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  • The alleged spending includes numerous remodellings of Roberts 'home and expensive cars and clothes for his wife.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2007 2007

  • Three principal versions exist, [630] without counting several intermediate remodellings; the first contains twelve cantos or _passus_, the second twenty, the third twenty-three; their probable dates are

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Though London is the supreme embodiment of modern life, with its ceaseless absorption and accumulation, it is none the less imbued with a conservative spirit which has saved it from the wholesale demolitions and ruthless remodellings to which Paris has been subjected.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

  • In Paris alone, the year 1860 has given birth to hundreds of these writings of circumstance, -- political squibs, visionary remodellings of European states, -- vying with each other for ephemeral celebrity.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

  • Minute, repulsive remodellings of her neck and cheeks changed her to a harpy, and seeing these evidences of her great genius Douglass grew bitterly resentful, and when she laughed, with the action of a vulture thrusting her head forward from the shoulders, he sickened and turned away.

    The Light of the Star A Novel Hamlin Garland 1900

  • + Very few English cathedrals are as homogeneous as the two just mentioned, nearly all having undergone repeated remodellings in successive periods.

    A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

  • In walking round the cloisters it must be remembered, however, that successive restorations and remodellings of the window traceries have in many instances destroyed all traces of the earlier style, and the more ancient portions are now in so decayed a state that a fresh restoration must soon be undertaken.

    Westminster Abbey A. Murray Smith 1877

  • The eighteenth century was notable for its corrections and remodellings, reducing the grandeur of the originals to the levels of the critics.

    The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

  • It was in the body of the mighty Abbey Church, not indeed as we see it now, after successive restorations and remodellings, but simple in its long rows of Saxon arch and massive column, blending the first Teuton with the last Roman masonries, that the crowd of the Saxon freemen assembled to honour the monarch of their choice.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • It was in the body of the mighty Abbey Church, not indeed as we see it now, after successive restorations and remodellings, but simple in its long rows of Saxon arch and massive column, blending the first Teuton with the last Roman masonries, that the crowd of the Saxon freemen assembled to honour the monarch of their choice.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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