1 The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height.
2 You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 115. The Pequod Meets The Bachelor. 3 Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul.
4 You might fire off a mortar and it would produce about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a drunken man.
5 This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the fine, fresh plaster.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN 6 Aramis, not liking to soil his boots with this artificial mortar, apostrophized them rather sharply.
7 Ben Weatherstaff had seen it done and had himself scraped out mortar from between the bricks of the wall and made pockets of earth for lovely clinging things to grow on.
8 Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
9 Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 10 The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.