Fosdick thought he saw a way of making his abandoned brickyard pay if he could only command a little ready cash.
You've noticed that your Uncle Lawrence has turned his theater into a moving-picture shop with a yellow-haired girl selling tickets at the gate; and your Uncle Paul has given notice that he's going to start the brickyard again.
By the way, Paul, I fell over that busted brickyard of yours out by the flour mill the other day when I was walking for my health.
A new project was in progress--a brickyard in Butyokino--and Aksinya went there almost every day in the chaise.
So we dropped down stream a mile or two, found the very brickyard from which Fort Clinch had been constructed,--still stored with bricks, and seemingly unprotected.
As they have expressed a wish to commence next spring a brickyard near their house, I believe that you will not disapprove of the permission given by me to a soldier, a tiler and brickmaker to work there.
The neighbourhood of the brickyard was shelled and gassed until the crew longed for the battle.
In the morning we moved to the brickyard half a mile away.
Two of the tanks loaded up immediately with machine-gun ammunition, and, trekking another four miles, about midnight came to a brickyard just behind our trenches.
He thought it all over, and finally he concluded to try the low ground again, especially as he wanted to start a brickyard this time.
A volcano shoved itself through there that night, and elevated his brickyard about two thousand feet in the air.
The brickyard was a paradise to Cleg Kelly in the warm days of summer.
And at times the brickyard reeled and dazzled, the arid trodden ground and steaming bricks fell back, the cracked walls opened out, and she saw the sun shining upon golden hills, the like of which she had never seen before.
They made drain-pipes and other sanitary things there; and on that account also the brickyard was accounted healthy for people in the position of the Kellys.
In the meantime he spent most of the day in a brickyard at the back.
Arrived at the spot nearest the wreck (a point opposite to what we called the Brickyard Station), I saw the burning vessel aground beyond a long stretch of marsh, out of which the forlorn creatures were still floundering.
He rose and said, with a wave of his hand: "I own a brickyard over there, in Hanover.
His one-time investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head--an idea that he decided was a good one, for it enabled him to suggest that she ride along with him to inspect the quarry.
Resolving to have his fun first, and to look over the brickyard afterward, he rode on up the hill, prospecting for a way across country to get to the knolls.
The brickyard was close at hand on the flat beside the Sonoma Creek.
The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic yard for the clay.
Yet, to himself, he made the excuse of going to Glen Ellen for the purpose of inspecting the brickyard with which Holdsworthy had goldbricked him.
On one such week-end visit, Holdsworthy let him in on a good thing, a good little thing, a brickyard at Glen Ellen.
Joe Mullally, whose brickyard was near the Jewish Cemetery, then had two kilns with a capacity of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; and in the following month he made over five hundred thousand brick.
On a sunny hillside half a mile south of the brickyard there grew, at the edge of the woods, a beautiful little grove of dogwoods, which in May was always a fairyland of snowy blossoms that almost seemed to float in the air.
It was in these days that visits to the swimming hole over by the brickyard began, and Romulus and Remus were taught to enjoy the water as much as their masters did.
It seems that this Richmond man had during a visit to Baltimore gone to a brickyard to arrange for the shipment home of bricks for a new house he was building.
Afterward, in the big morris chair he had insisted on buying early in the days of his brickyard contract, Saxon would creep into his arms and strum on the ukelele; or they would talk long about what they were doing and planning to do.
You see, it was like this: you know that fancy brickyard they're gettin' ready to start for makin' extra special fire brick for inside walls?
But that puts a stop to their makin' money, an' that brickyard contract was fat.
There were twelve of us all told on that brickyard job.
I did not see any one go over, and an Irishman who was detailed with another Canadian and myself on a brickyard fatigue said that they had recruited only forty in the camp.
A little before this century began, two boys with packs bound on their stalwart shoulders walked from New York and established a brickyard in the neighborhood of what is now Perry Street, Troy.
Of this list the foreman of the brickyard is a temporary appointment.
He did not start this brickyard for the purpose of vocational training any more than he started the farm for agricultural training.
It was even more difficult to persuade the students that the hard, heavy, dirty work of the brickyard was education than it had been to persuade them that farm work was education.
