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Example sentences for "bricklayer"

Lexicographically close words:
bricke; bricked; brickfield; brickfields; bricking; bricklayers; bricklaying; brickle; brickmaker; brickmakers
  1. The miserable millions burst forth into Sansculottism, or some other sort of madness: bricks and bricklayer lie as a fatal chaos--!

  2. The bricklayer with his bricks, no longer heedful of plummet or the law of gravitation, have toppled, tumbled, and it all welters as we see!

  3. That brings rank; as a bricklayer one belongs to a guild, and is a citizen, and has one's own flag and one's own house of call.

  4. No, I would rather be a bricklayer at once, for that is something real; and that's what I will be.

  5. A negro bricklayer in Macon, Georgia, was lying down during the noon hour, sleeping in the hot sun.

  6. I'll be a king in exile, and you can be a bricklayer on strike.

  7. Just then the volcano conveniently erupted and dematerialized the king in exile and the bricklayer on strike.

  8. The bricklayer who had the contract for erecting the brick portion of the house refused, as it was built upon pise, to guarantee his work.

  9. Specially prized amongst the converts is a foreman-bricklayer once openly scornful in his unbelief.

  10. We "ran" Malachi to believe that the bricklayer was mad on the subject of phrenology, and was suspected of having killed several persons in order to obtain their skulls for experimental purposes.

  11. The bricklayer was from the first an object of awe to Malachi, who carefully avoided him; but one night we got the butt into a room where the artisan was entertaining the boys with a seance.

  12. Nothing was said for a while, until Malachi, after fidgeting a good deal on his stool, asked the bricklayer when he was leaving the station.

  13. The bricklayer does not criticise the clergyman for limiting his YEAR'S output to forty sermons.

  14. Mrs. Clark, however imprudent and devoid of virtue, was no more the daughter of a journeyman bricklayer than she was the daughter of Pope Pius.

  15. A Bricklayer gave his judgment that no material was so good for the purpose as brick.

  16. A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as the best materials for successful defense.

  17. He had only one pair of ragged trousers, and he did not dare to cut them down, or he would have had nothing for general wear, so he had obtained an old pair of corduroys from a bricklayer who lived next door.

  18. The bricklayer was a bird-fancier, and Chippy had paid for the corduroys by fetching a big bag of nice sharp sand from the heath to strew on the floors of the cages.

  19. Most of the instruments used by the bricklayer are also employed by the stone-mason; and they have, therefore, been already mentioned.

  20. In many cases, the bricklayer is also so far a stone-mason, as to lay the foundation-walls of the buildings which he may erect.

  21. In such cases, it is his business to employ persons capable of executing every kind of work required on the proposed edifice, from the bricklayer and stone-mason to the painter and glazier.

  22. As the bricklayer is held to be living and the bricks non-living, so the bones and skin which protoplasm is supposed to construct are held non-living and the protoplasm alone living.

  23. As the bricklayer bricked it up, he sang the Internationale.

  24. The bricklayer turned his head a little to the right and roared enthusiastically: "L'lnterrrnationaaaaleu Sera le genrrhummain!

  25. It was to ensure, not only that bricklaying should survive and succeed, but that every bricklayer should survive and succeed.

  26. But that bricklayer is the People, Mr. Queed.

  27. I've thought a good deal about that tired bricklayer this summer," he went on, quite unembarrassed.

  28. That tired bricklayer whom you dismiss with such contempt of course cares nothing for it.

  29. The scribblers against him will say they have killed him; but by what Mr. Yorke told me, his bricklayer will dispute the honour of his death with them.

  30. That young bricklayer was, later, Beaumont's friend and master, Ben Jonson.

  31. Besides wall building, the bricklayer has many other works to perform.

  32. The simplest and most familiar work for a bricklayer to do is to build a wall.

  33. Here we must leave the subject; but in closing, I cannot forbear pointing to the art of the bricklayer as a fine example of what may be accomplished by steady perseverance.

  34. Had the Bricklayer suddenly seized my throat with corporeal fingers and proceeded to throttle me, it would have been no more than I expected.

  35. The Bricklayer was dead, and that was the end of it.

  36. Dead men did rise up, and that would be the most likely thing the malignant Bricklayer would do.

  37. Therefore, granting the hypothesis (which I didn't grant at all), the ghost of the Bricklayer was bound to be as hateful and malignant as he in life had been.

  38. We elevated one end of the hatch-cover, and the Bricklayer plunged outboard and was gone.

  39. In short, the Bricklayer was one of those horrible and monstrous things that one must see in order to be convinced that they exist.

  40. THERE was in Wilkes's time a worthy person, who had risen from the condition of a bricklayer to be an alderman of London.

  41. Louisa shook her head and said simply: "No, Uncle Ryder, I did not kill the Clapham bricklayer in the cab.

  42. The bricklayer from Clapham had listened to this admonition, delivered with solemn emphasis and no small measure of severity, with a kind of stolid indifference.

  43. And the Clapham bricklayer at once retired within his shell of humble self-deprecation.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bricklayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.