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Sentence Examples If you want to reach the disaffected youths who take to the streets to heave bricks at the police, you need to have a dialogue. Regus can usually make the alterations overnight, repositioning the metal walls as if they were Lego bricks. Grey bricks, some with dragon motifs, were surmounted by wooden screens, vivid lattice and slender doors. He had a run in with some Russians at a laundromat in Brooklyn not too long ago, and he's been two bricks shy of a load ever since. Newer houses have walls made of adobe blocks or bricks, with roofs of corrugated zinc or cement. It also includes the special moulded bricks for ancones, header joists and ceramic roof beams. I would suggest using bricks, which, if inserted at an angle, can also be very pleasing to the eye. The bricks may be laid flat or on end, and to keep them from spreading, drive an angle iron against the corners. The number of bricks used for the huge retaining walls through which railways entered towns and cities is incalculable. A masked teenager pelted police with bricks and a table leg during the Bradford riots last year, the city's Youth Court heard yesterday. It will have to be pretty much to plan, using bricks and lime mortar and proper wooden sashes for the windows. Contracts were let for making bricks, burning lime and additional miners employed. Once the floor beams were securely shored up with bricks, the school girls carried plywood for the flooring. Realization hit her like a ton of bricks and she staggered under the weight of it. I desperately tried to remember what had happened last night and suddenly, it fell upon me like a ton of bricks. As she stared at her reflection in the mirror, the enormity of the situation fell around her like a ton of bricks. When you learned that he had given an alleged confession, that must have hit like a ton of bricks. Newer ones, like the one in Watchet, are built of bricks and mortar but the archetypal model is the ubiquitous wooden structure. Tons of bricks and rubble crashed on to the pavement as half the gable end of the building gave way. Or remove the concrete and lay old bricks on a mixture of sharp sand and earth. Show More Sentences Half of the house, the lower part, was made up of clay bricks of brown or red, while the upper levels was all beige or russet woodwork. She said if the road went through the area, it would transform Bennettsbridge into a major depot for tar and bricks. Foaming bathroom cleaner does a wonderful job on soot, but first saturate the bricks with an all-purpose cleaner and allow to soak a few minutes. The survey found evidence of workers being punched, kicked, scalded, sexually harassed and attacked with bricks, walking frames and even airguns. If bricks run slightly ahead of the pattern, use a rubber mallet to nudge them into place. With bricks going through the windows, there is no telling what injuries could have been caused. Before and after the tense match, bricks and bottles were lobbed through the air. You were lucky to have a flip phone, I had one of those Motorola bricks as my first cell phone. You have a labour law in Alberta that lets employers off scot-free and comes down like a ton of bricks on worker's unions. The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing. If the wells are made of brick, a mason or a skilled handyman can add another row or two of bricks on top of the existing wall. The mason wasp is a solitary insect, and makes her cell either in bricks, mortar, stone, or any other hard substance that happens to suit her. Inside the mill dampness is baring the wood made bricks after nearly 150 years, and requires some action. To be on the Okinawa Program is not to be restricted to eating seaweed and warm bricks of tofu. That silence builds our prisons, and I'd contributed my own share of bricks and steel. Refractory bricks for steel production include Basic refractory bricks and High-Alumina refractory bricks. Stacks of bricks and timber covered in tarpaulins were piled carelessly around half built houses. He said the boys threw lumps of concrete and bricks at his client's window and doors. They pulled up all of the paver bricks and broke them all up into throwable sizes. Mud-and-straw bricks and clay roof tiles are free and available, and people save labor costs by building their own homes. Show More Sentences In order to create a varied appearance, the developers have used a range of different bricks and roof tiles. The hospital, which remains to this day, was built of bricks and tiles made of clay from the valley a mile away using a wood fired kiln. Beside this, the bathroom has an attractive design scheme with varnished wooden floors, mosaic wall tiles and glass bricks. This is important because when evaluating a pulley system, for instance, the cables should be meshed as beam elements and the pulleys as bricks. The