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  • The town council had decided that it would cost too much to renovate it, a little chapel in an overgrown graveyard that had already become unfashionable, so they had padlocked it, and waited for it to fall down.†   (source)
  • Renovation moves slowly through the city, which is a patchwork of new, clean buildings and old, crumbling ones.†   (source)
  • Anis, one of Kabul's newspapers, had run a story the month before on the renovation of the orphanage.†   (source)
  • In recent years he had turned his attention to renovating old houses for poor blacks.†   (source)
  • Mohamed, my best friend, couldn't come because he and his father were renovating their thatched-roof kitchen that day.†   (source)
  • Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.†   (source)
  • It had a renovated facade, a recent layer of white stucco topped with connected rows of metal fire-escape ladders.†   (source)
  • The downtown Philly town house was being renovated as a gift from their parents to Melissa.†   (source)
  • It's not the sort of job he'd envisioned for himself as a student; designing and renovating private residences was what he'd wanted to do.†   (source)
  • Sloane—the delapidateur as Welty called him—had vanished into thin air by that time—shop cleared out overnight, 'renovation,' never opened again of course.†   (source)
  • It Fits! which appeared to be undergoing renovations.†   (source)
  • I puzzle over what it might have been, then remember Thread's recent renovations of the square.†   (source)
  • The centrepiece of the Fowl estate was a renovated late-medieval/earlymodern castle, built by Lord Hugh Fowl in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • It stood vacant until the end of World War II, when it was purchased and completely renovated by Horace Derwent, millionaire inventor, pilot, film producer, and entrepreneur.†   (source)
  • "They're closing the Malt and Burger for a month in July for renovations and my boss thinks a vacation would be good for me.†   (source)
  • One of the wounded vets I met at the ranch retreats has an idea to help homeless vets by helping build or renovate housing.†   (source)
  • He had renovated that old brownstone from a shell.†   (source)
  • My cubby wasn't registered in the Hive zoning schematic as an apartment; I'd taken over a renovated warehouse loft from a friend of mine who'd run afoul of loan sharks.†   (source)
  • Pick the courses shrewdly and work quickly and the most tawdry academic record could be renovated in a single summer.†   (source)
  • San Vincenzo, most of it built or renovated in the last few years—restaurants to serve Circlers, hotels to serve visitors to the Circle, shops hoping to entice Circlers and their visitors, schools to serve children of the Circle.†   (source)
  • An old movie palace, nicknamed "the Peak" and renovated with lots of neon, has a funky charm that could never be mass produced.†   (source)
  • But it was her mother, Tweedy Browner, who showed up in the arrivals area, a small dusty third-world place in a state of halted renovation.†   (source)
  • You've had the place renovated," Meggie heard Mo say.†   (source)
  • I'm renovating new headquarters right now down by the river.†   (source)
  • Kari Saipu's house had been renovated and painted.†   (source)
  • But I would imagine Valentine, Blackwell, and the others had the place renovated to be a bit more to their taste.†   (source)
  • Becky Thatcher's house was closed for renovations, to be paid for with money that had yet to be raised.†   (source)
  • The family home, in the very center of the historic district, was the old mint, denatured by a Florentine architect who came through here like an ill wind blowing renovation and converted many seventeenth-century relics into Venetian basilicas.†   (source)
  • We're not discussing my …. renovations right now.†   (source)
  • The regular dorms were being renovated over the summer, so all the College Prep students were being housed in an older building called Brookline, which his admissions packet had called a "retired mental health facility and historical site."†   (source)
  • The Brigham occupies one side of Francis Street and envelops, like a city around a Roman ruin, the renovated Victorian lobby of the old Peter Bent Brigham, a relic of the history of Boston medicine.†   (source)
  • Alexander Vanger, son of Greger, born in 1946, lived in a renovated wooden house.†   (source)
  • It was also desperately in need of renovation.†   (source)
  • The flier read: DELPHIC AMUSEMENT PARK'S
    NEWEST SENSATION!
    THE ARCHANGEL
    REMODELED AND RENOVATED!
    FALL FROM GRACE ON THIS
    ONE-HUNDRED-FOOT VERTICAL DROP.
