| 单词 | brick |
| 例句 | My parents arrived as the leaves began to turn, when campus was at its most beautiful, the reds and yellows of autumn mingling with the burgundy of colonial brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Francie found that no two bricks were alike when she looked real close. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid must have forgotten to tell him something you had to do, like tapping the third brick on the left to get into Diagon Alley. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It’s the size of a brick, wrapped in foil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I curled my fingers over the ledge of bricks jutting out beneath the window, the rough surface burning my fingertips. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In the distance, near the massive brick gateway, I can see that the train has been emptied. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I brought the newspaper close up to my eyes to get a better view of George Pollucci's face, spotlighted lie a three-quarter moon against a vague background of brick and black sky. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I was after him, holding the cheese, its smooth surface covered with brick dust. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z These bricks, added to the secret project I had started in my room last night, might really add up to something. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z A shell hit a tree top across the road and splinters flickered through the grove and spattered against the brick wall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like the ties and the motto and the tree and the ivy crawling up the brick front of the admin building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Frost sparkled on tumbled bricks and fallen timbers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The church is large and made of brick; on the top of it, instead of a cross, there’s a thing that looks like an onion and goes around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Aileen had kicked it open with so much force, it hit the brick wall, bounced back, and tagged her shoulder as it closed. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Fire licked the bricks and roof above one of the windows of a room facing the back of the courtyard, scorching the walls black. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We stopped in front of a brick building. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Since they had finished the brick wall—topped with broken glass and coils of barbed wire—I had not been able to visit Janina. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z It was after church, and I was leaning against the brick wall wearing a dress with stiff white petticoats. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Dogwood trees with bright pink flowers and rosebushes of every color lined the brick road that led to Division Street. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The wind blew across us, over the brick walls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The pile of bricks Claire hid behind shielded her from the severest heat and most of the flying debris. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a brick walkway and the twisted and wiry shape of what once had been a row of boxwoods. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was about two feet below the top of the wall, and one reached it by climbing down a sort of rough stairway of broken brick ends. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "Why not decorate your desktop with a school bus made from a brick!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s of dark-brown weathered brick, and gives the impression of having turrets, although it has none. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Matthias had relieved the sparrow of her brick hobble, pinioning her wings, make the going easier. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The back of the building presented a brick face, some narrow windows, and a glass door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could make conversation with a brick wall—part of his salesman DNA. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It sure wasn’t the big brick building that his parents landscaped and fixed up to impress the neighbors. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “You can use these bricks, do something beneficial with them. Besides, Tuttle’s would only be trashing them anyways.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The house is three stories, all brick, and it sits back from Indian Hill Road, deep, deep in a yard blanketed with that thick, bright grass you see in lawn care flyers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The last brick was set in place as the vicar, having put his glasses back on, made the celebrated pronouncement—man and wife together—and invoked the Trinity after which his church was named. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Ifemelu’s room, was the cheapest, the smallest, facing the scuffed brick walls of the next building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The buildings on our street are made of old bricks and they all look exactly the same. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z The red brick buildings of the prison looked friendly, like the buildings of a seaside college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Headquarters for the company is a low-slung, unpretentious red brick building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Rose was still laying bricks as fast as she could. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They crossed a row of yellow bricks and reached the shushroom patch on the other side. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Just a giant pile of bricks and a big dumpster filled with junk near the oak tree that Ivy fell out of when she was six and broke her right arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z People are eating pets, crushing pigeons with bricks for soup. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The monster’s fist immediately lashed out and struck the stone hearth from its foundations, the brick chimney tumbling down on top of it in a loud clatter. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z They all lived in a brick house that Elizebeth’s grandfather had built, on the Smith family farm in Union Township, a few miles east of Huntington, Indiana. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I looked away, toward the window, even though all I could see was a different window, shade drawn, surrounded by a brick wall. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Not brick and wood walls all the time, but some sort of walls to keep them in and others out. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Wilson was hit on the head with a brick, and even as he lay wounded on the ground, they continued to kick and beat him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Gypsies turned at me, as if Jason Taylor is the ambassador of the land of brick houses and mesh fences and estate agents. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But now, instead of seeing the white brick and windows across the way and to her left, there were gaping holes where classrooms should be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood its people. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Every mom the sun rose upon fresh corpses, with harpies drawn in blood on the bricks beside them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At last, the bus turned into a parking lot before a low brick building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I was five years old when we drove into town, passing block after block of colonial-style brick homes with tidy lawns and manicured gardens. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was my idea to give away most of the bricks to the kids in St. Nick Houses. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The light falls from the bricks; it falls from everything. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Burned out like a brick oven. I bet it’s got something to do with those people they caught last night. We’ll know soon enough.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “You make me feel better from the very first instant I catch you on my fire escape and you talk about the flying brick.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There is a brick wall that makes an arch over the drive. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z We walk by another block of similar houses before the neighborhood changes again and we’re surrounded by mostly brick apartment buildings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The sparrow pecked the ground a moment longer before she fluttered her wings and flew above the tree line, over the brick walls, and out of sight. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The railings have all been replaced and the brick walls repaired. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We pull into the parking lot of this tall brick building that seems like it’s been around since before my grandparents were born. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Whitby lived in a handsome brick house overlooking Lake Michigan’s dark waters. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Marv,” I point out, “the car’s an embarrassment, okay? It doesn’t even have a hand brake—it’s sitting out there with two bricks behind the back wheels.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was a very old building, the kind with bathwater that still had to be stored in drums, windows without glass, and privy scaffolds made of bricks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z An iron drab and a silver talent, a stone and a piece of fruit, two bricks, a clod of earth and one of the donkeys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The mule stood patiently, a brick tied to his reins. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then they’d light the fire in their brick barracks and cover themselves with their fur blankets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And beyond them, a brick square of a building with small windows—barred on the first two levels, bricked over on the third. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Audrey sighed and sat on the brick wall of the decorative fountain near the bus stop. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “That was brick dust mixed with something special: graveyard dirt.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He identified the most common and most functional uses for bricks and blankets and simply stopped. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had seen photos of grass huts in National Geographic magazines, but in the photo Martin sent me, there was a brick building in the background that had to be his school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z When he’d put some distance behind him, he angled toward a brick restroom building, hoping to duck behind it and hide. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The skeleton’s fingers were clawing at the brick wall, like he had died trying to get out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Four days after the carriage accident, Lincoln walked from the White House to Seward’s big brick mansion nearby to check on Seward. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But then he heard the sound of two jars breaking against the brick walls of the deserted cotton warehouse beside the general store. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Full of fear, he paddled and struggled, got his head up and took a breath, scrabbled his claws against rough bricks underwater and lost them again as he was dragged on. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One tuft was of two colors, magenta and brick red, apparently growing on the same root. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z One time, someone had thrown a brick through our bedroom window in the middle of the night, and the living room windows, too. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The sadness, like a brick around my neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We watched Noah Gershom get out of the car and start walking up the brick path to the house. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the shears from his hand and threw them, with a clatter, on the bricks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I heated chunks of brick and put them under his feet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The red iron rims had no nets, and since there was no real give on the rims, every shot ended as either a silent swish or a high-bouncing brick. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z No sooner had Sherwood Butler, the laboratory’s head of procurement, set the final brick on a new building than his brother, Melvin, set about filling it with new employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We quickly found a gate, walked under its tall brick archway, and ended up on a small quad. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The sound of our feet slapping the wet bricks echoed endlessly up and down the passage. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And the hot bricks of the courtyard were crisscrossed with bamboo paths. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up large stones, sticks, and chips of brick. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was more than two hours later that she saw she was getting close to the brick wall where he lived. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Then she remembered the scraping of metal and falling bricks, and her heart slammed hard in her chest. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He took his last shuddering breath in the bleak black dawn, as cold rain hissed from a dark sky to turn the brick streets of the old city into rivers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I cruise up and down the streets until I find the two-story brick colonial. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Most of the homes had flat roofs and were made of burned brick, some of mud the same dusty color as the mountains that ringed the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Parts of it are painted a blinding turquoise color, and there’s a plaque on the brick part, but he can’t see from this distance. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Got hit with a brick and been hittin’ other peoples back ever since. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The SS man smiles and throws the ball to her again, pointing toward the brick wall of the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The center was housed in a brick building on a corner lot on Prospect Avenue, whose prime blocks were dominated by the grand, mansion-like stone and Tudor-style eating clubs that substituted for fraternities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The bricks were fashioned out of grass and clay, which was pressed into a wooden mold about seventy-five centimeters long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z There is a sort of hearth, an iron plate set on some bricks. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z While a helicopter filmed from above, man after man kicked Denny in the face, dropped rocks and bricks on his head, abused him far beyond the point of helplessness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the hour of the wolf crept upon them, the rain was falling steadily, slashing down in a hard, cold torrent that would soon turn the brick streets of Meereen into rivers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The other day he brought home a brick of Chihuahua cheese and a stack of tortillas, so we ate quesadillas for several days, but we’ve run out now. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I was crying, walking in my bare feet and feeling the wet heat still inside the bricks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and walked around the village and returned to sit on the brick again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I hustled back on D. Armstead’s shooting guard launched a brick that I easily rebounded. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Its exterior is brick—not red brick but a dull yellowish hue, the color of putty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I walked over and rang the bell on his red brick townhouse. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I listened in silence, his words landing on me like bricks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After another roll call to see which of us were still alive, the Nazis marched us toward one of the big brick buildings with chimneys. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I blend like dust into dust, complying, a brick in the architecture. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The boldest still dropped a few lines into the river, though even that was hazardous; more remained tied up beneath Meereen’s walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Behind its crumbling red brick walls, Astapor was still asmolder, though by now most of the great fires had burned out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I put my hand to the brick, tapping it frantically. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Good rhetoric uses the bricks and mortar of poetry, but it doesn’t lay its walls as regularly. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From somewhere over the low brick wall at the other end of the field, we hear chatter and laughter and the chirping of a water fountain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The dread in my stomach is flat and hard and hot, like a brick in the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z They stood at the edge of the scaffolding where the Tower formed a corner with the back of the old brick building. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The Jaaxes’ house was the largest Victorian house in town, a pile of turreted brick with a slate roof and tall windows and a cupola and wooden paneling made of golden American chestnut. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At regular intervals along the way, white strikers and their families stood along the train route and heaved barrages of stones and bricks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He let his weight rest against his rake as she began dragging the statue toward an oval bed of myrtle, beside the lamppost that flanked the brick pathway. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This afternoon when she arrived at the Junklot to work on her own mural, it took Sierra a few seconds to find the old man’s face peering out from the brick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I let go with the brick and caught him in the middle of his back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she walks unhurriedly back to her brick- and-cement house by the sea, chewing the peanuts one by one. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z How many times he had lifted the brick and brought it down he did not know. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the next barrel, coal bricks at the quarter mark, then dregs of coal bricks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z All that remained was a charred foundation, a few blackened timbers, and the remains of a teetering brick chimney propped up by a single two-by-four. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I told them it was made of red brick and was bigger than Grandpa’s store, a lot bigger. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Warm muscles help you jump higher so you land like a feather rather than a brick. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She reached the brick building that housed an art gallery below and an apartment above, and Valley stuck her head out the window of her apartment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z From the brick face, six even rows of windows seemed to glower down at her through the gray April drizzle like so many unfriendly eyes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He straightened and lifted the brick, but just at that moment the reality of it all slipped from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a brick chimney towering over a flat-roofed building where a thin line of smoke curled lazily into the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when he and Luke talked about going to Iowa, he always came up against a brick wall. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z If the brick was at the front, it meant the colony had nearly filled the combs and needed another super. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The quiet time she spent alone there, a modest brick building filled with walnut furniture and fragrant with the must of old books, was the best part of her job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They made her urinate over hot bricks in order to cure her of the habit of wetting her bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z After molding the bricks, my father spent days in the valley hacking the long-stemmed grasses to be used for roofing, then tied them into round bales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z She sat cross-legged on a low brick wall with her flip-flops on the ground in front of her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The whole of the apse had been taken over by a monumental furnace, and a brick chimney cut right up through the center of the frescoed dome, obliterating the heads of angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He turned a corner and suddenly the rock on both sides gave way to new brick with metal grills set at intervals just above the level of the floor. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Somewhere he'd found a length of chunky chain, each iron link the size of a brick. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z After we passed through Caretta, we reached a fork in the road at a little place called Premier, where there was an old run-down whitewashed brick building called the Spaghetti House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I catch a glimpse of the ground, three stories down, the bricks smaller than they should be, the lines of Candor Jeanine enslaved. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I studied the red exposed brick wall of the room and tried to identify the rap music coming from a car passing by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z There was a big chunk out of the brick wall of Dad’s office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I threw the brick down, cracking it in two on the cobblestones. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In 1898, prospecting led him to a nearly vacant trail crossing that the trappers called Edmonton, where he found that the soil was the perfect medium for making brick. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no curves here, no trees; only angles, lines, squares, bricks and copper wires. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We was down in front of that old brick wall, so maybe it was even on the very same spot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He jammed me against the brick wall by the ribs, warning me to shut up or else. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived then in a small brick house in Manhattan, and, being for the moment solvent, employed a Negro. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Briggses’ house perched on top of a small hill across from the lake, its red brick glowing against the white snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z So now here I am, pulling into the driveway of her two-story brick colonial at one of those ungodly hours during which, according to Britain, “the only thing open is legs.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Staring up at shutters, gutter lines, looking for cables bracketed to bricks, anything that might give the transmitter away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z That morning, as Herbert passed the crumbling brick tenement buildings and treeless courtyards, he watched out for Reds. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The cart track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The building is three stories of solid brick with long windows on the first and second floors that have solid steel shutters that could be closed in case of atomic bomb blasts, riots, or invasion. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z On the other side of the room, I heard those other bricks click and clack together, sounding like money. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He shakes his head and looks at the dilapidated building to his right, which is made of brick and barely resembles the sleek glass spire behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And on the third day of wandering, somebody shot at the four from far away—shot four times as they crossed a narrow brick road. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Safa craned her neck, studying the brick houses lining the road. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma drove through a roundabout planted with pink periwinkle flowers and lined with bricks painted alternating black and white. