| 单词 | brick in |
| 例句 | “Like a brick in the groin, I see.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “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 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 “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 I blend like dust into dust, complying, a brick in the architecture. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Malloy was sitting on a brick in front of his boiler. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Hagrid, meanwhile, was counting bricks in the wall above the trash can. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The dread in my stomach is flat and hard and hot, like a brick in the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every word in the ceremony was another brick in place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 “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 Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z 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 Sometimes he tried to calculate the number of porcelain bricks in the walls of the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The words were another line of bricks in their defense against the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 It shows that Mr. Simpson’s project hasn’t been to remake country from the inside, but to use it as one brick in a grander statement about American music. Popcast: Country Music Agitators 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z There is a sliding brick in our wall by the staircase and me and my sister hide random bits and bobs behind it. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He then tried to hide the brick in his pocket. Tourist at Roman Colosseum caught stealing brick during guided tour 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z One pattern, a dusty red brick in the Reclaimed line, features textured images of bricks that were taken from photographs of an 18th-century home in Newport, R.I. No budget for beams or brick walls or granite counters in your home? Go faux. 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z They may have paint and brick in common, but the people who do murals mostly operate a world apart from the people who do graffiti. Washington is fighting graffiti artists — but it loves the graffiti aesthetic 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z At this stage of her career, music may be the least essential brick in her house. Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z These films were instrumental in challenging the sclerotic Soviet rule and supplying some of the cultural energy which was to dislodge the first brick in the Berlin Wall. Andrzej Wajda: great director had Poland written on his heart | Peter Bradshaw 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z “But when you get to use them as a brick in a wall of sorts, and compound them in number, the sheer volume of them becomes so impressive.” A Grand Stage for a Diva Plant 2011-03-02T22:39:36Z Images of a floral arrangement, in color and black and white, alternate with exposed brick in a kind of three-card monte. Art in Review: ADAM MARNIE: ?Locus Rubric? 2011-09-29T21:52:31Z “The Kelly File,” after all, was just one brick in the Big Republican Wall. Why losing Megyn Kelly probably won’t even dent Fox News’s armor 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Her large C-print, entitled Bricks, shows a balmy landscape undulating into the distance, the hills covered in tiny houses, but with one great heap of bricks in the foreground. Light from the Middle East: New Photography – review 2012-12-09T00:05:48Z The aim is to demonstrate that Leonardo’s relationship with sculpture is “the first brick in the construction of his artistic universe,” Mr. Frank said. How the Louvre’s Leonardo Blockbuster Shows a Master’s Progress 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Dear Heloise: We bought an older home to renovate and found a brick in the toilet tank. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: How do air fryers work? 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z But it is a further brick in the wall. Lives transformed: do famous transgender people help the cause? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z They conjure the idea of children being treated as units in a distribution warehouse, as bricks in a wall, as products on a Tesco shelf. Michael Gove's standardised schools not such a class act 2013-04-13T23:05:30Z Lego, based in the small town of Billund, started producing its plastic bricks in 1949 and became a staple children's toy around the world by the 1970s. Rise of the bricks - Lego Movie lays foundations for big profit rise 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Fireplaces were built from designs found in a seminal book on New Mexican hearths, and bricks in a range of sunset hues were laid down as flooring, another local hallmark. Jane Fonda's Rambling New Mexico Ranch 2014-02-04T05:00:00Z The crisis follows the stalling of the market for housing conversions, which put a premium on the sturdy buildings – stone in Yorkshire and brick in Lancashire – as characterful urban housing. Trouble at mill: recession brings renewed threat of bulldozers 2011-03-21T11:55:05Z “All the skeletal beams, the majority of the bricks in the chimney and insulation is actually from 350 years ago.” Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “This boy, though, was the descendant of some very inventive and courageous and stubborn men, and he had bricks in his blood.” A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Also, I wonder whether the ivy will pull apart the bricks in my chimney. What is the best way to remove ivy from around a chimney? 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z These won’t help with your project because the material is spread over the face of the brick in a thin film. How to fix a shoddy masonry repair 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “Now you don’t have to carry a big brick in your bag.” Never-ending stories: from Bond to Galbraith, why is everything so long? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z A bigger issue is making sure the fasteners will work with the bricks in your wall. Two ways to hang art on a brick wall without drilling holes 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “When you’re constructing a piece of fiction, little mistakes are sort of like loose bricks in a foundation,” Silva says. Daniel Silva is the best-selling author of the Gabriel Allon series. Meet his secret adviser 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A slice of soggy pizza or greasy burger that'll sit like a brick in your stomach for the next few hours of flight. Where To Find The Best Airport Food 2010-09-02T19:00:00Z Some bricks in that wall include age bias, a still-recovering economy and a workforce model that increasingly favors freelancers over full-timers. Work Advice: She’s over 50 and desperate for a job. How can she land one? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z All in all, it’s just another brick in the sole. Style Invitational Week 1343: We plead no contest 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The Charles Orban Champagne was flowing at this annual soiree, hosted by the French ambassador at the official residence, which is one of the prettier piles of brick in this town. Donald Trump Has Drained the Swamp (of Good Christmas Parties) 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z And here’s the kicker: “If you can’t seek redress and demand reform without a brick in your hand, you risk losing this moment for all of us in Baltimore. Turn around. Go home. Please.” You won’t learn everything you need to know about Baltimore from “The Wire,” but it’s a start 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Each film she appears in, Ms. Moretz said, “sets a new brick in my acting wall.” Film: Chlo? Grace Moretz, Hit Girl in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z When I look at this photo, my eyes are drawn to the shy little girl sitting on the bricks in the corner, too afraid to pose for the camera. Family life 2012-10-05T23:05:03Z I was holding the brick in the same hand as my phone. Glenn Patterson: Belfast, a brick and the G8 summit 2013-06-20T16:00:01Z “We added faux brick so it looks like that exposed brick in New York apartments,” he said. A Head-Shot Truck Comes to New York 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Those who survived spent five years shovelling coal and hefting bricks in a corner of the gulag. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z “Oh, I don’t believe in heaven,” Jeff sings, in the title track, “I keep some heat inside. Like a red brick in the summer: warm when the sun has died.” Liner Notes for Jeff Tweedy’s “WARM” 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Doric Wilson, a playwright whose satirical, wisecracking works are considered bricks in the foundations of the Off Off Broadway and gay theater movements, died May 7 at his home in Manhattan. Doric Wilson, Playwright and Mainstay of Gay Theater, Dies at 72 2011-05-16T04:23:01Z On a post of plastered bricks in a forest marking the boundary between Siberia and European Russia, exiles trudging by would carve inscriptions. Prison without a roof 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The first one in marble and brick in Rome was built by Pompey as late as 55 B.C. Review: The Face of Captive Greece in Rome 2010-08-13T15:41:00Z The majority of the permit holders are Palestinian builders, many of whom lay bricks in the Jewish settlements. The Holy Land is on a tourism high 2010-12-26T00:05:56Z If I were to drink, that secret would be the first brick in a wall between us. Flying Close to Temptation 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z We refrain, on a global level, from actively engaging in or endorsing the use of Lego bricks in projects or contexts of a political agenda. Tons of People Want to Give Their Legos to Ai Weiwei 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Thus, it’s far more likely that the brick in your house was the more typical kind: fired at a higher temperature and in no need of paint. How to strip the paint from a brick house 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z After the kindergarten visit, Borrell carried a small red Lego brick in one hand. EU's Borrell tells Israel: 'One horror doesn’t justify another' 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, two police vehicles were damaged after being struck with bricks in the Beauly Square area of Dundee and a street fight involving about 20 youths took place in Glasgow's Barmulloch. Minister 'open to discussion' about fireworks ban 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z “It would speak of one more brick in the construction of this team, of a team that learns from its mistakes.” Argentina intends to take unwanted World Cup third-place game seriously 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z Preheat the oven to 425°F. Wrap two bricks in aluminum foil. Next time you invite friends over to play Catan, why not feed them Chicken Under a Brick? 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, if you know what’s coming, the song is recognizable: “All in all, it was just a brick in the wall.” Hear a classic Pink Floyd song reconstructed from listeners’ brain waves 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Its melody was roughly intact, and its lyrics were garbled but discernible if one knew what to listen for: “All in all, it was just a brick in the wall.” Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z "It is yet another brick in the wall of this propaganda machine that is aimed at the whole system of education." Kremlin aide rewrites Russian history for a society at war 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z I lay each brick in enough mortar so it oozes up the sides about 1/2 inch. Opt for clay bricks when repaving 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A rumor went around that he had calculated the number of bricks in the facade of his high school just by glancing at it. Donald Triplett, ‘Case 1’ in the Study of Autism, Dies at 89 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Reconciliation, remembering, forgetting, drawing lines, throwing bricks in the political glass houses - and still we are no closer to "truth" or to an agreed process that might begin to make things better. Good Friday Agreement: Who wants to tell the 'truth' about NI's past? 