    Vee read the flier over my shoulder.†   (source)
  • I'll be back in a couple of days, hopefully with a good progress report of the renovation.†   (source)
  • Chicago had recently renovated its fire alarm system, making it one of the best in the nation.†   (source)
  • Saima became the tycoon of the neighborhood, and she was able to pay off her husband's entire debt, keep her daughters in school, renovate the house, connect running water to the house, and buy a television.†   (source)
  • The Pentagon had started a long renovation of the then nearly sixty-year-old building back in the late 1990s.†   (source)
  • The house hadn't been renovated since the 1940s, and it still had cheap wood-veneer paneling and old smelly, worn-out lime-green carpeting.†   (source)
  • Hived on Potrero Hill, in a renovated blue Michaelian town house with a view of the bay.†   (source)
  • She told me that the Christopher Columbus was a thriving business and that every year she renovated part of the decor, replacing the stranded hulls of Polynesian shipwrecks with severe monastic cloisters, and baroque garden swings with torture racks, depending on the latest fashion.†   (source)
  • It's a three-story brick horseshoe on the quieter Pembroke side of campus that was renovated over the summer and now boasts fresh carpeting and new paint.†   (source)
  • I refinanced it when the renovation was complete.†   (source)
  • The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.†   (source)
  • All the building and remodeling he had done thus far—the renovation of rented houses in Paris, New York, and Philadelphia, even the initial construction of Monticello itself—had been but prelude to what was now under way.†   (source)
  • It turns out a crew chief found the plane mothballed and talked an Air Force general into renovating it and returning it to the inventory.†   (source)
  • True, it was more renovation than construction, but the blacks were free, or so it was said, to occupy it.†   (source)
  • An inspection revealed that the entire building was about to implode because it had not been renovated or reinforced for decades.†   (source)
  • Dousing the fire, helping to pull me out, the house renovations.†   (source)
  • They were to have been the witnesses when Orfeo lost control and attacked me with my own renovation tools, which would be conveniently nearby when the agitated rhino broke through the decrepit fence between his plot and mine.†   (source)
  • The place needs a total renovation—particularly the bathrooms.†   (source)
  • We must quickly and substantially renovate the federal system.†   (source)
  • Navot looked like one of the workmen whom Bella had so terrorized during the long renovation.†   (source)
  • It was during the renovations of the Triton that my dad happened to see, right there in the Kansas City Star, that they were giving away all of the original theater seats to anyone who could show up with a way to transport them.†   (source)
  • But now her distress was compounded by the way it upset the fragile balance of her newly renovated psyche, by the manner in which this looting of her soul (for she felt it to be that as much as her body) not only pushed her back toward the cauchemar, the nightmare from which she was ever so delicately and slowly trying to retreat, but actually symbolized, in its wanton viciousness, the very nature of that nightmare world.†   (source)
  • Renovators have sandblasted away the alligators that graced the entrance.†   (source)
  • Langdon realized that a church closed for renovation meant total privacy for a killer.†   (source)
  • But the harvest's all in now, and our guest rooms are newly renovated.†   (source)
  • "Actually, I think they're renovating it.†   (source)
  • Recently, Tariq took Laila and the children to the Gardens of Babur, which are being renovated.†   (source)
  • Every building I pass down here among the warehouses seems to cry Renovate me!†   (source)
  • There's a small design firm here that renovates old structures.†   (source)
  • Salander guessed that the renovation work had been stopped abruptly.†   (source)
  • She has the top floor of her family's mansion, which is a renovated brownstone in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • And is that company attempting to renovate the Gulf Coast Mall in Biloxi, Mississippi?†   (source)
  • He was telling me what "the doctor" had told him, that the place had been renovated back in 2000.†   (source)
  • She hired an interior decorator to renovate and furnish it.†   (source)
  • More than ten years later the entire renovation of the building was nearly complete.†   (source)
  • The floor is dimly lit by bare 60-watt lightbulbs and is currently under renovation, and thus empty.†   (source)
  • Ian spent most of his time on the Gulf Coast where he and some partners were renovating a mall.†   (source)
  • They had hired the Zeitouns to help with the renovation of a house they'd bought, and immediately the two couples had clicked.†   (source)
  • Soon they were living in this house, while renovating their original house on Dart, and renting out the other house next door.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile she asks over and over again why we had to pay so much for a renovated barn and a mildew-lined pool on four acres of land, two of which are covered with redwood trees and poison oak.†   (source)
  • The next year, Rosalynn Carter came down and taped a segment of Good Morning America in one of our renovated apartments.†   (source)
  • It's a brownstone under renovation; Astrid and Donald, expecting their first child, are in the process of expanding their domain from a single floor of the house to the top three.†   (source)
