The building materials of the Trojans are of various kinds.
The house-walls, on the other hand, were composed of unburnt sun-dried bricks.
Yet in two places in the depths of the temple of Athena there is a wall of sun-dried bricks, which appears to belong to this nation.
With but few exceptions, all the house-walls which I have uncovered are composed of unburnt sun-dried bricks, which in the heat of the conflagration have become a kind of really burnt bricks.
We can begin with the sun-dried bricks of the Peruvians, or Mound-builders, and end with the porcelain of Greenpoint.
From sun-dried bricks we pass to burnt bricks, thence to unglazed pottery possessed of an artistic character, thence again to glazed specimens and enamel.
It concerns us more at present to find that the Mound-builders used sun-dried bricks in rearing their giant structures.
Aghadez is a walled city, but without any particular strength; the houses are but one story high, built of mud and stone and sun-dried bricks.
The houses are mostly built of sun-dried bricks, cemented with mud, very little stone and no lime being found in the environs.
The walls of the city of Ghadames, like the houses, are built mostly of sun-dried bricks, but parts of small stones and earth.
In many villages, however, the walls of the houses are made of sun-dried bricks, and only the roof is made of a mat plastered over with mud.
There are four watch towers at the corners of the wall of sun-dried bricks, and a path on the top to go from one tower to the other.
Generally speaking, sun-dried bricks belong to an earlier period of development than baked bricks; at any rate, this is the case in the buildings of Greece and Rome.
Later the sun-dried bricks came to be used only for interior walls, while for the outer walls bricks were made from selected clay and were carefully prepared and burned, forming bricks of superior quality and strength.
With the exception of a shaft, about forty feet deep, sunk nearly in the centre, and passing through a solid mass of sun-dried bricks, no other opening had been made into this singular ruin.
It was vaulted with sun-dried bricks, a further proof of the use of the arch at a very early period, and the vault had in one or two places fallen in.
Our tunnel was carried for thirty-four feet on a level with this rock, which appears to have been covered by a kind of flooring of sun-dried bricks, probably once forming a platform in front of the building.
The reason of course for this lay in the inability of sun-dried bricks to resist damp, and their corresponding tendency to disintegrate.
The kernel of the solid structure is of sun-dried bricks; the facing, which is divided by buttresses, being of burnt brick cemented with bitumen.
As early as the third dynasty King Asychis (Asuchra) built a pyramid of what Herodotos terms Nile mud; that is to say, of sun-dried bricks.
The ruins and rubbish of sun-dried bricks, which compose the overthrown cities hitherto excavated, show that the great majority of dwellings were no more than low hovels.
This central mass is faced with kiln-dried bricks of large size and excellent quality, also laid, except on the north-west face, in lime mortar.
Saltillo is a manufacturing town, built almost wholly of sun-dried bricks, and is noted for the production of rebosas and serapes.
The material of which the pyramid is composed is earth, sun-dried bricks, limestone, and lava.
It consisted of a few rude cottages, built of sun-dried bricks, which were tenanted by native Californians; there were also a few merchants who trafficked in hides and horns.
His ranche was a mere hovel, built of sun-dried bricks, and he dealt more in drinks than in edibles.
Since the Egyptian occupation of the Sudan, El Obeid had become a town of some importance, but the houses were for the most part built of mud, with the exception of the Government buildings, which were constructed of sun-dried bricks.
Of the large square house built of rough sun-dried bricks, only the four walls were left standing; the wooden roof had been blown to pieces, and it was no small difficulty to collect the shattered remains of those who had been victimized.
Formerly the mosque consisted merely of a square enclosure, surrounded by a hedge; but this had now been replaced by a wall of sun-dried bricks.
Here he built an extensive yard of sun-dried bricks, which he divided off into sections for the various departments of the administration.
They are built of sun-dried bricks of local origin, costing about two krans or 16d.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dried bricks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