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z According to a report by KCAL-TV, officers alleged that the suspect had been throwing bricks in their direction before shots were fired. Man shot in confrontation with CHP; investigation closes 405 Freeway in Hawthorne 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “Someone please put a pallet of bricks in front of that store so we can protest against Red Truck Bakery,” added a third. A Va. bakery gave BLM activists free coffee. Then came the backlash. 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “Getting ready to install a new brick in our Senate brick wall,” she tweeted. Bagby wins primary for McClellan’s Virginia Senate seat, will face GOP’s Imholt 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z While Ms. Young’s name is engraved on a brick in Windsor’s town center with the date of her hanging, it was paid for by a group of individuals. Their Ancestors Were Convicted of Witchcraft in Connecticut. They Want Justice. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z "How sad for his former fans to see him accepting the role of just another brick in the wall - the wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda." Roger Waters: Pink Floyd star's UN speech criticised by Ukraine 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Inside each fiber are segments called sarcomeres, lined up end to end in rows and stacked like bricks in a wall. What bodybuilders do to their bodies — and brains They also get inside trash rooms through open doors or gnaw through the mortar between bricks in a foundation. D.C.’s great rat migration — and how they survived during the pandemic If you’re repairing brick in an old building built in the late 1800s or even early 1900s, the original brick masons probably used hydrated lime. What you need to know about repointing, the process of replacing old mortar between bricks, blocks or stone 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Conspiracy theories could roll out gradually as votes are tabulated, “with each forming a brick in a larger narrative,” according to the Election Integrity Partnership. Misinformation experts have been prepping for this day. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z In the olden days, people would wedge a brick in their toilet tank to do the same thing. Eco-friendly gifts that can help save California from the megadrought 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z As the water drains away, the sand that remains forms that day’s portion of the barrier — another brick in the wall protecting the reservation from being erased. As Climate Change Worsens, U.S. Weighs Which Communities to Save 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z What I think is a significant criticism deals with the decades before, when he built this image of himself, with each news story serving as a brick in the artifice, as a self-made business tycoon. Donald Trump’s Methods 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Both cities have a dominant and oppressive building material — red brick in Baltimore, and in Dundee a local sandstone that can’t make up its mind whether it’s tan or gray. In Scotland, a city’s world-class industrial past informs its present 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Explain why a building made of bricks has smaller entropy than the same bricks in a disorganized pile. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Allmendinger crossed the yard of bricks in eighth but wound up seventh when series officials penalized Ross Chastain for using the access road after the final restart. Allmendinger comes up just short in bid for Indy sweep 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Warm wood mixes with brick in the common spaces, and the living room adds a wet bar. What $700,000 buys in seven areas around Los Angeles 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “Meanwhile, someone paid to haul pallets of bricks in and deposited them just 2 blocks from the Capitol offices?” wrote one user. NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z “We are keen to make Lego bricks in the U.S., one of our largest markets,” he added. Lego plans to build a factory in the United States. 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “Being another brick in the wall is never a problem,” he said. Perspective | For Rob Vaughn and Maryland baseball, this dream season is just the start 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z All of us who have one of these glowing bricks in our lives feel its siren call all the time. Why Nietzsche's prescient advice can free you from your smartphone addiction 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z “I can’t say we were the most important factor, but we were an important brick in the wall,” he said. The Belarusian railway saboteurs who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Once she was strong enough, Minj would walk next to her mother carrying bricks in a basket on her head at construction sites. Opinion | Six Nuns Came to India to Start a Hospital. They Ended Up Changing a Country. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Paint can trap moisture and damage the brick in the long-term. Should you paint your home’s brick exterior? 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z “And I believe everybody in the world today who values democracy and understands the long-term security threats of yielding to his madness will put their bricks in the wall, too.” Board that handles WA pension funds divests $100 million in Russian assets 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z It's not quite a "new Labour", but this rebranding is one brick in a more substantial rebuild of the Scottish party. Scottish Labour to ditch red rose in rebranding 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z For Putin, however, it was an indispensable brick in Fortress Russia — he purposely strove to make foreign economies, especially in Western Europe, more dependent on Russia, chiefly through its exports of oil and natural gas. Column: How Western sanctions could demolish Putin's 'Fortress Russia' 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Surveillance video showed two men light a package of the bricks in the lobby and tape or tie the front door handles together before leaving through a side door before dawn. Canada pushes back against GOP support for COVID protests 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But from building bricks in playgrounds all the way through to rolling dice in nursing homes, playing is a significant part of the human experience. Playtime: Is it time we took 'play' more seriously? 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z A nuclear power plant that has been plagued by cracks to bricks in the core of its reactors is shutting down after 46 years of generating electricity. Hunterston B nuclear power plant to close down after 46 years 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Residents put bricks in their toilet tanks to make them flush less water. Despite a Punishing Drought, San Diego Has Water. It Wasn’t Easy. 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z They also discovered pieces of glass placed in between bricks in the wall, which were used to prevent rats from stealing food. Ukrainians unearth hiding places of Jews in city sewers during Nazi Holocaust 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z They were at T-Mobile Park Friday and will be there Sunday, with a required visit to her commemorative brick in the fan walk, near the bullpen: “M’s Baby Emelia 10/95.” Mariners memories: Her dad almost missed her birth during ’95 playoffs. Her 2021 birthday wish? Playoff tickets 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z "I also married a man who's totally self-made and came from a background where he said every brick in his house is a gig," she raved of Urban. Keith Urban, Nicole Kidman share humble roots of coming to America ‘with nothing’ 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The cracks were first spotted in two graphite bricks in the reactor in 2014. Hunterston B nuclear power plant to close down after 46 years 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z As she stepped over children and Lego bricks in a leotard, we truly admired her spirit of glamour against all odds. Back to the mosh pit: What it means for super-fans 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s no wireless charging here, and the 5A will be the last Pixel sold with a charging brick in the box. Google Pixel 5A review: boring, but better than ever 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z “What matters is they are building the capability to execute any plausible nuclear employment strategy – the last brick in the wall of a military capable of coercion ,” he said. U.S. Strategic Command: China engaged in ‘breathtaking’ nuclear breakout 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Fifteen years later, after a brief resurgence in popularity for molded bricks in the 1970s, Hutton was closed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Inside the Long-Lost Brickyards That Built N.Y.C. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z This terrible history is one chillingly foundational brick in the Victorian era consolidation of European white supremacy, which would lead to genocide and Holocaust at home. Commentary: Two L.A. museums hold art looted during an African massacre a century ago 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z First, in the EU it’s joining Apple and others by not including a power brick in the box, just a USB-C cable. HMD’s Nokia X20 is designed to actually last you three years 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The hotel — 23 stories of stepped red brick in a Gothic Revival style — opened in 1928 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, at Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street. Review | The hotel that nurtured ambitious women and their New York dreams 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z When the locals foraged for bricks in the mounds that dotted the plain, sometimes a piece of carved marble turned up, often bearing Quranic inscriptions. How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s official: Samsung’s new flagship phones will ship without a charging brick in the box. Samsung’s Galaxy S21 phones come with plenty of features — but not a charger 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z Who would begrudge Rivera and Smith the chance to rise above this annual farce and build something solid — a brick in a wall that has crumbled so often? Perspective | Don’t make what’s interesting important, Ron Rivera says. Easier said than done for Washington. 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Dec. 5, with a focus on their artifact-filled Washington Pioneer Hall, built from brick in 1910 on the site of an earlier wooden hall, in Madison Park along the western shore of Lake Washington. In their 125th year, these pioneer ancestors are a study of history in repose 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z There will be no corded headphones or charging brick in the box with the iPhone 12. Apple’s next play: Going smaller with “mini” phones and speakers, and fewer accessories in the box 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Going forward, Lego plans to package its tiny bricks in recycled paper bags. Lego finally realizes it doesn’t need to use plastic to package its tiny plastic bricks 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Wireless is a story about our connection to our phones, how the tiny bricks in our pockets become a lifeline. Quibi’s new show, Wireless, shows the power and limitations of its Turnstyle technology 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The bags are used to hold loose bricks in boxed sets. Lego to ditch plastic bags for paper ones in its boxed sets 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The most acceptable designs use native woods, stone and brick in abundance … they have great windows to catch every lively vista … the pleasant rooms are placed in myriad ways to nestle into natural surroundings. How 5 Seattle women elevated the regional and national profile of Northwest Modern design 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The only restaurant open late on this sandy tip of Cape Cod is Spiritus Pizza, and men have long gathered on the mottled bricks in front to hang out, gossip and cruise. I’m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can’t Defend Him. 