| 单词 | house-raising |
| 例句 | Last month, he participated in a house-raising project in Tennessee with the charity Habitat for Humanity, which he accompanies each year to Nepal for similar projects. Jimmy Carter announces he is cancer-free after latest MRI scan 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Additionally, the audit said the state is working to recoup about $10.4 million from house-raising contractors for work that it says was not done. Audit: Work needed still on tracking hurricane aid 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z What lends life to the sport is the fact that everybody's in it—it's the team play of the open-hearth, like a house-raising in the community. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z One night, as he was returning from a house-raising, he and two or three friends found a man in the ditch benumbed with the cold, and his patient horse waiting beside him. Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous 2011-04-26T02:00:23.677Z And he talked about a house-raising while the weather held fine, and before snow. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z She had been of them and from them, and as an entire village will gather to help at a house-raising, so these three, Levi and the two helpers, now felt the same incentive. The Girl From Tim's Place The next day ushered in a crisis in the affairs of the would-be stationers—the house-raising began. The Story of Old Fort Loudon When we got ready to put up a new building, we would have what we called a house-raising and would invite all the men in the neighborhood to come out and help us. Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt My hiding-place on a granite crag allowed me a good view of the work,—the cutting and transportation of the little logs, the dam-building, and the house-raising. Wild Life on the Rockies Every house-raising, every ploughing match, every meeting at which farmers congregated, had unlimited quantities of rum as one of its leading features. Wilmot and Tilley It showed itself in all the petty details of daily life, in assistance in housework and in the field, in house-raising. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Remember the falling out Eugene and I had at the house-raising? Madelon A Novel Everybody came, things went off finely, not an accident during the day and all went home sober, having learned, for the first time, that there could be a house-raising without liquor. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years At the house-raising a good dinner was provided, and of course, plenty of liquor. Sabbath in Puritan New England "It sounds like a house-raising," said a girl from Nebraska. Betty Wales, Sophomore He was reputed to have used it as one many a time at a house-raising. Madelon A Novel |
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