Instead of outward, their shared attention plunged down, toward the source of gravity and light, where immense slender edifices whirled in tight orbit around a compact star.

Close to the railway was an immense white edifice, like an ugly hospital, on which was painted 'NATIONAL HOTEL.'

Formally called "the Wigwam", this immense edifice was located on Girard Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets, across from Philadelphia's Girard College.

The immense edifice was as sinister a sight as she had ever seen.

In the same way it was the great wealth they accumulated from gifts of land and through their skill as sheep farmers that financed these immense edifices and excited the greed of a King.

Local developer Joseph Sawtelle estimated the cost to renovate the immense edifice into civilian office space, including removing lead paint and asbestos, would cost more than $10 million.

A half-hour drive away, down this city's manicured avenues, is another immense edifice, still under construction: a military museum that will serve as a shrine to the country's generals and admirals.

Encompassing a full city block along Grand Avenue, each of the four sides of the immense ten-story edifice is similar in design, divided into three horizontal sections.

Tillman nimbly conveys the way a family appears to its members an immense edifice in which things "of grave and appalling dimensions" can happen - when it's also just stage scenery, a backdrop for later life.

It is an immense edifice, with no one point for the mind to rest upon; and it tires itself with wandering round and round.