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Example sentences for "brick wall"

  • The shield is backed by a brick wall, the foliations are shell-lined, and the upturned shell is in place under the shield.

  • This view is contained within an oval frame which rests upon a pedestal bearing on its face the name of the library; the whole is filled out to the edges of the plate by a background representing a brick wall.

  • The back of the design resembles a brick wall; the frame is made up of bouquets in holders, hearts, and an assortment of odds and ends.

  • Above, an urn is overfilled with the blossoms of knowledge, while the background of the whole is a brick wall.

  • On one side of the dotted line is indicated flue construction for a brick wall, and on the other for a wood wall.

  • It should be divided by a brick wall laid in mortar, but not cemented on either side.

  • A zinc drain should be provided from the refrigerator to the outside of brick wall.

  • A brick wall under a frame house is ordinarily nine inches thick; that is, it is called a nine-inch wall.

  • Brick wall of the "Tombs of Forty Saints" showing in top corners of photograph.

  • A part of the large churchyard pertaining to this hospital, and severed from the rest with a brick wall, yet remaineth as of old time, with a pulpit cross therein, somewhat like to that in Paules churchyard.

  • In the highest part of the park stood the banqueting-house, a three-storey timber building of quadrangular form, enclosed within a brick wall.

  • The windows, as a rule, have few lights, they have flat-pointed heads, and their total area is relatively small in proportion to the plain surface of brick wall.

  • Footnote 41: The document by error reads "brick wall" but the mistake is obvious, and the second version of the lease does not repeat the error.

  • The grounds extend to the King’s Road, and contain about eleven acres, surrounded by a brick wall; and the entrance to the National Society’s training college is from that road.

  • You were implying just now that, failing a brick wall to knock our heads against, we started in search of one.

  • If we knock our heads against a brick wall we howl; if we haven't got a brick wall to knock them against we howl louder.

  • We had collided with the "brick wall" right enough, and for the next few seconds at least the result was primal chaos.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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