master-builder

• “Baroque master-builder Francesco Borromini designed the palace's famous Cortona gallery, named in honor of the Pietro da Cortona ceiling frescoes, based on Virgil's "Aeneid.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rome by AppointmentHOW TO GET IN

• “Mary Carruthers relates: In characterizing geometry, of all the seven liberal arts the one essential for a wise master-builder, he [Hugh] calls it 'well-spring of perceptions and source of sayings.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “The officer had accompanied the master-builder only as far as the door of the keep.”

  Fictionaut: A River So Long

• “Between the excessive ideality of Rebecca and the decadent sterility of Hedda Gabler comes another type, perhaps more sympathetic than either, the master-builder”

  Henrik Ibsen

• “Let Original has typo "Le" us pray that he does not hear of your coming," said Ina, "for ever since he threw his master-builder over the parapet into the AIph, he alone knows every stone and nook of this palace.”

  Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON

• “But theoretical science may be a science either of judging, like arithmetic, or of ruling and superintending, like that of the architect or master-builder.”

  The Statesman

• “STRANGER: You know that the master-builder does not work himself, but is the ruler of workmen?”

  The Statesman

• “And the king is not like the master-builder, concerned with lifeless matter, but has the task of managing living animals.”

  The Statesman

• “In discharge of the task which God graciously entrusted to me, I—like a competent master-builder—have laid a foundation, and others are building upon it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Scriptures at Your Fingertips

• “Read you then this lyrical prose, and, if the Titanic master-builder of rhythm who composed”

  Swann's Way

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