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Meanings of build palaces in English

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Usage of build palaces in English
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From it was quarried rich material to build palaces for masters.
The Coming of the King
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We will build palaces and temples of art and of religion.
Frederick the Great and His Court
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Not though you build palaces out into the deep, can that help you.
The Duke's Children
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I'm going to build palaces for the lame, the halt, the sick, the blind.
The Root of Evil
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She inquired how he managed to build palaces and to get so many precious things.
The Green Fairy Book
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An architect cannot build palaces with his own hands.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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I cannot build palaces, but I can build great walls that can never be overthrown.
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
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Somebody buys all the quack medicines that build palaces for the mushroom, say rather, the toadstool millionaires.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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He would give banquets and build palaces-theend being always "the conspicuous consumption of goods".
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
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You are almost ready to believe in the lamp of Aladdin, that could build palaces in a night.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 / A Maga...
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We build palaces, and spend on an evening's entertainment what would have been a fortune fifty years ago.
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
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With our money and our lies we have been building mud-hovels, and now we are going to build palaces.
The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
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Piety alone doesn't build palaces.
Melnitz
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Whatever we may do-foundcompanies, build palaces and monuments, write songs and poems-itis all not for long time.
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" / Christianity Not as a Mysti...
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Then, too, it began to build palaces, to enclose parks; it travelled, too, a little, did the House of Vipont!
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05
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Some people build palaces rather than mere hotels; huge structures made from several palates, sometimes with wire casing and elaborate roofs.
Independent.ie
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