A nearby bomb would remove the brickwork allowing the concrete roof to fall in on the occupants.
A new block of flats is to have the common area with an internal finish of exposed brickwork.
All lavatories, bath rooms, and water closets have dados of glazed brickwork.
As the heavy yellow bulldozer raised its blade to cut into the brickwork, Molly fell quietly asleep.
Boilers set in brickwork are sometimes used in domestic work, although they are more favoured for horticultural heating.
Both the types intended to be set in brickwork and those working independently are formed on the sectional principle, which has many good points.
But to all such precautions should be added the use of concrete or brickwork tongues running longitudinally at the bottom of the trench, such as those shown at a higher level in fig.
Considerable remains of a theatre in concrete faced with brickwork, erected, according to an inscription, in 43 B.C., and 161 ft.
Elaborate brick dentil detail to gable eaves and relief patterned brickwork to gable above GF windows.
For conveying small streams through embankments, channels or culverts are constructed in brickwork or masonry.
Gjers did this by setting the partly solidified ingot in a well-closed " pit " of brickwork, preheated by the excess heat of previous lots of ingots.
Gjers did this by setting the partlysolidified ingot in a well-closed " pit " of brickwork, preheated by the excess heat of previous lots of ingots.
Hale School (1873) is unspoiled and handsome, boasting decorative tiling, carved bargeboards and polychromatic brickwork.
Here are remains of (earlier) structures in opus quadratum whereas the great bulk of the ruins are in brickwork and belong to the imperial period.
Hessian used to protect brickwork.
I begin to experience a nagging feeling that perhaps I should be putting up shelving or repointing the brickwork rather than hanging around.
Imagine for a moment that the sand grains were by any means rendered immobile without change in the permeability of their interspaces; we could then dispense with the iron or brickwork lining of the well; but as there would still be no cracks or fissures to extend the area of percolating water exposed to the open well, the yield would be very small.
In this working chamber, a long quasi-cylindrical vessel of brickwork, heated by burning within it pre-heated gas with pre-heated air, the charge is melted and brought to the desired composition and temperature.
It is separated from the coal by a narrow passage walled and arched in brickwork on both sides.
It should be seated flush against the bare brickwork of your chimney breast.
Its imposing front facade of red brickwork in Flemish bond with finely lined pointing even merits a mention in Pevsner.
Its vaulted roof is a fine specimen of Saracenic brickwork.
Left, the English bond pattern brickwork for the outer wall is starting to take shape.
Michele (and the Palazzo Manfredi opposite it) are fine early Renaissance buildings in brickwork.
Note the fine brickwork and the dove cote on the right hand end.
Ok, how does one improve the look of the exterior brickwork.
On the east side of the lake are remains of baths, including a great octagonal hall known as the Temple of Apollo, built of brickwork, and belonging to the 1st century.
One of the few drawbacks of concrete is that, unlike brickwork or masonry, it has nearly always to be deposited within moulds or framing which give it the required shape, and which are removed after it is set.
Piers and abutments are of masonry, brickwork, or cast or wrought iron.
Several of the bazaars are vaulted over with brickwork, but the greater number are merely covered with flat beams which support roofs of dried leaves or branches of trees and grass.
Steel concrete is even more difficult to generalize about, as its use is comparatively new, but even in the matter of first cost it is proving a serious rival to timber and to plate steel work, in floors, bridges and tanks, and to brickwork and plain concrete in structures such as culverts and retaining walls, towers and domes.
Steelwork that has to come in contact with brickwork or concrete should not be painted, but should receive a wash of cement as the brickwork or concrete-work proceeds.
The 1st to Turd Dynasties have left at Abydos large forts of brickwork, remains of two successive temples, and the royal tombs (see ABYDOS).
The brickwork may wear back to the front edges of these boxes, or even, as is shown at R', a little farther.
The coil is encased with firebricks and brickwork, and the smoke from the fire is carried, off by a flue in the ordinary s " way.
The construction of the wooden external dome, and the support of the stone lantern by an inner cone of brickwork, quite independent of either the external or internal dome, are wonderful examples of his, constructive ingenuity.
The ground floor window frames were distinctly arched, featuring patterned brickwork, whilst the first floor counterparts were instead rectangular in appearance.
The houses, mostly of two storeys, are of wood, strengthened on the first and ground floors by brickwork.
The lateral flues c, c prevent the brickwork from being melted.
The main towers consist of a skeleton of steel, enclosed in a facing of granite and Portland stone, backed with brickwork.
The medieval castle of the Frangipani, in which Conradin of Swabia vainly sought refuge after the battle of Tagliacozza in 1268, is built upon the foundations of a very large villa, of opus reticulatum with later additions in brickwork, and with a small harbour attached to it on the south-east.
The owner of the flat above has had several sales fall through due to the cost of rectifying frost damaged brickwork.
The south porch is a very fine example of late 15th or early 16th century brickwork, with fine tracery in the side window.
The spores of the fungus will find a way through brickwork, concrete and similar material, in order to reach woodwork that may be on the other side.
The square fort of brickwork at Daphnae (q.v.) was built by Psammetichus I.
The surrounding brickwork of the parapet wall is loose.
The towpath side bottom quadrant wall is now finished, with special ' psychedelic ' blue and red brickwork capping !
The towpath side bottom quadrant wall is now finished, with special ' psychedelic ' blue and red brickwork capping!
The walls are built of solid brickwork and then covered with thin slabs of rich and costly marbles.
The water runs from the lakes to the mill via the leat, which is constructed of rendered brickwork.
Thence they are sucked out by the chimney-draught through the left-hand ports, down through the uptakes and regenerators, here again meeting ands heating the loose mass of " regenerator " brickwork, and finally escape by the chimney-flue 0.
These include plumbing, electrical, carpentry and brickwork.
These portions usually consist of masonry in some form, including under that general head stone masonry, brickwork and concrete.
These spaces cannot be constructed in any other way than is actually done in the shape of the lead chambers; neither iron nor brickwork can be employed for this purpose, as they would be quickly destroyed by the acid liquids and gases.
They occur no less in structures of masonry and brickwork, but in these cases they generally follow the joints, and are almost imperceptible.
They used an iron still, set in brickwork, and from a working charge of forty " buckets " of crude petroleum obtained a yield of sixteen buckets of " white naphtha."
Till near the end of the 19th century bridges of masonry or brickwork were so constructed that they had to be treated as rigid blockwork structures.
Uncemented brickwork, or perforated ironwork, are xxvill.
Y p chimney and by conduction into the brickwork backing of the stove is considerable.