The brickmaking is to begin at once; we shall do something for the building of the new, fire-proof Boston.
Bad news, gentlemen; the Machine Brickmaking Company retires from business, driven out of trade by their repeated losses from violence.
It was characteristic of that particular Union; and, indeed, without it my reader could not possibly appreciate the brickmaking mind.
We have sold our plant to the Barton Machine Brickmaking Company; and you maltreated them so at starting that now they won't let a single Union man set his foot on their premises.
My father, however, had to be up very early, as brickmaking in those days was very hard work.
My father obtained work at brickmaking in the little village of Alby, about seven miles from Marsham.
I obtained work for the season's brickmaking with Mr. Emery at Stibbard.
The Romans seem to have introduced brickmaking into England, and specimens of the large thin bricks, which they used chiefly as a bond for rubble masonry, may be seen in the many remains of Roman buildings scattered about that country.
The Chinese claim great antiquity for their clay industries, but it is not improbable that the knowledge of brickmaking travelled eastwards from Babylonia across the whole of Asia.
During the reigns of the early Tudor kings the art of brickmaking arrived at great perfection, and some of the finest known specimens of ornamental brickwork are to be found among the work of this period.
These ordinary brick clays vary considerably in composition, and many clays, as they are found in nature, are unsuitable for brickmaking without the addition of some other kind of clay or sand.
Brickmaking formed the chief occupation of the Israelites during their bondage in Egypt, but in this case the bricks were probably sun-dried only, and not burnt.
At the decline of the Roman empire, the art of brickmaking fell into disuse, but after the lapse of some centuries it was revived, and the ancient architecture of Italy shows many fine examples of brick and terra-cotta work.
One of the earliest existing brick buildings, erected after the revival of brickmaking in England, is Little Wenham Hall, in Suffolk, built about A.
And on the brink of this canal there had sprung up a colony of brickmakers, the nature of the earth in those parts combining with the canal to make brickmaking a suitable trade.
Illustration: An Old Family Bible] While this was a time of advancement for the little colony, as you may have guessed from the brickmaking venture, yet it was certainly not a literary period.
The term is used somewhat loosely, and geologists not infrequently apply it to clays which are quite unsuitable for brickmaking on account of excessive shrinkage and the absence of any suitable non-plastic medium.
Pleistocene or Recent clays= are amongst the most important brickmaking materials in the South of England.
The brickmaking shales are those which are sufficiently rich in clay to form a plastic paste when ground and mixed with water.
The 'Wealden clay' is a stiff yellowish grey or blue clay extensively used for brickmaking in Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
It is commonly supposed that all clays are plastic, but some of the purest china clays are almost devoid of this property and some of the most impure earths used for brickmaking possess it in a striking degree.
Brickmaking shales may be found in any of the older geological formations, though they occur chiefly in the Silurian, Permian, Carboniferous and Jurassic systems.
It is also important to observe that local industrial conditions may be such that a valuable clay may be used for brickmaking because there is a demand for bricks, but not for the other articles for which the clay is equally suitable.
The 'Oxford clays' are valuable for brickmaking when their use is understood, but to the uninitiated they are very troublesome.
Brickmaking has now become such an important industry at the school that last season our students manufactured twelve hundred thousand of first-class bricks, of a quality stable to be sold in any market.
Aside from this, scores of young men have mastered the brickmaking trade--both the making of bricks by hand and by machinery--and are now engaged in this industry in many parts of the South.
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.
I secured cash upon it to the amount of fifteen dollars, with which to renew the brickmaking experiment.
Brickmaking from the Earliest Ages to Nineteenth Century.
A beginning had been made, however, and some knowledge of brickmaking gained.
Unfortunately there was no money on hand to build a house, for the Board had not been informed of our needs in this respect, since brickmaking had been undertaken rather suddenly.
On the mission field all this usually falls to the lot of one man, from the blasting out of the stone for the foundation and the brickmaking until the building is completed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brickmaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