strapping is used for a wide range of materials such as bricks, blocks, briquettes and tiles. Other materials for terraces include bricks, rocks, concrete blocks, and similar masonry materials. Specialists cleaned the clock face and belfry, repaired Suffolk bricks and replaced the low-level roof. The repairs include refurbishment of the belfry and clock face, cleaning and repairing the bricks and replacing the low-level roof. I dreamed last night that a large tractor trailer truck carrying a huge load of bricks jackknifed on a main street in my town. Age-appropriate present options include soft teddy bears, bricks and blocks and first train sets. The contractor should provide boards, plastic sheeting or other protective material when bricks are unloaded on ground. The wall is paved by bricks and filled with earth, and during war time it served to shelter people in the town from disaster. As the flowers transpire, water evaporates and is trapped at the roof of the bricks. In Amsterdam, vehicle access is colour coded, with bikeways being marked by red bricks. The reality of the fact that I could be pregnant had hit me like a ton of bricks earlier, and I was still experiencing the shock of it. They were using everything they could get their hands on, pushing cars, using shopping trolleys to ram the police, and hurling bricks. Remove the bricks and use a pointed trowel to apply mortar to the concrete base, but do not go beyond the chalk lines. These can simply be hand-filled and troweled smooth as you lay your bricks. I'd noticed earlier that the alley we share had a lot of bricks scattered around, but a curtain shrouds my view of the actual wall. The mob began to hurl rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and other debris at the soldiers in an attempt to take over the bridge. Show More Sentences The focus today is on mundane businesses that produce, for the most part, bricks, mortar, and concrete. The major components of construction, as we all know, are, cement, steel, timber, bricks, mortar, sand, etc. The answer may be found in the preceding Pasuk, which says that the people decided to use bricks instead of stones and lime as mortar. Thus, the presence of the form makes those bricks and that mortar a house, as opposed, e.g., to a wall or an oven. It shows guys holding mortar boards with bricks on their heads running down planks. It resembled a five-story, refurbished manor house with umber bricks and large turrets. All you get are inferior Spanish clementines and Florida tangerines, hard as bricks but not so tasty. This was easier than cutting the bricks to make wedges, skewbacks and the arch key. The idea was born when mobile phones were bricks and Macs seemed to share the same product design as Fisher Price. There was a fireplace against one wall that was bordered with bricks and near it were several comfortable looking seats that surrounded it. The white picket fences were gone but were replaced with bricks and decorative stones that bordered the colorful flower beds. From the outside, the building in which the World Economic Forum is being held appears unpretentious with its naked grey bricks. Made of black bricks and tiles, Wuhou Temple looks very simple and unsophisticated but it does have an air of mystery about it. Ivy will not harm fired clay bricks, nor will it cause mortar to crumble unless the mortar is already unsound. For large repairs, build a wooden form and hold it in place with wooden braces, bricks, concrete blocks, or similar heavy objects. In Guinea, most new small buildings are made of badly fired bricks, and have corrugated metal roofs. This restraining edge is necessary because mortarless bricks tend to shift at the edges. It was the only building with glaringly bright light shining though the spaces between the bricks of the building. Use paving bricks or blocks around the edge to prevent the dog from injuring itself on the edge of the chicken wire. Most buildings are made of bricks and concrete, while others are made of adobe-style mud. Show More Sentences Missing parts were not imitated but added in a modern way, often using the rubble bricks of destroyed buildings. He mixed the sand with clay to form bricks, which were then heated to high temperatures. The large golden bricks were more than twice her size and she looked up at them and smiled. They're designed to fit together in a stack, just like the famous Danish plastic bricks. She had been carefully constructing a building using a selection of wooden bricks of various shapes. We hadn't come 5,000 miles to a land of forests to spend our time pining for theme parks made out of little plastic bricks. He aimed to make plastic bricks, but in a jumbo size suitable for very young children. We have over 20 million customers, between software, Internet, and bricks and mortar. That means we will enjoy three times the profitability of traditional bricks