What is "renovation"

Usage examples of "renovation".

Father, where all her earliest scenes of gayest felicity had passed, but which, of late, she had only approached with terrour, only entered to weep, she experienced a delight almost awful in the renovation of her pristine confidence, and fearless ease.

The ultimate states of happiness are ceaselessly undergoing the most delightful renovations, without which, indeed, no finite being could endure the tedium of eternity.

The new cycle in her fortunes had certainly not commenced, but it was manifest, by many a sign, that the course of the old was concluding, and that the whole country felt the assuring auguries of undivulged renovation.

By the time she left Lancashire, Appleton Manor would have not only a new steward but the beginnings of a complete renovation.

It embraces digestion, assimilation, tissue renovation and the provision of bodily heat and energy, in other words it is the sum total of the biochemic processes.

There had been plans once for a renovation, but that was back before the Kingwood subdivision had been annexed by the city of Houston.

For eighteen months now, ever since outsiders discovered the Rajmahal and began the renovations, the village has been stewing.

Despite extensive renovation and renewal, bums and addicts could often be found in the mornings, asleep in the sandblasted doorways or beside the struggling saplings in their fancy wooden planter boxes.

With the extensive renovations to Steynings, cash was probably in short supply.

He came by to check on my progress almost every day, and he was available to troubleshoot any situation that came up during the renovation.

That had been the last major renovation, in the expansive and self-confident years just before the Great War, when the African territories were well pacified and the Draka were pleasantly engaged in dreaming of further conquests, rather than performing the hard, actual work.

New York until the electrical and plumbing work was done, but her need to be out of the city, closer to Nicky and involved in the renovation on a daily basis overrode any qualms she had.

It hung from a cord dangling from the ceiling and Glenn guessed that this was where the renovations had concluded.

She was depending upon a first mortgage at the bank to make the extensive renovations that would convert the property into apartments.

That same afternoon she sat down with Phil in her office, after ordering her newly hired secretary to hold all calls, to work out the costs of the renovations along with estimates of the projected rentals.