89 adjectives to describe brick

The substrata of a cactus pot is ideally composed of pieces of broken bricks at the bottom, charcoal above it, then coarse sand and pebbles above it.

"That little chap who has just had the measleshe's a dear little brick," said Jack Belsize.

In his house on Water Street, a big, square brick house, with plain verandahs, the ex-Premier sat alone that night.

The tower that rises over the doorway is built of plain Roman brick and broken flint stones, and has occasionally a piece of drest stone on corners.

Other houses in the village are composed of unburnt bricks cemented with mud, or maybe composed of mud walls and thatched roof; these, being a compound sort of erection, are called cutcha pucca.

Fortunately a loose brick lay handy and with this Dick smashed out the panes of glass in the cellar window.

It is a little village of great antiquity, having been founded by some of the Dutch colonists in the early time of the province, just about the beginning of the government of the good Peter Stuyvesant (may he rest in peace!), and there were some of the houses of the original settlers standing within a few years, built of small yellow bricks brought from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts, surmounted with weathercocks.

Anna looked in the direction indicated, and saw through the deepening twilight a large two-storied house, built of a dull red brick, with stone copings, standing at some distance from the high-road.

It was like that with this Bassett and me; so much so that I have known occasions when for minutes at a stretch Bertram Wooster might have been observed fumbling with the tie, shuffling the feet, and behaving in all other respects in her presence like the complete dumb brick.

When mixed with baked bricks or smooth stones this material affords so great strength as to render them stronger than rock or any kind of iron.

But I could perceive nothing; and what made it more difficult was, that the walls here were lined completely with small flat bricks, and looked much the same all round.

The choice material for building is brick, mostly unbaked or sun-dried.

All around it, close against the brown bricks, the fleur-de-lis stand white and stately, guarded by their tall green lances.

They make the rough, unbaked earth bricks that the peasant cottages are mostly made of, are tinkers and blacksmiths, but they do the lowest kind of work too.

At the beginning of his career he had a defective sense of the harmonic ratios upon which a really musical building may be constructed out of mere bricks and mortarsuch, for example, as the Church of S. Giustina at Padua.

When the whole is so adjusted that throughout the entire wall the joints in one course shall rest on solid bricks and shall be covered by solid bricks againin short, when the whole shall break jointthen this wall is said to be properly bonded, and has as much stability given to it as it can possibly possess.

There was a maximum size for the raw brick, which it was supposed served to keep bricks uniform, and the expectation was entertained that when the duty came off, many fancy sizes of bricks would be used.

Moulded bricks are also to a large extent made of the same material.

Glazed bricks of all colors are obtainable.

Inside the gate Peter's feet encountered the scattered bricks of an old walk.

Beside the window looking out upon a gray-brick wall almost within reach, a canary with a white-fluted curtain about the cage dozed headless.

My peculiarity, however, consists in the fact that the numerals from 1 to 9 are differently coloured; (1) black, (2) yellow, (3) pale brick red, (4) brown, (5) blackish gray, (6) reddish brown, (7) green, (8) bluish, (9) reddish brown, somewhat like 6.

The floors throughout are fireproof, formed of iron joists, and arched with hollow bricks of a singular construction.

Honest brick and tiles.

Aubrey gives it as a common opinion, that at the time when Jonson's father-in-law made him help him in his business of bricklayer, he worked with his own hands upon the Lincoln's Inn garden wall, which looks upon Chancery-lane, and which seems old enough to have some of his illustrious brick and mortar still remaining.

89 adjectives to describe  brick