Just the toy-villages in boxes, uniform as graves and ugly as bricks" "Brick houses are not such ugly things.

His artist friends told him that every brick in the red walls was 'precious,' a mystery of colour which only a painter could fitly understand and value.

This chain was very broad, of a style known as the brick-work, but every brick was a tiny gem, set in a delicate filigree linked with the next, and the whole rainbowed lustrousness moving at your will, like the scales of some gorgeous Egyptian serpent:the solicitor was to take this also to the jeweller.

The Tillich bricks are good playthings, and so is cardboard moneyshillings, sixpences, threepences, pence and halfpence.

Hot bricks, hot blankets, bottles of hot water, hot whisky punch and green tea were the order of the forenoon, and of a good many hours of night and day after it; for that victory was won by a long struggle.

By a close examination, traces of the old architecture are to be found on the fortifications; the bricks of which they are built are about two feet in diameter, and resemble fine slabs of stone.

Even the mason was known: the bricks were not Egyptian bricks, nor the mortar foreign, nor the wood a tree from the heart of Africa; and yet, why was it therenay, why was the use of it not inquired into?

We will begin with that family of bricks of which the London stock brick is the type.

Even the mason was known: the bricks were not Egyptian bricks, nor the mortar foreign, nor the wood a tree from the heart of Africa; and yet, why was it therenay, why was the use of it not inquired into?

Nor brick nor marble was the wall in view, But shining christall, which from top to base Out of her womb a thousand rayons** threw On hundred steps of Afrike golds enchase.@

The Roman brick was often flat and largein fact, more like our common paving tiles, known as foot tiles, only of larger size than like the bricks that we use.

One architect may plan a house which will be plain to ugliness, the bricks laid in the most severe and commonplace fashion, and the outlines of the designif design it can be calleddevoid of any grace or variety.