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr Modi is to lay a symbolic silver brick in the sanctum sanctorum, or innermost sanctuary, of the site as scores of devotees watch the event on giant screens across the city. India PM to lay temple stone at disputed holy site 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “There are many bricks in this wall of worry,” Stovall said. Gold’s luster grows as investors hedge in uncertain times 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Garling acquitted Warwick of murdering his brother-in-law, whose body was found weighted with bricks in a creek after he went missing in 1980. Australian judge convicts ex-firefighter in 1980s murders 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “Dear Feds U R Not another brick in the wall. Leave our kids alone.” Dynamic of Portland protests shifts as Trump Administration ratchets up federal pressure on cities 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Today, the roots of the pines have dislodged bricks in the garden’s path. Talks underway to move ashes of writer Dorothy Parker out of Baltimore 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z I would count all the bricks in my cell, all the lines on the walls. My student comes home: A study in American injustice 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Unconfirmed videos emerged on social media that claimed to show random stacks of bricks in the middle of some of these protest locations. Random piles of bricks reported at George Floyd protests 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Under the circumstances, he said, “If you write a calm letter and fax it to nobody, it sinks like a brick in the Hudson.” Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In one, workers lay coffins like bricks in a grid of adjoining trenches, each hole large enough to bury dozens. From the files: Isle used for virus burials has long history 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Speaking of walls, this year Trump will have to spend time and money to hold Arizona, another increasingly loose brick in the red wall that has protected Republicans’ increasingly narrow path to 270 electoral votes. Opinion | A loose brick in Republicans’ red wall 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z He considered the sudden symphony “a small brick in nation building.” Italians Find ‘a Moment of Joy in This Moment of Anxiety’ 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Their University of Limerick Medical School complex employs limestone in sandy tones for the main institutional building, while using brick in warmer terracotta shades for its adjacent residences. The male-centric Pritzkers honor a female architectural team for 2020 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Over the decades, the company honed modern techniques of manufacturing plastic toys, patenting its signature stud-and-tube locking system for its building bricks in 1958. Jens Nygaard Knudsen, designer of Lego minifigure, dies at 78 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Some students responded by hurling pieces of brick in the direction of the police. Police stormed a university in India. Muslim students say the violence was an act of revenge. 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall in the new competition series “LEGO Masters.” What’s on TV This Week: The Super Bowl, Kitten Bowl, Puppy Bowl and more 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z She was, up until last week, one of the millions of bricks in his base. As Protests Flare in India, Modi Plays a New Position: Defense 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For many the change is clearly a brick in Trump’s “invisible wall” – a slew of bureaucratic barriers designed to stymie immigration. Bureaucracy as a weapon: how the Trump administration is slowing asylum cases 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z But, not before the dog took out a mailbox, a trash can, and moved some bricks in front of a home. Bernie, Warren, Buttigieg, Biden knotted in N.H. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z They charge fast, they come with a wall brick in the box, and they look great on your desk or nightstand. The Verge Holiday Gift Guide 2019 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Of course the children of his staff members would also want to put a brick in the President’s wall. Trump, the Fear-Based President, Asks Children to “Build the Wall” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “It’s like putting bricks in a backpack and at some point the backpack gets too heavy and it needs help,” said Mr. Cunningham, a former police chief in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Police suicide epidemic spurs soul-searching: ‘You may love the job … the job will never love you’ 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “It’s like death has become banal here,” said Pasquale Serra, an artist from Bangui who organized a ceremony for families to place bricks in a circle, representing their lost loved ones. Diamonds, Warlords and Mercenaries: Russia’s New Playbook in Africa 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z On the fifth anniversary of Ginger’s adoption, Dubuc bought a brick in honor of Ginger at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. This summer, the two drove to Wisconsin to find Ginger’s brick. Michael Vick’s dogs could have been euthanized. They became adoption ambassadors. "We are hopeful that this conviction will be a brick in the road to changing the culture of racism here in Florida." Florida gun owner who claimed self-defense convicted in 'Stand Your Ground' case 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z An excavator started pulling apart the former St. Elizabeth Hospital on Monday by demolishing bricks in a corner of the Lafayette building’s north wing. Crews begin razing former hospital after reuse efforts fail 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It was then discovered in the "main population" of graphite bricks in reactor three in October 2015, and in reactor four in September 2017. Nuclear reactor to restart after 'cracks' closure 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z At night, some set fire to the entrance of a police station and armed themselves with bricks in preparation for a standoff. Hong Kong protests spill into tourist district with tear gas and arrests 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z A last brick in this American structure of liberty was a 2015 Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality. Opinion | Trump can try to refashion the Fourth of July, but he’ll fail 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “It felt like I was hit by a brick in the face,” Foster said, according to SWNS. Pheasant hits race car driver in head at 105 mph: 'It felt like I was hit by a brick in the face' 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The owner of Legoland theme parks aims to go private in a $6.1-billion buyout, seeking to invest more in worldwide expansion and attract new fans of the plastic bricks in markets such as China. Owner of Legoland and Madame Tussauds is selling itself for $6.1 billion 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z This was first observed at Hunterston in August 2014, when it was found in a small number of bricks in reactor four which were known to be more susceptible to cracking. Nuclear reactor to restart after 'cracks' closure 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Because we wear shoes nearly all the time, our soles are tender — any parent will attest to the pain of treading barefoot on a Lego brick in the small hours of the morning. Why callused bare feet are a better fit than cushioned shoes 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Police said most of the deaths were caused by collapsing walls and falling bricks in homes and toppled trees and electrical poles. Workers help Nepal storm displaced with food, shelter 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Police said other deaths were caused by collapsing walls and falling bricks in homes and toppled trees and electricity poles. Rescuers struggle to reach storm-hit area in Nepal; 28 dead 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He added that the Quintana Roo authorities and other local businesses are interested in using his sargassum bricks in future construction projects. Mexico pioneers recycled seaweed shoes 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z For example, you cannot sling a brick in Manhattan without hitting a talented lawyer, and Trump chose Michael Cohen. Opinion | Thanks to Mueller, 2020 won’t be about 2016 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Trump is featured on the front of the mask with the trowel in his right hand and a brick in the other. Trump goalie mask made for youth hockey player draws criticism 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Maybe there’s a brick in all of us. ‘Brick’ is a visual ode to the humble red block, perhaps humanity’s best idea 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z A woman who pleaded no contest to severely beating an elderly man with a brick in Willowbrook last year was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in state prison. Woman accused in brick attack on elderly man sentenced to 15 years in prison 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z "No one throws their bricks in the ocean," he said. 'Everything awesome' at Lego as sales rise 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z A common option is an alternating, or running bond, pattern that staggers tiles like bricks in a wall. How to tile a bathroom yourself — from design to grout | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Laquisha Jones, 30, of Los Angeles, used a brick in the attack that left a 91-year-old man unconscious on the sidewalk, his face bloodied and bruised, prosecutors said. L.A. woman accused of beating a 91-year-old man with a brick pleads no contest 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Legal experts said prosecutors were not likely to build a guilty plea — a brick in the overall case — on the word of one person. ‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Instead of using bricks in many places, workers are instead affixing thin gray tiles to exterior walls. Historic Preservation or Just Ripping Out a Way of Life in Beijing? 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z If it’s even close there, the GOP can feel very confident about what’s to follow – some very big bricks in the red wall. Fox News Power Rankings: Texas and New Jersey act alike 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z When Walt Disney World began installing personalized commemorative bricks in 1994, the company banned the words “In Memory Of,” worried they would remind guests of death. Disney World’s Big Secret: It’s a Favorite Spot to Scatter Family Ashes 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z For the kid from Stevenage, who these days calls Monte Carlo home, it would be another brick in the empire, another one for the mantelpiece. Lewis Hamilton goes for F1 title glory in US GP – live! 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The bricks in that wall, some experts argue, are made of Republican money. Beto O’Rourke may not be able to overcome red wall in Texas race 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z They had worked making and selling bricks in Mexico, and their family said the brothers left for a job opportunity abroad and there were no signs they were involved in the drug trade. Malaysian death sentences commuted for 3 Mexican brothers 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In the video, made by Axon body cameras, officers respond to a 911 call about a prowler in South Los Angeles who is wandering around with a brick in his hand. Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse? 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z A key brick in that foundation is our Free Press. A message from our publisher: 122 years of local stewardship 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The witness also took a photo of a woman with a brick in her hand. Woman faces attempted murder charge in elderly man’s beating 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z He was the one who repaired the minaret, climbing the 22 metres and cementing down the loose bricks in two rows. Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “Think of every one of these headstones as being a brick in a national shrine,” Knapp said. Veterans cemetery in Minnesota to mark 80 years 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Blood trickled between the bricks in right angles. Do you remember the student who was shot at FSU? 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Musk also enthused about selling the bricks in life-sized Lego kits, starting with a pyramid and the temple of Horus. The biggest news from Elon Musk’s Boring Company meeting in LA 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z French utility EDF said the Hunterston B shutdown was due to new cracks developing faster than expected in graphite bricks in one reactor’s core. Cracks in British nuclear reactor ring power alarm bells 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to believe that if I do the announcement next to Loretta, it won’t have credibility. The full transcript of James Comey's TRMS interview 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z “It’s another brick in the backpack,” for voters already weighed down by economic concerns and healthcare, said Tyler Law of the Democratic House campaign committee. Trump's looming trade war gives Democrats an opening in farm country 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says city crews on Wednesday began re-installation of road bricks in the neighborhood that in the 1860s became home to former slaves. Historic bricks laid by ex-slaves in Houston reinstalled 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “Could this be the first row of bricks in a protectionist wall Trump intends to put up?” Boeing’s biggest trade fight could spark a U.S. confrontation with Europe 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z There are around 3,000 graphite bricks in each reactor core which are bound by steel and contained in a concrete pressure vessel which is over three meters thick. Cracks in British nuclear reactor ring power alarm bells 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z He also admits to carrying a handful of Lego bricks in his pockets - it seems Mr Goodwin very much practises what he preaches. 'Let children play to learn work skills' 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The steadiness of this brick in the Blue Wall is uncertain, however passionate the voices in Seattle. The cost of carbon: Pay now or pay later 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z I honestly think every rotten detail is another brick in the massive anti-monument built on the shame and corruption of the Trump White House. For Trump, Book Raises Familiar Questions of Loyalty and Candor 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Teller’s warning, revealed in documentation I found while searching archives, is another brick in a growing wall of evidence. On its hundredth birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming | Benjamin Franta 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Constructed of plaster and brick in 1916, it was not fireproof. A Boy’s Scream, a Door Ajar and 12 Dead in a Bronx Fire 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Despite the piling of bricks in the virtual wall, Van de Weerd said IRC remained hopeful because the administration’s efforts inspired support for groups that help immigrants and refugees. The invisible wall: how Trump is slowing immigration without laying a brick 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z “This plea today is another brick in that wall.” Mueller’s swift moves signal mounting legal peril for the White House 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Cracks between bricks in the wall are many inches wide. Cuba's crumbling infrastructure no match for might of Irma 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “This is an important brick in the wall of this developing concern,” he said. What Does It Cost to Create a Cancer Drug? Less Than You’d Think 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z “As one of the biggest and most developed operators on the payment services market, I‘m not surprised that some see Nets as a brick in that puzzle,” he said. Nets close to selecting bidder for exclusive talks -source 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Just as they bolted from the master bedroom, the storm exploded through its wall, embedding bricks in the drywall across the room. Harvey delivers heavy damage as it batters Texas coast 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Labour MP Steve McCabe has been treated for injuries after two attackers on a motorbike threw a brick in his face. News Daily: Hague on Brexit and brick thrown at MP - BBC News 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z He mowed down the first 17 batters he faced, nine of them on strikeouts, leaving them flailing at his trademark split-finger fastball that was dropping like a brick in a bathtub. Masahiro Tanaka, Flirting With Perfection, Leads Yankees to Victory 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Stanton - who will defend his title in the Home Run Derby at next week’s All-Star Game in Miami - also doubled off the bricks in right field in the fourth. Stanton hits 24th home run in Marlins’ 6-1 win over Giants 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z “As one of the biggest and most developed operators on the payment services market, I‘m not surprised that some see Nets as a brick in that puzzle,” he said. Nets close to selecting bidder for exclusive talks -source 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z While LIGO’s latest event may be a brick in the towering edifice of Einstein’s general relativity, it is also restructuring the foundations of our understanding of black holes. LIGO's Latest Black-Hole Merger Confirms Einstein, Challenges Astrophysics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “We had training, we took night jumps,? he said. “They put bricks in your bag assimilating land mines so you would get used to the weight jumping with those,? Erie paratrooper, now 92, a ‘true American hero’ 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z He called his find “an earthquake in our field,” and said he hoped it would remove “the last brick in the denialist wall.” ‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z At either end, children have drawn large rectangles on the red brick in white chalk: soccer goals. Old Dominion puts on soccer clinic to reach out to refugees 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z When they were last able to come here, before the war, the vast courtyard’s patterned floor was beautifully polished, and the pile of bricks in a corner was a millennium-old minaret. 'Everything we built for 20 years, gone in a blink' – life in the ruins of Aleppo 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Shockley Stadium is a brick in Harrison’s honor. First black football players for Haskell school reminisce 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z About an hour later, protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests. Trump's first 24 hours bring global protests, a dark speech and uncertainty 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The event follows a chaotic day in the nation’s capital when protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a series of clashes with police. The Latest: On Trump’s 1st day, women to march in Washington 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The Washington gathering, which features a morning rally and afternoon march, comes a day after protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests. Women descend on DC a day after anarchists create chaos 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z When Bradley got in a fight and was knocked to the ground after being hit by a brick in the back of the head, Breeland didn’t leave his side until the ambulance arrived. Online and on the field, Redskins’ Bashaud Breeland is just being himself 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In 2014, Ai exhibited Trace, a series of portraits of prisoners of conscience and political exiles made from Lego bricks in San Francisco’s Alcatraz prison. Ai Weiwei’s Triumphant Return 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z This 16th-century skull was buried in Venice, Italy, with a brick in its mouth. The Bloody Truth About Vampires 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z You become a brick in that wall, a piece of this history with all its summer fun, its generations of memories and 108 years of autumn loss. Cubs win first pennant since 1945, and the angst is put at bay — for now 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z In that time, all she’s ever known is brick in front of her house on Albert Street. The road ahead for Alexandria’s brick streets 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z That seemed as apt a metaphor as any for where college soccer – a vital, if often decried, brick in the American development pyramid – is in 2016. Is American college soccer being ruined by the unlimited subs rule? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Around it were dotted a series of wooden benches with life-sized figures seated on them created by artist Nathan Sawaya out of Lego bricks in brilliant red, yellow, orange and blue. The Obama White House hosts the first – and last? – SXSL technology festival 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Tall, broad and perpetually poker-faced, with an amble that rarely moves faster than second gear, Johnson cultivates a persona that seems to fluctuate about as much as a brick in a soft breeze. Dustin Johnson Shares Lead, but FedEx Cup Title Is in Reach 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “For the longest time you couldn’t sell a single brick in this town,” says Alcibiades Escué, the mayor. Unlearning war 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z It had clean carpets and attractive exposed brick in the dining area. For immigrant residents displaced by Silver Spring fire, finding new home may not be easy 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z It burned out the fire bricks in the stove. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Their backers hope the homes may find backing from Malawi’s government, which is trying to discourage the use of wood-baked bricks in construction in favor of cement blocks and “stabilized soil” blocks. With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to 'earth bag' houses 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z But we’ll borrow a phrase from a musically gifted group of legal scholars: All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “This is simply one brick in the foundation as we change our culture to drive the leadership behaviors we need to win,” a P&G spokesman said. P&G Overhauls Bonus System for Managers 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “A crucial brick in that system is now in danger of being removed.” Does 'Brexit' Mean Security Woes Are Next? 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z ACAPULCO, Mexico—On a recent day, hundreds of construction workers laid bricks in a fevered rush to finish a new courthouse in this violence-torn city. Mexico Recasts Its Criminal Justice Process 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In Malaysia, a replica of Han Solo's Millennium Falcon ship was built with more than 200,000 Lego bricks in the run-up to the occasion. 