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stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall; or the craft of building with such materials

Falling masonry is dangerous in an earthquake.

masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall; or the craft of building with such materials

Most of the original masonry has been replaced.
cracks in the masonry from a shifting foundation
...met every evening on a masonry platform under a great fig-tree.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

masonry = stone or brick

I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that...
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

masonry = stone wall

What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates,
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall

At the moment... there came, first a rumbling, then a creaking, and then a roar of falling masonry,
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure

At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

masonry = stone or brick

The Egyptian character of the masonry weighed upon me with its gloom.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
"Emma's right," Millard said, lying on the ground with a chunk of broken masonry under his head for a pillow.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Alyssa took care of the masonry almost single-handedly with the power of the earth god.
Rick Riordan -- The Throne of Fire
With a gathering trickle of pebbles and masonry, Alex began to sink.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
The stairwell was a cramped corkscrew of masonry, no more than six feet in diameter.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
As they walked, Hazel ran her hands along the masonry.
Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
So after flipping through a library book about masonry, he went to the hardware store and bought two sacks of ready-mix cement.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Somewhere a wall goes to pieces, a thousand kilograms of masonry crashing down.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
When I came to build my chimney I studied masonry.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Even today, one high degree of Masonry bears the title of 'Grand Duke of Jerusalem.'
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain

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