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The word "built" in literature serves as a versatile tool, adeptly bridging the tangible and the metaphorical. In many contexts, it denotes the physical process of construction—a temple formed entirely of hewn stone ([1]), a palace erected in a flash ([2]), or a house assembled with care ([3]). At the same time, "built" is employed to describe inherent qualities or enduring legacies, as when a person is depicted as "stoutly built" ([4]) or when majestic institutions like state capitols and skyscrapers are asserted as products of deliberate design ([5]). Beyond the literal, authors extend its meaning to encapsulate the creation of systems, traditions, or abstract edifices; for instance, myths reveal divine acts of construction ([6]), while intellectual frameworks are said to be "built up" upon foundational beliefs ([7]). Thus, "built" enriches literature by invoking images of craftsmanship, durability, and sometimes even the divine spark behind both human endeavors and natural phenomena.
  1. The wall which surrounded this huge temple was entirely built of hewn stone.
    — from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  2. When they got there, they built a palace on the spot, and lived in it for some time.
    — from Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
  3. Soon he built a house and moved into it, gathering a number of boy assistants about him, and before long he had a school.
    — from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig
  4. One once appeared to me, and seemed only four feet high, and stoutly built.
    — from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
  5. He built state capitols, skyscrapers, railway terminals.
    — from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  6. And the Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
    — from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

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