How To Use jerry-building In A Sentence
- Scottish master of jerry-building and of "plinths," the atmosphere was truly Scots, tea-coseys and all, while the reminiscences of Paris and The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
- There is too much "jerry-building" to-day, both in houses and books. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
- It is curious, also, that these very builders who were so daring and so profuse of ornament, were often very careless in matters of structure, and at times were even guilty of something very like jerry-building, as the account of the restoration of the south transept will show. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
- If there was jerry-building, it was more likely to have been the result of haste - the impossible demands of an impatient emperor.
- If the apprentice was caught doing any jerry-building he would find it at his feet knocked down with a hammer.
- To the rear is seen the invasion of the jerry-building that must serve the poorer man who wishes to live in a ‘free-standing’ house.
- We hope that the effect of this statement may not be to encourage jerry-building. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914
- Yet many of these cathedrals looked grander than they were, and design faults, or perhaps jerry-building, caused a number of fiascos.
- As for the humorist-author, can the book he is jerry-building sell anywhere near so well as he almost desperately counts on?
- At Peterborough, no less than at York, instances have been discovered of what would, in these days, be called jerry-building. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