  • A lot of Rosewood was gated estates and renovated fiftyacre horse farms, but near the college there was a series of rambling, cobblestone streets lined with falling–to– pieces Victorian houses.†   (source)
  • CLOSED FOR RENOVATION PYX CHAMBER ST. FAITH'S CHAPEL CHAPTER HOUSE The long, deserted corridor beyond the swag was littered with scaffolding and drop cloths.†   (source)
  • Judgment Day was rebuilt from an old tanker, and both the superstructure and the interior have been extensively renovated with complex structures to contain many new rooms and passageways.†   (source)
  • The servant girls had gone out, and the masons and carpenters who were renovating the house did not work on Saturdays: they had the whole world to themselves.†   (source)
  • Too much renovating, I guess.†   (source)
  • On the phone, he had congratulated Paul on the shop's renovation and stated his intent to place further orders.†   (source)
  • Shortly before completing the renovation, Joe hosted a gala dinner-dance in the building as a preview party for prospective buyers.†   (source)
  • Also, after that renovation, although Red Coast remained administratively within the Second Artillery Corps, management of its scientific activities was turned over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Astronomy Institute, and it took on some research projects that had nothing to do with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or the military."†   (source)
  • Jennifer Callender, who worked with Walt and whose house Zeitoun had renovated, arrived with her husband and father.†   (source)
  • In contrast to her reaction to the proposed publication of the Lovers' Companion, Transito Ariza went much further: she bought the house at once and undertook a complete renovation.†   (source)
  • "I'm so glad seventh grade is over," Aria said as she, Emily, and Hanna followed Alison and Spencer toward the renovated bam-turned-guesthouse where Spencer's older sister, Melissa, had lived for her junior and senior years of high school.†   (source)
  • In the process of renovation, he devoted considerable attention to one small design detail of the stairway—the so-called false step.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza heard no human sound as he followed the barefoot maid under the arches of the passageway, where unopened moving cartons and bricklayer's tools lay among leftover lime and stacks of cement bags, for the house was undergoing drastic renovation.†   (source)
  • In anticipation of a favorable reply, he began a second renovation of his house so that it would be worthy of the woman who could have considered herself its lady and mistress from the day of its purchase.†   (source)
  • It occurred to him that the project might qualify for public assistance, and thus far, by using a combination of public and private funding, he had bought and renovated three hundred units.†   (source)
  • They also know, probably, that no one here tonight has renovated three hundred apartments for poor blacks or taken their black cook to meet Prince Charles.†   (source)
  • He was in conflict with everything: his renovating spirit, his maniacal sense of civic duty, his slow humor in a land of immortal pranksters--everything, in fact, that constituted his most estimable virtues provoked the resentment of his older colleagues and the sly jokes of the younger ones.†   (source)
  • The only thing that remained of that unfortunate venture was the breath of renovation that the matrons from France brought, as their magnificent arts transformed traditional methods of love and their sense of social well-being abolished Catarino's antiquated place and turned the street into a bazaar of Japanese lanterns and nostalgic hand organs.†   (source)
  • Annabeth's gray eyes studied me, the same way she seemed to study everything—assessing not just my appearance, but my composition, my stress points, my potential for renovation.†   (source)
  • Until the renovation, it had felt more like her parents' house, a feeling that didn't sit well with her as she'd gotten older.†   (source)
  • Some years ago, before Ronnie had stopped talking to him, he and Kim had gone to see a marriage counselor whose office was located near Gramercy Park, in a renovated-building.†   (source)
  • Luke's pack, it seemed, felt insulted that they hadn't been invited to the ceremony—even though the guest list was tiny—and were insisting on holding their own celebration in a renovated factory in Queens.†   (source)
  • In the final week before our anniversary, I invented excuses to keep Jane from the house, for it is in the last week of a renovation that a house ceases to be a shell and becomes a home.†   (source)
  • Deo hadn't been there in five years, and as we walked up Malcolm X Boulevard past rank after rank of renovated brownstones and gutted brownstones covered with scaffolding and clusters of new chain stores and banks, he made exclamations.†   (source)
  • Add to it the renovation that had been done on our house so we could all live together like one happy family, the debt Don was forgiving on my brother's truck, and just the day-to-day maintenance of living with my mother, and he was making quite an investment.†   (source)
  • And she loves any excuse to renovate.†   (source)
  • She'd had it renovated a few years ago, along with the bathrooms and most of the downstairs, and she found herself thinking that the old farmhouse had finally begun to feel like home—or rather, the kind of home she'd always wanted.†   (source)
  • Historians agree that after Aratus renovated the Achaean league and before its dissolution by Macedon, its government was more moderate and just than any of the sovereign cities.†   (source)
