...It was of bricks cemented with bitumen, 100 feethigh, and 20 feet broad; it was said to extend a length of about 70miles, and to be not far distant from Babylon... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
... 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」
...They never use stone or brick; they do not knowhow to make bricks...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
... I had always sympathized with the "Children of Israel," in their task of "making bricks without straw," but ours was the task of making bricks with no money and no experience...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...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」
... The community may not at the time be prepared for, or feel the need of, Greek analysis, but it may feel its need of bricks and houses and wagons...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
... About the time that we succeeded in burning our first kiln of bricks we began facing in an emphasized form the objection of the students to being taught to work...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...Usually grass is mixed with the mud, butsome swallows make their bricks without straw...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...This eminent naturalistlikens it to the circular ventilator sometimes insertedin windows, and he found it was the machine formaking the yellow ornamental bricks of which thetower is composed...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
...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」
...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」
...Men brick-makers nowadays bake their bricks in ovens called kilns,which are heated with fire...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...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」
... After a few foraging-trips, the work of building is resumed; and some new rows of bricks raise the edge of the basin, which becomes capable of receiving a larger stock of provisions...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...On June 22 and 23, 1955, four clutches of eggs of this species werefound beneath adobe bricks and rocks on the volcanic ash that has buriedthe village of San Juan de Parangaricutiro...
William E. Duellman 「The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México」
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