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Saxons, and being from time to time re-edified, increased to vastness and magnificence, and in revenue so much, that it affords
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It has been often ruinated, and as often re-edified.
The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral George S. Phillips
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George second Lord Seaton, we are informed, was burned, and the policy destroyed, "by the English of old;" but the house was re-edified by
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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It has been restored, renovated or re-edified, but in spite of that, appeals to us from the wealth of very highly ornate tabernacle work, the richness, and at the same time the lightness and elegance of the whole.
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All the land thereof shall be fulfilled with desert, and the house that is burnt therein shall be re-edified, and thither shall return all people dreading God.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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Westminster, which he had re-edified, and then he, giving thankings unto
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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In his time tithes were received and marriage was assented to, and churches were founded and temples and bell-houses [round towers] were made, and monasteries of monks and canons and nuns were re-edified, and _nemheds_ were made.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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If his people are not peculiarly alive, they are in harmony with the re-edified cities and woods that sprang up under his pencil.
Children's Books and Their Illustrators Gleeson White 1874
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Whether altars be re-edified, whether chalice and book,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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As it was, the whole family loved it, and the Doctor was never better inspired than when he narrated its imaginary story and drew the character of its successive masters, from the Hebrew merchant who had re-edified its walls after the sack of the town, and past the mysterious engraver of the runes, down to the long-headed, dirty - handed boor from whom he had himself acquired it at a ruinous expense.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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