Beam Quote by Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of…

— Charles Dickens

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

— Josh Ritter

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees,…

— Winston Churchill

The rain fell, the floods came,and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded…

— Anonymous

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

— Patricia Moyes

“He'd never seen it in person before (the main quarry); it was larger than he'd expected. When he'd first taken an interest, some decades…

— Max Barry

“A street turned off at right angles, descending, and became a dirt road. On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a broad flat…

— William Faulkner

“Blocks of flats could change everything, thought Mma Ramotswe. They were designed for people, but people were not necessarily designed for them. These flats…

— Alexander McCall Smith

[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner…

— William Henry Jackson

“Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness…

— Raymond Chandler