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Sentence Examples Early respondents to this month's question will receive a Rose brick jointing tool. The majority are constructed from grey Kentish ragstone, with red brick quoins and copings. There was nothing spectacular about the construction, the walls were brick and the ceiling joists heavy timber. Construction is of rendered rubble walls, with brick features around window and door openings, brick quoins and a pitched slated roof. From a distance, this appears to be the mottled brown of old brick, but as I get closer I see that there is a coating of fine brown weed. Five-course jack arches are found above each double hung window and a six-course water table brick change is found at the second floor level. It was built of red brick and weatherboarding, topped by a steep-pitched roof. Liza stepped back from the lanky man leaning over her, banging into the brick wall of the building. A brick veneer property boasting a large back yard, spacious living and a verandah as private as you need; this is the perfect place to chillax. Your local brick or masonry supplier should be consulted for specific advice. It is a handsome building with brick walls, grey slate slanting roof, and tall spire. He added that a brick had been thrown through the window and a fire accelerant was thrown in on boxes containing paper documents. He noted that the mortar joint between the top of the brick and the underside of the plate was solid. The perfect little brick acropolis is in the middle of the forest, and its mullions echo the rhythms of the surrounding dark tree-trunks. The ante-room has red quarries on the floor and heavily plastered brick walls. The company has also offered to rebuild the crumbling brick wall that separates the garage and the war memorial. The result was a graceful shell of weathered brick, rose-coloured with tall, symmetrically disposed openings on each side. I have two brick-coloured sofas and floral curtains with brick and gold to match. Wavy perforated metal panels aid the room's acoustics yet appear to float off of the brick walls. They dug, demolished, and dismantled The cathedral brick by brick, looking for the leftovers of Escobar's fortune. Show More Sentences The interesting brick patterns, unique jointing methods, window articulations, and glazing systems earned the project the top prize for detailing. Once a cadet dropped a brick from a third-story barracks window that barely missed Jackson. A flickering light bounced weakly on the tiled brick of the sewer walls. Rugby is cool, ditto the Eton wall game, because it's always fun to see some toffy nosed adolescents firmly press each others faces against a brick wall. The towns that were affected were mostly small communities of brick houses, a compact commercial area, a church or two, a school, and maybe a health clinic or a hospital. The American Library in the Catalonian capital is bombed, an I.B.M. showroom has a brick tossed through its front window. They use autoclaves, which work like pressure cookers, instead of brick ovens. And in Italy, the 16th-century body of an old woman was dug up in 2006 with a brick in her mouth. South Asia Programme primarily focuses on bonded labour in India's brick kilns, and bonded labour practices in Nepal's agriculture. The new villages are built of mortar and brick, some of stone, and are a far cry from the villages of mudhouses. In 1696, he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury in Essex and lived in the parish of Chadwell St Mary. Mesopotamian architecture was characterized by the use of brick, lintel and the introduction of construction elements like arc and vault. Taxes on the same principle include hearth tax, brick tax, and wallpaper tax. Stone can hold under its own weight better than brick, but is more difficult to use. Many western sections of the wall are constructed from mud, rather than brick and stone, and thus are more susceptible to erosion. The advanced architecture of the Harappans is shown by their dockyards, granaries, warehouses, brick platforms, and protective walls. In 1887, a corner of the Market Reserve was allocated as the site for the new brick Post Office. The most common materials used were brick, stone or masonry, cement, concrete and marble. At its peak, it included a number of blast furnaces, a brick works, potteries, glass works, and rolling mills. The peristyle serves to buttress both the inner dome and the brick cone which rises internally to support the lantern. Show More Sentences This upper space is lit by the light wells in the outer dome and openings in the brick cone. When the brick would otherwise break, the straw will redistribute the force throughout the brick, decreasing the chance of breakage. Mud that is mostly clay, or a mixture of clay and sand may be used for ceramics, of which one form is the common fired brick. I feel fine today, but that gentleman conversing with the house plant there may be one brick short of a full load. You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet. It is a red brick building with white stone, detailing in the Queen Anne style with French influences. In the 16th century, wooden buildings were razed and replaced with brick ones. The buildings, usually in brick, dated to the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. Clarkson travelled the shortest distance, but was injured after driving his lorry through a brick wall. Clay was used as a mortar in brick chimneys and stone walls where protected from water. In order to build his forum and the adjacent brick market that also held his name Trajan had vast areas of the surrounding hillsides leveled. In June and July 2007, 550 people who had been enslaved by brick manufacturers in Shanxi and Henan were freed by the Chinese government. After the treaty, the Hudson Bay Company rebuilt York Factory as a brick star fort at the mouth of the nearby Hayes River, its present location. A brick carving at the Guangzhou Folk Art Museum, housed in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall. Manila has endured several deadly earthquakes, notably in 1645 and in 1677 which destroyed the stone and brick medieval city. There was a fortress very near to the town whose walls were made of brick and was seven palms wide. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watchtowers were redesigned, and cannons were placed along its length. Rectangular boxes of brick or stone served as furnaces, with an opening at the bottom to stoke the fire and remove ashes. The foundations rest on plates of Istrian limestone placed on top of the piles, and buildings of brick or stone sit above these footings. The dome, 600 years after its completion, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world. Show More Sentences The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore remains the largest brick construction of its kind in the world. Christchurch residents reported chimneys falling in through roofs, cracked ceilings and collapsed brick walls. An example of this would be dropping a brick off a bridge, landing on a person's head, killing him. Woolwich parish church, St Mary Magdalen is a plain brick 1730s building with a spireless tower. And because brick veneer does not require mortar, installation is well within the capabilities of interested homeowners. The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. When a brick is roasted, the duration of heating should be proper and even to avoid place brick or crozzle. Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale. This was only possible because coal, coke, imported cotton, brick and slate had replaced wood, charcoal, flax, peat and thatch. In the Neolithic, mud brick houses started appearing that were coated with plaster. Roman brick was almost invariably of a lesser height than modern brick, but was made in a variety of different shapes and sizes. Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, being constructed along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. Tudor chimneys were tall, thin, and often decorated with symmetrical patterns of molded or cut brick. Where available, Roman brick and stone buildings were recycled for their materials. Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite. In a region short of building stone, local clay deposits and timber provided the raw materials for brick manufacture. More Georgia red clay brick lead up to a screened sun porch, even the brick work was bulging upward at the base. Thomas Allason was appointed as the main architect, and in March 1854 the new brick building inspired from the Great Exhibition stood ready. Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step. Show More Sentences The 'fire engine' as it was known, is an impressive brick building from which a wooden beam projects through one wall. West Ham station was built as a homage to the red brick tube stations of the 1930s, using brick, concrete and glass. Over the course of time, the palisade might be replaced by a fine brick or stone wall, and the ditch serve also as a moat. One of the effects of the Livonian Crusade in the Baltic was the introduction of stone and brick fortifications. The frame was usually filled with wattle and daub but occasionally with brick. This residence, built of brick covered with Norwegian marble, was composed of geometric blocks, wings and a tower. It was constructed of dark brick, and used external piers to express its vertical structure. Curry seasoning is commonly sold in the form of a condensed brick which dissolves in the mixture of meat and vegetables. The brick relief was sculpted with 16,000 bricks by two Dutch bricklayers under Moore's supervision. The cover is one of their most minimalist designs, with a stark white brick wall, and no trademark or band name. The Hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth. But if in dropping the brick, there is a good chance of injuring someone, the person who drops it will be reckless. Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts. The stone selected for the exterior of the building was quarried at Anston in Yorkshire, with the core of the walls being laid in brick. A portable steam engine was used to lift stone and brick to the upper parts of the tower. Streets were widened and buildings made of brick and stone and tiled to prevent such devastation again. This can be seen as a square brick structure between the boiler house and the chimney. Accrington brick was used from 1890, decorated with yellow sandstone with moulded brick and terracotta features. Decoration was often in terracotta and the mill name displayed in white brick on the stir tower or chimney. In the late 18th century, brick beehive ovens were developed, which allowed more control over the burning process. Show More Sentences A fire brick chamber shaped like a dome is used, commonly known as a beehive oven. The shell of the cupola, being usually made of steel, has refractory brick and plastic refractory patching material lining it. He pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate. Sodium carbonate is used by the brick industry as a wetting agent to reduce the amount of water needed to extrude the clay. Periodically the shield would be driven forward by large jacks, and the tunnel surface behind it would be lined with brick. Shotcrete, fibrecrete, brick, cast iron tubing, precast concrete segments have all been used at one time or another. Pozzolans include powdered brick, heat treated clay, silica fume, fly ash, and volcanic materials. There are still some remaining concrete pillboxes and brick built blockhouses. The viaduct was of stone and brick at Barentin near Rouen, and was the longest and highest on the line. The outskirts of the city