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"The Prince has arrived in this strange city, whose streets of ill-built houses connect to the most noble public buildings, and where one has to admire the city as a city always in the future tense," the London Times correspondent wrote of Washington.

President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

"The Prince has arrived in this strange city, whose streets of ill-built houses connect to the most noble public buildings, and where one has to admire the city as a city always in the future tense," the London Times correspondent wrote of Washington.

President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

"The Prince has arrived in this strange city, whose streets of ill-built houses connect to the most noble public buildings, and where one has to admire the city as a city always in the future tense," the London Times correspondent wrote of Washington.

President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington Brady Dennis 2010

The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.

The Haunted House 2007

Why has an ill-built house never been regarded as a fine monument of architecture?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.

The Haunted House 2007

The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

The first most obvious undertaking was the construction of those immense usually ill-built concrete cavern systems for refuge, whose vestiges are still to be visited by the curious tourist at Paris and

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

Fingers: "Are you sure the ill-built tower doesn't tremble mightily at a butterfly's passage?"

Alright...show of hands! Who HASN'T read Terry Pratchett, yet? rabid1st 2003

The men looked small, young, clumsy, and ill-built; uncomfortable in their shabby European clothes; and about the legs, especially, seemed exceedingly weak and ill-formed.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004