and mortar grocers. These retailers do not carry an inventory and most of them do not have a bricks and mortar store. There would be no need to pay for the bricks and mortar and the other services provided by traditional colleges. People preferred to invest in bricks and mortar rather than in volatile equities. Most aim to help producers gain more clout in the marketplace without investing in bricks and mortar. But I took stock of what our real assets were, not just bricks and mortar, but what we had. Others said that in uncertain times for equity markets investors would still favour investing in bricks and mortar. You can't make bricks without straw and you can't portray a character just by making him up from within yourself. The law of value will still be there reminding us that, even under socialism, you can't make bricks without straw. It's no good trying to build a website if you don't know any html, you can't make bricks without straw. It's like providing the bricks but supplying no builders and expecting the house to build itself. When implemented, the RF buildout serves as the bricks and the executed network buildout becomes the mortar supporting the structure. Show More Sentences Mud bricks will substitute, with the additional benefit that they can be made locally, providing income for villagers. Lighter shades of bricks, including for instance gray and ivory, have been shown to produce more of a greenish vitrescent marking. Franklin felt as if a ton of bricks had landed square in the middle of his chest. Whoever would have thought that plain bricks and mortar could get so complicated? Its walls are made of bricks that consist of nuclear emulsions and lead sheets. Firstly, I watched queen wasps and bees gently nuzzling bricks and mortar in the sunshine, looking for the weakness that provides a new home. And in small towns and rural areas, the state of the toilets can hit one like a ton of bricks. Bricklaying is one of the oldest handcrafts, it is the assembling of bricks, blocks and stone in various patterns and designs. They may look like lifeless statues or figures made of plastic bricks, but they are still the class enemy. These patents were for a steelyard, a candlestick, the anglet, a mason's hoist for bricks and mortar, and a balance. Earth strengthened with cement was used to form sundried bricks, which were laid in walls two bricks wide to enhance stiffness. Flat designs were carved into the walls, intricate mosaics the same golden color as the bricks. The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter. Some new longitudinal walls were made of yellow clay bricks with concrete straight arches for the doors. Along the road were mud bricks put together in the shape of small houses to dry in the hot and moistureless desert climate. With minimal discretion, sly-looking men lounge amidst bricks of hash and balls of opium. The military, armed with cement mixers and bricks, invades shanty towns to build houses, not to destroy them. The original fitted shelves below the high-level air bricks in the rear storage area have not been replaced. When I run my hand along a bunk or the bricks lining a crematorium oven, my heart sinks every time. Rescue workers and survivors clawed away at the rubble, passing chunks of concrete and bricks along a line. Show More Sentences It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder everywhere since you were born. Usually the hoddies would start half an hour earlier in the morning so that when we arrived the scaffolding was loaded with bricks and mortar. Sumerian ziggurats were built of sun-baked mud bricks faced with kiln-fired clay cones to protect the vulnerable mud-bricks from the weather. On special occasions, these bricks could be positioned in specially created hollows in the walls for creating an extremely aesthetic effect. In the desert, houses are built from stamped clay and sun-dried mud bricks. Retailing takes many forms, whether it is the traditional bricks and mortar store, catalog shopping, television home shopping, or the Internet. She thinks that people who mix up homophones ought to have bricks thrown through their windows. When police arrived at the house, they were attacked by a mob hurling stones, bricks and fireworks. She also hopes to ensure that the district council's cleansing and amenities targets the shop area and cleans it of dirt, weeds and loose bricks. Television images showed young men surrounding a police patrol car and slamming bricks into it from close range. The circuit became a motorsport venue soon after and was paved with bricks. Also, properly laid surfaces like paving stones or bricks will only need the occasional sweep or annual jet-wash to keep them looking good. He also says that women fought among the men and even children threw bricks and paving stones at the Turks once they were inside the city. Like many kids growing up in the mid-1960s, I