  • They painted in sheds, whitewashed studios and renovated potato barns and she went mostly alone, borrowing Esther's car because Esther was on the phone trying to deal with landlords and lawyers.†   (source)
  • The Hotel Metropole is a renovated, prerevolutionary structure built in the ornate style of architecture favored by the czar who had visited fin-de-siècle Vienna and Paris.†   (source)
  • Renovate me!†   (source)
  • They will dine in the White House family residence on the second floor, which Jackie renovated in 1961, hand-selecting the antique wallpaper portraying scenes from the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • But why in heaven's name would he spend almost 440,000 kronor to renovate a ramshackle building, which according to the appraiser was still not being used for anything in 2005?†   (source)
  • Not a renovation, brand-new.†   (source)
  • He noted that the buildings were in "extremely poor condition" and could not in all likelihood be renovated for any other activity.†   (source)
  • She knows not only the renovation status of each of the White House's fifty-four rooms and sixteen baths but also the complete history of the 170-year-old building itself.†   (source)
  • Jackie prefers to spend time with her children or concoct designs for a lavish renovation of the White House, an activity that does not interest her husband, who has little aesthetic sense when it comes to such matters.†   (source)
  • The Abnegation volunteer agency my mother works for is responsible for most of those renovations.†   (source)
  • After the renovations, he had returned the music box to its usual place.†   (source)
  • We're here for one day and my parents have already started on the renovations.†   (source)
  • Daddy and I were talking about where you might be staying while all the renovations are happening.†   (source)
  • Well, you said yourself the renovations wouldn't take too long.†   (source)
  • The whole house was turned upside down with renovations.†   (source)
  • Don't you remember how you were with all the renovations?†   (source)
  • The following summer, we would begin renovations.†   (source)
  • After the major renovations in Erudite headquarters about a decade ago you know, when all the buildings across from Millennium were connected?†   (source)
  • Although the castle was property of the Vatican, it was used only sporadically, and Bernini had made numerous renovations to it over the years.†   (source)
  • THIS WAY TO: CLOISTERS DEANERY COLLEGE HALL MUSEUM PYX CHAMBER ST. FAITH'S CHAPEL CHAPTER HOUSE Langdon and Sophie were jogging as they passed beneath the sign, moving too quickly to notice the small announcement apologizing that certain areas were closed for renovations.†   (source)
  • When he is finished, instead of returning to the dining room, he walks up a flight of stairs, to check out the renovations.†   (source)
  • Bernini, as head architect of renovations here, would have had unlimited access to this structure …. remodeling it to his own specifications with no questions asked.†   (source)
  • Nothing was wrong with him, of course, he was perfectly fine, it all started when they were doing some renovations on the building, which he was against, constant hammers and saws and all these corporations destroying the city, nothing that wasn't true to start with, and then it just sort of snowballed, to the point where he thought he was being followed and photographed and spied on all the time.†   (source)
  • The Walkers are planning renovations.†   (source)
  • So, how are the renovations going?†   (source)
  • Piper and Nico struggled down from the emperor's box as the Colosseum's magical renovations began to turn into mist.†   (source)
  • After four years of ongoing renovations and expansions-just completed-it is truly a cathedral for Washington's down and out, a cavernous place with a sixty-foot ceiling in the airplane hangar sanctuary, big enough to sit 1,500.†   (source)
  • I haven't looked at the photographs yet, but I can conjure some of them from my memory, images of the two of us, here and there, posing amid the chaos of renovations.†   (source)
  • My sister had arrived the night before, having spent the day in Colby meeting with the carpenter about the renovations and repairs to the beach house.†   (source)
  • We were not rich, after all, and the purchase of those paintings had been a stretch, especially after the renovations on the house.†   (source)
  • My fellow dancers at the Houston Ballet helped me with my renovations, and my house soon became a sort of dancers' meeting place during their free times.†   (source)
  • And so, besides the major ongoing renovations, I took up general maintenance of the house with the usual care and thoroughness, but as it happened every week something seemed to stall my efforts.†   (source)
  • After the renovations were completed, when both of us were in need of a vacation, we spent our first anniversary at the Grove Park Inn, the place we'd honeymooned.†   (source)
  • The fire in the family room was two days ago, and Liv Crawford has called more than a few times to let me know that "her boys" are just about finished with the renovations of the damage, so that the property will be fully "restored" and "secure."†   (source)
  • The renovations on the house took longer, and cost more, than expected, and it went without saying that it was far more inconvenient than either of us imagined the process might be.†   (source)
  • The inventory showed that on September 17, 2003, KAB Import AB had hired the builders NorrBygg Inc. to do renovations which included repairs to the floor and roof, as well as improvements to the water and electrical systems.†   (source)
