Builded

In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

Was Jerusalem builded here?

Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gatherd. / No it was buylded far from accident,

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.

And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate thrones somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas[.]

[…] / They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; / […]

1909, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, Chapter I: Africa and America, page 18, “So there was builded into America the thrift of the searchers of wealth, the freedom of the Renaissance and the stern morality of the Reformation.”

“Our forebears builded better than they knew.”