spent countless hours cloistered in my room assembling those multicolored bricks. Such was the power of the impact, one of the bricks embedded itself in the passenger door. But by the 15th row, if the bricks are not perfectly lined up, the whole structure will collapse. And the fact that one brick or two bricks are unconstitutional doesn't mean the entire structure ought to come down. They are put in place by drilling a hole through the mortar between the bricks and then drilling a pilot hole in the block wall. Former US president Jimmy Carter laid bricks and spread concrete yesterday as he helped in a low-income housing project. A small city of conjunct houses of unfired bricks and without streets was built in the town at Catal Huyuk in Turkey. Show More Sentences The factory uses combined electricity and coal-fired kilns for firing the bricks. Its lava streams and agricultural fields are made from tiles fired at the museum and from bricks fired by local brickyards. Variously shaped domes decorated by intricately laid bricks formed fascinating geometric patterns. An alternative type of fixing is a wedge, called a plug, which is inserted into the mortar joint between the bricks. The convincing patterns of paving bricks or flagstones left behind look great and come at a fraction of the trouble of the real thing. The eastern wall is formed by the caretaker's cottage, which Marshall has extended, almost invisibly, with reclaimed bricks. Ideally you should point the brickwork after the bricks have been laid long enough for the mortar to start to set. Police carried out baton charges and let police dogs loose on the teenagers, who fought back with bricks, rocks, golf balls and petrol bombs. The original five-bay facade is two-and-a-half stories high and faced with glazed header bricks laid in a Flemish bond. Some rural people have adapted their houses to modern building materials, using bricks or cement blocks and corrugated iron or tin for roofs. Instead, connectivity between the bricks is accomplished using a capacitive coupler. One face of the double-sided fireplace features two courses of light buff brick alternating with a single, inset course of red bricks. He rummaged in two cardboard boxes nearby, brought out two bricks of chocolat de couverture, and handed them to me. As we left the stadium for the airport, bottles and bricks smacked against our coach. Judging by the ruins of the castle, the internal foreparts and the main walls were built of stones and covered with bricks. All at once there was a terrible crash and the bricks of the blacksmith's forge fell away. Instead he worked on a cray boat in Dongara, then later moved to Geraldton where he stacked bricks. Moss has crept between the bricks until it's impossible to distinguish old sections of paving from new. He also studied the chemical processes involved in making glass, pottery and refractory bricks. Inside the mill dampness is baring the wood-made bricks after nearly 150 years, and requires some action. Show More Sentences In older houses check the pointing, particularly in courses of bricks below the damp course. Fireworks were thrown at them, paint was daubed on their car, their puppy was pelted with bricks and there were arson attacks on their home. The single-storey building is steel-framed, and clad externally with buff bricks with wide raked joints, giving a strip effect. In the past, he says, too much time and effort has been expended on maintaining and preserving bricks and mortar. The previous owners were heavy smokers and the bricks are stained with nicotine. You get kids throwing bricks at windows all the time, but you don't go out and kill them. I mixed the mortar, I cut the bricks, I put up the gib, I bent the steel and put in the gardens. The rapid demise of the quoted property company coincides with the equally rapid rise of interest in bricks and mortar by UK banks. Decorative details include laminate flooring and strategically placed glass bricks to allow the flow of light through the home. Dr. James Caleb Jackson created the first cold cereal in 1863 by baking rock-hard bricks of graham flour and water and breaking off chips. They were black-handled scissors, the kind that you bought for eighty dollars and could cut through bricks with. The harder path, if we have the will, isn't paved with yellow bricks and it isn't black and white either. Throughout the nation, structures built of concrete bricks, corrugated iron roofs, and iron grillwork have replaced other forms of housing. Today, through the clever use of windows and glass bricks, the warren-like structure never feels dingy. It is a clear solution so it does not change the color of the tile or bricks and grout, but it will give a gloss to the surface. They cobble together any old rubbish to pass off as art, such as baths full of baked beans or piles of old house bricks. It was red, made from bright red bricks, and