Evidently it extended even to keeping up the appearance of the mighty edifice which was the central seat of his government.
In the great traditions of the West, the book is a foundation upon which mighty edifices of knowledge are constructed.
Pillaged, looted and burned half a hundred times Chicago still reared the skeletons of some mighty edifices above the ashes of her former greatness.
From such material humanity had built its mightiest edifice of hope, the doctrines of its faith.
The buildings were in an advanced state of decay, some only piles of masonry to show where once stood mighty edifices attesting to the power of man over nature.
Not minia- tures, these, but mighty edifices that towered up until they were lost to sight in the night sky.
There stood the mighty edifices built of rock, pile after glorious pile of gray-green granite rising from the valley floor.
But the history of science is strewn with the ruins of mighty edifices toppled by an accident, or a triviality.
What were these mighty edifices in the bowels of the world?
What powerful objections is our reviewer going to pose against the mighty edifice he esteems so highly?