Then send for the
bricklayer and have it seen to," said his master.
A
Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.
A few minutes after, a
Bricklayer passed by, carrying a pail full of plaster on his shoulder.
But when Ben left school he had to earn a living in some way, so he became a
bricklayer like his step-father, when "having a trowell in his hand he had a book in his pocket.
Our mothers could neither of them exactly ascertain who were our Father, though it is generally beleived that Philander, is the son of one Philip Jones a
Bricklayer and that my Father was one Gregory Staves a Staymaker of Edinburgh.
I'm my own contractor, my own carpenter, and my own
bricklayer, and I shall be sixty-seven come Michaelmas," he added, by no means irrelevantly.
Tom is only a
bricklayer, but he's real good- tempered.
As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or
bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St.
The fellows were not
bricklayers, but, as in the old days, they attended all Sunday picnics for the dancing, and the fighting, and the fun.
On her way home at an early hour when she met no one but
bricklayers going to work or men sweeping the street, and everybody within the houses was still asleep, Natasha experienced a feeling new to her, a sense of the possibility of correcting her faults, the possibility of a new, clean life, and of happiness.
A basket I could not make by any means, having no such things as twigs that would bend to make wicker-ware - at least, none yet found out; and as to a wheelbarrow, I fancied I could make all but the wheel; but that I had no notion of; neither did I know how to go about it; besides, I had no possible way to make the iron gudgeons for the spindle or axis of the wheel to run in; so I gave it over, and so, for carrying away the earth which I dug out of the cave, I made me a thing like a hod which the labourers carry mortar in when they serve the
bricklayers.
The coachman mounted his box and drove slowly off, leaving the two
bricklayers, and an old apple-woman, and a town-made little boy returning from an evening school, who had been the only witnesses of the scene, to meditate upon it at their leisure.
bricklayer - a craftsman skilled in building with bricks