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The next day, he took me to town with him, took me to the old brick Court House, and let me watch while he had certificates of freedom drawn up for his children. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony ended with Candice and her mother unveiling a plaque that had been fastened to the red brick outside City Hall. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They stood in front of a brick building. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We walk past the brick buildings and under the trees that shade our street. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The doorway behind her was blocked, but in theory, if the room started to collapse, those bricks should weaken and crumble. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My backpack feels like it’s full of bricks. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The sprawling mansions were brick and stone, trying to look old and stately but missing. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z When it’s time for music class, my feet feel like they are loaded down by bricks. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He takes them each by the hand, forcing them to go when they don’t want to, dragging them in a zigzag path through trees that are now made of brick and stone. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But the brick maker does better than that: 80 pesos. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Fried mung-bean pancake with spicy sauce, wafting in the air with the bricks of pungent soybean paste hawked by a nearby merchant, so strong you could taste it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Because they were pregnant and jammed with bricks of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Without saying a word to one another, we started to deconstruct each of our city sections by chunks and bricks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I don’t step out because Dray’s words working with the cops are like a giant brick wall that’s been placed in front of me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We played in a dusty alleyway, with brick walls on either side, where there wasn't much parental traffic. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We ran through streets and alleyways to the back of a small brick building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I look around from where I sit on top of hot rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Once they were clear of the school, she stopped, ducking behind a giant brick mailbox to dig out her yellow notebook and a pencil. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My room was on the first floor, and the window, a short distance above the pine-needle-padded ground, overlooked a wooded yard ringed by a red brick wall. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z A real masterpiece, as thick as a brick and packed with noteworthy bird facts. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There’s a better view from Hudson’s bedroom and it’s just brick wall. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It felt like I’d been hit by a brick instead of a fist. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The sand road now changed to crystal brick, and BaiMa’s hooves made the sound of tinkling bells. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A coldness passing through its root-beer-colored bricks, invading its rooms and blowing out the vigil light burning in the hall. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then there was Bernie Black, who had a view of Gramercy Park, but not a key to it, which he said was worse than looking at a brick wall. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a small campus, with narrow brick walkways and white pillared buildings, located on the fringes of what seemed to be an even smaller town. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Friday night a week later we crammed into an old truck with ten other people and an assortment of secondhand goods—cupboards, wardrobes, gramophones, pots, pans, tables, mirrors, cement bags, bricks, chairs and glass windows. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The poster ripped as Diana yanked it through the narrow opening and finally was able to slap it to the brick wall next to the window. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If the brick was at the back, there were problems like wax moths or ailing queens. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Its base is brown brick and black trim. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I helped her put them out on the bricks. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z During the rebuild, Dad wanted to include pieces of the house they’d lost, so he insisted on using all the intact bricks he’d managed to save when they cleared the rubble. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All the buildings are identical—brown brick with dark windows—and they have numbers on their sides. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Inside the low brick building that housed most of the administration, he could see heads suddenly appear in windows. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He tried to push up one of the brick walls on our bridge and wound up collapsing the whole side. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z We watch, frozen in fear, as the figure slips through the gap in the brick wall that leads to the old part of the graveyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She’s the most positive person in the world, and amazing and fun to be around, but in a strange and happy way sometimes she seems to be about nine bricks shy of a full load. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z We leaned against the rough bricks and breathed hard, staring at each other. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We picked up stones and loose bricks and tried hacking at the ice, but it was almost super- naturally hard—even Bronwyn could dig no more than a few inches into it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I started pushing against those bricks like I was trying to keep myself alive. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z As the marchers came to the corner of Main and Roxboro, they passed a pile of bricks at a construction site. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We filed in and out of the barge’s deep hold, carrying as many bricks as we could. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was entirely graceless, rather tall and badly angled, built of dark red brick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He continued on his way, through the stream of pedestrians, whistling and tapping his cane on the brick sidewalk, completely unaware of the two men who’d stepped into his wake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Every day for two months the line of bullock carts came in laden with bricks and stones and cement, sheets of tin and corrugated iron, coils of rope and hemp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Unless King threw the brick, he hasn’t done anything. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see how throwing money made you good with sums, but John told me as he headed out to cut another brick. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It is as fundamental a structural change to the way music sounded as was the contemporaneous decision to start using timber frames and bricks in the building of houses. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Where we had a big fireplace and mantel made out of bricks from the Settlement’s brickyard, they still had a fireplace made out of clay and rocks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z It was made of brick and above it was a huge plank from which hung a few utensils. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Over time, you’d save up money and build a brick wall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z By that time Matt was wringing and twisting like a hen on a hot brick. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The door was propped open with a cinder brick, so he poked his head inside. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Hens strutted by with one suspicious eye on the deweys, another on the brick fireplace where sheets and mason jars were boiled. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Despite efforts by Howard Fuller and Ann Atwater to calm the situation, a score of angry black teenagers sped down Main Street, tossing garbage cans and bricks through a dozen store windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z First a house with no damage, next a house still bearing black streaks of soot and smoke, then a field of ruin, with makeshift hovels crafted from tent, brick, and scorched timbers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I winced as one front wheel scraped the wall, tearing out some bricks before I was able to steer in the other direction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “If that sparrow causes you any trouble, don’t hesitate to kick her off into thin air. She’ll come down as fast as the brick she’s tied to!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Instead, there were long rows of bushes on both sides of a wide brick walkway and to each side of those bushes was a big lawn area with fountains. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of eyes are on me, but my eyes are riveted to a section of brick wall above the double doors. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The wreath hit a wall behind him, punching a hole straight through the bricks, then arced backwards through the air like a boomerang. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z More kids than I had ever seen were playing around a big red brick building. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at the brick as it slid across the clean, worn, wooden floor, and at the glass that scattered about my feet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We felt the hit like a brick to the back; every single one of us let out a sharp gasp. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After a while, she walked to the top of the brick steps and looked directly at the tree that hid me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He’s on the way back to the airstrip when he sees it, emblazoned on the side of a brick building, a shock of color against a gray street. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In September he and a Mexican man collected many bricks from up the street and built a big barbecue. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the surface, tall brick and steel buildings lurked, their crumbling structures hidden by the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Mahmoud wanted Mohammed, and all of his sons, working on dry land, so Mohammed spent his early teenage years as a craftsman, laying brick and apprenticing for an ironsmith. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It’s hard enough not to have fancy grandparents whose names are carved into the bricks. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Carol lives in one of the older houses on the other side of the abandoned orchard, closer to the school, a yellow brick house with two stories and green-painted shutters framing the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The bricks are old and crumbling. They are trying to claw their way into the city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We’re sitting on the low brick wall by the bushes next to the faculty parking lot, which is where we wait for Grace to pick us up every Monday after school. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They twisted, merged, formed a single image: Hassan’s brown corduroy pants discarded on a pile of old bricks in the alley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are still a few houses scattered around—all of them modest, narrow, wood-framed structures stabilized with brick buttresses—and a couple of buildings in what was once the central business district. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The man on Fox Five News has a microphone in his hand and is talking in front of a brick building. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Some plots sported brick pathways and flower borders, while others looked haphazard. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Strangest of all was a small wooden shack built up against the big brick chimney. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Leaning nonchalantly against the bricks, he watched me come over. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The yard was not large, and it had brick buildings all around it, so the noise was amplified—it was loud and intimidating. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only a short block of brick buddings: the bank, the insurance agency, Moore’s Store, and The Coffee Pot Cafe, where the old saloon had stood. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I was sitting on the dirty asphalt of an alley, tucked into a corner between a brick wall and a green Dumpster. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The smoking, ruined villages, the broken pieces of brick in the street, the frozen corpses, the shattered walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the scurrying rats and lice: how can they live like that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mom lined the brick walkway with daisies, your favorite flower. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Only when we got off the bus and walked up the brick walkway to his door did I remember. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z While the deacons clawed at the pile of broken glass and bricks, Reverend prayed aloud that another bomb had not been planted and that God would keep them safe. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing there—just a wall, built of red bricks. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z When the estate materialized in the distance, only the second-story windows and balconies were visible from behind the huge brick wall surrounding it. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She turns to me, her left shoulder pressing into the bricks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I walked along until I came to a section that had not yet been completed, where the wall was only a couple of bricks high. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There was shooting back there now, and on either side of me they were throwing garbage cans, bricks and pieces of metal into plate glass windows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Tubular neon in cursive script decorates the restored brick facades, and there’s a lot of brass trim, a lot of real estate, a lot of money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We went down the street and turned into a bit of lawn in which, set back from the street, stood a one storey building of brick trimmed with white. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I bolted outside and down the crumbling brick steps into the grass, screaming, “Wait! Stop!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Then came brick houses set well back from the street, fronted by yards edged in shrubbery clipped into smooth cones and balls of velvet green. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Just brick houses, some lived in, some abandoned. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z We’re in an alleyway behind a building, red brick and fairly modern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The sidewalks were brick as were many of the houses and public buildings. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the bricks of his wall coming together, forcing out that horrible voice. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He rented a sweet little brick house for her and then gave it to her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They left the marble palaces and fragrant gardens be-hind and made their way through a poorer part of the city where modest brick houses turned blind walls to the street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We both went flat and with the flash and bump of the burst and the smell heard the singing off of the fragments and the rattle of falling brick. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Was it you who threw that brick?” she asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly in front of them, bordering the pavement, there was a brick wall with fearsome-looking spikes all along the top of it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The house may be two hundred years old or it may be older, built of brick, with a stone-faced front looking south toward the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Our window faced an alley and the brick wall of the next building and it was so close to the adjoining building you couldn’t tell whether it was raining or snowing outside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple felt her guard go up, that unbreachable wall laid with bricks of cynicism and aloofness that kept people at bay. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The school is made up of several tall brick buildings that surround a playing field and a four-season swimming pool completely encased in glass. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Every red mud house squats in the middle of its red dirt yard, for the ground in the village is cleared hairless as a brick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, slowly, my thoughts started to break past that brick wall of pain. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z On a hazy day in 1973, in a brown brick row house five doors down from her own, Bobbette Lacks sat at her friend Gardenia’s dining room table. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Buck’s Peak looked the way it always did at Christmas—a snowy spire, adorned with evergreens—and my eyes, increasingly accustomed to brick and concrete, were nearly blinded by the scale and clarity of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Most were brick, others covered with asbestos shingles. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If I were an octopus I’d be able to switch my skin to that exact brick pattern and blend right in. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Show Papi your lines,” Lili told the boy as she arranged the three open gourds on a piece of plywood raised like a table on two bricks, in the middle of the room. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She steamed past the fancy brick entrance to the golf course and soon the paved road gave way to a dirt rut, with no curbs or streetlights. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I’m waiting for a brick to come slamming through my window. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She clapped the erasers on the brick wall, on the stone walk and, as a finale, behind her back. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a child,” Theodora said lazily, “—‘many years ago,’ Doctor, as you put it so tactfully—I was whipped for throwing a brick through a greenhouse roof. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m hoping to use the bricks to prop up this broom. I need to practice shooting over a defender.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Nothing but coal bricks at the half mark. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Crumbling brick warehouses, oil storage tanks, rusting cranes, and gritty factories lined both sides of the waterway. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When I saw the garden for the first time, so green among the dark brick buildings, I thought back to my parents' Persian rug. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, Dolley returned with her mother and son to her pleasant brick home on Fourth and Walnut Streets in November and began taking in gentleman boarders to pay her bills. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Folks was yelling one after the ’nother, wagons and horses’ hoofs was making sharp clacking sounds on the bricks that covered up the road, hammering and banging was coming from each direction. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Grace lives in a two-story shoebox-shaped red brick house with a front porch that has two thick round white pillars holding it up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He stood and put one leg over, found a brick that stuck out an inch from the wall and tested his weight on it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Each brick had been cut with her ulo, the half-moon shaped woman’s knife, so versatile it can trim a baby’s hair, slice a tough bear, or chip an iceberg. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s brick with an iron fence surrounding it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I was sitting on a bumpy floor that seemed to be made of bricks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z If he had smacked me with a brick, I couldn’t have been any more stunned. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Little boats were moored at the brick banks, half full of rainwater, some of them near sinking. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As soon as I pried out the brick and held the earrings in my hand, I saw what a foolish thing I had done, but it was too late. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In the alley outside, I sank against the wall, pressing my cheek to the bricks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Daddy gave him his name ’cause he’s always been as heavy as some bricks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I stole a bottle and drank it in the shadow of our brick bi-level. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Rubbing her hand, her pursuer followed again, keeping her distance now, as they moved deeper into the deserted labyrinth of brick houses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I stared at my hands against the cold brick and breathed quickly. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Cory’s house was not large, but it was built up on a high brick foundation. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Jermaine’s rectangle block eyes stared at me from out of the bricks and I realized that this was crazy and that was also when my own eyes opened. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The late afternoon sun warmed its softly colored bricks and the small-paned windows seemed to dance in the sunshine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was lying on the brick path at the bottom of the stairs with a surprised look on its face—which was now several inches away from the rest of it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The blood was pooling at his feet, soaking into the brick floor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Your eyes widen and what you did with your best friend last night tumbles down over you like bricks falling from a crumbling wall. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z She walked along the side of the school, dragging her fingers on the red brick of the building until she reached the line of trees at the back. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z We pulled up to a big old brick house and a kid was standing on the sidewalk. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We open a door near the bathroom and pierce a seal into an entirely different biome of the hospital—red brick, indoor trees, posters of notable doctors who practiced there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z On the far side of the town there was a red brick building, the stately Seminary, topped with a white cupola. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up a chunk of broken brick and squeezed it in my hand until a throbbing ache radiated through my palm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Our school is a long three-story brick building with a cop car perpetually parked out front. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Versh put me down and Caddy took my hand and we went down the brick walk. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Da-zi-bao were everywhere: in classrooms, along the hallways, and even on the brick walls of the school yard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire three-story brick wall was bombed with graffiti, taunts from our rivals, the Blue Devils. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The lights come on, revealing a long, narrow room with busted brick walls and a cement floor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I went between the walls of clay and picked up bricks that had cracked open; when my barrow was full, I would wheel it out onto a wooden scaffold and dump it into a pond. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the top of the highest hill, we found a brick reservoir and a big curved boulder where we sat to rest. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The foster home is a jacked-up duplex with the face of a battered building—bricks missing, indecipherable and colorful graffiti. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, a small brick of cheese sits half eaten. