... I got the bricks and timber from Pietersdorp, and hired twoDutch masons to run the job...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... The bricks came down with arattle, and unfortunately in slipping I clutched at the trap...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...The fort, built of sun-dried bricks, has the grass growing over the walls, which have been patched in some places by paling...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...I had always supposed that brickmaking was very simple, but I soon found out by bitter experience that it required special skill and knowledge, particularly in the burning of the bricks...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...Most of the teachers advised the abandoning of the effort to make bricks...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
... The making of these bricks taught me an important lesson in regard to the relations of the two races in the South...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...He established a brick-yard, in which he forced the men and womento do excessive labor, selling the bricks for his own profit...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...However, if people will use profane language, and heave bricks at the heads of unoffending cats, they mustn’t be astonished if they do smash the cucumber frame...
Gordon Stables 「The Domestic Cat」
...All woodwork, stones, bricks, cement,mortar, all fixtures of whatever material, should be well wetted withthe solution, and immediately be scrubbed with a hard brush...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...Spaces in stacks of bricks, holes in the ground or in buildings,and window-sills are held in high esteem as nesting sites...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Let us imagine that we had for centuries past been erecting cities, not with stones, bricks, and lime, but with some pliable substance painfully secreted by special organs of our body...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
... Obviously, my denuded caddis worms cannot start their work with bricks of this kind...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... A second is still at her first row of bricks...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The harvester goes on harvesting; the busy bricklayer proceeds with her next row of bricks, as though nothing out of the way had happened...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...'I hope your good lady is well—also all the little Bricks...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...'Hunt!' exclaimed Bob Spangles; 'why, the ground's as hard as bricks...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...He keeps on a-hindering me, hopping up and down like a cat on hot bricks...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
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