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  • Carlos is a sometimes brick-layer, the neighborhood drunk, a lazy, good-for-nothing, whose wife runs a clandestine store from the side terrace of their house.

    A Mexico patriarch 2007

  • Carlos is a sometimes brick-layer, the neighborhood drunk, a lazy, good-for-nothing, whose wife runs a clandestine store from the side terrace of their house.

    A Mexico patriarch 2007

  • He found a job as a brick-layer in Johannesburg, but he said he no longer wanted to stay in this country.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • BBC: “An adopted brick-layer who traced back his family history discovered his brother is the internationally celebrated author Ian McEwan.”

    My Uncle is Thomas Pynchon, But I’m Waiting Until He’s Accused of Plagiarism Before I Go Public : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

  • The brick-layer went on with his job, but slowly, sending his hod-carrier to fetch Long who, while not exactly a boss, had a margin more authority than the man with the brick in his hand.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He had learnt a score of trades in the course of the building, become a brick-layer and a glazier, a carpenter and a plumber.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • The brick-layer went on with his job, but slowly, sending his hod-carrier to fetch Long who, while not exactly a boss, had a margin more authority than the man with the brick in his hand.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He had learnt a score of trades in the course of the building, become a brick-layer and a glazier, a carpenter and a plumber.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • He learnt that the father of this insolent tutor was a brick-layer, that his mother sold pies, and that the son, in different periods of his youth, had amused himself in both occupations, before he converted his views to the study of learning.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Go for the brick-layer, they're more difficult to offshore ;

    Just A Little R-E-S-P-E-C 2004

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