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They passed a burned house, just the brick chimney standing in the yard. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He paused again and lifted from the table the brick with which Bigger had battered Bessie in the abandoned building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The only steady business left downtown was the one-room brick post office, but it was closed when I got there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The members of the Mouse Council sat atop three bricks piled high, and spread out before them was every mouse, old and young, foolish and wise, who lived in the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The red brick brownstone welcomed them home with the warm glow of lamps in the ground floor, first floor, and second floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Rotten vegetables carpeted the bare concrete and maggot-infested meat smeared the brick walls. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It would never occur to them that anyone could squeeze through a space two bricks wide. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The next week, brick walls arose and windows appeared, and today there was a door—painted lime green! Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He turns to me, and I can see the outline of the bricks etched into his skin. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The brick building looks like a prison, with its chain link fence and barred windows. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They were all meeting up behind brick walls for play-dates I wasn’t invited to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The kilns in the neighbouring villages were kept busy firing the bricks, but their output was insufficient, and the carts had to go farther afield, returning dusty and brick-filled. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She lives in a fancy brick house with a swimming pool. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I looked up with the new prisoners to the tops of the brick chimneys, where a thick black smoke poured out into the blue-white sky. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day at the butcher shop I found a good bone among the charred bricks and handed it to Big Henryk and said, “Beat me.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z She sat on a short brick chimney, swinging her bare feet idly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A few avenues to the west, Model T automobiles delivered well-dressed ladies and gentlemen to the doors of imposing three-story brick and stone homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They walked out of the bookstore and sat on a low brick wall, where Lydia snapped a selfie of the two of them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The Weidenbachs lived at the far end of town in the only brick house. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z All the foliage was neatly trimmed, in bright, beautiful colors, the roads devoid of even one small weed and paved in fancy yellow brick that began down by the waterfront. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z To the east the massive brick walls of Meereen shimmered through the morning heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now I watched her gather up more bricks and stomp back toward her ladder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The Yunkai’i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bricks are stacked into pyramids inside ovens as big as rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He drove me around the grounds in his own car, and pointed out the recreation hall, hospital, school, administrative offices, and the two-story brick buildings he called cottages where the patients lived. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They were close to the road with fading yellow bricks when Seven stopped cold. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Above the stove the recess was made of coral-colored bricks and creamy white plaster. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The barn and the farmhouse burned down years ago—before my parents bought the property and built a one-story brick rancher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He saw square brick towers, a great red temple, a distant manse upon a hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He switched off the light, turned toward the wall and his fingers felt over the cold floor for the brick. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When he saw me watching him, he focused on the yellow brick wall. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ding of metal falling on a brick floor, a splosh of liquid—and just before my vision goes completely dark, I feel myself caught under the arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once the tinkling of the last brick had stopped echoing in the room, I gazed around. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Another burst and in the noise you could hear the smaller noise of the brick and dirt raining down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The stairs led down to a large brick tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The pillars in the background are made of wood; those in the foreground of brick and marble, symbolizing the progress of astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He shoved the last brick into place and mortared it tight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses didn’t look so different either, except they were made of whitish bricks instead of seamless siding. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Felt like bricks. What’re you going to do, sue her?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z What can beat bricks warming up to the sun? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds, perhaps thousands of bottles of wine rested in brick alcoves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Wooden houses and small brick buildings lined the river and rose in uneven stacks on both hillsides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z August showed us how to drape a square over each hive box, securing it with a brick and making sure we left the bees’ entrance door open. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were green playing fields and such and a huge sand-colored brick building that looked almost like a castle. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hagrid, meanwhile, was counting bricks in the wall above the trash can. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Across the pool stood a brick wall twelve feet high, with iron spikes along its top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Gerris pointed to where a corpse slumped against a brick wall, attended by a cloud of glistening green flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Time Suck that created their escape route lumbered toward them, brushing chunks of frozen brick wall aside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z At the end of the room, in the corner, stood the wooden door, which had once, in another place, opened onto a plain brick wall. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Stately stone and brick homes had wood interiors, and stood side by side with smaller wood-frame houses. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the river, tall modern buildings, with whole walls of windows, lifted up out above the squat brick constructions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For now, only one thick book, as thick as a brick, rests with its golden letters turned out to face the room: A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Every other building is in ruins, spilling rubble and broken bricks onto the streets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene was built like a box full of bricks. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then gradually its white brick walls grew more distinct. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The area was enclosed by a high brick wall topped with broken glass and razor wire. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The brick of the chimney behind me was warm and wonderful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z People fought with fists and bricks; soldiers fired on the crowd, killing two and injuring more than two hundred. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I scuffed down the brick path a ways and thought about how some things had changed forever that morning my parents found Amanda in her crib, not breathing. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Bending over with great effort, Ignatius stuck a finger into the valve of one of the tires until the hissing stopped and the tire’s bottom pancaked across the brick gutter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At once the bricks began to whirl and spin: A hole appeared in the middle of them, which grew wider and wider, finally forming an archway onto the narrow cobbled street that was Diagon Alley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Now it was round like a sewer, constructed of red brick with iron-barred portholes every ten feet. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Hassan rebuilt the wall with his own hands, brick by brick, until it stood whole again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They bent their backs to unload heavy crates from ships and trains, or to carry pallets of bricks to and from construction job sites; their daughters scoured pots and boiled laundry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A brick shatters the front window, landing on our dinner table along with a note. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Around the corner of a fancy brick building with ivy growing up the walls. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And as Despereaux stood before them with the red thread around his neck and the fourteen members of the Mouse Council perched on the bricks above him, two burly mice came forward. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z To achieve the look, a Bryan house may have a section of brick and next to it one of stone, then one of cedar shake. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Every word in the ceremony was another brick in place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Stricter antifire building regulations were proposed for the burned-out areas, requiring the use of brick or stone. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It looked so innocent, that modest little brick house, with its clean white door, the peach tree in the front yard ruffled with soft pink blossoms. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Commons clock tower: ivied brick, white spire, spellbound in the hazy distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The houses were consumed; the bricks of houses still standing were blackened; the air so thick with soot that we now all coughed and gagged at every step. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Flowers stopped obeying the little bricks that kept them from growing beyond their paths. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The loss had to be made good, as had also the theft, despite the presence of a chowkidar, of a cartload of bricks and the cart itself. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Its top bricks have tumbled to the ground and weeds almost obscure them. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She was scrubbing the house, the brick wall, scrubbing furiously at the chalk, grunting with the effort, her cheeks wet. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Zach had placed a brick on top of each hive telling August what to do. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and tom-up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When my shoulder struck the heavy metal, it felt like running into a brick wall. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z She looked back at the mural of Papa Acevedo, barely visible, now against the crumbling brick wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z And he had seen pastries—apple, mince, pumpkin, plum tarts— coming out of the brick oven. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had made progress with my tower, but it seemed like as fast as I piled bricks, Big Rose was always a little faster. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z And I expect them to assemble in the square with bricks and torches? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She said that the men would cover them with bricks. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was taking in the sweep of scenery, the narrow, zigzagging paths winding through clusters of trees, connecting one brick mansion to another. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I spook at every sound: rats cheeping in the trash, broken bricks settling in the night. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ll be biking along this tiny road covered in trees, and then out of nowhere their giant brick house will appear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She imagined small high windows in a cliff face of brick, and thought perhaps she did, the way people imagined the different torments of hell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “The man with the brick, come over here at once and knock him a bit about the head.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath the flourish and ostentation is the old city, street after street of thick red brick houses, with their front porch pillars like the off-white stems of toadstools and their watchful, calculating windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z No: it was the greenness of the lawn, the sharp lines of white mortar between the bricks, the rustle of the maple leaves in the gentle breeze, the very breeze itself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then we both heard the sound of tires on the brick driveway, saw the headlights flash through the front windows, down the hall to us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He stood by the door of our clay brick and tin roof house laughing and then asked, “Can you even understand what you are saying?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Except instead of demolished buildings and disintegrated bricks, there are books open face-first on the floor, their damaged spines poking up, while others are piled on one another. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Instead of using the tiny Lego bricks, I had started building with larger ones since I now had so much more space—an entire, huge storage room to build my fantasy fortress. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Hagrid raised his pink umbrella and rapped a certain brick in the wall, which opened at once to form an archway onto a winding cobbled street. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z A brick sits in the middle of the floor. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Rain or shine, he would leave his small brick house at five o’clock in the morning, by horse or on foot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the servants’ steps, not the grand stairways of veined marble, but the narrower, steeper, straighter stairs hidden within the thick brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The windows were all gone but the brick shell of the house remained, damp and blackened and steaming, and most of the roof, the dark slate shingles gleaming like fish scales from their recent soaking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The common stone houses and the white snow were a gray blur, and BaiMa’s hooves on the black brick road made a metallic noise, almost like the clinking of coins. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The narrow street was lined with four- and five-story brick tenement buildings, many of them in the process of being torn down and replaced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The wall’s bright white paint along the edges really helps the dark red brick stand out. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The open side was swiftly turned to face the brick wall. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Then she slap me upside the head with news almost hard as that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For months after my father’s death, long after I had arrived in Chicago and found a home in the stained brick and wharfs of the Levee, I had imagined my father still underwater. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ignatius staggered up the brick path to the house, climbed the steps painfully, and rang the bell. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when Chandra was out of the room, I hunted until I found a loose mud brick in the wall. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There are bricks that hold down the corners of the tarps, and when we reach what is Dell's unit, I lift one. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But I can’t shake the idea that he’s in there, at this moment, behind the blank red bricks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The lieutenant stood on several bricks so that he could be high enough to be seen by all. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z My head feels heavy like there are bricks sitting on top. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z As she walked to the office, she trailed her fingertips along the brick wall and hummed a song Park had given her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Hope Springs’s City Hall was a two-story brick building with tall white columns and pairs of paint-peeled shutters on every window. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Nothing but a hodgepodge of brick, glass, and concrete. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It was only the sheer brick wall stretching down to the pavement, the cars and buses moving like toys so far below, and the blast of the wind against his face that made it terrifying. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was that kind of desolate feeling—just looking at huge hills of rubble: of brick and broken wooden slats that had once been houses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Without heeding anyone, he crossed Dock Square and in a moment’s time stood beside the brick Town House at the head of King Street. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Scorched bricks with wild grass growing all around the lot. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He felt like he couldn't breathe, like a stone wall was sitting on his chest with the bricks running through his veins. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept scrabbling through the items in Doc’s cabin, searching for… “The dirt! The brick dust and graveyard dirt! Do you see any?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was a table and a rocking chair and a bench and a big brick fireplace and maplewood floors and rugs. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Then he climbed the worn brick steps and heard through the closed shutters a booming chant. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The principle of the scaffold was that loose bricks and mortar always were at the level of the top of the wall being built. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The square’s packed with screaming people, their faces hidden with rags and homemade masks, throwing bricks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She came down the steps with another load and stopped on the brick sidewalk, turning to look at the house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A few moments later I’m standing in front of a big brick warehouse: 225 Day Street. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The police station was a brick and glass building with an American flag cemented in the ground out front. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She could still recall the Red City as she had first seen it, dry and dusty behind its red brick walls, dreaming cruel dreams, yet full of life. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I got took away from my mama, and the doctor say that I got brain damage from that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There's a brick wall up, right over near where the shooting happened. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Smooth, pastel-colored tiled streets, just like the ones above, but bordered by white brick walls instead of homes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Thick clusters of small houses made of brick and concrete dotted side streets and the lower hillsides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I figured it would make us descend faster and we would hit the water like a ton of bricks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The eeriest phase of the investigation began when the police, holding their flickering lanterns high, entered the hotel basement, a cavern of brick and timber measuring 50 by 165 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I hurry toward language arts class, reading the names in the bricks as I go past the girls’ restroom. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She could hear the dragons screaming as she led the boy back to the door, and see the play of light against the bricks, reflections of their fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Not unless you can walk through bricks, dear.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z The brick maker offers yet another kindness: if Enrique will work, he will get both food and a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She slammed against the blocked entrance with all her might, and the bricks gave way. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As you can see, mortar is a simpler and more reliable route for holding bricks together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then the bricks cling to each other without breaking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A workman was building a new fireplace in the living room, and as Dad was escorted through that room he stopped to watch the man laying bricks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z A thriving commercial center had taken root on the south side of the river, replete with stately brick hotels, sturdy limestone banks, and a wide variety of fine emporiums and reputable mercantile establishments. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Our new school is a modem one-story yellow brick building that looks like a post office. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Home was the Mount, a large, square brick house in Shrewsbury, a quiet market town in the county of Shropshire about 150 miles northwest of London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The main building, a fortress of dark brick, was seven stories high, the smokestacks seventeen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’d even built the furnace and molded the bricks herself, which is not an easy job, and even today, not the job of a woman. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z There was a tarp up on his roof with bricks around it, to cover a hole. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My butt is numb from sitting on the freezing bricks. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Each noise was like a scalpel to the skin, but I forced myself to stay against the brick wall, scraping my fingernails along the mortar. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then he showed us how to grind the brick pieces, then how much graveyard dirt to mix with it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Some of them are as large as bricks, but each one gets progressively smaller and lighter, until I finally see the first edition of the official glasses propped up at the end of the shelves. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Hey,” I say, approaching the picnic table, noticing my feet feel like bricks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Each brick consisted of 2,864 calories and was wrapped in wax paper and packed in tin boxes; the hold of the ship was loaded with them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A little over five minutes later, a brick sign surrounded by colorful shrubs welcomes us to Brook Falls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The building is massive, with off-white bricks and maroon steeples. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But now Jermaine’s face was glowing too, the blocks turning from brown to glowing red and then growing out of a brick wall, like flowers budding in fast motion. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The cat’s ginger fur was thick and fluffy, but it was definitely a bit bowlegged and its face looked grumpy and oddly squashed, as though it had run headlong into a brick wall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It’s a two-story brick colonial with shrubs crowding under the windows, black shutters, and a red door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I caught myself from falling but scraped both my palms and my knee on the brick wall. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Did she see a brown brick building known until recently as McPherson Hall? