The striving is, in persecution, for righteousness; to wit, whether it shall be set up, or pulled down.
But either the walls of the edifice were too weak, or the roof of it too strong, for symptoms of "giving way" soon set in, and the place had to be pulled down.
Some years ago there was much ivy about the general building; but the "rare old plant" engendered dampness and had to be pulled down.
She shall be a tabernacle that shall never be pulled down, neither shall one of the cords thereof be loosed, or one of her stakes again removed (Isa 33:20).
And each time the current in the circuit is increased, the disk in the receiver is pulled down, just as the sounder of a telegraph is pulled down.
If you sat in a swing and some one ran under you, you would keep going up till he let go, and then you would be pulled down by gravity just as you now are.
This completes the circuit again and the clapper is pulled down.
Accordingly the iron-works then standing were ordered to be pulled down, and the materials sold.
Atkins states that "there had been many cottages in it, but that they had been lately pulled down, leaving only the six keepers' houses.
This was the bridge which was pulled downearly in the 19th century.
In future, in order to stop a fire, houses could be pulled down in case of need with an alderman's hook and cord.
In a subsequent proclamation Queen Elizabeth commanded that only one family should live in one house, that empty houses erected within seven years were not to be let and that unfinished buildings on new foundations were to be pulled down.
He actually ordered Compton Wynyates to be pulled down, as he could not afford to repair it; happily the faithful steward of the estate, John Berrill, did not obey the order.
I have noticed several re-used stones; but perhaps if that wall were to be more closely examined or pulled down, some further history might disclose itself.
It is a sad pity that this "thing of beauty" should have to be pulled down and be replaced by a modern building which is not always creditable to the architectural taste of the age.
A law should be passed that no old town halls should be pulled down, and that all new ones should be erected on a different site.
There is also a story that when Craven House was pulled down, a subterranean passage was discovered joining the eastern and western sides.
The old church, pulled down by that Ahab, the Protector Somerset, to make room for his ill-omened new palace, stood considerably nearer to the river.
During the trial, a mob marched from the Temple, whither they had escorted Sacheverell, pulled down Dr.
The only proviso in it with which we were not previously acquainted was, that Harmer Place, with the exception of the chapel, was to be pulled down.
Glennie, pulled down in its turn in 1825, in which Lord Byron was a pupil for two years.
We judge perhaps somewhat more favourably of Lord Danby than his contemporaries at that juncture were warranted to do; but even then he was rather a minister to be pulled down than a man to be severely punished.
The House to be pulled down at the West end of the buildings between Cornhill and Threadneedle-street, opposite to the South end of Princes-street, and the ground laid into the street.
The house at the corner of Tower-royal, facing College-hill, to be pulled down, and the ground laid into the street.
The church, a mean structure of 1687, is about to be pulled down.
This is well enough, if the old tower be left, and the grouping will be effective; but if the latter be pulled down as is proposed, the new spire will be a poor substitute.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulled down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
