Sentences with phrase «of old bricks»

This year we're recycling a pile of old bricks for a paved walkway and seating area underneath the gazebo (more on that coming up this summer).

The soft light of the church candles and woodburning stove brings out the warmth of the old bricks.

I am a good cook and a horrible baker so I was skeptical.The loaf «fell» out of my old brick colored Le Creuset oval casserole.A miracle!

Sundance Square is so charming with all of the old brick buildings covered in ivy.

Picture him there, between the piers of the old brick church: gaunt and sinewy, around thirty - five years old, wearing the long black robe of a Bolognese doctor.

It opened this February, presenting a well - windowed wall of poured - in - place concrete to a street of old brick and rusting steel,» noted The New Yorker.

It was an oversized, mischievous figure that stretched across the side of an old brick -LSB-...]

Portland may become the first city in the Pacific Northwest to require all owners of old brick buildings to make earthquake safety upgrades.

According to Bill Rose, a research architect at the Building Research Council at the University of Illinois, anyone who insulates the interior of an old brick building should plan to inspect the exterior on a regular schedule.

I will say too I love how you put the bits of old brick into the exterior wall on your porch it looks so lovely.

It gives just a peak of the old brick..

Reaching the main track, discover ruins of the old brick vinery and finish back on church field by the old sweet chestnut tree.

Not exact matches

One day last August, lender relations specialist Ford Scott and business development specialist Bob McLoone signed out an agency car and made the long drive toward the Tennessee border and Abingdon, an old mercantile town in the far southwest part of the state with red - brick buildings and red - brick sidewalks.

This is one of Richmond's oldest neighborhoods — the red - brick row houses date from around the Civil War.

Customers who are especially interested in history can choose to stay in «original historic rooms,» in the oldest building of the hotel, which have «uneven floors and walls, original plaster and exposed brick, and double brass beds.»

But there's one day out of the year that may prove mom - and - pop brick - and - mortar shops have an advantage over Jeff Bezos» 20 - year - old online retail powerhouse.

Toys «R» Us is in talks to sell its entire Canadian business as it works to shutter its 70 - year - old U.S. operations, but analysts are skeptical about the future of the brick - and - mortar toy retailer's existing business model.

In January 2014 polling by Deloitte, 18 % of 60 - to 70 - year - olds vs. 45 % of 21 - to 29 - year - olds agreed that «Online purchases are displacing purchases I used to make at my preferred brick - and - mortar retailer for stock - up purchases.»

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Too late for the tour and the history lesson, too late in the season on this southern plantation, and the ancient, front - line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare not telling what they know.I walk on the old brick, caulked with thin moss, but soon overlaid with a thickening....

The sun rose like an irritated eye; wives cooked rice pancakes; children went to play at tag in dusty fields or caught frogs by the banks of the Euphrates; while the men took to the brick kilns, potters» wheels, and plows; lovers arose to make love once again; and old men at the gate weighed claims and vows.

I love it that my friend and you are wrestling with people who both of you see as OK guys with similar outlooks on social and moral issues and get on really well together but even though we can converse on belief the Old Testament is a massive stumbling block, a 100 foot high brick wall.

In my mind's eye, though, what I see on East 33rd Street is the old brick horseshoe where I learned baseball from my grandfather Weigel in the late 1950s — and where, a half - century ago, I had a foretaste of the joy of the Kingdom.

I do feel, I guess, that somewhere behind all this» — he gestures outward at the scenery; they are passing the housing development this side of the golf course, half - wood half - brick one - and - a-half-stories in little flat bulldozed yards with tricycles and spindly three - year - old trees, the un-grandest landscape in the world — «there's something that wants me to find it» [P. 107].

The 6600ASF space (on a 12,000 SF lot) is divided into three areas and is designed with classic brick, sophisticated old charm of a French bistro including chandeliers and large mirrors.

As my Beau and I strolled through the narrow alleyways of the Old Town in Split, we were struck by the intense heat of the Old Town, which entraps the hot air within its high brick walls.

Soon after, the couple secured a turn - of - the - century brick building in the historic Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.

Housed in the old kitchen building of the Victorian - era home, the low - lit narrow space has rustic brick walls and high ceilings of dark - wood rafters, the better to accommodate the shelves and shelves of whiskey that Chef Brock loves.

