The latter, gray and time-scarred, still rears on high its double row of arched vaults; but Vandalism, in the guise of the local shepherd and grass-cutter, has claimed it as her own and has bricked up in the rudest fashion, for the shelter of goats and kine, the pointed stone arches which were once its pride.

Laburnum Villa was in a long street, which resembled the other streets as one tree resembles another; and you had to traverse a great many of these streets before you got into the open country, that is, away from the red-bricked and stucco villas, and still smaller and uglier houses, which had been run up by the enterprising jerry-builder.

and whether his grave is to be plain or bricked?

" He had "bricked up" the fireplace in his study and put an air-tight stove in, because it was simply impossible to feed an open fire and write a book at the same time.

From the flour-mill a bricked path, which separated a considerable row of new cottages from their appurtenant gardens, led straight into Lessways Street, in front of Mrs. Lessways' house.

When Mrs. Grant had crossed the road and taken the bricked path leading to the paralytic's house, Mrs. Lessways slowly shut the door and bolted it, and then said to Hilda: "Well, my girl, I do think you might have tried to show just a little more feeling!

And while this pleasant intimate silence persisted, the noises of the market-place made themselves prominent, quite agreeablyin particular the hard metallic stamping and slipping, on the bricked pavement under the window, of a team of cart-horses that were being turned in a space too small for their grand, free movements, and the good-humoured cracking of a whip.

These external things you cannot hope to destroy, but once the entrances are blocked, they will lead you only to bricked walls and closed channels.

Your good Dr. H. spent a whole half-day, the other Sunday, trying to tell us about the beauty of holiness; and he cut, and pared, and peeled, and sliced, and told us what it wasn't, and what was like it, and wasn't; and then he built up an exact definition, and fortified and bricked it up all round; and I thought to myself that he'd better tell 'em to look at Mary Scudder, and they'd understand all about it.

Can this suggest that the wicked canon was to be bricked up alive?

" So we two took our coffee cups and our cigars in our hands and went out through a side passage to the terrace, and sat on a little iron bench, where a shaft of light, from a window of the room we had just quit, showed a narrow streak of flowering plants beyond the bricked wall and a clump of red and yellow woodbine on a low wall.

This sink was a deep well, with the sides bricked, and all the filth and refuse of the town flowed into it through several drains.

But these, which at first filled Roy with a flush of hope, proved, on examination, to have been bricked up, and solidly, too.

In 1793 Wyatt, the architect responsible for so much destruction of Mediæval work in various cathedrals, advised that a timber framework to carry the bells should be built up within the tower from the ground and that the tower arch should be bricked up.

If you had been a Vestal Virgin you would have been bricked up."

There was a sort of brigand's supper in the old bricked kitchen, with the row of dead rats lying in the moonlight against the hen-runs outside, and after thirty minutes or so of rest, Cossar roused them all to the labours that were still to do.

But those old familiar trees, the particular hedges he had worked among so many years, the very turf of the meadows over which he had walked so many times, the view down the road from the garden gate, the distant sign-post and the red-bricked farmhouseall these things had become part of his life.

He looked round raising his head with difficulty, and he could not see the sign-post, nor the familiar red-bricked farmhouse.

At one place he bade me look out of a little window, and I saw below a small court with an ancient chapel on the left, the windows bricked up.

Here I found a considerable cellar, divided into two sections, the floor of stone slabs, and the walls well bricked.

Together we splashed into the broken-bricked alley that was sloppy with melting spring sleet.

But you can't get anything unless you're b-brassy, can you?" We entered a big-windowed, red-bricked factory, and in response to our timid application, a black-clad woman shook her head wearily.

Only this much: if one, deserving well, Touching your thin young hands and making suit, Feel not himself a crawling thing, a brute, Buried and bricked in a forgotten hell; Prophet and poet be he over sod, Prince among angels in the highest place, God help me, I will smite him on the face, Before the glory of the face of God.

The postern gate, too, in Houghton Street still remains, though the arch is bricked up inside.

Leastways, you could see it once; an' even now, if ye've good eyesight, ye can see where they've bricked it up.