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It looked like a collection of matching houses, built with maroon-colored bricks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z For old time’s sake pneumonia made a token appearance, beat its head against the brick wall that evidently lined Amarante’s lungs, then waved a white flag and retreated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soldiers were climbing out of troop carriers and continuing on foot, stumbling over brick and roof tiles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Benji hurled the ball into the side of the brick house. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Tall houses of brick and stone faced us, with rows upon rows of windows looking down at the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The shale bricks made perfect hand- and footholds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I looked back at the brick building of the Historical Society, itself a converted early mansion. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There were guards and lights and flat brick wall, but no holes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart is still pounding pretty badly, but I stop shaking when I reach for the first brick. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The only sound was the scuff of their boots on the worn bricks beneath their feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The high wind rattled the flimsy walls; a door banged open and shut until somebody propped it open with a brick. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “The posters would appear a few days ahead—they’d cover every surface in town! You couldn’t see a brick in between!” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There were no shops that she could see in the direction she had to walk, only dull mansion blocks of flats in deep orange brick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The browning grass had recently been clipped short, and the brick path leading to the graveyard was swept clean. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I brought my hands down and watched the red brick exterior of the infirmary, a cheerful building, coming closer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite not having enough parking space, Margaret loves the house, the location, the alley behind it, and every brick in the sidewalk in front. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I snapped my one brick into place on the building I had been working on. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Up and up and up he’d borne her, high above the pyramids and pits, his wings outstretched to catch the warm air rising from the city’s sunbaked bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were wearing pretty dresses and sitting together on one of the low brick walls that ran all around the property. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The Maggots, and the Puddifoots of Stock, and most of the inhabitants of the Marish, were house-dwellers; and this farm was stoutly built of brick and had a high wall all round it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Acorns and caterpillars dotted the asphalt loop that framed the complex of about a dozen brick buildings, all identical, embedded in a communal expanse of log chips. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Having served enough time in Atlanta with her volunteer work, Mother has moved to the Georgia coast, to a hamlet of hoary little brick houses on Sanderling Island. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was colored bricks, first, and I fell down because they were coming too quick. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling south through the Black Belt, the streetcars passed by quiet streets where the Respectables lived in sturdy brick and stone structures mixed with a healthy sprinkling of frame houses and a few apartment buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The dog had been wounded many times, for the black workers were always hurling bricks at it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They all looked the same: a big muddy field surrounded by barbed-wire fence, with a bullet-ridden brick wall especially for executions. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z I stared through my hotel room window at a tall, Gothic-looking brick tower across the street with a huge clock at the top. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He might weed your garden or use the bricks from the building that was tom down up the block to make you a brick path between your rows. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Damp with condensation, the brick walls appeared to palpitate in the lantern light, thrumming with the resounding force of the steam-powered engines and machinery in the rooms above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z That stadium was brick that was mostly covered in ivy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Long past midnight, Jake kept showing Sherman and me different planets and stars, until finally he sat down and leaned up against a brick chimney and went to sleep. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Each batch of bricks bakes for fifteen hours, sending clouds of black smoke into the sky. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were proper brick buildings with stoves or fireplaces in each room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He also had a red brick in front of him on the table, broken into big chunks, and he was pounding them into powder when we arrived. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The tree stood in a big tin bucket with broken bricks to hold it upright. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Alternate colors for each row and place the scales in a brick pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Heat from the brick houses filled the street like a bake oven. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry felt as though a brick had slid down through his chest into his stomach. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As the debris, bricks, and metal cooled, enterprising youngsters dug out melted candleholders, blackened plates and teapots, fused- together pieces of silverware, and sold them to tourists. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The scarred brick face of the school, three floors and a thousand sad stories tall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Ignatius was waving to his mother from the brick sidewalk, his earring catching the rays of the streetlight. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We peeped from behind the bricks and saw two rebels who wore baggy jeans, sleepers,* and white T-shirts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She followed the brick path that led round the outside of the stable block. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He leaned against a brick wall and tried to catch his breath. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I must admit, the rock in my throat had now become a brick. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Sturdy brick structures had been transformed into blackened skeletons whose insides continued to burn brightly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This second night they sheltered in a small stand of pines, a few yards from the road, and within sight of a big brick house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The first stop was Nishuane, the elementary school, an imposing and forbidding structure of dark red brick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She was on a brick path that led away from the conservatory, and on either side of the path hedges grew to the height of her shoulders. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses up here were shabbier than the brick houses lower down in the valley. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z An idea drops like a ton of bricks on my head. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Like a brick in the groin, I see.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I kick at the brick building, hoping it will give me traction, but it doesn’t help. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was as if a ton of bricks had fallen on me, knocking the air from my lungs, making me unable to speak. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Malloy was sitting on a brick in front of his boiler. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time, I was walking through the bush, my right hand outstretched against the cool brick of a building buried deep in the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z And started layering on another story of bricks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Izzi slips behind one of the pillars and raises her hand to a brick that, at first glance, looks like all the others. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Even in the darkness her hands had no trouble finding the loose brick, the one with the secret little empty space behind it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Just follow the black stones,” the boy said, pointing at the road paved with polished bricks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “They are pulling down houses around the maidan and there is a long line of bullock carts carrying bricks.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the best of thought Father said clings like dead ivy vines upon old dead brick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He paddled to the pink brick building, where the water met the church’s higher steps, and she lifted herself out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Thalia and I pulled helplessly at the bricks while a ripple of ugly laughter ran through the Titans army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A wall, a solid brick wall, erupted out of the exhaust pipe. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the dirt next to the black bricks, he dug a small hole and planted his peach pit. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He hired our da as a dishwasher and took us to a neighborhood like no place I’d ever seen—tall brick buildings packed together on narrow streets teeming with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When brick aged long enough it could look soft. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked around the corner, and way down this side, which seemed to go on for another mile, was the moose, blocking the path between the brick and a dense thicket of bush. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Spike-topped iron railings ran around part of the cemetery, a high brick wall around the rest of it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They’d passed the yellow brick road that led to the center of town and cut through the entrance to the Cursed Forest when Seven heard a low, rumbling growl. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Just for a second I saw a dark shape in the morning sunlight—a human silhouette against the brick wall, a shadow that belonged to no one. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient | walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He came to a small mound of brick, where the upjutting ridge of the building’s flat top joined that of the other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the brick buildings in the ramshackle little downtowns we drive past seem crisp in this light. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He swung as soon as he was close enough, and I blocked it, but the force knocked me back into the brick wall. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Crumbling edges of concrete and brick undermined by sinkholes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Talking to his father made Dill feel like he was talking to a sentient brick wall that somehow knew about Jesus. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He swerves into the alley, spurs his horse down the cobblestones between two large brick buildings, and turns onto F Street, avoiding the procession. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly three meters tall and made of brick. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z This six-story brick structure is one of those piles of slag that give Sing Sing its particular feel. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn my attention back to my task and lunge upward along the wall, grabbing for each brick. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hidden behind the wall was a brick fireplace. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The words emblazoned in the tower’s bricks are so familiar I hardly notice them anymore. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The living room looks like a dance studio, with a big open space, exposed brick walls, and metal overhead lighting. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Burdened with the brick, she had no chance of flying. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ann was right behind them and saw them run over to the pile, scoop up a few bricks, and lob them through nearby store and car windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Sierra reached out a hand and touched a cool brick pillar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The building was to be one of the biggest on the island, made with bricks and wood instead of clay and thatch. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The grass was super green, and the brick buildings looked majestic in the sunshine. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z The music exploded through the brownstone, reverberating through the brick walls and making the air crackle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The full, bosomy elms made a tunnel of shade over the yellow and red brick fronts along Commonwealth Avenue, and a trolley car was threading itself toward Boston down its slim, silver track. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Wood and stone and brick and the very earth became fluidlike. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not tall but he weighed close to 250 pounds, brick hard. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Then they empty the molds on flat ground and let the bricks dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Back to the street, he yanked a handsome clothes press out a door and conducted it, thumping, down the building’s brick steps. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was Ernest’s destiny to begin his career at a moment when physics had hit a brick wall in its understanding of the atomic nucleus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If I didn’t know better,” Mola said as we made our way around a tall brick chimney. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One of his employees, using a complicated set of mirrors, found out the place in the cellar of the little brick house where she did keep it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You will need twice that many bricks to finish our wall.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A brick of loneliness is reaching terminal velocity inside me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was clear and cold, with just enough moonlight to see the little brick path Dad had made. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Its main building was red brick with white columns, its porch decorated with wide chairs and chandeliers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Finally I banged her head against a brick wall. She ended up needing stitches.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They passed hotels, clothing stores, jewelers and bookstores; then old brick churches, with signs out front saying what sermon would be given the next Sunday, and a few large old city homes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Like so many bricks had been lifted off me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A brick walk led up to the front steps. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If they gave out prizes for being sick, Rachel would win the gold bricks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That stopped me, T. Like getting hit with a brick. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Grace, Josiah, and Bien led the way to the first house, up a lighted walkway and a flight of brick steps. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes he tried to calculate the number of porcelain bricks in the walls of the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Whenever I saw the animal, I would take a brick from my load and toss it at him; he would slink away, only to appear again, showing his teeth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The pole stood against a brick wall which was the windowless side of the neighborhood school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was amazing how fast brick and mortar that had appeared so sturdy could be taken apart and how quickly the process of putting it together again began. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He was facing the yellow brick wall across the street, but then he looked at me out of the corner of his eye. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bricks were stained with soot and grime. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She pushed higher and her foot skidded down the brick. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When Farmer’s bus pulled into the Greyhound station in Anniston, Alabama, on May 14, 1961, it was met by an angry mob armed with clubs, bricks, iron pipes and knives. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Time remembered looking at the faded sign painted on the bricks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The driver gave the mule a lick and rumbled through, iron-rimmed wheels clacking loudly over bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Is Gum Baby talking to a brick wall?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I walked on until I found a hut built against a lone brick wall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s had several conversations with my counselor about me making up work and returning to school, but I’ve been a complete brick wall about it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The brick walls are all the problems we have been talking about. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He smiled a ghostly smile, drew himself up, saluted, waved toward a brick house just off the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to the now barely visible face peering out of the brick wall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I lean against the brick wall behind: the cafeteria, searching my music library for an EP by Leda. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My head struck brick, and I would have fallen if Pike hadn’t been grinding me into the crumbling wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “ON THE GROUND!” yelled the scythe, with such volume it echoed back and forth between the brick buildings of the street. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And when I get one eye at the edge of the bricks to see if I’m being followed, I catch a flash of a policeman’s dark blue hat with the gold around its brim. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He trudges up a hill to the small home of a brick maker. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It must have been built, red brick by red brick, to be the most magnificent building the workers had ever seen, like a European cathedral. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One corner of the brick was stained with smoke. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Tryouts were to be held on the field of the Clarkston Community Center, an old brick and cream-colored clapboard building on Indian Creek Drive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The brick was like an anchor against her leg. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I place my hands against the cold, rough brick at the entrance and close my eyes, running my fingers over it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The brick house with the pink vine wrapped around its forehead in the summers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The red bricks were drugs, I found out later, when my sister told me this story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I crawled under the house and crept into a dark hollow of a brick chimney and balled myself into a tight knot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The only heat source was a brick stove that didn’t warm up anything more than three steps away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This school, Thomas Jefferson High, was another public school, a sprawling brick compound. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Ranofer shrank into the darkest corner of the courtyard, wishing he could disappear into the bricks of the wall. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Strange smells wafted in the air around them as the Witchlings peered around the brick building and saw Mr. Dimblewit pulling something from a barrel. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I loosened more bricks until I could make out the neatly folded piece of fabric hiding inside the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z A few blocks from Lake Michigan, the three-story red brick building was grimy, the halls airless. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had cute brick buildings and town houses, with cobblestone streets. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z There was a frog on the brick walk, squatting in the middle of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned back to her own painting, on a much newer concrete facade adjacent to the old brick building from which Papa Acevedo’s face stared out. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z While they waited, the boys played football with a wooden brick and their sister gazed out the window, humming softly to herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Bambino’s is in a brick building right next to the fire department. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was not really a shed, but a brick factory whose roof had fallen in. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A giant brick wall surrounded the Night Zoo, but there was a section of the wall where creeping vines hung down in thick ropes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The drakon tugged its head from the brick wall and screamed in rage. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Then she threw the black brick at him and told him next time she’d have her shotgun. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She held her arms over her face against bits of falling brick and wood and concrete. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Past the place where it happened and the brick wall that now bears Tariq's face. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He set up a door on brick piles for a table. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When Faraday broke the silence, it felt like a brick flying through the window. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He shoved his hands into his armpits and walked faster, praying that Morrec had remembered to warm his bed with hot bricks from the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At noon I sneaked into the yard and walked among the aisles of damp, cleansmelling clay and came to a barrow full of wet bricks just taken from the machine that shaped them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side was a brick wall and buildings. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Not long like a snake, it was squat like a cinder brick, its thick neck blending into a head shaped like a massive flat wedge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The bus turned and passed through a gate of red brick. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After being dropped off at the Bar Harbor green, Molly walks over to the library, a brick structure on Mount Desert Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They stopped in front of a three-story building of brick and glass. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The store was covered in a cloud of orange brick dust that was hard to see through. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z People were stepping on her as they lay tangled on the bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We were always digging up more trash—bolts and screws and pieces of brick. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The swelling crowd jeered and threw bricks and rocks, and another black man in the crowd, James Crawford, drew a gun and fired it into a group of policemen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He sees the backs of houses made of brick and wood. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think this is it,” Tori said as she parked in front of a large, two-story, red brick house. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The hospital was a Goliath of brown brick and gleaming glass, looming over a green lawn as bright as bread mold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Our house was odd because the gingerbread houses stood in their own brown-brick solidarity, and our house stood apart, made from brick, stone, and siding. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The roof slopes down on one side to a brick chimney, and that is where I kneel, at the eaves, where the rafters meet the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Outside, across the playground, I see the one tall pine tree, branches lifted above the school’s brick wall. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The first house we stop at is red brick, with a huge bay window and a glowing chandelier visible from the street. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The door was half open and he went through it with scarcely a pause at the brick threshold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The evangelists sat down anyway, on a makeshift bench of bricks and planks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z On the north end of the island, the ancient brick walls and stepped pyramids of the slaver port Ghozai had suf-fered the same fate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All the time my mother and I had been sitting there, in the narrow cone of sun that shone down between the tall brick walls, doctors had been coming up to me and introducing themselves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It crashed into the pile of bricks he had just been carrying. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "Wasn't I, though? And the count's been a brick, absolutely." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z On the corner a guy played a saxophone, the sound sliding into the darkness and echoing off the bricks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The welfare office was in a brick building with wire covering the windows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z John dropped a brick in the wagon, then walked up to my seat, all his grief flooding into a sense of longing, a need for escape. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The man outside was hauling a heavy metal garbage can across the alley to the high brick wall that ran around that part of the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She stooped to pick up a bit of broken brick and threw it out of the furrow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Firelight flickered on the wet cave walls, illuminating the buffalo head, the man’s body, skin the color of brick clay. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She has her cane, Etienne’s coat, the two cans, the knife, the brick. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A piece of canvas sailcloth that I weighted down with bricks and used as a windbreak on cold nights. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But there were vestiges of a less modern life, too—merchants selling sardines and cabbage by the roadside, crude homes of brick and mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But we had different business that day, and it took us to a big brick building I recognized, immediately, as a jail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The three-story brick house facing Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, took that name from the time when it served as a boardinghouse and gathering place for congressmen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z With scarcely time for a final glance at our home, and at Uncle Yousef and Aunt Najah shuffling in the chill gray dawn, we drive off, crunching over rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The bright yellow building with the green door was so different from the gray and brick structures I was accustomed to. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I pried it out, hid the earrings, and replaced the brick, carefully brushing away any dirt that might give the hiding place away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you have a feeling that this has all happened before?” inquired Stendahl, setting to work with trowel and mortar and brick now. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped against a strip of brick wall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The fat woman helped them out of the wagon, guided them toward the back door of a brick house. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared into Hestia’s eyes, and an image rushed into my mind: I saw a dark alley between red brick warehouses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I turned and saw a brick rolling away and I felt blood oozing down my back. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom restarted the video from the beginning, but somehow that yellow brick road had lost some of its magic glow. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Sylvan Memorial Hospital was a low brick building with one wing for whites and one for blacks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His head suddenly felt very heavy, like someone had placed a brick on his forehead and asked him to balance it there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Ahead loomed the high brick walls of the local brewery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on top of this normal brick building, there was the most amazing glass...thing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “I grew up surrounded by concrete and brick, crowded freeways. People everywhere in cars, on buses, subways, trains.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But the bricks had been laid a little too skillfully, and the wood work was not as brittle and chipped as it should have been. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A handbasin with a single tap was bolted to a brick wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was one of those lofts you see in movies and at parties, the one cavernous nearly-empty room of windows and hardwood flooring, some exposed brick, steam pipes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We pass a crumbling brick mailbox and turn down a drive lined on both sides by massive trees without leaves. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Bull Meecham was the first in line, chugging what was left of his two martinis, then throwing the glasses the length of the room into the brick fireplace. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked to school around walls of bricks and breathed the coal dust for one discouraging winter. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He clung to the roof of the pit like some huge white bat, his claws dug deep into .the burnt and crumbling bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He thought there was plenty of room here for the placid tiger to make himself comfortable on the cool brick floor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Same small size, same boxy shape, same pitched roofs and squat brick chimneys. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the middle of the open hall, there are a few brick ovens and one long table but no chairs or benches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I can feel a drop rolling down my side as Mama takes a visitor parking space in front of a four-story brick building. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Finally they wandered south of downtown, into a plaza surrounded by smaller glass and brick buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Workers labored, carrying bricks and wood beams from carts and stacking them on the site. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I have my back against the bricks of the building, in a narrow space between two windows, in case anyone inside happens to look out. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was narrow, with old brick buildings crowding in close on both sides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen was made of earthen bricks as the house was, great squares of earth dug from their own fields, and thatched with straw from their own wheat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z So let us get up early and stay late, and, brick by brick and block by block, let us get that work done. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They rebuilt the little brick houses one by one, exactly as they were before, along with the stables, the dairy, and the granary. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A two-story brick house with squat, deep steps and an awning to keep rain off the landing. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I freed a few bricks, preparing to realign the wall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z They said in the village that whenever Capricorn had a house set on fire Basta took away a brick or stone, even though he feared fire at other times, and clearly that story was true. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As soon as we hit the Bronx bricks, our senses were assaulted. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They were throwing bricks through store windows, laughing and jumping, thinking it was some kind of game, some kind of holiday. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We kicked the snow away to find a pair of wooden doors set into the bricks, like the entrance to a coal cellar. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I hugged the edge of the brick chimney with all of my strength. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the winter, the long brick wall on the bedroom side warmed the whole room nicely. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was built solidly of brick and stucco. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They'd enter the brick schoolhouse and settle into their desks and learn things I didn’t know. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Along the dusty or muddy streets you would see small two- story wooden homes next to six-story brick office buildings. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She flapped her way to the top of a three-story red brick building and scuttled out of sight over the roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I dug the man out, a gray and bloody ghost beneath fallen bricks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Giggling in chorus, the workers waved some fence posts, broomsticks, bicycle chains, and bricks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The five stood in front of a brick building and all smiled widely. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The barracks they were assigned had a long brick oven along one end and deep trenches on the sides in which sleeping shelves were placed, like triple bunk beds, at impossibly narrow intervals. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She walks away, and I’m left staring at a solid brick wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Your Honor, this case is as solid as this brick, the brick that battered a poor girl’s brains out!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He could already see the great brick mouth of a main sewer. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t say much else when I told him how to cut into the clay and haul it up, until he had a good number of the bricks in the wagon. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Roy’s father stood up slowly, as if the weight of a hundred bricks were on his shoulders. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he’d spit his food, but he always tried to aim at the brick wall. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then she went to the window and looked out at the brick and limestone apartment buildings across the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Past the gate, the Yards was a labyrinth of brick walls the color of spoiled meat, smoke-guttering flues, and rickety wooden ramps crammed within two square kilometers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The bus driver parked in front of the red brick building and opened the door. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The room’s ceiling was barrel-shaped with brick arches, but Annabeth didn’t like the look of the supports. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He went to the back of his house, and from a ledge formed by a projecting brick he took three packets of medicine, powders neatly wrapped in white paper. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The open doorway behind her was blocked by rough red bricks. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was behind the brick wall in the schoolyard. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they turned up a bit of brick, a splinter of wood. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The library was a square building, all brick and stone, dating back to the beginning of the last century. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He is covered with Parisian soot and grime, overlaid with splatters and spatters of paint: ochre, brick red, orange, lemon chrome, cobalt blue, green, black, zinc white. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “There are rumors,” my father said, his voice breaking, “that we are being taken somewhere in Hungary to work in the brick factories. It seems that here, we are too close to the front. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It took every ounce of my concentration to make it down the icy brick driveway alive. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I took three big sticks and a brick and figured this was enough. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark and windowless, surrounded on all sides by brick walls eight feet thick, the chambers that the king had made his own were large and luxurious within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This vast brick temple consisted of seven 18-foot-high stories, each painted a different color. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The color of the bricks is old, yet fresh and clear. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The scuffed blue brick was where they had left it, and everything was as before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I am standing against a building, the back of my head pressed against the bricks, watching adults take my place over Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The swelling was pushing against his throat, and he leaned against the brick wall and vomited into the big garbage can. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Klan bombed the Shoreses’ brick ranch house on two different occasions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Some metal storage tanks, a few standing flues of blackened brick. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z For a moment he saw only the blackened arches of the bricks above, scorched by dragonflame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I still had to navigate the fallen bricks so I would not trip up again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was a modern brick house that could not have been cheap to buy and the name on the gate said cosy nook. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He picked up a brick and waved it menacingly. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Ebola bricks come in all kinds of shapes—horseshoes, blobs, lumps, even rings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We climbed over a jumble of bricks and splintered wood and twisted pipe. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The brick oven had been heated for two nights in a row, and the whole family had gone without sugar since Sunday to make sure that the minister’s notorious sweet tooth would be satisfied. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Craning their necks, they peered up at the dusty orange bricks of city hall, to the tall clock tower that marked the time at exactly 10:04. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z More ash went drifting downward, and a bit of crumbling brick fell away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He lifted the brick again and again, until in falling it struck a sodden mass that gave softly but stoudy to each landing blow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I know you feel like a ton of bricks have been lifted from you.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z One of the men caught up and pounded his fists on the hood of our car, while another threw a brick at the windshield. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents’ house has red brick and bright white trim and a pretty garden full of flowers because they love gardening. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z "It seems to me,” he continued in his flat New England twang, "that all you do is pick up a brick, put some mortar on it, and put it in the fireplace.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She places the can and brick beneath the piano bench, where she knows she can find them again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The word feels old inside me, like crumbling brick. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Standing in front of a smallish brick house with a yard that was probably pretty nice in the summer but was pretty bare right now. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Soon he seemed to be striking a wet wad of cotton, of some damp substance whose only life was the jarring of the brick’s impact. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The building is a wonderful brick structure, over a hundred years old, and the bakery is still run by the descendants of George Leidenheimer, an immigrant from Germany. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A window in the master bedroom broke just after three o’clock, as if a brick had been thrown through the glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I flattened my body against the brick, steeling myself against the forceful water, and prayed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One thing about Cap—it did take a brick building to fall on him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Gaslights illuminated a large brick chamber centered around a sunken stage of the sort used for rat-baiting and cockfighting. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Almost nothing remained of the original Gray Horse settlement but some rotted beams and bricks buried in the wild grasses, which the wind ruffled in ghostly rhythms. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the winter, when the first snow was too delicate to last on the sidewalks, it clung to the rough surface of the brick and was like fairy lace. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She found it on the third day, in an overgrown meadow beside the tennis court, behind a clump of trees—a low brick circle almost hidden in the high grass. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Make sure you tell your cousins where you are,” Kasim reminds me when we reach the street lined with wide lawns and brick houses. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When no one answered his knock, Joe followed a brick path through some hydrangeas and around behind the house to try the back door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She was startled, most of all, by the teenage boy in a baseball cap standing near a brick wall, face down, body leaning forward, hands between his legs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I watched him following Crenshaw through the group of passengers waiting to get on, a short, comical figure turning to wave, then disappearing through the door of the red brick terminal. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sound is the occasional pop of the oil lamps flickering against the black brick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The room contained nothing but a bed and a chest of drawers on which a number of bricks lay carefully arranged side by side, all of them covered with soot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They lived in a beautiful brick house in Smithfield, an area of Birmingham better known as “Dynamite Hill” because of the routine Klan bombings there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England, living at first in London, which she barely remembers, and then in a brick semidetached house in Croydon, with rosebushes in front. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They passed farmhouses, barns and an occasional weathered gray shack raised off the ground on piles of bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I was taking tight close-ups of a scab on her leg, and I had her flat up against the very brick wall that had scraped her. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Grabbing him by his jacket, Nettle pulled him down a scree of broken bricks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To their right, snaking along the top of a hill, was a long brick wall with notches at the top for archers—maybe a medieval defensive line, maybe Ancient Roman. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z You swerved to avoid a squirrel and almost crashed into the brick wall in front of Tony’s Pizza. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It hits me like a ton of bricks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It consisted of a series of four brick terraces, rising above the Euphrates River, with lush flowering shrubs and trees spilling over the city. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The Death House, 15-Building, was an old brick structure down by the river. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Violet was not married and I knew she lived with her mother in a house that had a high brick wall around it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like running full speed into a brick wall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket, comes along the brick sidewalk towards me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I was closest to the right window when the brick came through it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The second and third levels were made of smooth bricks with an exposed walkway to give it the look of a palace tower. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summers, when William usually felt best, they relaxed in lawn chairs on the brick patio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He is suddenly very interested in the moldering bricks of a nearby building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They turned down Eliot Street where the smell of deepset gardens and the bark of aroused dogs followed them past old brick walls covered with lichen and ivy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a right smart better than the other ones, but it’s not bricks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Here there was wood in some places, but also brick, stone, and aluminum. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He built brick houses for his workers, hired a teacher for the school, and raised the standard of living of everyone on his lands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The steeple jutted through a cluster of shade trees; below, the red bricks looked shadowy and cool. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, her toes sought purchase, but only slid over the bricks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His fingers on the brick began to ache; he had been gripping it for some minutes with all the strength of his body. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z First Leo made himself a forge out of mud bricks, each one baked with his own fiery hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When the column crumbled, Percy used the unleashed water to guide the collapse—bringing down several tons of bricks on the giant’s head. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He moved heavily up the little garden in front of the brick house and rang the bell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I passed a half-finished wall, I picked a brick from the scatter and carried it at my side, reassured by the block’s weight and heft. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine of every ten were moving westward, down the broad brick thoroughfare to Daznak’s Pit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally, after it felt like we’d been crawling along the highway for months, the Columbus skyline appeared on the horizon, glittering like Oz at the end of the yellow brick road. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On the sparrow’s uninjured leg Matthias had tied a brick; not a very big brick, but one large enough to stop the bird getting airborne or trying any sneak attacks upon his captor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His face turned brick red again, and for a moment I thought he was going to run away. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked down the brick steps to the Misses Spink and Forcible’s front door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z “Someone threw a brick through my parents’ office window.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His call went unanswered, echoing eerily against the grimy mud bricks. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The brick buildings were constructed by prisoners themselves, using bricks made on site. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I sat up against the brick wall and gave a short nod. