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Example sentences for "brick house"

  • The route was usually to West Point, or Brick House on the opposite shore in New Kent County, and thence either directly to Williamsburg, or by way of New Kent courthouse.

  • Afterwards there was a brick house looking on Summer Street, in which Emerson the father lived.

  • Brick House," promising him to return that evening and remain all night.

  • Brick veneering is not unusual in sections of the country where brick is very expensive and the effect of a brick house desired.

  • The selection of the brick for the exposed fronts in a frame as well as a brick house should be made before the brick work is begun; at least a large supply should be selected and piled up.

  • It was a brick house, on the south side of the road.

  • In 1823 James Kinkead, the old bridge builder, kept a tavern in a brick house on the south side of the street in Somerfield.

  • It is a brick house, on the north side of the road, still standing.

  • In the year 1832 Robert Hunter opened a tavern in a brick house, on the south side of the road and street, in Petersburg, and conducted it for many years with marked success.

  • Ned told him that he had been playing ball with a bunch of fellows in the vacant lot over there--he nodded in the direction of the red-brick house--and a limousine had driven up to the curb.

  • I thought it belonged to a girl who went into that red-brick house, but no one answered when I rang the bell.

  • He just swung the car around another corner, and down another narrow street, and stopped before a brick house.

  • Necessary payments had not been made, and he had threatened to swoop down upon the ancient red-brick house, and make a clearance of every desk and stool, every pot and kettle, every bed and bolster the premises contained.

  • Within quite recent years considerably over a hundred boys had occupied the draughty dormitories of the great old red-brick house.

  • What do you do at that tumble-down old red-brick house on the Cobham road?

  • The Twentieth New York Regiment was despatched to the “Brick House,” where it threw up entrenchments and remained during the night.

  • At the “Brick House Picket,” they were met by General Phelps, who had been already informed of the affair by the officer in immediate charge of the train.

  • They encamped near the “Brick House,” where, during the first year of their service, they had often been on guard.

  • One thing more: Do not become possessed with the idea that a brick house must be a large or an expensive one.

  • I don't wonder you object to a brick house in the country.

  • As I sat down, the young man inquired very seriously if there would be any difficulty in making additions to a brick house, in case one wished to begin in a small way.

  • All at once you went into ecstasies over brickwork, and argued for it as though our hope of salvation lay in our living in a brick house.

  • Queen liked the neighbourhood, and spent much time in the heavy but doubtless comfortable red-brick house at the Teddington entrance to Bushey Park.

  • There are a few good old-fashioned houses about it, Arnold's being one of them; a solid red-brick house with a large garden.

  • She sighed bitterly, and turned again toward the red-brick house.

  • I have already described how I heard the clang of the heavy door, on the occasion of my first visit to the red-brick house.

  • She looked away confusedly; her eye lighted on a corner of her father's red-brick house, peeping through a gap in the plantation already mentioned; and her blushing cheeks lost their color instantly.

  • A very large red-brick house, modern, with fancy tiles, stands in its own grounds adjacent, overlooking Holford Road.

  • West End Hall, a square red-brick house of respectable antiquity, stands back behind a rather dilapidated wooden palisade, but a row of magnificent elms lines the street before it.


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