Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of lofty structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of lofty structure; tall.
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Examples
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So they fared four days a-riding and other four a-shipboard, and yet four more again by land and road, till at the last they came to a certain high-built hall; then came to meet Gudrun many folk thronging; and an exceedingly goodly feast was there made, even as the word had gone between either kin, and it passed forth in most proud and stately wise.
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Clansmen hastened to the high-built hall, those hardy-minded, the wonder to witness.
Beowulf 2003
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Clansmen hastened to the high-built hall, those hardy-minded, the wonder to witness.
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Clansmen hastened to the high-built hall, those hardy-minded, the wonder to witness.
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I know a little high-built town not far from here; there grant me rest and respite, in Zoar to find safety.
Codex Junius 11 Unknown
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Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,
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Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built galleons came,
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Then a worse fate befell them, and they went to find a home in hell, the foul abyss, where they must needs endure grim woe and surging flame, no more possessing radiance of glory or high-built halls in heaven; but they must needs plunge downward to those depths of fiery flame, down to the bottomless abyss, insatiate and rapacious.
Codex Junius 11 Unknown
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