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It’s square-shaped, a bungalow, built of yellow brick and surrounded by raw mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On July 3, several cars drove up to a brick mansion surrounded by gardens, meadows, and woods. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Summer,” he said to me once, “drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain’t that heavy.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I pick Peck up by the back of his collar and then slam him against the brick wall. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The cough was near constant, stiff and phlegmy like a sack of bricks slamming against my insides. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The imposing brick buildings on the campus looked like castles. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I’m walking naked as a beam of light along brick paths and squares of grass, phosphorescent and clean. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fall, and the grass was getting duller, and the trees were gold and that reddish brown that looks like the color of old bricks. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her twisted fingers looked like the rough old roots of a tree that had grown around a clay brick. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We went along the brick walk, with our shadows. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I dodged and the beast buried its head in a brick wall. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When a neighbor in the brick house up the hill calls down that Enrique is on the line, Maria Isabel sprints over. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We walked past the rows of brick structures with corrugated iron roofs to a big grey building in the back of the compound. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari and the rest of the captives were guided to a huge white building made of bricks and stone, larger than any Amari had ever seen or even imagined. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The well's covered by a dustbin lid under a stack of bricks to stop Dean's sister Maxine falling in. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Even through the leather, she could feel the dense heat of the bricks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He looks at me and laughs as a brick mansion comes into view ahead of us. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In the midst of black soot and black bricks.... A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Kids have tagged the outside bricks with all sorts of graffiti. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls around them were made of bricks of half a hundred colors, but the shadows turned them all to grey until touched by the light of the torch that Gerris carried. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That explains why it looks like a chocolate brick,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They made us carry bricks and wood from the barge. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At first it was just a dark spot on the bamboo mats that covered the courtyard bricks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Rimas heated bricks to warm her feet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked around for a second like he thought I must have been talking to the brick wall or the lamppost nearby. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I also carried a pouch of the graveyard dirt mixed with powdered brick dust from Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The words were another line of bricks in their defense against the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The interior of most corridors was painted brick and cinder block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As she stepped inside the two-story brick building, untouched by the storm, it was the most normal thing in the world. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There was no brick wall there now—just darkness, a night-black underground darkness that seemed as if things in it might be moving. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He remembered that he had seen two bricks lying on the floor of the room as he had entered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m reaching Union Square, a promenade of Halloween vendors and restaurants and a Barnes & Noble the size of a brick cruise ship, all for the gawking. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z We would pile cardboard bricks into giant mountains and play avalanche. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But none of those could hold a candle to my troubles, weighing down that clothesline like a sack full of bricks. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He rode up toward the brick building with the cupola and topped a crest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A vaguely familiar voice rises from the stairwell as I paw at the brick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They would have seen that her eyebrows were drawn on as though by Magic Marker, and that her face, owing to the Princess Borghese makeup she sold on commission, was the color of a brick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They raised it with sun-dried bricks and plastered it with mud and handfuls of straw. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Clutching cups of coffee and donuts, we round a corner and see the brick school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Judging from the acoustics, Reyna was in a small room with brick or concrete walls: maybe a basement or a cell. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Austin likes to hold my hand and swing it like we’re walking down the yellow brick road. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I laid a big fat brick against the rim. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He took his bride to his home in Medallion and put her in a lovely house with a brick porch and real lace curtains at the window. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Even the brick chimney was crumbled, a pile of rust red and gray. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Hizdahr had not taken up residence there, preferring to establish his own suite of rooms deep in the heart of the Great Pyramid, where massive brick walls surrounded him on all sides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, Lessius and his successors say that if you throw a quantity of bricks down on the ground you will never get a palace. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The paved road in front of us, lined with glittering ivory bricks on one side and edged with golden stones on the other, curved around ripe orchards stuffed with fruit trees I never knew existed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z This temple was a small structure, not higher in all than a man’s shoulder and made of grey bricks and roofed with tile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The brick was a pure, unsullied color, without so much as a dot of mud splashed from the rain. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A sound, high in the air, bounced off the brick walls and repeated itself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Painted grape leaves and tiny white lights decorated the bricks around the door. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings are made of green marble, white granite, or red bricks with tall glass windows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Manet ran a hand idly over his wild, grey beard as he eyed the heat waves rolling off the brick kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then they gathered humans and animals in the courtyard, poured gasoline on the little brick houses that had once been Trueba’s pride and joy, and set fire to them and everything inside them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I scanned the facility, land of a zillion red bricks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their faces were brick red and they sat very rigid trying not to be sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he flicked the computerized dice, his luck hit a brick wall. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The bricks and burglar bars protect charred rubble. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Bright green lichens creep up the remaining bricks. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z From Gram’s front yard, you can see the church—with its wobbly steeple and ancient bell—to the left, and the village hall—with its cheery red brick and bulletin board—to the right. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Sierra and Robbie leaned against a brick wall and watched the cars roll by. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z There was no answer, so she sat down to wait on the narrow ledge of brick in front of his door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z There were the rough grooves of the bricks lining the wall behind her headboard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She made her way out of the crowd toward the edge of the Square, where she stood with her back to a cold brick wall and watched the festivities. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the brick wall I sensed Miss Lilian listening, her head up, like a hound on the scent of some thing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The first story was beige brick, and the second and third stories were yellow, with the fire escapes painted to match. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Using it to hold the alarm button down, I pull open the door and use a brick leaning against the wall to keep it open. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary-looking house, more expensive than some, but typical of Philadelphia: brick front, windows trimmed in white paint, metal railings, and a thick oaken door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Scratching numbers into the dust on the seat, I started the math, but John jumped in right quick with, “We need one hundred sixty bricks? I’ll be here until January!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z A waitress, hair dyed red as new brick, was standing in front of him, holding up the coffeepot. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z On the brick walk, he shrugged on his sweatshirt and crouched to lace his boots. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The walls were brick and covered with ivy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Winky was sitting on the same stool as last time, but she had allowed herself to become so filthy that she was not immediately distinguishable from the smoke-blackened brick behind her. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z When the road is blocked with fallen masonry from a collapsed building, Hamza scrambles over the scorched bricks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Mobs frequently assembled outside the homes of black families who had ventured beyond the Black Belt, smashing up the buildings with bats, rocks, and bricks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It looks almost like the Grafton Hill projects, except these brick buildings barely have any windows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “How cool is it gonna look when you step up to the line for your million dollar shot and you chuck a brick?” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Even the bricks of the house are softening, becoming tactile; if I leaned against them they’d be warm and yielding. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The three-story brick structure had a white statue in the bell tower and looked like a suburban Catholic high school. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The shuls of Maxwell Street were all brick and clapboard, some with plaster walls painted to resemble stone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z To hold the eiderdown on a bed tie a brick at each corner. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Valentine, in the class ahead of me, had a figure that was usually described by boys watching her sashay by as “stacked like a brick privy.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to drop the brick, wanted to be free of this warm blood that crept and grew powerful with each passing moment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Then, balked by the staunch brick walls of the houses at the foot of the hill, the death-dealing mass swept back towards the water. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The imposing brick Sherman Hotel reigned from the far end of town. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z So, generally, it is a better idea to mix iron into the ceramic of the brick before it is fired. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A brick wall as high as me surrounds it and wild bushes grow higher. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Scene 2: In a back alley, barrels are being rolled out of a truck toward an aproned, beckoning barkeeper and through the back door of a brick building. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She glared at me, rubbing the shoulder that had hit the brick. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He will gaze beyond the high brick wall, the red-tile rooftops, the spike of church steeples, the linden and chestnut trees. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I warmed bricks and shuttled them back and forth from the stove. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She turned right, drove past the parade grounds with its flagpole, and parked her car near a massive, almost windowless building made of concrete and yellow bricks that covered almost ten acres of ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on to older neighborhoods like mine, where the houses are still nice, but have been around for a while, so still made of brick. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z I told him, “It’s a bridge, man. We know it’s crooked, Vega. We’re going to swap in some other bricks on that side later. Ones from...” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z At the rear of the house a brick dependency that may once have been a kitchen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The cold seeping through my coat, and the brick punishing my feet: These feel like welcome pains, much easier to deal with than the empty ache in my heart. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as though the bricks surrounded him and him alone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I crash headfirst into the bricks and crumble to dust in the water. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The house, a one-story brick structure, stood in a grove of cottonwoods on a little eminence over a pool made by a dammed-up spring. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Their coach barked commands in a booming voice that rang off the brick buildings of the housing projects across the street. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The way the bricks of the oven were laid made a twisty labyrinth inside it, which helped heat the oven better and hold that heat longer. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A large building, spruce and white; not only money has built it but men’s hopes and pity, as I know who have seen it grow brick by brick and year by year. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The sprawling brick buildings of Harlem are laid out like a quilt beneath us. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He continued on his way, through the stream of pedestrians, whistling and tapping his cane on the brick sidewalk, completely unaware of the two men who’d stepped into his wake. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z My mother placed the slim brick of cash beneath her skirt, tucked tight against her belly, and I followed her out looking all around for any sign of trouble. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The square brick towers of Pentos were black silhouettes outlined against the setting sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They consisted of three godowns standing in a row, square rooms with brick walls and stone floors, each with a separate low doorway. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Certain former slaves were carving stone and laying bricks, stealing work from guild journeymen and masters alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the living room is a brick fireplace and a bay window overlooking the yard. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In real life, the brick house looks even better than Sabeen’s crayon and sparkly drawing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Down a hollow, round the bend, I came across a thatched cottage made of sooty bricks and crooked timber. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I open the oak cabinet and, just as Max promised, there's more than enough room between the buckets of Lego bricks and rolling carts with drawing supplies to fit me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A fireplace with raw brick showing where the wooden mantel and surround had been pried away and burned. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I leaned against the brick exterior of the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School and listened to the music coming from inside the gym. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The stream ran across the floor, just like the one at Godstow, in a channel lined with bricks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Going for another brick, he said, “Down the road’s when he’s passed on and giving over his land. You get the land.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Side by side they stood looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Two tall double chimneys tilted to the right, giving the place an unstable look, as if it might topple over at any moment in a tumble of bricks. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I know it was foolish of me to hang on to the past, but there was something about the place with its white brick walls browned by oven heat... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Grimy brick tenements shifted in the corner of my eye, acquiring decorative statues and rococo stuccowork—the adornments of a European city. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The brick structure was all the way at the far west side of camp, cupped in one end of Thurmond’s long rectangle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They used tent canvas to make huts against the standing chimneys and half-crumbled brick walls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Police cars and ambulances filled the street, their angry red lights pulsating against the brick buildings. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I busted up the stairs but stopped like I hit a brick wall. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Ragens protected their turf—sometimes with fists, often with a barrage of bricks known as “Irish confetti,” sometimes with guns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The slaves walked the roads between towns with their scavenged weapons: hatchets and scythes, knives and bricks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z All the money Baba had spent, all those nights he’d sweated over the blueprints, all the visits to the construction site to make sure every brick, every beam, and every block was laid just right... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Behind the house and up some stone steps is a square garden surrounded by high brick walls and in there are tons of flowers blooming already all in shades of white. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The architecture was identical—a four-story brick building—lined with rows of windows that blinked like sleepy eyes as lamps and candles were lit against the dusk of an April evening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As I said, my grandmother was a tough lady who’d made her own bricks and was always putting me to work. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I glanced in at the serem-trees leaning white above the dark pool, the paths of pink brick lying deserted in the serene gray light of afternoon. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The man’s dead words fell like bricks around the audi-torium and too many settled in my belly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This is why the typical chicken yard quickly winds up bare and hard as brick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Jason tried to shield Piper, but a brick caught him above the eye. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A man was sitting on the floor writing on a small raised wooden board resting on bricks before him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She pumps him for information over dinner every night, and he tells her whatever she wants to know: Arthur and Paige Bauer are the yellow Stuart with the brick front. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Except some of them were not so big now; the bombardment had left them crumples of brick. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Two stories high, the unfinished shul stood level with the brick buildings surrounding it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The kitchen door was shut, but nearby, along the wall, there was a hole above the drain where a brick had been left out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Within, its walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Like the sidewalks, it’s red brick, and must once have been plain but handsome. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The building was made of red brick and two stories tall. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Jetta made her jump into the pool in her clothes to get dive bricks that Jetta herself had thrown in, when the swimming team was standing less than ten feet away. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Something with white shutters and red bricks, something with manicured shrubs and flower boxes in the windows. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Chimneys stand with their bricks raw to the light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z During Dad’s first week at work he made so many suggestions about how brick could be laid faster and better that the foreman threatened repeatedly to fire him. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca saw her mother serve the food on plates of handcrafted clay, such as was used for making bricks, since all the dishes had perished in the quake. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishtar blows the brick dust off her sword. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And looking with dismay up the road towards Bag End they saw a tall chimney of brick in the distance. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And no matter how beautiful the fragrant gardens were, they were surrounded, as I was, by ten-foot brick walls. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z If I had eyes that wasn’t mashed up by a brick, I sure ’nuff wouldn’t hide ’em behind a bunch a fat. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “There was a note wrapped around the brick. Apparently, the bombing in Springfield angered the perpetrator. The brick through the window was a kind of warning.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It was, after all, just so much wood and brick. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The plaza that fronted on her pyramid was paved with bricks of many colors, and the heat rose from them in shimmering waves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As the usually spotless living room was now covered in dust and bits of brick, this remark didn’t go down too well with the Dursleys. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Many wooden huts have been upgraded to small brick or cinder-block homes, some two or even three stories high. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We parked on the street beside the circular brick driveway in front of the Bishops’ house, and Cade carried his puppet book up into the lawn where it would not be seen from the doorway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He talked and I sat, wordless as a brick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But the gates swept out of sight and were replaced by the beige brick walls of our school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He could hear the rain falling outside, drumming against the bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I step backward across the sidewalk and lean against the brick wall between Frenchy's and a closed sushi restaurant. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Had this guy been broadsided with a brick at some point? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They found her sitting behind barbed wire in the corner of a yard outside the brick barracks where she slept. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The bricks had been cleaned very well, and through the wide and open windows one could see an assortment of well-groomed plants. