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  • ” At least 30 pilgrims died in that assault; in another, 19 brick-kiln workers were mowed down by automatic gunfire in a village south of Srinagar.

    A Bloody Response To A Peace Move 2008

  • The rafters bend under the weight of this brick-kiln.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino: The Cock and the Fox, from the Lais of Marie: The House of Fame, from the French or Italian: and poor Gower he uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.

    Representative Men 2006

  • Here we waited for the tide, and had the pleasure of surveying the face of the country, the soil of which, at this season, exactly resembles an old brick-kiln, or a field where the green sward is pared up and set a-burning, or rather a smoking, in little heaps to manure the land.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • Also, near the brick-kiln there lay a patch of black mud in the glistening, crumpled-velvet blue substance of which two urchins of five and three were, breechless, and naked from the waist upwards, kneading yellow feet amid a silence as absorbed as though their one desire in life had been to impregnate the mud with the red radiance of the sun.

    Through Russia 2003

  • It is as if from the open field a brick-kiln were transported to her planks.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • The wind was tremendous, but what was more surprising still was its warmth; it seemed to be of brick-kiln heat as it screamed round him.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • With the coming of night, however, the wind lost its brick-kiln heat and blew almost chilly, so that Hornblower found himself shivering a little.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

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