| 单词 | brickfield |
| 例句 | Further east, and between the native location and Cannon Kopje, on the northern bank of the river, extend the brickfields, while a little further in the same direction is MacMullan's Farm. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z He found the owner of the brickfield an old man, as skilled in craft as Ulysses. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z From the advanced trench in the river-bed some successful sniping at the foe on the brickfields was carried on, however, and from here the enemy was eventually routed by the smart action of the besieged. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z A wild stag proudly carrying his “brow, bay, and tray” over Exmoor seems no less capricious than an astonished hind, enlarged amongst the brickfields of Hounslow, or the rich pastures that lie outstretched below Harrow-on-the-Hill. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z It was six o'clock as we neared London; the faint sickly fume of the brickfields about Acton came in puffs through the open window, and a mist was rising from the ground. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z For the time firing seemed confined to the artillery and rifles from the Boer trenches in the brickfields, the south-eastern front of the town and the eastern facing of the native location receiving the brunt. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z At fifteen I was working in a brickfield. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Fifty-three prisoners were captured, and over a thousand German dead strewed the brickfields. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Labour Exchanges sent resolution after resolution urging the Government to take steps to reopen the brickfields which had gone into disuse during the war. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z Or the hideous raw row of suburban houses would suddenly confront me, surging up, a foul growth, from the green meadow, or the sick reek of the brickfields by Acton Vale blew in my nostrils. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Out here in these brickfields we appear to be upon the edge of a new world, with the limits of the old one just below. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z It was not a pleasant spot that brickfield, and seemed to have been thrust out far from the habitations of ordinary men. A Double Knot After a severe tussle, in which our men used the bayonet with great effect, they were forced to fall back across the brickfields. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z This affair took place in the last week in March 1869, and I obtained work for the summer on a brickfield at Bessingham. From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography 2011-02-06T03:01:01.497Z It also had, in later times at least, considerable brickfields. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" However, everything draws to an end, and the Boers, abandoning their intention of turning us out of the brickfields, ceased fire, giving to ourselves an opportunity to prepare breakfast. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z “Hi! stop him, hi!” roared a score of voices which echoed through the brickfield, and men, women, and children came hurrying from all parts to take up the chase. A Double Knot The task of the Irish was to retake positions in the brickfields captured by the Germans from the Coldstream Guards. The Irish at the Front They took fright near the brickfield, the coachman lost his hold of the reins, and when he stooped to gather them up, he was thrown out of the carriage. St. Peter's Umbrella Fortunately, the brickfields are on the other side; and, seen from here, the part of the ruin, and the old garden and orchard, have a charm of their own for me. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly If I return to the subject of the brickfields after such a short interval, it is because there, more than anywhere else in Mafeking, the clash of arms is predominant. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Moreover he had planted a large number of machine guns in the brickfield near La Bass�e. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources There are brickfields here and there, and cabbage fields, and places where rhubarb is grown. Oswald Bastable and Others Near the brickfield there is that immense windmill, for of course every town must have one. St. Peter's Umbrella Every acre of the ground about it, once of some extent and beautifully wooded, had been sold piecemeal—the greater part for brickfields. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly We fell back to the second hole, and the enemy began to shell other points in the brickfields. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z These brickfields have long been a thing of the past, surviving only in "Brickfield Hill," the hilly part of George Street, between the Cathedral and the Railway Station. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia About one half of this number were localised in the main prison, the other half being employed upon the country roads, the quarries, and brickfields. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 Cautiously he looked forth over flat landscape of building site, of brickfield, of the huge tanks and lush vegetation of sewage farms. A Sheaf of Corn I expect the brickfields at La Bassée are again being a scene of mortal combat. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 We are now, after almost six months' siege, some 1,700 yards in advance of the town, and the south-eastern outposts, as these brickfield forts are called, constitute our most outlying positions around beleaguered Mafeking. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Moreover he had planted a large number of machine guns in the brickfield near La Bassée. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes He met men who wanted to extend a brickfield down by the railway. The Lost Girl As for the immediate foreground, it reminded me of a race—houses, trees, farms, towns, villages, hamlets, horses, sheep, cattle, poultry, hayricks, brickfields, were among the competitors in that race. My Doggie and I His way lay over a place half brickfield, half common, across which a narrow footpath went. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Nothing is quite so pleasant, so invigorating, nor quite so dangerous as life in these brickfield posts. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z There are saw-mills, breweries, brickfields and distilleries in the town, and numerous sugar factories in the vicinity, notably at Millaquin, on the river below the town. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" "No, with the staghounds; three beautiful runs; took him once in a millpond, once in a barn, and once in a brickfield—altogether the finest day's sport I ever saw in my life." Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities They have described the people employed in factories, workshops, mines, and brickfields, as well as in the pursuits of country life. Thrift My brother had a very poor opinion of geologists, but his only reason for this seemed to have been formed from the opinion of some workmen in one of our brickfields. From John O'Groats to Land's End The enemy contemplated an attack upon our south-eastern front, concentrating their advance upon our positions in the brickfields. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z It rained that night; rain was the most appropriate weather for the brickfields and sewage-farms and yards of old carts and railway-sleepers we were passing. Widdershins Nothing fine, nothing rare, nothing exquisite, it seemed, could exist in the weltering suburban sea, in the habitations which had risen from the stench and slime of the brickfields. The Hill of Dreams The unfortunate brickfields were pelted again; it was enigmatical; that Mr. Rhodes should be reckoned "a brick," by Boers, was improbable; rumour had it that his blood was hungered for. The Siege of Kimberley Also, there are brickfields which are furnished with the best machinery and plant, ranges of tomato and salad houses, and a large French garden where early vegetables are grown for market. Regeneration From their entrenchment at the brickfields, rather more than fifteen hundred yards from the town, Boer sharpshooters have been sniping the town with comparative impunity. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z This act of more than savage barbarity was committed at the brickfields, in the house of one Jones, a soldier. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 And the air seemed always grey, and the smoke from the brickfields was grey. The Hill of Dreams To convey these materials from the brickfield to the barrack-ground, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, three brick-carts were employed, each drawn by twelve men, under the direction of one overseer. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. He slept under archways, and in brickfields—anywhere, where there was some warmth or shelter from the cold and rain. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The main occupation of the garrison just now is to speculate upon the progress of the work of trench-building, which is being rapidly pushed forward in the brickfields upon the south-eastern face of the town. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z She had gone on, she said in her note, to an aunt and uncle who had a brickfield near Horsham. The War in the Air When I reached the beach road the sea-fog fumed over the brickfields, and the tide was telling all the groins of the gale beyond Ushant. Traffics and Discoveries These huts extended nearly to the brickfields, whence others were building to meet them, and thus to unite that district with the town. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. The village where you are going to speak has some rowdy elements—drawn from the brickfields near it. Delia Blanchflower The area of war, localised thus as it is in the brickfields, is an interesting testimony to the progress of our arms here in Mafeking. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Like henbane, it is often seen on rubbish-heaps and in old brickfields. The Naturalist on the Thames It is in a very low neighbourhood, close to the canal and brickfields on the Tullingworth Road. The Far Horizon It will be the realization of all the silly rubbish I talked in the old brickfield at Bludston. The Fortunate Youth An ugly strike in the Latchford brickfields against nonunion labour was giving the magistrates of the country a good deal of anxiety. Delia Blanchflower She lived in Blomfield Road, Shepherd's Bush, a depressing, blind little street, at the end of which was a hoarding; this latter shut off a view of a seemingly boundless brickfield. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Finally, one Sunday afternoon, a policeman wandering through some waste ground, a deserted brickfield behind Flowery End, came upon an unedifying spectacle. The Red Planet He employs on his estate—in mines, brickfields, and plantations—over four thousand men. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Do you remember, sonny, when I left you alone that night and went to the other side of the brickfield? The Fortunate Youth Then a voice rose from a lounging group of men, smoking like chimneys—powerful fellows; smeared with the clay of the brickfields. Delia Blanchflower Mavis looked over a desert of waste land and brickfield to a hideous, forbidding-looking structure in the distance. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl He would get up, and go out down to the brickfields. The Last Chronicle of Barset I looked at the man clad in mean garments and foul from his labour in the brickfield, marvelling at his insolence. Moon of Israel The light that never was on sea or land fell upon the brickfield. The Fortunate Youth One agent sent me a day's journey to see a house standing in the middle of a brickfield, with a view of the Grand Junction Canal. They and I And yet, poor, foolish child, fresh from the Egyptian brickfield, you could not rest satisfied. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow And then like the winter brickfields at midnight, hot fire lengthened out. Poems — Volume 1 Several chapels of zinc and iron appeared, and also a white new church in commercial Gothic upon the common, and another of red brick in the residential district out beyond the brickfields towards Chessington. The New Machiavelli Golgotha was a grim garden compared with Paul's brickfield. The Fortunate Youth He suggested my shutting out the brickfield—if I didn't like the brickfield—with trees. They and I Gone were the days of vagabondage, the lazy, the delicious even though cold and hungry hours of dreaming and reading in the brickfield; gone was the happy freedom of the chartered libertine of the gutter. The Fortunate Youth He limped away across the dim brickfield and sat down at the edge of the hollow where the woman had been murdered. The Fortunate Youth He was alone in his brickfield on a gusty March morning-the Easter holidays had released him from school-squatting by his hole under the lee of a mass of earth and rubbish. The Fortunate Youth Paul knew the exact spot, an ugly cavity toward the gasworks end, where a woman had been "done in," and even he, lord of the brickfield, preferred to remain at a purifying distance. The Fortunate Youth |
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