are also generally made of brick terraced houses. In addition, it has a raised brick platform at the front of the memorial for offerings such as sandalwood incense and fruit. Materials which are porous and moisture retentive, such as brick, wood, and certain coarse concrete mixtures are hospitable to moss. When it was completed it was said to be the largest brick built underground reservoir in the world and it is still one of the largest in Europe. The villages are often linear following the major through road, the houses are generally brick built with pantile roofs. When they utterly despair of a fair hearing or a just decision, they tend to stop talking and reach for the nearest brick. Perhaps the surface of the red brick, long unpainted, had scaled off a little more here and there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. Sluice valves, the medieval forerunner of stop valves, were installed and to avoid tampering were protected within brick housings called tamkins. The masons laid the brick walls unevenly, leaving unpointed mortar between bricks for a rough-cast texture. It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway. Show More Sentences Brooklyn is brick walls, little shops and industrial decoration. Using barley straw stuffed into old tights and weighted down with a brick will also help to clear algae as it contains a natural algicide. Then, fix 3 inch angle bracket 2 inches above the window lintel and make sure you have a good fixing in straps or brick. Small wonder that the Gothic style sandstone mill which has a cast iron frame and brick jack arches, was called Fort Pendlestone. The floor's one-coat application permanently bonds to concrete, quarry tile, brick pavers or plywood, making it a choice option for renovations. The fire was coming from a small brick built shed with an electricity junction box feeding meters to three houses in Hillside. Other villages typically exhibit a linear form with houses of mottled pink brick and pantiled roofs facing each other on either side of a main street. Buck designed the original skew arch bridge over Fairfield Street with ten cast iron arch ribs as part of a long brick arch viaduct topped with open stonework parapets. From that the defenders could, if they had the materials, raise a stone or brick wall inside the stockade, creating a more permanent defence while working protected. Rebuilt in the 1990s, the white stone building stands amid modern brick structures that attempt to recapture the style of More's former manor on the site. Of the outer fortifications there remains a brick gateway, with Gothic arch carrying a high machicolated tower, connected to which is a fragment of the wall. Here and there the height of the latter may differ by a few rounds of brick, but in all essential respects, a description of one is a description of all. Millions were spent in the span of two years, and some magnificent schools were built to replace shacks or ancient, toiletless, brick and wooden buildings. They unbagged the groceries, working side by side, mostly silently. Each item removed from its bag was like a brick removed from the wall between them. During the 18th century, many stone and brick road bridges were built from new or to replace existing bridges both in London and along the length of the river. That wall has to be at least three wythes of brick to support your load. The building's facade features a large rose window, elaborate cornices, molded brick work and central gable, along with keyhole-shaped windows that accomodate stained glass. Since the intent is not to kill the victim, but simply to drop the brick, the mens rea required for murder does not exist because the act is not aimed at any one person. The gunman went postal,' one witness told reporters as police continued their search of the three-story brick office complex about 30 minutes north of Boston. Ameri Source will provide all safety equipment, necessary labor training, dismantlement of scrap metal, removal of the brick, and cleaning by chisel or air hammer. Show More Sentences It was peppered with shrapnel and at the same time as we flew into a brick air-raid shelter at the rear of the infirmary, the whistling bomb explosions were deafening. The widespread use of red brick characterises the city, much of the architecture of which harks back to its days as a global centre for the cotton trade. During lactation, the belly fur of vixens may turn brick red. Mills were of red brick or sometimes local stone with a greater attention to decoration and the main gate was often highlighted with stone decoration. Innovation started in the 3rd or 2nd century BC with the development of Roman concrete as a readily available adjunct to, or substitute for, stone and brick. Many of the fortifications of the ancient world were built with mud brick, often leaving them no more than mounds of dirt for today's archaeologists. Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes. The simplest reverberatory is nothing more than a steel box lined with alumina refractory brick with a flue at one end and a vertically lifting door at the other. The company's new logo is inspired by the shapes and forms of brick, pipe and concrete products while the strong wordmark exemplifies the fortitude and solidarity of Forterra. Hogarth explored part of an immense brick structure under the mound of Kom El Deka, which may have been part of the Paneum, the Mausolea, or a Roman fortress. Fired brick are more durable but consume much more energy to produce. The bell ropes hang from the outside of the tower, the resultant friction of the ropes over the brick sides producing irresolute sharpings or flattings of the notes. It also led to breaking down of parts of the 1804 brick boundary wall. It is set over three floors and built in the school's trademark red brick. In Mali, a firing mound is used rather than a