'May the Fourth Be With You': fans celebrate Star Wars Day 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Robert was apparently obsessive in other realms: He was a weightlifter and a man who went on 10-mile treks carrying 50 pounds of bricks in a backpack. Death of a Word Man 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z “How many ways could you use a brick in a minute?” Cowardly NFL still shows anti-gay bias, two years after Michael Sam's draft 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z “It is not the individual house that is the object of design; the individual house is a brick in a building,” Neurath wrote. Story of cities #18: Vienna's 'wild settlers' kickstart a social housing revolution 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z “They are small bricks in building a wall” against radicalization, he said. Brussels attacks rekindle privacy vs. security debate in Europe 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z “It’s just one more brick in the patriarchy to keep women at a status that’s less than men.” Report finds wage gap, other inequities of women in Kansas 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z He also got the granite stoops, the handmade bricks in the walkway and six cast-iron columns that held up a first-floor porch. Fate unclear for Charlotte staircases built by former slaves 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Each Ten is a critical brick in the Early Retirement castle you are building. The Life-Style Guru of Frugality 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z That helps explain the uproar when city officials announced plans to dig up the bricks in order to install new water and sewer lines. Houstonians hope it’s not too late to save Freedmen’s Town 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z They sang as they stacked fallen bricks in the heat. Cleaning up the streets that bear the name of his hero – Martin Luther King 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Lego produced its first interlocking bricks in 1949, the year the Chinese Communist Party founded the People’s Republic. An artist celebrates 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Rather than being definitive, he said, the new study "is just another brick in a path toward understanding risk factors associated with autism in general." Antidepressants During Pregnancy: Stay on Them or Stop? 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z It's a lot of small, rational choices that stack up like bricks in a wall. Building for virtual reality? Don't forget about women 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z When he had a couple of doorways cut into the glazed brick walls, he saved the bricks in case he’d need them. Family turns former Mishawaka firehouse into a home 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z All in all it's just another toy brick in the wall in the new docu-special "Inside Lego." TV This Week, Dec. 20-26: 'I Love Lucy Christmas Special' and more 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “You are keeping bricks in the freezer next to the potato salad?” These Pakistani inspectors are fighting terror, one restaurant at a time 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z And to offset the bricks, he bolted two tires together to form one long brick in order to maintain structural integrity. Tired of typical materials, Buckhannon man builds his home 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Ai called the move censorship, but Lego says it can’t endorse the use of its bricks in projects with a “political agenda.” Fans donate Lego to Ai Weiwei after company declines order 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Ai called the move censorship, but Lego says it can't endorse the use of its bricks in projects with a "political agenda." Another brick in the wall: Art galleries collect Lego for Ai Weiwei after firm refuses order 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Also, there's no law saying you can't save more money outside of a retirement account, which is another brick in the wall to shore up financial security. 6 Ways to Make Your Savings Last a Lifetime 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z However, it added that it refrains worldwide “from actively engaging in or endorsing the use of Lego bricks in projects or contexts of a political agenda.” Ai Weiwei starts as Berlin lecturer, sharing time with China 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z However, it added that it refrains worldwide "from actively engaging in or endorsing the use of Lego bricks in projects or contexts of a political agenda." Ai Weiwei embarks on lecturer job at Berlin university, talks teaching, refugees _ and Lego 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Lego ban Ai Weiwei from using their bricks in his art. Ai Weiwei swamped by Lego donation offers after ban on use for 'political' artwork 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z The encounter ended when the officers and Johnson fell to the bricks in a heap. U-Va. student Martese Johnson files federal lawsuit against Va. ABC, officers involved in bloody arrest 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Dress shoes clicked across the red bricks in front of him. Nearly naked outside the White House: How Nature Boy became a Washington fixture 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z There is no such thing as an insignificant brick in this renovation. In post-loss disappointment, Redskins’ culture change comes into focus 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Solar has to be the backbone of the zero carbon world and a solar roof is a brick in the road while saving you money over time. 10 green leaders on the best ways you can fight climate change 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A man is resting on a pile of broken bricks in the middle of a small classroom. In war-torn Ukraine, a ghost town begins to rebuild 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, plans were afoot for a 120ft-high figure of a man made from bricks in the centre of Leeds. Will Belper's Mr Potato Head go the way of Birmingham's King Kong? - BBC News 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z "That's the heaviest brick in the wall of worry," he said. Stocks fall worldwide amid fears over China's growth and U.S. interest rates 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But comparing the 2014 growth of Amazon and Walmart suggests that clicks is likely to win the battle over bricks in the battle for market share. Why You Should Bet That Amazon Will Double By 2018 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “There are a lot of loose bricks in the walls of resistance to changing drug laws in America,” said William Martin, who studies drug policy at Rice University. The anti-pot taboo shrinks in presidential politics 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z In a new interview, Terminator: Genisys director Alan Taylor expressed his frustration over the film’s problematic marketing, which has become the latest brick in a growing wall between movies and audiences. Movie Marketing: The Great Mess Hollywood Can't Quit 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Says Emirates Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton: “It’s a brick in the wall, but a significant one.” Emirates returns as Team New Zealand’s top sponsor 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z You enter a separate room in the museum and are confronted with a massive old farmhouse wooden door, framed in brick in the center of a grey plaster wall. The Chill of Duchamp's 'Etant Donnes' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z “If you can’t seek redress and demand reform without a brick in your hand, you risk losing this moment for all of us in Baltimore. Turn around. Go home. Please,” he concluded. David Simon, ‘The Wire’ creator, calls Baltimore rioting ‘an affront’ to Freddie Gray’s memory 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z If you can’t seek redress and demand reform without a brick in your hand, you risk losing this moment for all of us in Baltimore. 'The Wire' creator David Simon calls for end to violent Baltimore protests 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z "He was 140 pounds soaking wet with a brick in his pocket," he says. Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s old Vegas gym is itching for his next big fight 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z This is but the latest brick in a wall of scandal for the Getty family, which we last valued at $5 billion, that includes kidnappings, mutilations, excessive drug use, and death. Andrew Rork Getty Found Dead In Potential Homicide As The Getty Family Tragedy Continues 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The nanoscale structure of bone, nacre and teeth consists of flake-like mineral pieces, arranged like bricks in a wall, with the organic component making up the mortar. Structure: Artificial armour : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z “The temperature record is yet another brick in the massive wall of evidence that the climate is warming due to human activity,” said Simon Donner, associate professor of climatology at the University of British Columbia. Recording-breaking heat in 2014 sets new milestone, underscores worries about man-made climate change 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z "This is a fantastic opportunity to build a new platform and put the bricks in place to rebuild and start again," he said. Cardiff return to blue home kit 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z A crowd of about 300 people gathered at the gas station where Antonio Martin was shot late Tuesday, throwing rocks and bricks in a scene reminiscent of the sometimes-violent protests that followed Brown’s death. AP News in Brief at 9:58 p.m. EST 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Osteogenesis imperfecta has been compared to being a brick in a wall without enough mortar, her mother says in the video: “It will still stand, but it will tend to crumble.” Scouts honor girl for video about bone disease 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z “That guy who went to jail for three weeks for traffic fines? That’s the guy who just threw the brick in the window last night,” Smith said, speaking in the abstract. Ferguson Boils Over, While Stocks Flirt With Record Highs 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Lincoln is a big, airy space, about 2,000 square feet of loft ceilings and exposed brick in what was once a machine shop. Little Flower's Christine Moore opens Lincoln in Pasadena 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, as students scampered down the sidewalk after leaving school for the day, Watkins swept the bricks in their wake. Church celebrates 150 years with fresh look 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z On a recent afternoon, as students scampered down the sidewalk after leaving school for the day, Monsignor Watkins swept the bricks in their wake. In D.C., Immaculate Conception celebrates 150 years with fresh look 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Unlike in his hometown of Budapest, bricks in the Canadian province weren’t used only for factories, but also for homes. Canada's La Belle Province 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z President Obama has essentially given up on legislation; the remaining bricks in his legacy will involve executive action and foreign policy. Two ideas that could overcome political gridlock "Four months later, the cement starts falling apart, exposing the bricks in the wall," she says. How to Deal With a Bad Contractor 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a second roommate’s nude body was decomposing under a mound of fresh dirt and bricks in the back yard. Prosecutors say slain D.C. man was hit 28 times in head with hammer Back then, Californians responded to the emergency with typical austerity methods like fallowing fields, taking shorter showers, and placing bricks in their toilet tanks. NetAppVoice: More Reliable Than A Rain Dance: How Data Helps Solve California's Drought 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “We can’t keep every single brick in place in many of these older buildings without extraordinarily costly retrofits,” said Fred Turner, structural engineer with the California Seismic