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«A strange collection of Victorian landmarks, now stranded around the Monopoly board of the modern city like brick dinosaurs.»
«Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.»
«Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.»
«. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.»
«And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.»
«And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, / Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.»
«And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brick, slime
«And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: / And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: brick, rigour
«And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? / Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? / There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.»
«God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.»

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