With imagination and many hands a house-raising in Melaque, Jalisco makes bigger into better. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Of course,” Charlotte said, producing keys to unlock the monster SUV, which she would never have gotten down the trail had Mac Devlin not opened the way for the house-raising the previous May. ❋ Stabenow, Dana (2004)
Marshall Clemens, born August 11, 1798, was the eldest — becoming male head of the family at the age of seven, when his father was accidentally killed at a house-raising. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"It sounds like a house-raising," said a girl from Nebraska. ❋ Margaret Warde (N/A)
No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking, is matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence. ❋ Harry A. Lewis (N/A)
For instance, the first specification I would take out of the box in which it was kept, would perhaps have to do with house-raising without disturbance to the foundations, the second would prove to be an article half umbrella, half revolver, while in the third I would perhaps find an extremely quaint notion for a portable pocket corkscrew. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Unknown (1918)
No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking is a matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The small farmers who continued to dwell nearby included Dabney at first in their rustic social functions; but when he carried twenty of his slaves to a house-raising and kept his own hands gloved while directing their work, the beneficiary and his fellows were less grateful for the service than offended at the undemocratic manner of its rendering. ❋ Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1905)
Primitive athletic games and commonplace talk, enlivened by frontier jests and stories, formed the sum of social intercourse when half a dozen or a score of settlers of various ages came together at a house-raising or corn-husking, or when mere chance brought them at the same time to the post-office or the country store. ❋ Nicolay, John G (1904)
The next day these logs would be hauled or dragged to the place where the cabin was to be built, and the "house-raising," would take place. ❋ John Coram (1902)
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. ❋ Harper, Ida H (1899)
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. ❋ Enos Abijah Mills (1896)
For the school-master had now made up his mind finally -- he would go out into the world and make his way out there; and nobody but Chad noticed that his decision came only after, and only a little while after, the house-raising at the head of the creek. ❋ John Fox (1891)
At the house-raising a good dinner was provided, and of course, plenty of liquor. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Sewall was ever ready to signify his good will and interest in his neighbors 'advancing fortunes, by driving a nail at a ship-building or a pin at a house-raising, by laying a stone in a wall or a foundation of a house, the latter, apparently, in the case of some very humble homes. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
It showed itself in all the petty details of daily life, in assistance in housework and in the field, in house-raising. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Every house-raising, every ploughing match, every meeting at which farmers congregated, had unlimited quantities of rum as one of its leading features. ❋ James Hannay (1876)