Perronet
Americannoun
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Most important, Perronet greatly increased the useful waterway underneath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perronet reasoned what nobody before him dreamed: that the horizontal thrust of each arch carried along the length of the entire bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
The letter goes on to describe, with drawings, the famous bridge at Schaffhausen, built by Grubenmann, an uneducated carpenter, the model being shown Paine by the King's architect, Perronet.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel
And I gripped one of Sandy's arms just as Richard seized the other, and we both cried, "Perronet is paid for!"
From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
Wesley, nevertheless, without consulting Perronet, announced in church that the young man would occupy the pulpit on the following morning.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
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