  • Which strangely haunts, because as Liv Crawford guides me through the rooms pointing out the distinguishing features of the renovations, I have the peculiar sensation that this inspection and showing is somehow postmortem, that I am already dead and a memory and I am walking the hallways of another man's estate, leaning into rooms to sniff what lingering notes of his person may remain, the tang of after-shave or slivers of soap, the old wool of his coats and leather shoes, the dust and…†   (source)
  • The First Lady finishes her monologue with a reminder that she has immersed herself in the details of all renovations, past and present: "Piece by piece, the interior of the president's house was put back together.†   (source)
  • And so after her arrival, it seemed that my every spare moment away from the store was devoted to fixing the house, at first attempting the renovations myself, and then calling in tradesmen, and finally, after disappointments with slow, shoddy work and the high expense, again taking on the projects solo.†   (source)
  • She's come with pictures of the renovations, all disarmingly, exactingly right In a few minutes she will escort me out and drive me back swiftly to Bedley Run and show me the door to my prime vintage home, every last tint and scent of offending smoke steam-cleaned from the carpets, from the drapes, from the antiqued upholstery of the chairs, the place in showcase, immaculate, pristine and classic condition, appearing just as though I have not lived there every day for the last thirty…†   (source)
  • Hung above the entrances of the temples, festooned along the streets at the New Year festival, it denotes the renovation of the world at the threshold of the return.†   (source)
  • And so it is that, throughout the world, men whose function it has been to make visible on earth the life-fructifying mystery of the slaying of the dragon have enacted upon their own bodies the great symbolic act, scattering their flesh, like the body of Osiris, for the renovation of the world.†   (source)
  • And all other reform and renovation, I suppose, will prove to be no better than moonshine!†   (source)
  • It was, in one sense, encouraging to think that in a place of crumbling stones there must be plenty for one of his trade to do in the business of renovation.†   (source)
  • "You know the place is doing you good," he said, "and really, dear, I don't care to renovate the house just for a three months' rental."†   (source)
  • It's that renovated old part of Brooklyn where writers and economists and all those people, some of them almost as good as the very best, consort with people who are almost as smart as the very smartest.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.†   (source)
  • When the house is renovated and refurnished, all that he will need will be a wife to make it complete.†   (source)
  • All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts.†   (source)
  • Yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to regraft a name which sadly wanted such renovation.†   (source)
  • They walked along the street till they stood before one of the great palpitating centres of Christminster life, the inn wherein he formerly had responded to the challenge to rehearse the Creed in Latin—now a popular tavern with a spacious and inviting entrance, which gave admittance to a bar that had been entirely renovated and refitted in modern style since Jude's residence here.†   (source)
  • Gerty could smile now at her own early dream of her friend's renovation through adversity: she understood clearly enough that Lily was not of those to whom privation teaches the unimportance of what they have lost.†   (source)
  • This renovated aspect of what was the focus indeed of the room on a full winter morning threw a smiling demeanour over the whole apartment.†   (source)
  • Each of the twain felt that the interview could not comfortably merge in a friendly discussion of their recent experiences, after the manner of friends; and when Jude had taken him round, and shown him some features of the renovation which the old cathedral was undergoing, Phillotson bade the young man good-day and went away.†   (source)
  • On issuing from their place of confinement, the whole party instantly experienced a grateful renovation of spirits, by exchanging the pent air of the hiding-place for the cool and invigorating atmosphere which played around the whirlpools and pitches of the cataract.†   (source)
  • They were delighted with the renovation and decorations of their rooms; with the new drapery, and fresh carpets, and rich tinted china vases: they expressed their gratification ungrudgingly.†   (source)
  • Adam sat down, and they remained opposite to each other in uneasy silence, while Arthur slowly drank brandy-and-water, with visibly renovating effect.†   (source)
  • We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.†   (source)
  • I've some hundreds of quarters of it on hand; and if your renovating process will make it wholesome, why, you can see what a quag 'twould get me out of.†   (source)
  • …loosened by any less coercive instrument than an iron rake or a curry-comb—as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turning his head from side to side the more conveniently to excoriate his throat, and standing with his body well bent forward to keep the wet from his martial legs, Phil, on his knees lighting a fire, looks round as if it were enough washing for him to see all that done, and sufficient renovation for one day to take in the superfluous health his master throws off.†   (source)