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The front of the courthouse was red brick with great white marble steps going up to a wide door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran past the front porch and around the corner to the bricks beneath her bedroom window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He felt suddenly that he wanted something in his hand, something solid and heavy: his gun, a knife, a brick. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Before too long, Mr. Poe drove his car down a narrow alley lined with houses made of pale brick and stopped halfway down the block. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I looked at the brick walls surrounding the property. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Nigel missed the board and his dart bounced off the brick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The threads break away from the cell and drift into the bloodstream of the host, multiplying and taking over more cells and forming bricks and bursting the cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the bamboo mat to see if I could peel off my shadow, but it was under the mat, on the brick. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a few bricks protruding from the wall. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The others rush in and I hang back, leaning against the bricks outside the restaurant. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z So we moved into a room in a big house that was made of red bricks. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The engines started up, and I watched as Eugene Field Memorial Middle School got smaller and smaller, its bricks and cement gradually disappearing into the distance. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He circled the spot of the flashlight; the floor was carpeted with black dirt and he saw two bricks lying in corners. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The outside is brown brick, and the inside has light brown cement floors, white walls, and white sheets on the beds. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Ludsbury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick red momentarily and he assumed his customary sententiousness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Cole’s pulse quickened as he eyed the familiar stark brick building. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Some of the bricks on the back wall of the auditorium are a darker shade, almost brown, and they form this double helix design. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Every other surface is of metal or concrete or brick. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a two-story brick house with black clapboard shutters and a trio of narrow cement stairs leading to the front door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, most of the buildings were low, four or five stories of soiled brick. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Chunks of brick littered the grass in front of her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The bricks will soon be baking in the sun, thought Dany. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We formed a circle about the first arrivals, some fifty men or so, who were unloading bricks from the bullock carts. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z All that was left of the building was a jagged brick wall with nothing behind the windows but black sky. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z When a brick touches the inner surface of the cell wall, it breaks apart into hundreds of individual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ages was a white mouse who lived across the farm and beyond, in a house that was part of a brick wall. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The large plywood board that last night covered the broken window now leans against the brick wall. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Ivy’s favorite pizza place, Vesuvio’s, was demolished, only one brick wall still standing at the corner of Second and Main Streets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The library was red brick, Victorian, sitting self-importantly at the top of a hill. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She told him of the Harpy’s Sons and the Brazen Beasts, of blood upon the bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bricks it was built of were old and crumbly and very pale red. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z We bundle up, sneak out the back, and slink into the little brick lane behind Morning Glory Cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This one stretched practically across the table, and was as thick as a brick stood on end. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I see brick buildings, one next to the other, lined up in long sad rows. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Two long fire pits had been dug, and resting over the pits on brick platforms were large metal pans. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It is called Roots & Shoots because roots move gradually under the ground to make a firm foundation, and shoots seem small and weak, but to reach the light they can break open brick walls. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Immediately, the field shimmered and became a maze of brick walls and trenches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Werfel led the elf behind some bushes, and they climbed down a brick wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Particularly active among them was Hadamar, a castlelike hospital on a hill, and the Brandenburg State Welfare Institute, a brick building resembling a garrison, with rows of windows along its side. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was brick cold out this January afternoon. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We walked down the valley through the center of town and around a mountainside, past the small, tidy brick houses put up after the mines were unionized. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it one of marble; in Alexandria, history has taken a city of marble and left it one of tin, plaster, and tar paper. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Hell was and would always be as far as she was concerned, a lake of fire exactly the size of Maycomb, Alabama, surrounded by a brick wall two hundred feet high. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Poured out a whole river of red bricks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It would always be us up against the bricks. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Here was the American dream built brick by brick, screw by screw, concrete over dirt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We traveled down the yellow brick road together, our destination being the Alterna-Fiesta. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z There was no brick wall on the other side of the door: only darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I pick up a twig from the dirt under the bush behind me and trace the cracks in the bricks. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She remembered the awful sound of that brick hitting his forehead—an injury that had happened only because he’d tried to shield her from the Romans. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His mother rolled big bricks up from the riverbed to hold the pieces of cardboard in place. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, just poking into the picture, was the front wing of a car—certainly not theirs, and further off, an oasthouse looming over a brick wall. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I followed Drew until a ton of bricks slammed into my shoulder and I spilled onto the floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z When the interior support framing of a building had been eaten through and weakened enough, parts of the exterior brick walls would fall with a ground-rumbling roar. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The paint, once sparkling white, had faded to ghostly gray and eroded in parts, revealing the layered bricks beneath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The column crept slowly down the long brick street. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We reach the brick wall at the end of the playground. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z But when we reach the back, we find that the yard is enclosed within a brick wall. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She saw rotten pockets where all the cells had popped and died, forming a liquefied spot that was packed with wall-to-wall bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Around him the shouts and screams of children playing and running about echoed from the school’s brick walls, and a cold wind carried the noise away over Port Meadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Its old bricks glowed garnet in the late afternoon sun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Janae and I pull it out and lay it across the sun-warmed tar, away from the edge of the building where only two feet of brick and concrete keep us from open sky. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Their arms are locked, and they’re skipping like Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man heading down the yellow brick road on their way to see the wizard. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The pink brick of the Royal Square gives way to white limestone mansions and townhouses adorned with quartz roses and blush-pink lanterns above their entryways. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I try to enjoy the ride the way Madge does, the clacking and whooshing, the blur of trees, bricks, and fences. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “Your Grace,” Ser Barristan said, “there was a harpy drawn on the bricks in the alley where he was found ...” “ ... drawn in blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The school, a four-story brick building with a yard in front, sat just a couple of blocks from our house on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I guessed that this was where all of my leftover bricks was coming from. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I hurry silently to the back of our house, get a good foothold on a loose brick, and fling myself upward. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Even if they managed to squeeze themselves through the narrow windows, they would have to drop thirty feet or more to concrete and brick below. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The hoarse voice echoed off the cobblestones and brick houses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking about this when all of a sudden—SPLAT!!—we hit the water like a ton of bricks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The car stops in front of a large brick building that looks deserted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With one stroke from the brick, he punctures the can with the tip of the knife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Warbeak uttered a stream of curses as she stumbled on the brick. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To the boy, the sounds were alarm bells ringing off the bricks of the school building, making his stomach ache as he forced down his lunch of a browned biscuit smeared with lard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After much study, the steering committee selected the R. N. Harris Elementary School, a modern, one-story brick building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was like talking to a brick wall... so I took out the sledgehammer. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I thought about dragging that wagon back down the baking brick walk and through the field to the road. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But now that he was wide awake it hit him like a ton of bricks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It looks like a castle, gray brick rising high in the sky and left and right too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We silently stole down the mountain and slipped like ambushing Indians through the open gate in the back of the tipple area, where Dad’s grimy little brick office was. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hadn't his pa taught him his way through the maze of mighty brick sewers! The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The drop...the cement and brick below them...Even with a fire burning and the chance of more explosions, it wasn’t a good option. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Now she reached Mr. Ages’ house, a hole in the brick wall where one end of heavy floor beam had once rested. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She stepped cautiously over the broken brick paving in her brown felt moccasins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside the hotel, it was drizzling and Augustus and I stood on the brick sidewalk slowly getting wet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I followed the brick path around the house to the back. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He pulled into an empty alley behind a row of red brick town- houses and looked at me for the first time since we’d gotten in the car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The rocks and bricks in this bridge felt like they were one of the original things anybody had built in New York City. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z A bunch of people sat on the benches and brick steps. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the big brick house, drenched in sunshine, still, quiet. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But since World War II, one brick after another had been pried from the walls of segregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z What joy they must take in the wide, velvet-covered bed, the brick walls, and the heavy blue-green draperies Señor Aguilar provided for them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Clusters of people stand near the shops and the brick sidewalks look too bumpy and uneven for a wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It overlooks the garden, but Hannah’s table is hidden by a brick column choked with ivy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It had only one storey, but it had the same narrow windows, and it was built of ugly pale bricks, badly laid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A brick wall would be put up — a labor. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The bullet hits the brick wall to my right, and pieces of brick spray everywhere. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was a brown hand, all blocky from being made out of Lego bricks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Man, whatever,” Sneaky says, throwing up another brick. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Like the earth, the sandy bricks radiated the day’s trapped heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘But don’t clay for these here bricks cost money? And don’t it take money to rent land and raise crops on?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We’re living in a larger place now, the three of us: the upper two stories of a red brick semidetached house with a sagging wooden square-pillared porch, on a side street west along Bloor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The water hit Leo’s face like a brick wrapped in sandpaper, and he sank into darkness. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Those little packages look more precious than bricks of gold right now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I walked into the butterfly garden while Tilly went off to do her business, and spied a big toad making his way down the brick pathway in the moonlight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Between two low brick buildings was a tall wooden fence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z At four o’clock he knocked on the door of the only house back of the ridge with a brick front. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The building’s buzzer was broken, so the door was held open with a brick. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a grimy three-story brick building with a carefully tended football field in front. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Nothing but the old door that opened onto the brick wall. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stood there feeling dumb as a brick. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z There are no paved roads and virtually no buildings of metal or brick. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasmine and Darrell and Camille walk with me down Eighth Street, past the buildings with their paint faded by the sun, brick chipping away, birds singing their tunes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z There was one last brick to shove into place. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not have believed that the world contained as much brick as there was in a single building here. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But the hand of the professional decorator had exorcised whatever ghosts of the French bourgeoisie might still haunt the thick brick walls of the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Rain of bricks, rain of pebbles, slower rain of soot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Brother Vu screams, Ha Ya, and makes me jump every time he breaks wood or bricks in imitation of Bruce Lee. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z An odd, watchful silence hangs over the foreboding brick building. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The first four shots he takes are air balls or bricks. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We live in a tidy brick house on one of those tidy, tree-lined streets I saw from my window in the hospital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nick’s sitting alone on the stoop, tapping his fingers on the edge of the bricks. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Encountering a second black man, who was making his way home with a bag of groceries, they beat him also, fracturing his skull with a brick. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Finally we found an unconscious courier leaning against a brick wall, still straddling his red Vespa. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Several pieces of broken bricks, evidently broken after being thrown at the door, were lying about the door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, if you engraved one brick with the rune ule and another with the rune dock, the two runes would cause the bricks to cling to each other, as if mortared in place. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They passed long brick walls dividing the compounds of Seatown’s wealthy traders from the common folk who did the work of the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Leaning against the brick wall, I catch my breath before pulling off my jacket and scarf, opening the door, and strolling to my room, as if I’ve just been off at the NICU. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I peer inside and see a set of old brick stairs leading down. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The front of the new sand-pit was all levelled and made into a large sheltered garden, and new holes were dug in the southward face, back into the Hill, and they were lined with brick. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a red brick building with skylights in the high ceiling, so that whatever sun made it in lit up the dusty beams and long fluorescent light fixtures suspended from them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Many of these old brick and stone houses, with their tin-roofed verandas, still stood in Sophiatown, giving the township an air of Old World graciousness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Citra, at least, had a window, but the view was of a brick wall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Did you see that empty lot across from the library? The one filled with masonry bricks?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well, boy, we found her. You hit her with a brick, but she didn’t die right away. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the smoking carcass could strike the bricks, the dragon’s teeth closed round it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He swung himself up, branch by branch, and imagined he was Silas, swarming smoothly up a sheer brick wall. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As the virus grows inside a cell, crystalloids, or bricks, appear at the center. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They used to leave a key under the third brick in the garden, so I fumble around on my hands and knees, counting bricks and sifting dirt until I find that key. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He planted each word like a man laying down bricks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z When at last he came to the bottom of the last flight of steps, he found himself all but alone amongst the torchlit corridors inside the pyramid’s massive brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Harry saw the edge of Snape’s sallow face turn a nasty brick color, the vein in his temple pulsing more rapidly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Wang Lung’s grandfather, who had farmed the very fields upon which Wang Lung now spent his life, had built it, hauling the bricks from the town upon his wheelbarrow. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Under three huge brick arches they went, then down a steep stone ramp into the depths, through the dungeons and torture chambers and past a pair of deep stone cisterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We took the bricks off, one by one. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z His legs are wedged between broken bricks and fallen walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It is six stories high, with wide windows arranged into a grid, divided by pillars of brick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My back and shoulders throb from bricks and chunks of plaster that beat me as they crashed down. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z To prevent this you have to add the rune aru to each of the bricks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But only if the bricks are made out of clay. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Edward stops next to one of the crumbling brick buildings and forces a steel door open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She braces one of the cans between her thighs, holds the point of the knife against its lid, and raises the brick to tap down on the knife handle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Trap itself ain’t that heavy, but it’s got bricks in the bottom to make it sink. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Gene and the sergeant parked under a sweet- gum tree by the low brick building and went in through the front door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Open book to brick barrier in less than a second? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z One soldier, who sat on a cement brick underneath the kitchen, bowed his head in his hands and rocked his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She crawls to an edge inside herself, longs to be insensate, a slab of brick. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on a pile of bricks, trying to keep the Madonna from sliding through my fingers. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Blacks complained of having bricks thrown at them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In addition to a granite-block exterior, the interior ceilings were of corrugated iron, resting upon wrought iron I beams, and every partition wall in the structure was of brick. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía had the seventy-two gold bricks included in the inventory of surrender and closed the ceremony without allowing any speeches. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the picture, a teenager in a black T-shirt was leaning against a brick wall. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Filthy, dazed, and hungry, they wandered on foot from the train station to Vancouver’s brick downtown in a cold, dismal rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The colors and textures seemed very bland compared to the warm and bright bricks and stuccos of the houses around C Average. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “If I forbid them to carve stone or lay bricks, the chandlers, the weavers, and the goldsmiths will soon be at my gates asking that they be excluded from those trades as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z First they ripped out the boards that covered the ancient fireplace, coming upon the rusty bricks like prospectors upon the mother lode. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z One of its bearers had collapsed to the bricks, overcome by heat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was no immediate cover, so we had to swiftly run onto a verandah and hide behind stacks of cement bricks. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We had a brand-new brick school now, and a brand-new Confederate flag out there on the stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My whole life has been demolished, brick by brick. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He would need every can of muriatic acid he had in his shop to scrub that paint out of the brick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We picked up bricks, the rocklike broken bits of concrete blocks, the wooden boards. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The sparrow was still wearing the collar, lead and brick shackle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So it was finished then, down to the last plank and brick and wooden pin which they could make themselves. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he could hear his brother raging in the pit, despite the walls of brick and stone between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They’ve left behind fresh white brick and a mound of black dirt. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Finally, I found myself against a brick wall. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The worms were unmistakable—and there were the crystalloids—the bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To hold up ten stories of stone and brick, however, the pyramids would have to be immense, the basement transformed into a Giza of stone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We passed by Friendship Baptist without Uncle Darnell making mention of the Arabian Knight or his sword, plastered into the yellow brick face of the church. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There were the notes, too; the notes they’d passed back and forth in school since kindergarten, the notes he’d left behind the brick under her window. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I got challenged when my mamas boyfriend hit my head with a brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Together we kept walking down the brick corridor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In addition to bricks and wood, we carried barrels of kerosene, flour, and even small fishing boats, all for the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z State guardsmen were pelted with rocks, bottles, and bricks as they patrolled the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I know every brick and every tree trunk and every crack in the sidewalk. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The top was as solid as a brick wall, each nail fastened tight. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long before, Grupo Beta found a bed of bricks inside, covered with emerald green leaves from a plant that looked like a bird-of-paradise—and two soiled pairs of panties crumpled on the dirt floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There were studies of shadows against a faded brick wall, photographs of feathers clotting the shoreline of Shaker Lake, experiments Mia was conducting with printing photographs on different surfaces: vellum, aluminum foil, newspapers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Someone threw a brick through the large plate glass window of a cigar store. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Suppose Bessie was not as she had sounded when the brick hit her? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dicey would wait outside the big brick building, waiting for the heavy doors to be opened from within. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Then the bricks were placed on top of the boards. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We loved coming here to shop and walk around because all the stores were outside between palm trees and flowering plants, fountains, and brick walkways. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The bones on the floor of the pit were deeper than the last time she had been down here, and the walls and floors were black and grey, more ash than brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With its high brick walls and the barbed-wire livestock pens surrounding it, it seemed as impenetrable as any fortress. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Until a brick came sailing through the air a few weeks later, breaking glass and landing on their living-room floor. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I saw nothing except well-worn bricks and mud. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Many have an ornate façade of red brick, with four- or five-step stoops leading to the front door. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Tom steered him down one of the rutted work roads, his hand a sweating brick on Henry’s shoulder. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Cotton was lining up bricks along the edge of the road, and Lenny was swinging a baseball bat at rocks that hit the road sign with a clang. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Helena kicks the ball, bouncing it against the blank brick wall of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z A huge pile of twisted metal, wooden planks, and crumbled bricks lay in front. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Char throws mean words at me, words as hard as bricks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z During the night, when he was overcome by sleep, he had nightmares of small brick houses in flames. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy sucked in his breath, squinting in expectation of the blow, his back pressing against the rough bricks until their edges dug into his flesh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I smile too and continue counting until we are back at our brick apartment building. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z People in Annapolis, Dicey decided, must like bricks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Her grave was simple and unadorned, covered only by a few stones and some upturned bricks, no different from the other graves at Qunu. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But Marston Street was lined with a little bit of everything, from small brick to fancy vinyl. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z In the dim confines of his cabin, Kaz whispered, “Brick by brick.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The old men did not even change the adobe walls for modern bricks, or modify the narrow windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ancient brick walls were crisscrossed with modern electrical cables and plumbing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Up on the Hollow Log, by the brick bridge. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The boys dived under tables just as the double doors and the brick wall they were mounted to exploded inward, destroyed by the force of the giant, furry platypus beast barreling inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The bricks of the chimney, which collapsed in a charred heap, provide a point of reference for the rest of the house. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The bricks were red, the sky was brilliant blue, the knots in the barbed wire sparkled like ladies’ earrings. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He tapped a brick and placed it on the wet mortar, humming. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There are fewer people here, about fifty, but they fill the small brick building. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The policeman put on his sunglasses and slid into his patrol car, which'was as hot as a brick oven. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were jealous of Baba’s carpentry skills, which earned a higher pay than their work of laying bricks, and of how quickly his rice harvest had recovered. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Through the purple twilight he watched fires waken one by one in the great stepped pyramids, as the many-colored bricks of Meereen faded to grey and then to black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her brown wedgies squeaked with discount price defiance, as she walked redly and pinkly along the broken brick sidewalk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The pumice rock minefield was dotted with stubborn weeds armed with sharp thistles, which poked up through the cheap layer of thin black plastic under the brick- colored lava bits. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She ran her hand over the exposed brick wall. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was a bland brick building that looked more like a bank than anything else until she noticed the lit-up marquee that read THE FILLMORE. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They formed a little colony of their own, living midway between the town and open country in brick cottages with whitewashed walls and red-tiled roofs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly his world was very small and very simple: a brick wall behind him, a row of scowling faces in front of him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to recognize and grasp the form of some things, because they are small and simple, like a grain of salt, or repetitive, like a wall made of bricks of the same size. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The air inside the packing plant was several degrees cooler than outside, on account of the brick walls, but it reeked of the same slaughter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He passed a large brick schoolhouse with big windows and children climbing on little ladders and swinging on swings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irishman staked a claim, opened a brick factory on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, and made a fortune on the Northwest’s turn-of-the-century construction boom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had that evil face that Mama’s boyfriend had right before he grabbed up that brick. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In engineering parlance, it embodied little “dead load,” the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There will not be a brick on the grounds,” Burnham said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It stands at least the height of three men and looks to be made of stacked mud bricks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I shove Alan against the scorched wall beneath an overhang of bricks and crumbling mortar. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A Victorian terrace of bright red brick faced right onto the pavement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The house sat on the left side of the brick path, the backyard at the end of it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Walking up the path, I film the light dancing on the brick wall outside of the bathrooms. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I'm running past buildings of tan bricks, five stories high with black fire escapes and windows with bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was almost blindingly white in the late afternoon sun; it looked as if it had been white st washed several times for the brick to be so completely covered, Polly surmised. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the dubious honor of being its first inmate—got to see them build the Mess Hall brick by brick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Explosions were common at the brickworks, for companies would use dynamite to loosen the clay before the great machines scooped it up to make bricks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin moved on to a nearby brick house, where he asked another Korean Chinese man for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The brick walls are covered in posters and stickers, all bright and colorful, abstract and strange. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham’s house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t even recognizable as a restroom anymore—there was just a gaping hole piled up with dirt and bricks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Or a brick. Of course there’s the flying brick to worry about.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Steel girders replaced wood-framing, exteriors were made of brick or granite, and designs favored straight, simple lines. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The soldiers set up their garrison in another unfinished brick house, and there they socialized separate from the civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The courthouse is an imposing, old, pillared brick building occupying a full city block, but the entrance is off to the side, down a set of steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked like a mean boy fixing to smash puppies with a brick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes latch on to the glove box, where the “radio” is sitting like a bourbon-filled brick. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z She had just gotten home from work a few minutes before and had started on dinner by dumping a brick of frozen peas into a glass bowl. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He lived in the group of joined brick houses below the Dantzler house known as the Apartments. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “He would have seen only what appeared to be a crude pile of black bricks.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I grip him tightly and try not to cry out when he stumbles over broken bricks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Tariq drops a handful of Lego bricks so they clatter on the floor. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It’s three stories and made up of perfect red brick, and it’s surrounded by grass and hedges. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They were built of brick, and at the time they were brand-new. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "These modern hotels are all built like boxes of bricks. But what if it is?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Nita jerks the wheel, pulling the truck into an alley between two brick buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Until this moment, no one had paid attention to William Petersen’s neat brick row house next door to the home that had been locked tight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw clusters of cells packed with bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest’s house was older than most, and made of costly bricks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Everything else was just brick paths and flowers in pots. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z At home, you can put bricks on either side of a toilet and squat over it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At the Alki Hotel, a brick wall collapsed, killing a Chinese boarder in his bed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Sturdy Victorian bricks tower into the night, framing the courtyard, and Alex thinks, Oh. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The neighborhood became darker, a labyrinth of clotheslines, rusty fire escapes, and brick walls. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My school had only a small building, which was made of mud bricks and a tin roof. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It’s yellow brick with a spiral staircase and a two-story foyer and vertical blinds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I started rebuilding my guard, brick by brick. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z But before she can bring the brick down, the trip wire behind her jerks, and the bell rings, and someone enters the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We pull into the lot of a black-and-white brick apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Warships cannot be made from brick. The slavers burned every stand of timber within twenty leagues of here.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The kitchen floor was made of bricks and the man used to wash it with a rough broom and sweep the water out through the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And neither of them stumbled and the candles didn’t go out, and at last they came where they could see a little door in the brick wall on their right. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “This whole other world from tiny bricks and your head.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I watched from the window as the boys tumbled out of the brick schoolhouse across the field from us. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He walked past the big brick houses where automobiles honked in the driveways and where the plumes of smoke rolled lavishly from chimneys. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Mama’s boyfriend pick up that brick and hit me. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was a lot hotter, Dad pointed out, down in the valley along Stewart Street, which was lined with those cute brick houses that had their neat, square lawns and corrugated aluminum breezeways. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, guided by Kehaar, he was running up the open pasture north of the river, straight for the brick arch in the overgrown railway embankment and the fields that lay beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the rear, she climbed the shallow steps leading to the wide brick terrace that ran the length of the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The building itself was nothing special—a boxy brick building on a nondescript street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He crawled to another chimney and waited; it was so cold that he had a wild wish to merge into the icy bricks of the chimney and have it all over. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mark presses against Trina and the wall behind her, wishing they could somehow disappear into the brick. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He knows it shouldn’t be a big deal, but this just feels like another brick added to the pile of changes he feels he’ll eventually be crushed beneath. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z At dusk the train stops and Neumann Two leads Werner on foot through rows of ruined houses, beams and bricks lying in charred heaps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When he reached the neighborhood where he lived he passed through a certain narrow street that was flanked on one side by a smoke-blackened brick warehouse. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Dust-coated brick houses rise four stories on either side of the alley, and the noises of the market fade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z What really happens is the two runes tear the bricks apart with the strength of their attraction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Western Market was a great square of beaten earth surrounded by warrens of mud-baked brick, animal pens, whitewashed drinking halls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An entire stretch of the alleyway is coated in chewed pieces of gum, a sticky, pointillist rainbow across the bricks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Neat brick walkways crisscrossed the grass, snaking in and out of the shadows of the tall trees and their luxurious branches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Middleton High seemed frozen somewhere in the fifties, a sprawling, one-story tile, glass, and brick complex, many of whose students were headed inexorably toward lifetimes of low-paying jobs in small, conservative Idaho towns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There were lots of brick buildings and some tall ones too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie saw how the unfortunate boy flushed a brick red at each taunt and she felt sorry for him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She ricocheted off the wall and collapsed like a ton of bricks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The mortar was crumbling and bricks had come loose. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the cells consisted of a single brick, a huge mother of a brick, a brick that had grown so fat that the whole cell had plumped up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are they...” the stonecutter said, peering at the black bricks at the guard’s feet, “stones?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “My mom should have died in 1959, in an earthquake,” I said, putting my hand flat on the brick, right in the path of a black ant carrying something. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z There was a bland brick building that looked more like a bank than anything else until she noticed the lit-up marquee that read THE FILLMORE. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There were white houses and red brick ones, and tall elm trees blowing in the wind, and tall maples and horse chestnuts. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I changed into dry clothes and took the bag of graveyard dust and powdered brick, still heavy with water, out of my dress pocket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z St. Louis air smelled of tar and doughnuts, old boards washed up out of the muddy river, red bricks, and licorice. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But seeing the brick building makes it official: Summer is over, and this is where I’m going to spend most of my life for the next nine months. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Airborne for a moment, Otto stretched, grabbing at a frozen brick that had been dislodged then restuck in time when the Time Suck crashed through the wall. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z A couple of children ran through the cavernous space, kicking a ball against the brick walls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I picked up a brick from the sidewalk and flung it through the store window, then I rushed at the building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached into a rubble of bricks and pulled out a handful of white dust. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z His arms were as thick as bridge cables, his expression as welcoming as a brick wall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Morris JJ’s Pizza looked across the street—not at me—and addressed the yellow bricks of the Behavioral Center. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One brick room sitting in her front yard. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny never questioned Grandpa’s selling her land or using the money to build the brick store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Susan do. Right behind the ridge. Only house back in there with a brick front. She by herself now. All the others moved out so they could pass.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone threw a brick through our front window. It landed on the couch. From the damage to the living room, there must have been a couple of sticks of dynamite too.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The gutters of the city overhead had dried, but old rain seeped and dripped from the glazed brick walls. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z "I don't care!" cried Daisy and began to clog on the brick fireplace. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Soon after their arrival, the first shipment of irradiated uranium arrived from St. Louis by truck: three hundred pounds of it packed in plywood crates shielded by lead bricks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He bent down from his corner seat and took a cake from the bricks, and juggled it in his hands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z There are the red bricks, there are the searchlights, there’s the barbed wire, there are the hooks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As the bricks appear and move outward, they distort the cell, causing it to bulge and change shape, and finally the cell pops—it bursts and dies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot bricks and rubble have burned my skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Without sunlight, the house’s pink brick lost its color and faded to an ashy gray. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I rounded a corner and saw that the path led directly to a large brick building. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Worn bicycle tires, bottles with peeled labels, ripped up magazines, yellowed newspapers, all scattered amid a pile of bricks and slabs of cement. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I went down the back steps and out the basement door, then over to Commons—its red brick facade flat as a stage backdrop against the empty sky—and called Henry from the pay phone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gingerly, I walked up the driveway where tufts of weed now grew between the sun-faded bricks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He spent hours applying pomantum wax, padding, and lengths of brick- colored hair to fashion a high roll on Madam’s head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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