its roof was a light blue colour. They also had traditional toys such as an abacus, building bricks and fridge magnet numbers. Just down the walk, I found a hole knocked in a garden wall and a hundred bricks missing. This, for the uninitiated, is the basic term for a quantity surveyor, someone who measured bricks and mortar for a living. Show More Sentences As part of these efforts, prisoners dug sand for mortar, quarried building stone and mortar lime, and manufactured more than 1.2 million bricks. It features pit props for roof beams, bricks from wash houses, a massive lump of coal for an alter and a half winding wheel on a wall. The bricks had been weathered and the stone and brickwork needed repairing. Groaning slightly, he eased back, and strained to lift eyelids that felt weighted with bricks. Builders are often sloppy with the mortar joints between bricks when they know they will be hidden behind plaster. The mortar joints between the bricks also have their own color and texture. And Jane felt as though a million bricks had been lifted off her shoulders. There were also lots of the plaques obviously missing, with just the swirls of adhesive remaining on the bricks. These include various carved bricks, artefacts, earthenware objects, metal ornaments, funeral urns, and stone sculptures, especially Buddhas. The back garden has been laid in patio and also features a timber shed, while the small front garden is railed and has been laid with bricks. Brick saws can be used to cut bricks, pavers, stones, large quarry tiles and other masonry. To say these guys will be throwing up bricks is an affront to the fine profession of masonry. Prehistoric tribes experimented with the first sun-dried bricks or adobe, mixing mud with straw into manageable building blocks. He's also introduced straw-clay bricks that can be used like lightweight adobes. Killaloe in Co Clare is the rather unusual setting for an American-style ranch house, albeit one built of bricks and mortar rather than timber. They were of an older stile, bricks and mortar peeping out from behind chipped whitewash. The Buddha sculptures and even the bricks on the ground are carved with real gold. Weakly she attempted to hold herself upright by clutching at the rough bricks. Each house has a short wall built of bricks with branches of green trees stretching outside the walls. Students create sensitive rubbings of textural walls, bricks, decorative woodwork, stucco and stones. Show More Sentences Nature is busy at work even in a place of towering bricks and mortar with concrete sprawl. A wythe is a vertical tier of bricks, each single wythe being 1 brick wide. When he finally did put her words together, it hit him all at once like a ton of bricks. An architect undertaking the construction of a temple or palace began with stacks of bricks, yards of timber, and legions of slaves. When firefighters arrive the yobbos start spitting at them, giving verbal abuse, climbing over the engine and throwing bricks at it. Therefore it is at least possible that they were obliged to use those Fletton bricks in the rendered walls. The owners renovated the fireplace using reclaimed bricks, keeping the old look and feel of the cottage. Cracked mortar between bricks should also be repointed by carefully removing and replacing any unsound mortar. Each of us believes what we choose to believe, and facts have become bricks to shore up the fortress of our own biases. The organization has also designed and sells an oilseed press, a hay baler, and equipment for making concrete pit-latrine slabs, roofing tiles, and bricks. Bricks have always been used for years by the construction industry, and for lining of ore smelting furnaces. Among this despair a frail, elderly man, uses a walking frame to move from the front door of his neat home onto a street littered with smashed glass, bricks and other debris. It'd be good to see referees coming down on this like a ton of bricks. Arrange the bricks evenly around the circumference, leaving no large gaps, then divide the circle into four equal quadrants with remaining bricks. We all need some knowledge of the bricks before we start building. It looked as if it had been dug and then lined with bricks of clay. In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch. The modern ideal is marked by houses with slender lines and large glass windows or walls, very little outside decoration, and the use of bricks, tile, and ferroconcrete. The ancient provinces of Burgundy, Champagne, Flanders and the Isle of France abound in argil, which the inhabitants convert into bricks and tiles. A gang of youngsters is terrorising bus drivers by throwing stones, bricks and pieces of concrete at buses and smashing windows as they approach the outskirts of Leeds. Show More Sentences A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone were balanced on the track in a blatant act of