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the building of something, typically a large structure.
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"Sweating in the heat, we had lost the whole day, dreading to be buried alive in the drifting sand." & <span>"Sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water—water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water-skin."</span>
One that evoked the unspoken fears of humans