...There were manyviolent storms and frightful tempests, which appeared to shake the rocksto their very foundations... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...While this was going on, another gang of menwere laying the foundations of a girder bridge which was to span agully between this cutting and Tsavo Station...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...It was such strong women that laid the foundations of the great Negrochurch of today, with its five million members and ninety millions ofdollars in property...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
... By this time, however, the sandy foundations of "overseer" Brent and Co...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Its foundations are laid in the deepest and holiest convictions, and from whatever soul the demon, selfishness, is expelled, there will this cause take up its abode...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
... As soon as the plans were drawn for the new building, the students began digging out the earth where the foundations were to be laid, working after the regular classes were over...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...There were many large and beautiful trees that had to be taken up and removed; and, when this work was completed, the excavations for the foundations and the cellar were undertaken...
Louis Hughes 「Thirty Years a Slave」
...They declare that possessions must notbe less protected than human life, for they are necessary foundations ofsociety...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906」
...The high pricesobtainable for first-class polo ponies havegiven a stimulus to pony-breeding, andit may be said the foundations of theindustry have been laid...
Sir Walter Gilbey 「Small Horses in Warfare」
...It is true that the female always selects anuneven support on which the foundations of the nest can be shaped, thusobtaining a firm hold...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...We find so many of the old homes repaired and restocked that I suspect the Bee of laying new foundations only when there are no secondhand nests to be had...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The moisture of the tile filters into the oldest layers, wrecks the foundations and threatens the nest with a speedy fall...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The first comers of the birds are alreadymated and nest-building, robin andsong sparrow each in his chosen placesetting the foundations of his house withmud or threads of dry grass...
Rowland E. Robinson 「In New England Fields and Woods」
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