Safety Commission. Even buildings with seismic retrofits damaged in Napa earthquake 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z “There was a lot of looting. Officers got in an area that was trapped. They were pummeled with rocks and bricks in their cars,” Wheetley said. State of emergency declared in Missouri amid renewed tensions over Brown’s death The home was built brick by brick in Mexico, shipped to Las Vegas and reassembled on the property. Las Vegas Estate Rented By Michael Jackson On The Market 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z When you are not actively building a business, there’s a pretty good chance you will end up as a brick in someone else’s. In Modern Media Realm, Big Mergers Are a Bulwark Against Rivals 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Damascus will include the bricks in a project to repave downtown sidewalks along the trail’s path. Va. town to mark Appalachian Trail with bricks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z At that moment in the year 2000 a brick in the Human Workplace cathedral was laid. The Employee Engagement Hoax 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The letter outlined major changes in engineering plans, including regrouping the bricks in select areas instead of returning them to their original places. Houston residents bristle at plan to remove bricks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z A child collects bricks in the Islamabad slum after the government leveled the homes there. Pakistan braces for a wave of refugees as U.S. leaves Afghanistan; some say the influx is already starting Although Wall continued to lay bricks in Game 4, missing 7 of 11 shots, and again made too many mistakes, committing five turnovers, he pushed the ball and forced the Pacers to react. Reid: Washington Wizards might be facing the end of a great ride in NBA playoffs 2014-05-12T03:39:41Z “Eventually you build up enough bricks in that wall that you prove beyond a reasonable doubt, that this was what was going on,” Eliason said. Experts: McDonnell corruption difficult to prove in court 2014-01-22T20:44:05Z "If there is a better country to be built tomorrow, these stories might be amongst the many small bricks in its construction." Hard news for Turkey's journalists 2013-12-24T01:56:33Z Despite his medical condition, Bilal worked alongside his father making bricks in Afghanistan before Battschinger intervened more than a year ago and made corrective surgery a possibility. FDA approves meningitis vaccine for use at Princeton 2013-11-17T00:49:19Z When he was 16 he had a job making coal bricks in his home village when a woman approached him offering vocational training. Vietnam's lost slave labour children 2013-08-24T23:38:22Z This work is merely a brick in what will hopefully be a burgeoning architecture of psychological research on whistleblowing. More Questions Than Answers About Whistleblowing 2013-08-20T19:15:00.693Z Young men poured water on the ashes and stacked bricks in the arched windows to guard against more attacks. Insight: Egypt's political strife puts Christians in peril 2013-08-20T18:24:28Z A police officer was apparently killed by falling bricks in the capital Taipei. Typhoon Soulik kills three in China 2013-07-14T22:03:44Z “I couldn’t be another brick in the wall of injustice that is built around him.” Jesse Friedman: “Forget it? I can never forget it. It never, ever goes away” 2013-06-11T11:45:00Z It is the biggest building made of dried mud brick in the world, and is typical of traditional Sahelian architecture. In pictures: Why Malians now love France 2013-01-31T02:29:24Z The wall of fame, not just another brick in the wall. Your pictures: Bricks 2012-10-25T09:31:51Z So who exactly decided that pseudonymity is a crucial brick in the wall of free speech, whether on the web or elsewhere? The web has become a bizarre synthesis of toilet wall and Thomas Paine 2012-08-27T18:00:01Z I just stood there, the bottle like a brick in my hand—or no, a cement block, a weight, avoirdupois, dragging me down. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “Birnam Wood.” 2012-08-27T04:00:00Z Rappers boast about their fat stacks: R-MONEY’s fat stacks live in a beachfront house of their own in the Hamptons, and the bricks in that house are made from tightly bound hundred-dollar bills. Should Mitt Romney Embrace His Rich-Guy Image? 2012-08-24T12:00:24Z If you skipped the last few on the basis they were just another brick in the wall, this might be the game to lure you back into LEGO-themed mayhem once more. Review: LEGO Batman 2 2012-08-22T17:26:19Z The ultimate aim is to get to the dan grades, where you become entitled to the famous black belt and get to chop bricks in half. Olympics 2012: how to get involved in judo 2012-08-03T14:15:01Z Wundt, he wrote, was going about it all wrong—much as the person who analyzes the content of bricks in order to understand the nature of a house. The birth of experimental psychology: How do we measure beginnings? 2012-07-31T14:45:00.217Z Lego sells bricks in bulk via its Pick a Brick store. How much Lego would a house need? 2012-06-29T10:20:01Z I settled for being a brick in the foundation, way down at the base: solid, sturdy, dependable. City Room: A Human Tower Needs a Foundation as Well as a Pinnacle 2012-06-20T23:26:54Z No one would call Fayette a bellwether, but it represents one very vivid brick in the foundation of American political and economic life: the rural industrial region in a post-industrial age. In Pennsylvania coal country, voters not thrilled with their choices 2012-06-03T22:33:00Z The Prophet, as before, continued to encourage his followers by his example, and he carried bricks in his mantle. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z But Wroten gives Washington one more brick in a monument that tells recruits, "We can get you where you want to go." Some belated musings on the Wroten departure 2012-04-11T19:42:16Z Rouncivell Lodge was a double-fronted, two-storied house which was built of brown brick in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, probably by some prosperous city merchant, as a country residence. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z He went with his mum and dad to Legoland in Berkshire where he was chosen to lay the last Lego brick in a new exhibition there. Pictures: The biggest Lego Star Wars fan 2012-03-21T16:28:38Z At the farther end of this a rough wall of bricks in a timber-frame lowered his hopes; but as he approached it, joy! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z And after all you did make bricks in St. James's Square, and it is not for me to find fault. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Even the hardest burned brick in this kiln could be broken with the naked hands. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Fortunately the coal supply was in the form of briquets, coal tiles nine inches broad, quite like ordinary bricks in shape. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Newspaper headline writers were setting him up for “Another brick in the Wall” headline, he said. India Ink: The Brick In The Wall Leaves A Gaping Hole 2012-03-09T14:09:35Z It is safer to set the bricks in a tub filled with water up to the top of the bricks. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z It is now certain, that it was the monks of Mellifont who first manufactured bricks in this country. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z “It’s another reason to shift production overseas -- another brick in the wall.” Nuclear-Free Summer Looms Over Japan’s West in Risk to Growth 2012-02-28T16:17:12Z Every child knows that a really good flight of steps will take half the bricks in his box and leave insufficient material for the edifice to which the steps were intended to lead up. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z I found out that everyone hid his shovel at the end of the shift, beside piles of brick in the cellar of the mill, under dark stairways, and so forth. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z He stayed a year longer in Europe, to see an edition of his work through the press at Berlin and to translate the scattered Haktite bricks in other museums. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z At the same time, they manufactured bricks in the locality, and employed them in their buildings. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z To-day the conqueror half sat, half lay upon the couch in his tent, dictating letters to three scribes, who bent over their bricks in a steaming row in the door of the tent. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The bricks in the old chest in our nursery started with 2-in. cubes, and went on in gradations of 2-in. to the largest brick—12 by 2 by 2 in. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Salmon, sam′un, n. a large fish, brownish above, with silvery sides, the delicate flesh reddish-orange in colour—ascending rivers to spawn: the upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The circumference was forty stades in length, and the wall was three hundred bricks in thickness; the height, according to Ctesias, was fifty fathoms, and the tower rose to sixty fathoms. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z One objection to timber houses is their being combustible, and easily ignited, and houses had better be built of a single brick in thickness, unless cheapness is a great object. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z There are no bricks in Swaziland and it struck me as extraordinary that I should see them there. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z The Higgs particle was the missing linking brick in this architecture. CERN set to report probable Higgs sighting this week 2011-12-11T18:16:22Z Any future development will incur millions of pounds in additional costs linked to the restoration of the heritage- protected building, the largest made of brick in Europe. Next Battersea Station Owner Must Ante $1.1B 2011-12-03T13:56:05Z Any future development will incur million of pounds in additional costs linked to the restoration of the heritage-protected building, the largest made of brick in Europe. Next Battersea Station Owner May Have to Commit $1.1 Billion 2011-12-02T06:44:15Z That leaves plenty of time for all right-thinking fans to unite in true continental sporting teamwork, anticipating LeBron James’s tossing up bricks in the final month of spring. Sports of The Times: Enthusiasm for Return of These Knicks and Nets Fades Fast - George Vecsey 2011-11-28T23:07:27Z It is expedient, however, to use a brick in the place of the hearth-lead, for as this gets much hotter, therefore it causes the litharge to form more rapidly. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z So when the Navy Seals who raided the compound in May discovered a yellow brick in the compound’s wall stamped “A1,” they knew what to do with it. Bin Laden Memorabilia a Big Presence in Panetta?s Office 2011-11-08T05:32:15Z His website features a video of him smashing red bricks in half with his bat and running it over with a car. Baseball bat is a hit as a defensive weapon in China 2011-11-02T02:48:00Z There is a three-story house of fading red brick in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that gets a bit spooky looking at Halloween, with a rusty fence of iron spikes that only adds to the ominous look. City Room: Jane the Impaler and a Ghastly Halloween Tradition 2011-10-31T22:46:44Z He did not care for what the auctioneer said to him, for he talked that way to everybody; but Julian knew there were no bricks in it, for it was done up too neatly. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z The two inner walls, of which one intersects the other, are built of bricks, and are a brick in thickness. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z With both eyes open she saw every thing double, but could still count all the bricks in a whitewashed wall at sixteen feet distant. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Place an even number of bricks in two piles about 40 feet from each other. Make your own boot camp workout 2011-09-19T15:25:04Z Look here—you fellow—come near me again and I will hurl a brick in your face. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z Here the situation is more akin to having put the brick in a vise. Why Are There So Few Earthquakes On The East Coast? 