brick or stone kiln. To create this structure, between 1756 and 1759, British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate. The haybarn is built of squared limestone and sandstone with brick arches. Wooden huts and shops for the workmen were put up, as well as more substantial brick houses for the foremen and tenements for leading hands and gangers. It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors. In Albany and New York City, a majority of the buildings were Dutch style with brick exteriors and high gables at each end, while many Dutch churches were octagonal. Show More Sentences I am going to brick up the window instead of replacing the glass. It was made from red brick, which was expensive at the time. It is made of local materials like sandstone, blue stone and brick. People who were better off had houses of adobe brick with flat roofs. She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans. In the absence of a brick oven, the beans were cooked in a beanpot nestled in a bed of embers placed near the outer edges of a hearth, about a foot away from the fire. The City of Johannesburg promotes the use of palisade fencing rather than opaque, usually brick, walls as criminals cannot hide as easily behind the fence. In the United Kingdom, Thames Water has many underground reservoirs, sometimes also called cisterns, built in the 1800s, most of which are lined with brick. For example, when Tattershall Castle was built between 1430 and 1450, there was plenty of stone available nearby, but the owner, Lord Cromwell, chose to use brick. From the 18th century, orange, red or brown brick became the predominant building material used in Cheshire, although earlier buildings are often faced or dressed with stone. Examples from the Victorian period onwards often employ distinctive brick detailing, such as brick patterning and ornate chimney stacks and gables. The present list includes more than 800 medieval castles of which there are visible remains, with over 300 having substantial surviving stone or brick remains. Examples from Classical Literature Sun-drying is done on cement or brick floors, on coir mats or trays, or on wooden platforms. And even when the feller got afoul of him, the chances are the old land-pirut would steal the brick. In asphalting damp places, such as cellars and foundations, a brick invert is always laid in asphalt beneath the concrete. A plaintive hail from the rough brick coping of the bund drew his atrabilious attention. In the beginning, a star, when drawn with a nail into a brick looked as follows. Some of these walls he built of burnt brick and bitumen, and some of brick only. The thirling a is then closed by a brick stopping, and the brattice boards removed forward for a similar operation. What others had done in brick he could do with the help of more costly materials. I was right by his very side at the time, and see him see the brick and see him reconnize it. It is usually manufactured from whole milk in a Limburger or brick cheese factory. The product is handled in the curing room very much the same as Limburger or brick cheese. In fact, brands of Limburger are readily found which approach the texture and ripening of brick cheese. Lamb is pink and contains only small amounts of fat, while mutton is brick red and usually has considerable firm white fat. They were a hard-bitten lot, burned to a brick red by the untempered sun of the Rockies. It is only known as yet in the larval or Leptus state, when it is of the form indicated in the cut, and brick red in color. From without it resembled a mound of clay with a few white logs, half imbedded, shining against the brick red. Mohuns face turned a brick red and his lips drew back from his protruding upper teeth as though in a snarl. Scaffolding had been erected against its walls and their cerulean expanse was being rapidly hidden beneath a coating of brick red. The process is repeated daily for about two weeks, or until the thread assumes a brick red color. The cornices, held only by mortar, had fallen, and the rear exterior wall had lost its brick veneer. Show More Sentences The handsome double fronted property has a columned porch entrance and decorative quoins at the side, contrasting with the red brick. Upon the top of the bank was a low brick wall, surmounted by an iron railing. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick. On working days she would go to see him at work either at the workshops or at the brick kilns, or at the sheds on the banks of the Irtish. The Carborundum brick was selected on account of its hardness. The woodwork was painted a dusty, brick red with mineral paint. As he got up his face was brick red, and I almost thought he'd have a fit. Get a brick out of the galley, and I'll make you a bosun without pay. Looking out the window she could see the windowless rear brick wall of the box factory on the next street. Rebecca was full of small anxieties and fears, for matters were not going well at the brick house and were anything but hopeful at the home farm. These, together with the brick veneer, form a wall about 14 inches thick. You do like I tells yer, or yer'll git yer eggercation wid a brick. To the rear is an elevated grass garden with flower and shrub borders, a stone and part brick former washhouse and adjoining orchard and a former external wc. The basis of such system consists of a massive small-grain grey granite brick with aerostatic rotational mechanism mounted on it through a suspension ring. They on their parts waived all ceremony, and pegged away at the sausages and potatoes, and remembering Tom's performance in goal, voted East's new crony a brick. Every room in the brick house was as neat as wax, and she had only to pull up the shades, go over the floors with a whisk broom, and dust the furniture. Find more words! 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