Not forty, but nearer four hundred years, doubtless, was that pile in building.

Architecture of the pre- Norman period, and of all subsequent or cognate orders, diversifies the tastes and shapings of the structure.

Suppose the whole should take fire to-night and burn to the ground.

The wealth of the owner could command genius, skill and labor enough to rebuild it in three years, perhaps in one.

The Czar of all the Russias did as large a thing once as this last, in the reconstruction of a palace.