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  • Mary Carruthers relates: In characterizing geometry, of all the seven liberal arts the one essential for a wise master-builder, he [Hugh] calls it 'well-spring of perceptions and source of sayings.'

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The officer had accompanied the master-builder only as far as the door of the keep.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Baroque master-builder Francesco Borromini designed the palace's famous Cortona gallery, named in honor of the Pietro da Cortona ceiling frescoes, based on Virgil's "Aeneid."

    Rome by AppointmentHOW TO GET IN 2010

  • Between the excessive ideality of Rebecca and the decadent sterility of Hedda Gabler comes another type, perhaps more sympathetic than either, the master-builder

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Between the excessive ideality of Rebecca and the decadent sterility of Hedda Gabler comes another type, perhaps more sympathetic than either, the master-builder

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • "Let Original has typo "Le" us pray that he does not hear of your coming," said Ina, "for ever since he threw his master-builder over the parapet into the AIph, he alone knows every stone and nook of this palace."

    Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • "Let Original has typo "Le" us pray that he does not hear of your coming," said Ina, "for ever since he threw his master-builder over the parapet into the AIph, he alone knows every stone and nook of this palace."

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON Chris Perridas 2008

  • But theoretical science may be a science either of judging, like arithmetic, or of ruling and superintending, like that of the architect or master-builder.

    The Statesman 2006

  • STRANGER: You know that the master-builder does not work himself, but is the ruler of workmen?

    The Statesman 2006

  • And the king is not like the master-builder, concerned with lifeless matter, but has the task of managing living animals.

    The Statesman 2006

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