sabotage. Plastic scintillators, placed between the bricks, are needed to produce a flash of light upon absorption of an ionizing particle, specifically, neutrino. Or, is it being overly sentimental about a pile of bricks and mortar? Inside the gate a carpet of bricks, plaster, glass, wood and office paper stretched around 40 feet to a crater which marked the epicentre of the explosion. Mr. Johnston explained that the detail below the red line remained the same except for Helifix anchors that were put in just above the soldier course of bricks. Inspired by a trip to England, Pat's son Brian built the gate pillars with salvaged bricks and concrete blocks, made rustic with patches of mortar. Wandering in the villages at the foot of the Great Wall, you can find almost every household has built their hogpens and henhouses with bricks from the Great Wall. Lay out the pieces offset like bricks, in three rows of four rectangles. Repair and finish joints between stones or bricks of masonry structure. He also restored the inglenook fireplace to its original size, sourcing 2in Tudor bricks from a salvage yard, and reinstated a trap door, the only way to the master bedroom. After being dragged from his truck, Denny was pelted with bricks and beaten within an inch of his life by a crowd of black men. The city motorway towards the south was transformed into a field of rubble by a rain of dust and bricks, which damaged numerous cars and injured their drivers. Indus will target children employed in stone quarries, the handloom sector and in making bidis, brassware, leather, glass bangles, locks, fireworks, matches and bricks. The exterior walls were composed of concave and convex red bricks. Bricks cascaded into the path of oncoming cars as a lorry shed its load in an accident at Seend on Wednesday lunchtime. Until we are allowed a vote on the decisions of the WTO and its confederate organisations, however, bricks hurled through windows remains all too timid a response. Every few minutes, she bends to retrieve shards of dirt-smeared glass and broken bricks and tiles which she tosses into a wheelbarrow to be carted away. They were constructed with gray brick walls embedded with middle moldings of red bricks, concrete coigns and crenellated copings on the top of the surrounding walls. Under a barrage of bricks and abuse, he rang the police and then played a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the gang to stop them escaping before police arrived. The hustle and bustle of the birthday party hit him like a ton of bricks. Show More Sentences Dutch enthusiasm for the new material was particularly keen and by the seventeenth century, one kiln could produce over half a million bricks in a single firing. First they built the yellowwood on top of thick beams, then had a layer of crushed bricks which were concealed with three coats of shell lime and crushed and burnt shells. They are there, they sit there, these canvases by cy Twombly that seem to be encrusted in the bricks of the walls. In parallel, they are building new kilns to produce traditional tiles and bricks. This was followed by a layer of thin, hard baked clay bricks on top of which was packed a thick layer of brak, a local soil with an exceptionally high salt content. Brickfind Ltd sells reclaimed bricks in red, yellow and soft grey. We employ Inuit people and we've invested in bricks and mortar in Nunavut. Investment in bricks and mortar made by private companies is good. On the east coast, television pictures showed bricks and tiles had been knocked from some buildings, but there were no indications of serious damage. The tombs were made of ashlars with dry joints, or of bricks and mortar. For example, constructing houses in a village with unfired mud blocks instead of bricks can save several hectares of forests that would otherwise be used as fuel. They broke off into groups of a dozen and got to work collecting bricks and salvageable materials from the rubble. Bricks shall be laid in running or stretcher bond with control joints as noted on drawings. Large quantities of fireclay were formerly used in the iron and steel industry, but nowadays their main use is for making bricks and sanitary ware. The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers. Water absorption testing of 18 stretcher bricks removed from the building revealed that all of the brick tested met the saturation coefficient requirement. Unfortunately, there are not enough of the biggest bricks which means that the cross section of the tower is only one lego element wide at the top and very unstable. Bricks are made from clay and other materials which are formed into shapes then fired in a kiln to make them strong and durable. In 1882 alone local brickyards supplied three million bricks to builders. More successful was his production of ceramic crucibles and fire bricks. Show More Sentences We arrived at the toilet cubicle