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The eye or mind which feels as well as sees can give dignity and pathos to a ruined mill, or a straw-built shed

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

She took him back and showed him the bedrooms and they are marvelous places for -- wonderful places for these kids to stay, and she did a brilliant job, and they are all different colors, and all adobe, it is a straw-built constructed adobe hacienda, about 14,000 square feet, magnificent facility.

CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2001 2001

Screams from her straw-built nest, as from the womb

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

Duncan drew the door to, and went up by the side of his garden, past the straw-built sheds of his bees, a legacy from a former occupant, into the cool breathing twilight of the fields.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

But by the people who have no ideas, the names 'town' and 'country,' 'urbica' and 'rustica,' have been accepted as indicating the practical result, that a bird which likes walls will live in towns, and one which is content with eaves may remain in farms and villages, and under their straw-built sheds.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

No weak walls could rise above them; no low-roofed cottage, nor straw-built shed.

Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859

After a time we came alongside Pepel's house, a sort of labyrinth of clay and straw-built huts.

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville Prince De Joinville 1859

The eye or mind which feels as well as sees can give dignity and pathos to a ruined mill, or a straw-built shed (Rembrandt), to the hull of a vessel 'going to its last home' (Turner).

The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

They met with many of the natives in their straw-built cabins, who received them without alarm.

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

They met with many of the natives in their straw-built cabins, who received them without alarm.

Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821