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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
- I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that...Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
masonry = stone or brick
masonry = stone wall
masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall
masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure
masonry = stone or brick
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