Mark and I were in Montreal a couple weekends ago and passing by an old church in the morning hours, I could hear the choir of voices inside just slightly muffled by ages - old bricks and mortar, the congregation's joy barely contained.

It was a two - story brick dwelling at 8130 Morrison Road, where White lived with his girlfriend, Tangie Thompson, 28, who owned the house, and her three - year - old son, Devyn, an outgoing, precocious sweetheart of a kid.

It was almost as old as his brick house, which was built around 1810, and like other aged things the tree always appeared to be a symbol of pluck and order to him.

Grant is standing on the College of Charleston's home court in TD Arena, a classically Charlestonian red - brick building in the old city.

For our family, this is the perfect theme — it's a lot more affordable than the big D, it's full of Lego bricks, and there's an abundance of Star Wars paraphernalia - the new Star Wars Miniland induced loud gasps from the 7 year old.

Highlights include horse - drawn hayrides, a bonfire on the Common, an old - fashioned barn dance, live music, and the annual lighting of the Village's 24 - foot - high brick kiln to fire more than 800 pieces of pottery.

The Pullman Palace Car Co.'s old factory, a massive brick building that was a hub of the rail industry, now rises above a crumbling parking lot overrun with weeds.

My 20 month old was bummed that he couldn't do this sensory activity with us since he likes to eat everything, so I filled him up a bucket of bubbles with some LEGO bricks and wire whisks and he was totally happy just splashing away.

Young preschoolers, and even toddlers as young as 2 years old, love stacking Lego bricks on top of each other to form «towers.»

Planners and merchants envision a revitalized downtown that mixes old - fashioned appeal (colonial - style storefronts and brick sidewalks) with the new (a multistory downtown parking garage and a periphery of modern office and apartment buildings).

It was ultimately Washington, D.C. businessmen that promoted and financed the construction of a temporary brick structure where Congress could meet while the U.S. Capitol was rebuilt called the Old Brick Capitol (at the same site where the current - day U.S. Supreme Court now stands).

A portion of the century - old building, whose imposing red brick turrets jut up from the intersection of Atlantic and Bedford avenues like the spires of a medieval castle, has long served as an assessment center for the department.

The state is paying $ 2 million to fix crumbling bricks at the decade - old «Taj McCall,» the state office building constructed at the urging of former comptroller H. Carl McCall.

The 93 - year - old brick building at 960 Busti Avenue and Niagara Street — long a dilapidated, graffiti - covered eyesore — will soon be home to 27,000 sq. ft. of commercial space, and 23,000 sq. ft. of residential space, rehabilitated by Ellicott Development.

Karen Brooks Hopkins, entering her fourth decade at BAM, welcomed the crowd into the brightly lit practice space on the third floor of the two - month - old red brick theater, tucked in behind BAM's original performance hall.

Materials • LEGO bricks • Large, flat LEGO baseplate • Metric ruler • Three - ring binder (an old one that is okay to take apart) • Scissors • Four small rubber balls (each the same size, about 2.5 centimeters in diameter) • Two rubber bands (each about eight centimeters or longer when flattened and doubled on itself) Preparation • Carefully cut the front and back covers off of the three - ring binder with scissors.

The large and square mud - brick architecture of the Gonur people may live on, however, in the clan compounds of Afghanistan and in the old caravansaries — rest stops for caravans — that dot the landscape from Syria to China.

Nearly every house within a mile of Poquoson's waterfront marshes is elevated: older homes sit on cinder block or brick foundations, while newer houses are built a story off the ground with garages underneath.

Then last July, Josef Wegner, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced that he and colleagues from Yale University and New York University had found a 3,700 - year - old painted clay birth brick that shows a woman transformed into a goddess at the moment of giving birth.

In his modest office at MIT, on the second floor of a brick building resembling an old warehouse, Weiss settles behind a small wooden desk with a gaping hole in the top.

«It was an obvious opportunity to work out what the impact would be,» he says as he shows me around his lab — an old brick building connected to a couple of large sheds.

Building whole structures out of bricks of synthetic carbonate should be fairly familiar to the building industry, since blocks of natural limestone are one of the oldest and most widely used building materials in human history.