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Skyscraper   Listen
noun
Skyscraper  n.  
1.
(Naut.) (1) A skysail of a triangular form. (Rare) (2) A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. (Obs.)
2.
A very tall building, especially one over 20 stories high.
3.
Hence, anything usually large, high, or excessive. (Slang or Colloq.)






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"Skyscraper" Quotes from Famous Books



... largest and the newest of these buildings Gray went, a white tile and stone skyscraper, the entire lower floor of which was devoted to an impressive banking room. He sent his card in to the president, and spent perhaps ten minutes with that gentleman. He had called merely to get acquainted, so he explained; he wished to meet only the heads ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... the folks the other day, and they tell me that Emporia is now growing to be some town. The bank is putting up a four-story brick building, which is going to be looked on as the village skyscraper. ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... that Schmidt bought of a boy, who at risk of his life had threaded his way to the cart, there were fresh sensations taking precedence of the Roland—"Explosion in a Pennsylvania mine. Three hundred miners cut off." "Fire in a factory in a thirteen-story skyscraper. Four hundred working-girls perish ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... unnoticed for years but eventually it takes its toll. Then comes a great longing to get away from it all. If family income is independent of salary earned by a city job, there is nothing to the problem. Free from a desk in some skyscraper that father must tend from nine to five, such a family can select its country home hours away from the city. Ideal! But few are so fortunate. Most of us consider ourselves lucky to have that city job. It ...
— If You're Going to Live in the Country • Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley

... goat looking out across prairies, and silver blue lakes shining like blue porcelain breakfast plates, and out across silver snakes of winding rivers in the morning sun. And high on the roof of the other skyscraper was a tin brass goose looking out across prairies, and silver blue lakes shining like blue porcelain breakfast plates, and out across silver snakes of winding rivers in ...
— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg

... Interplanetary Power rose from his chair and walked to the window. Below spread the roaring inferno of New York, greatest city in the Solar System, a strange place of queer beauty and weighty materialism, dreamlike in its super-skyscraper construction, but utilitarian in its purpose, for it was a port of ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... as the reports of damage wrought by the earthquake came in, the conviction grew that one of the safest places during the earthquake shock was on one of the upper floors of the skyscraper office buildings or hotels. As a matter of fact, not a single person, so far as can be learned, lost his or her life or was seriously injured in any of the tall, steel frame structures in the city, although they rocked during the quake ...
— The San Francisco Calamity • Various

... like to know?" Fay retorted. He grinned, twitched jumpingly, held still a moment, then hustled over to the far wall. "Look out there," he rapped, pointing through the violet glass at a gap between the two nearest old skyscraper apartments. "In thirty seconds you'll see them test the new needle bomb at the other end of Lake Erie. It's educational." He began to count off seconds, vigorously semaphoring his arm. "... Two ... three ... Gussy, I've put ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... hostelry for a superficial cleaning up, explaining to the brush boy who scraped the oily mud from his trousers that he had been in an automobile accident. He rode downtown in the subway, strolled past the skyscraper in which his office was situated and returned to the Governor's house feeling on the ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... to build another huge skyscraper on Broadway, at Eleventh, and I see the political pot is beginning to bubble ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne

... along the sidewalk. The passers-by were of a type—construction men. Somebody here had taken part in the building of every skyscraper and bridge and dam put up in Joe's lifetime. They could have been kept away from the Space Platform job only by a flat refusal by security to let ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster

... optimist, all right," grumbled Tom. "You'd see a silver lining to any little old cloud. You remind me of the fellow that fell from the top of a skyscraper, shouting as he passed the second-story window: 'I'm all right, so far.' We may be 'all right so far,' but the dull thud's coming ...
— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield

... great achievements to dreamers, for men who lack vivid imaginations are incapable of conceiving big enterprises. No matter how practical the thing accomplished, it requires this faculty, no less than a poem or a picture. Every bridge, every skyscraper, every mechanical invention, every great work which man has wrought in steel and stone and concrete, was ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... masses of granite ten feet square were thrown a hundred feet away; rocks weighing a ton were hurled still farther, as if they were no more than stones flung by the hands of a giant; chunks that would have crashed from the roof to the basement of a skyscraper dropped a third of a mile away. For three minutes the frightful convulsions continued, and the tongues of flame leaped into the night. Then the lurid lights died out, shorter and shorter grew the sullen ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... man went on, naming the nearest large city to Shopton. "The Landmark Building is a regular New York skyscraper. Haven't ...
— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton



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