2011-08-23T21:23:11Z On the second day, at the same time, the master arranges bricks in ten rows; in this manner twelve passages are made. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z He shuffled round the place, testing every brick in the walls. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Have we the right to say to them how they shall lay the bricks in the foundation for their next life? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z This was duly given him; and rapidly he thrust a sharp eye up to a crack, with a loose brick in his hand to mask his face as he saw the soldiers do. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z Every brick in this old pile had been brought from green England two hundred years before. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z When the nineteenth century dawned, men were making brick in the same way for the most part that they were fifty centuries before. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Sometimes it was thought sufficient to dry these bricks in the rays of a burning sun; but, so dried, their solidity is very inconsiderable. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z A few bricks in the outside wall had also been removed, and enough of the rude ropes prepared to allow one by one to descend to the ground. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z So they continued laying this brick in the edifice of their salvation; and, having concluded, resumed their shoes and turned their attention once more to their victim. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Cell is laid on cell as brick is laid on brick in the building of a house, and the predetermined plan in the immense majority of cases is followed without accident to the minutest detail. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Put the brick in the window, Boss," he said excitedly, "then stick a sign on it saying, 'Who threw this brick through our window, and knocked ten per cent. off the price of everything?'" Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z On a broken-legged chest of drawers, held up by a brick in place of the missing leg, stood a row of heavy brass candlesticks. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z “And you told me that—that sick man was carrying a brick in his hat—and he wasn’t,” Dot put in faintly. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z The foreman of the masons placed a brick in the midst of this, and Mdlle. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z "Hush! she is in the shade of that pile of lumber and bricks in front of the house that is being built next to Holmnest," he whispered, hurriedly. A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z "There have been years up here where there's no snow until January and we're asking people to put a brick in their toilet" to save water. Young comes up high, dry on cabin permit for dad 2011-04-16T15:29:07Z In that light, it’s another brick in the wall. Vickers Report ‘Spikes Guns’ of Banks Threatening to Quit London 2011-04-11T23:43:14Z “But I s’pose,” thought Dot, “if I was carrying a brick in my hat it would make me sick, too.” The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z Every brick in this house had been 360 brought from England by Lord Fenwick its builder, and its noble entrance hall, leaded library windows, and magnificent cypress paneling were still in beautiful preservation. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z They fired on people without even a brick in their hands. Second chance? 2011-03-29T06:23:32Z We left the room, the door of which he locked, hiding the key beneath a loose brick in a corner of the passage. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z You helped pay for somebody’s salary, for two footballs or a brick in the stadium. Green Bay Is Left a Town With a Title, but No Team 2011-03-19T19:49:27Z “He’s carrying a brick in his hat,” he repeated, with daring. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z "Every brick in that factory is cemented with the blood of women and children." Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Her father and brothers would search till they found her, if they had to pull down every brick in the house with their nails!” The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Herring found a store of red brick in some crumbling buildings in the neighborhood, and he discovered the quarry whence came those thick slabs of purple slate. The Master of the Inn 2011-02-26T03:00:51.930Z Another member of the firm, Philip Webb, was the first modern architect to build houses of red brick in the style vaguely and not quite correctly described as "Queen Anne." A Selection from the Poems of William Morris 2011-02-11T03:00:29.580Z “Do you suppose he wants to carry that brick in his hat?” asked Dot, seriously. The Corner House Girls on a Tour Where they went, what they saw, and what they found 2011-05-31T02:00:33.267Z Perhaps one or two bricks in the present foundation could be removed with good results. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z The bricks in some of the houses are of divers coullers and laid in checkers, being glazed look very agreeable. Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York 2011-01-17T03:00:47.770Z You left strips standing that will go down like a row of bricks in the first big gale we have. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "You mean get the bricks in as fast as you can only get them in quick." Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works 2011-01-14T03:00:46.103Z The writer got a load of these brick in 1872 and built a blacksmith forge. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z Warming lakes is No. 12 and "another brick in the wall," said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver. World's Lakes Getting Hotter, More Than the Air 2010-11-24T15:09:00Z He described the backing as "another brick in the new system". he goes to Washington and Chicago for talks with the US treasury in an attempt to ensure that transatlantic supervisory regimes dovetail. 'Single Market Act' to be unveiled by EU commissioner Michel Barnier 2010-10-26T19:25:00Z What it will do … will be another brick in the wall of saying to the outside world that business isn't quite as welcome as it used to be. Vince Cable's attack on capitalism prompts rebuke from the City 2010-09-22T10:04:00Z Jones said his concern was that "it's another brick in the wall of 'we just don't like business in the way we did'". Vince Cable to attack 'corporate short-termism' 2010-09-22T07:52:00Z If he stood out, it was only because of his tree-trunk legs and hands that looked like they could snap bricks in half. Washington Nationals defeat Atlanta Braves, 6-2 2010-08-20T04:16:00Z The latest brick in this wall is a report on biodiversity and business released at the Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium in London on July 13th. Green.view: The green suits 2010-07-14T14:29:00Z "Each study should be seen as a brick in the wall of knowledge." Skin condition linked to cancer risk: study 2010-06-24T21:29:00Z The loyal fans must trudge over the $395 bricks in the plaza sidewalk to witness the stirring season-long battle with Florida for third place. Sports of The Times: For the Mets, Gloom Instead of Sunshine 2010-04-03T18:17:00Z It adds another brick in the wall that suggests there may be an opportunity to develop treatment for one of the core symptoms of autism. 2010-02-15T20:00:00Z There are some Lego fans that use the bricks in much more artistic ways. 2010-02-04T11:17:00Z “Because,” I answered, “with every purchase you make for me, you lay a new brick in the structure of our friendship–or a new towel!” The Idyl of Twin Fires He can ship us a silver brick in a tub of butter at his discretion. The Trail of Conflict I see the fire we sat before now, with two bricks in the rusted grate, one on each side to prevent its burning too many coals. In Jail with Charles Dickens The bricks in the fire-place were replaced, and we retired for the night to our luxurious couches—the bare floor—for much-needed rest. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Since the evening had not been specified, this was rather too manifestly a brick in the wall. The Furnace Set upon a brick in the oven and bake to a light brown. Civic League Cook Book "You won't transport many silver bricks in this, young feller," he muttered grimly. The Trail of Conflict The flames increased until they were reflected on the wall of brick in the rear, and it seemed to Jip as if the shed must already be in a blaze. An Amateur Fireman Geoffrey Alison, two years discreet, had suddenly begun to throw bricks in this happy home, and never even heard the crash. Helena Brett's Career At a short distance from Leyden may still be seen a flour-mill with a quaint old dwelling-house attached, which bears, on a brick in a corner of the wide chimney, the date of 1550. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. The Parsee and Passe-partout worked away to loosen the bricks in a space about two feet wide. Round the World in Eighty Days We dropped the treasure car, the last lighted Pullman with the silver bricks in it, off on the siding where those crazy elopers flagged us. The Trail of Conflict “Regular brick in some things, auntie,” said the “dear boy,” and Lady Lisle winced. Sir Hilton's Sin The dome is probably one of the earliest forms of covering invented by man, but owing probably to its construction in ephemeral materials, such as the unburnt bricks in Chaldaea, there are no examples existing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The face that was mirroring the rapid flow of thoughts as it reviewed and attacked every brick in the structure, finding it solid, and solidly cemented to its neighbors. Ye of Little Faith The walls were of brick: there was a pile of bricks in a corner of the barn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 They brought your old man home nasty, didn't they?" she was saying: "he had the awfullest brick in his hat. Black Forest Village Stories The grey-green pool swilled sulkily about them: and the red bricks in the background offered no relief to an unprogressive eye. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The first brick in Ysleta's speculative row had toppled against its fellow and the whole line was threatened with collapse. The Vision of Elijah Berl But to those who want houses at once, what is the use of a promise of bricks in five years’ time? Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) In some later year I laid some of the ripened seed-pods between the bricks in places where the mortar had partly crumbled out. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The general appearance of the city is peculiarly Spanish, especially as regards the prolific use of brick in the construction of churches and edifices in general. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain The débris of centuries lies on the floors of the houses; and the adobe brick in front is gradually crumbling and rolling down the precipice into Walnut Cañon. Through Our Unknown Southwest He gave Mark Dennen the number of bricks in the Methodist Church, as reported in the Readsboro Citizen at the time it was built. Seven Keys to Baldpate Bricks are wanted by the ten thousand million, but there are practically no bricks in sight. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) There are five courses of bricks in the lower band, and it measures 1 ft. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Thus, bricks alternate with rolled pebbles in the old walls of Verona, and hewn stones with brick in its Lombard churches. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Their manner of construction was also the same, with the exception of the materials employed—each people using those most at hand in their respective countries—clay and bricks in Chaldea, stones in Yucatan. Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa But when you come right down to it, every one of 'em has a nice little collection of gold bricks in his closet. Seven Keys to Baldpate The use of sun-dried bricks in this country, is, for no very apparent reason, almost entirely restricted to East Anglia. