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I was an Innkeeper, who loved to carouse; J was a Joiner, and built up a house.
BOYS AND GIRLS BOOKSHELF; A PRACTICAL PLAN OF CHARACTER BUILDING, VOLUME I (OF 17)VARIOUSThe jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONThe private chapel, built out from the house on the side next Calne, had not been used for years and years.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODHe hardly recognised himself, for, the foundations being shaken, all that was built upon them trembled too.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODCivilisation is built up of the "heresies" of men who thought freely and spoke bravely.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDThe boy lifted up his pet, and put him back in the pen that had been especially built for the little pig.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThen, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMHe rose and kissed her lightly on the forehead, experience teaching him to avoid a stray hair from the carefully built coiffure.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONIn some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEThe road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONWORDS RELATED TO JERRY-BUILT
- all aquiver
- aquake
- aquiver
- ashake
- faltering
- fluctuant
- infirm
- insecure
- jellylike
- jerry-built
- jittery
- nervous
- not set
- precarious
- quaking
- quivery
- rattletrap
- rickety
- rocky
- rootless
- shaking
- tottering
- tottery
- tremorous
- tremulous
- tumbledown
- unfirm
- unsettled
- unsound
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsure
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- wobbly
- yielding
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