the Abbot Hildebert II.
It was constructed on the model of the church of Jesus in our house of the professed at Rome, although considerably inferior to that.
They afterward constructed on the new site a very beautiful temple with the help of the king our lord, who paid a third of its cost, as his Majesty does for all the churches.
The first fort constructed in Manila for the defense of the city was erected under his direction, and with his plans, supervision, and aid, which cost him no little effort.
Formerly the houses, though large and roomy, were all constructed of wood or cane.
A small railing was constructed about the pit, and, leaving it open, they placed inside the food which they brought.
The tabernacle in which these relics now repose had already beenconstructed and finished; it embraces the whole width of the chapel.
A good deal of art had also been manifested in the disposition of the timber of which the building was constructed and which afforded a protection much greater than was usual to the ordinary log-cabins of the frontier.
By these means the Hurons obtained a general idea of the manner in which the place was constructed and secured, as well as of details that enabled them to act intelligently in the dark.
Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick.
To have pure air, your house must be so constructed as that the outer atmosphere shall find its way with ease to every corner of it.
After supper a rude shelter against the chill dampness of the night was constructed of small poles covered with a number of the useful bark mats, of which the Indian women of that coast make enormous quantities.
These tiny dwellings were constructed of sweet-smelling cedar boards, split from splendid great logs, absolutely straight-grained and free from knots.
Stockaded forts, too, were constructed at various points, as places of refuge and defence, in exposed neighborhoods.
To dispossess them of the fort which they had constructed at Niagara, between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
They had been imperfectly constructed by Shirley, and were insufficiently garrisoned, yet contained a great amount of military and naval stores, and protected the vessels which cruised on Lake Ontario.
They were chiefly constructed during the great "boom" of nine years ago, a disastrous event that has left its mark.
In the streets there are bullock carts bringing in cradles of hay from the prairie; sulkies, which are constructed of two wheels and a tiny board for a driver's seat; and buckboards, used for purposes of all kinds.
They built towns in different parts of the country and constructed good roads from one town to another, for they were excellent builders and road-makers.
Amherst was therefore obliged to rest for the winter; having first rebuilt the great fortresses, constructed Fort George near the site of old Fort William Henry, and cut a road from the New York lakes into the heart of New England.
The list which follows is constructed from the evidence of the cartae and the rolls, and, though substantially correct, is liable to emendation in details.
Stonyhurst had carelessly made Giraldus speak of Hervey as uncle, not to Earl Richard, but to Robert fitz Stephen, and the pedigree was accordingly constructed to fit this error.
It is actually a cunningly-contrived door giving entrance to a series of caves which Nature must surely have constructed for my use.
The rocky walls of the cave-bedroom were hidden beneath hangings of moire silk, the floor was thickly carpeted, and the place was equipped with an oak bedstead and some small pieces of roughly-constructed furniture.
The largest pond, in a deep ravine in the northern part of the pasture, was constructed in June, 1956, and became filled in approximately one month (Pls.
This folly was carried to such a height that fish ponds were constructed on the roofs of houses.
The combined weight of these men could not have been less than fifty-four stone, at the very lowest estimate; and that is a shock that a modern spruce-wood doorway was never constructed to stand.
The raft was constructed on the forward well-deck, where the men, often standing up to their waists in water, worked in feverish haste; and it is astonishing what prodigies of labour can be accomplished in so terrible a situation.
Rigid as are its laws, we still feel ourselves free in its use, though obliged to give to our spontaneous feelings forms constructed by men of the past.
He should be brought to see that the world is unfinished and needs his joyful cooperation, that it has room for individual activity and admits rationally constructed purposes.
Young people are constructedwith happy protective arrangements; they are enviably impervious.
These three sorts of models, properly harmonized, should have with them a written scenario constructed to indicate all the scenes between.
This film has a crude plot constructed to show off Annette's various athletic resources.
A special kennel had been constructed for Grit, who seemed to take kindly to the big airship.
The big propellers had been constructed of several layers of mahogany, and tested at a speed to which they would never be subjected in a flight.
Simply for the sake of identification hereafter names will be attached to the themes out of which the prelude is constructed and which come from the chief melodic factors of the opera.
As Berlioz constructedthe "Dramatic Legend," it belonged to no musical category.
But in truth the business, such as it was now in its glory, had been constructed by her husband, and her own fortune had been very small.
A body of water like that exerts terrific pressure, and to make that dam really secure against a fracture, to make an engineering job of it, as we should say, the dam ought to be constructed of masonry built right into solid rock.
From the foot of the slope, a jettyconstructed of stones closely set together ran out some fifty feet into the river.
Constructed in the same proportions as Gaelo's, only finer and more dashing, the second holker was painted white.
Like all other houses of the common people, Master Eidiol's wasconstructed of wooden slats held together by means of cross-beams; it was only two storeys high, and was roofed with thatch.
He had a small box-cage constructed adjoining the lion's cell, and coaxed the wounded beast therein.
The hand weighed three pounds, was so constructed as to grasp a sword or lance, and was invented by a mechanic at Nuremberg.
The back is formed of its bark, and the sides are constructed of polished pieces of the same stock.
The most perfect automaton about which there is absolute certainty, was one constructed by M.
About 1679 Nicholas Grallier de Servierre, an old soldier who had served in the Italian army, constructed a whimsical clock.
In more remote times, an account is given of an ivory chariot, constructed by Mermecides, which was so small that a fly could cover it with its wing; also a ship of the same material, which could be hidden under the wing of a bee.
And these edifices of the Polypi have been reared in the midst of the ocean waves, and in defiance of tempests which so rapidly annihilate the strongest works constructed by man.
The cage was so constructed that the lion could not turn about in it.
On examination, a road was found constructed twenty feet broad and from fifty to sixty miles long, and it was wonderfully smooth and well made.
Toward the end of the last century a clock was constructed by a Geneva mechanic named Droz, capable of performing a variety of surprising movements, which were effected by the figures of a negro, a shepherd and a dog.
The figure is said to have been constructed for the purpose of effecting the officer's escape out of Russia, where his life was forfeited.
