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- noun Plural form of
brickbat .
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Examples
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He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea of brickbats at three-quarters of a mile, but must decline on account of the danger to disinterested parties passing between them.
A Tramp Abroad 1879
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He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea of brickbats at three-quarters of a mile, but must decline on account of the danger to disinterested parties passing between them.
A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02 Mark Twain 1872
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Mysteries are common enough, at any rate, whatever the boys in Roxbury and Dorchester think of "brickbats" and the spawn of creatures that live in roadside puddles.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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Mysteries are common enough, at any rate, whatever the boys in Roxbury and Dorchester think of "brickbats" and the spawn of creatures that live in roadside puddles.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"brickbats" and the spawn of creatures that live in roadside puddles.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Let's start with a little context: The $26 billion settlement package of course received as many brickbats as it did kudos, but whatever you think about its specifics, you need to know that American residential real estate today is estimated to be about $700 billion underwater.
Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama's Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis Adam Levin 2012
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Let's start with a little context: The $26 billion settlement package of course received as many brickbats as it did kudos, but whatever you think about its specifics, you need to know that American residential real estate today is estimated to be about $700 billion underwater.
Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama's Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis Adam Levin 2012
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Let's start with a little context: The $26 billion settlement package of course received as many brickbats as it did kudos, but whatever you think about its specifics, you need to know that American residential real estate today is estimated to be about $700 billion underwater.
Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama's Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis Adam Levin 2012
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Let's start with a little context: The $26 billion settlement package of course received as many brickbats as it did kudos, but whatever you think about its specifics, you need to know that American residential real estate today is estimated to be about $700 billion underwater.
Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama's Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis Adam Levin 2012
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Let's start with a little context: The $26 billion settlement package of course received as many brickbats as it did kudos, but whatever you think about its specifics, you need to know that American residential real estate today is estimated to be about $700 billion underwater.
Adam Levin: Mortgages, Greece & Obama's Budget: The Global Financial Literacy Crisis Adam Levin 2012
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