which was a run-down little shack made of bricks, with a smaller room the size of an outhouse in which was the actual dunny. The theory is that traditional bricks and mortar banks will suffer a loss of customers and revenues as internet banks encroach on their territory. All he wanted me to do was stand on the chimney, chuck a few bricks off and he would point the camera and it would be a film about people with funny jobs. She was employed in the general coasting trade carrying such bulk cargoes as coal, china clay, cement, bricks, fertilisers and grain between many ports in Britain and Ireland. Bricks and dirt were spread about in a studied way, as if someone were trying to conceal something beneath. Products on display included automotive rubber parts like oil seals, o-rings and gaskets, clutches and brakes and acid resisting bricks and mortars. Abby's photo, taken when she was five months old, was chosen from hundreds of entries and won her a baby walker with alphabet bricks and a wooden activity train. Then if each embrasure is exactly eleven bricks wide and each pier is exactly four bricks wide, these give dimensions very close to those obtained in the reconstructions. When a large number of bricks must be cut, you might want to rent an electric power saw adapted with a masonry blade or a manual cutting machine called a guillotine. Through the dust we saw the bricks in a mound upon the floor. These two creatures, both alike and unalike, are different as each day and it progressing night, and alike as two bricks in a mortar, never to meet. If you are creating large or longer hanging dried flower arrangements, two or more bricks of oasis can be fixed together by running strong wires through the plastic container. Anyway, he took a mighty swing with one of those rusty red bricks, and managed to bring it down squarely on the middle finger of my right hand, mashing it flat. Though some of the children however are compelled to go to the kilns and help their parents make bricks and carry the heavy load on their tender heads. Webb made his clay from ancient bricks that he found on walks in Brooklyn, then smashed to a powder with a sledge hammer. The aim is to de-escalate conflict and show we can be peacekeepers, but there comes a time if people are throwing bricks at you then you must put the helmets back on. As with the original polychrome Ishtar Gate bricks, have students glaze the clay with multiple colors. A good bricklayer should be able to calculate the number of bricks needed to build a wall. Police said the 20-ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and buff into bricks. Excessive heating in the kiln may produce misshapen bricks known as crozzles. Show More Sentences Crozzles, burrs and clinkers are bricks which have partly lost their shape through overheating. The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed. Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks. Shapes included square, rectangular, triangular and round, and the largest bricks found have measured over three feet in length. When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong, with a rough surface of bricks or stones. The Defendant then came down on me like a ton of bricks, as my eye will prove. During the same month in Belfast there were seven attacks on Polish homes within ten days, in which stones and bricks were thrown at the windows. In the next few years, while Celtic continued with their suicidal youth policy, Stein made bricks without straw at Dunfermline. But I do not want to imply that Miss Suckow makes bricks without straw. Indeed, her method is that of the skilled realist. The walls of the Upper Ward are built of Bagshot Heath stone faced on the inside with regular bricks, the gothic details in yellow Bath stone. The brick relief was sculpted with 16,000 bricks by two Dutch bricklayers under Moore's supervision. The daily flights of the helicopters rattle the ancient walls and the winds created by their rotors blast sand against the fragile bricks. Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from rammed earth, stones, and wood. During the Ming, however, bricks were heavily used in many areas of the wall, as were materials such as tiles, lime, and stone. The size and weight of the bricks made them easier to work with than earth and stone, so construction quickened. Additionally, bricks could bear more weight and endure better than rammed earth. Sections of the Wall are also prone to graffiti and vandalism, while inscribed bricks were pilfered and sold on the market for up to 50 renminbi. The old castle had already been demolished in 1797, so that its bricks could be sold. Curved bricks were used to build columns, and triangular bricks were used to build walls. Augustus Caesar once boasted that he had turned Rome from a city of bricks to a city of marble. Find more words! 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