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) Note the large brick in the worn hearth and bit of original pine flooring. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria That brick in your bag must be instantly disposed of. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Larry took off his coat and wrapped his hand and the brick in it. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 We may say that the snowflake exists in the cloud vapor because of the laws of crystallization, but the house does not exist in a thousand of brick in the same sense. Under the Maples The palace itself was built in the days of the Tudors, and the gatehouse of red brick in 1499. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel As if a grain of dust falling from one of the bricks in that wall would in anywise shake the wall itself! Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India Just as the bricks in the outside walls were laid "every other one a header," so the interior spoke of a style which went out of existence three generations ago. Sunlight Patch It is below the level of the ground under tons of bricks in the ruins of a farmhouse. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went He was just a brick in the whole great social fabric, the nation, the modern humanity. The Rainbow “Berlin, capital of Prussia and of the German Empire, the residence of the German Emperor, is situated in the midst of a vast plain; ‘an oasis of stone and brick in a Sahara of sand.’ Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden The bricks in the walls of these Queen Anne villas generally come out quite easily. Oswald Bastable and Others The bricks in one of the up-stairs fire-places were taken up, the sand beneath them removed, and the Colonel's uniform deposited in the vacant place, over which the bricks were carefully replaced. Harper's Young People, April 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly This feature is a round "fan window" framed by a circle of bricks in the center of the gable end of the building's front wall. The Fairfax County Courthouse I don't care if there was not another blessed brick in the country. Phoebe, Junior The trouble was to see a man who was not laboring under a pressure of bricks in his hat. The Land of Thor The first course of voussoirs would be sloped in this fashion, and would rest upon some mass of crude brick in the centre of the building. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 I found it locked, but a village child with engaging confidence told me to "look under the brick" for the key, and under a loose brick in the porch I found it. Highways and Byways in Surrey As Lois had been the first to marry, her house was planted nearest to the gray old brick in which she had been reared. Otherwise Phyllis He lifted the brick in his hands, and estimated it to weigh about forty pounds. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure And when he understood that he could not he went on with the bricks in silence, with his mouth shut very tight. The Magic World She wrapped a hot brick in red flannel for each of them, put out the lamp, and followed them up-stairs. Master of the Vineyard I remember when I had cold feet she would heat a brick in the fire to lay to them, and such tricks. The Fifth Queen Crowned Christ Church is in Christchurch Street, and is built of brick in a modern style. Chelsea The Fascination of London Loosened a few bricks in the chimney and burned a bit of the eaves. Jerry's Charge Account Warren Hilbrough's family had risen with his bettered circumstances from a two-story brick in Degraw street, Brooklyn, by the usual stages to a brownstone "mansion" above the reservoir in New York. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York The gold hidden behind the loose brick in the chimney was hers, given to her by her dead father. Master of the Vineyard And how pleasant was the "mortar"—the mixture of crushed nuts and apples and wine which symbolized the mortar out of which the Israelites made bricks in Egypt, when they were slaves! Jewish Children Could not all those bricks and pieces be counted as a single brick in his favour? What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales And, stepping inside the ruins of a small shop, he flung himself down on a heap of bricks in the posture of a wounded man. With Haig on the Somme Our process was commonly known as "slop-moulding," each moulder turning out from 2,500 to 3,000 bricks in the course of the day. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 It's behind a loose brick in the chimney, in the attic, on the right-hand side. Master of the Vineyard He paused, and then added, with contemptuous emphasis, "There is not a brick in your dirty town but is cemented by the blood of a negro." Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 It is used for inoculating the bricks in the manufacture of brick spawn. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. It is no uncommon thing, too, to find houses divided only by lath and standard partitions, without a single brick in them. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction The following is a tabulated account of the cost of the brick kilns to the State, and the value of these convict-made bricks in the local market. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 The hot coffee had made them comfortable; the bricks in the grate were hot, and the time had come to start. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall And, with the indifference of ignorance, he had left his brick in the galley—the fatal spot where it ought not to have been, in view of what was to happen. The Grain Ship “I believe you've a brick in your bonnet as well as a bee,” she exclaimed. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives There was an outside chimney of red bricks; a pathway of red bricks in the old herringbone pattern led up to the front door, with its shining brass knocker. American Cookery November, 1921 Felt as if you could bake bricks in it, and no air gets in.” Brandon of the Engineers One of the prongs of the fork was broken off between two bricks in the fire-place, and the other bent; so that the instrument formed a very good pick-lock. The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer Did you happen to notice that one of the bricks in the floor of it looked as if an attempt had been made to pry it loose, or something? The Dragon's Secret He buried his last meal between two bricks in the kitchen floor, and covered it very tidily with a bit of newspaper. Last Words A Final Collection of Stories By counting the layers of bricks in the blockading wall they were able to estimate its height, and prepared ladders long enough to reach its top. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality You know, if there is a brick in a bag, the brick weighs a pound, that costs the man who buys the black walnuts money. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 And bending over he showed me another tiny lever thickly encrusted with rust, secreted behind a movable brick in the first tier below the lake's bottom. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason He tried to dig up a brick in the fireplace and bury it there, but gave it up after he had broken his knife in the attempt. The Dragon's Secret This they had torn to pieces and every man sallied forth with a square, flat brick in each hand and more inside his shirt. Blackbeard: Buccaneer There was a loose brick in the wall near the chimney. The Goose Man When the castle was too bleak for even child-comfort, Aunt 'Ritta, the cook, let us heat bricks in the kitchen fire, and showed us how to wrap them in rags to keep in the warmth. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood The first shell sent the fuse through my roof, the next knocked a brick in at the side of the wall, and then I jumped out and started putting the men into covered ditches. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 The brick wall may be further waterproofed by laying the brick in hot asphalt instead of in mortar. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs These machines are still used, but they are hardly necessary, for the "dry-clay" brick machine will turn out a smooth brick in one operation. Diggers in the Earth All these defects were removed by the simple expedient of baking the bricks in kilns or ovens, a process which gives them the hardness and solidity of stone. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria The front of this transept was repaired in brick in 1735, and the restoration of both was taken in hand by Mr. Wallace in 1830. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See The cambium cells are brick-shaped, and are placed end to end, with layer overlapping layer, like bricks in the wall of a building. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 How she had trembled afterwards at the tipping of a load of bricks in the road forbear that was the Day of Judgment beginning. The Privet Hedge Then, folding his arms, he watched the imbedding of those bricks in their plaster with a sovereign calm like that of Vitellius eating figs at the combats of the gladiators. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Same number of bricks in each one, but the bricks were larger. A Martian Odyssey In the name of my lord I will put my seal on the treaty, if it be written on bricks in cuneiform letters, for I do not understand your writing. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt He went on talking: "If I put the bricks in again on my side, and you on yours, who'll know the hole's there?" The Man Next Door So saying, Rollo pointed to the bricks in a mass of masonry near where they were standing. Rollo in Rome "There are two bricks in the back, two on each side and two on the top," he explained with some pride. Sally of Missouri One of the fellows the other day told him there was a brick in his hat, and he took the old thing off to look into it to see if it was true. How Janice Day Won "This fellow must be carrying a brick in each pocket," grumbled the long-nosed man. Gold Seekers of '49 Because one brick in the wall is immovable, we forget that the wall itself might be rebuilt. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Holding his curly head in his hands, as if to keep it from flying asunder with the various plans working inside, he sat staring at the dusty bricks in a desperate frame of mind. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. Other workers placed the bricks in baskets and carried them away to the boats in the river, for the boatmen to take up to the great cities where the walls were being built. Children of the Old Testament Inland, the arches from the aqueduct of the Siagne shed their bricks in wheat fields and protrude from clumps of hazels. Riviera Towns It has influenced his practical life indirectly of course, but it has never become a brick in the building up of his practical life. Folklore as an Historical Science You are the first brick in the line. The Brentons When the great Duke of Guise rebuilt the château of brick in the sixteenth century, he put down most of the outer fortifications. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 Next door is a curiously built Primitive Methodist chapel, with bands of differently coloured bricks in relief. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London It was only what was to be expected under the circumstances, and he had been a brick in defending them from their father’s anger. Betty Trevor I’m an only child, and my parents have been perfect bricks in giving me my wish and sparing me for three whole years! A College Girl Stand the brick in a vessel so full of water that the brick is entirely covered. Lessons on Soil To which we answer, newly built houses are constantly falling down; therefore there are no good bricks in these times. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists “I like to see a cat sitting patiently in front of a mouse-hole, or lying on the bricks in front of the kitchen stove; but I don’t like to see it scratching the parlor furniture.” Peggy in Her Blue Frock You have seen how the air helps to crumble the stone and brick in old buildings. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition |
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