  • I rushed on with renovated hopes.†   (source)
  • We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force,[224] and do lean and beg day and night continually.†   (source)
  • The renovation of the house was determined upon when Sir Pitt came to town in November to see his lawyers, and when he passed nearly a week in Curzon Street, under the roof of his affectionate brother and sister.†   (source)
  • In regard to the migration of the peoples it does not enter anyone's head today to suppose that the renovation of the European world depended on Attila's caprice.†   (source)
  • It was Miss Briggs and little Rawdon, whose business it was to see to the inward renovation of Sir Pitt's house, to superintend the female band engaged in stitching the blinds and hangings, to poke and rummage in the drawers and cupboards crammed with the dirty relics and congregated trumperies of a couple of generations of Lady Crawleys, and to take inventories of the china, the glass, and other properties in the closets and store-rooms.†   (source)
  • Arthur felt there was not air enough in the room to satisfy his renovated life, when he had read that passage in the letter.†   (source)
  • Their thanksgivings were deep and silent; the offerings of their gentle spirits burning brightest and purest on the secret altars of their hearts; and their renovated and more earthly feelings exhibiting themselves in long and fervent though speechless caresses.†   (source)
  • Alice revived under the renovating influence of the open air, and, as her physical rather than her mental powers had been the subject of weakness, she stood in no need of any explanation of that which had occurred.†   (source)
  • Exerting his renovated powers to their utmost, he was yet filling the arches of the cave with long and full tones, when a yell burst into the air without, that instantly stilled his pious strains, choking his voice suddenly, as though his heart had literally bounded into the passage of his throat.†   (source)
  • Will could not omit Thorwaldsen, a living celebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he mentioned as one of the chief renovators of Christian art, one of those who had not only revived but expanded that grand conception of supreme events as mysteries at which the successive ages were spectators, and in relation to which the great souls of all periods became as it were…†   (source)
  • Moonlight, and the sentiment in man's heart responsive to it, are the greatest of renovators and reformers.†   (source)
  • The apartment was about 500 square feet, shabby and unrenovated, but at least it was a roof over her head.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrenovated means not and reverses the meaning of renovated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Even an unrenovated one.†   (source)
  • It was one of his axioms that similar meditations or the automatic relation to himself of a narrative concerning himself or tranquil recollection of the past when practised habitually before retiring for the night alleviated fatigue and produced as a result sound repose and renovated vitality.†   (source)
  • …inferior position) b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, P. O., Charing Cross, London, W. C.: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a Id adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of the measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled before, during and after 2 months' consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley's pulley exerciser (men's 15/-,…†   (source)
  • [2] Pistoia first strips itself of the Black, then Florence renovates her people and her customs.†   (source)
  • Peradventure she will soon be fatigated with her journey, and will tarry in some inn, in order to renovate her corporeal functions; and in that case, in all moral certainty, you will very briefly be compos voti.†   (source)
  • Its more natural death is what we now seem to be on the point of experiencing, if the federal system be not speedily renovated in a more substantial form.†   (source)
  • Ezra And Nehemiah The Books of Esdras and Nehemiah were written certainly after their return from captivity; because their return, the re-edification of the walls and houses of Jerusalem, the renovation of the Covenant, and ordination of their policy are therein contained.†   (source)
  • I, at first, with two fair gifts Created him endowed; with happiness, And immortality: that fondly lost, This other served but to eternize woe; Till I provided death: so death becomes His final remedy; and, after life, Tried in sharp tribulation, and refined By faith and faithful works, to second life, Waked in the renovation of the just, Resigns him up with Heaven and Earth renewed.†   (source)
  • The Old Testament, When Made Canonicall From whence we may inferre, that the Scriptures of the Old Testament, which we have at this day, were not Canonicall, nor a Law unto the Jews, till the renovation of their Covenant with God at their return from the Captivity, and restauration of their Common-wealth under Esdras.†   (source)
  • The consequence of this diversity would be that there could never happen a total dissolution or renovation of the body at one time.†   (source)
  • It is, that as well after the renovation of the league by Aratus, as before its dissolution by the arts of Macedon, there was infinitely more of moderation and justice in the administration of its government, and less of violence and sedition in the people, than were to be found in any of the cities exercising SINGLY all the prerogatives of sovereignty.†   (source)
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