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  • With its sloping gray roof, it had pretensions of being a brown-brick Versailles.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • The imposing brown-brick building towered above me like Goliath over David, and I was terrified.

    The Exorsistah: X Returns Claudia Mair Burney 2010

  • Housed in a nondescript brown-brick building, HBCS is surrounded by acre after acre of similarly anonymous looking office parks, places with seemingly identical topiary and opaque names that betray nothing about the kind of business actually being transacted.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • The Hague ' s Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery enjoys all the benefits of being housed in a mansion, with its reddish brown-brick exterior and Greek columns that instantly draw the eye away from the opulence of the adjacent Binnenhof government complex in the Hague ' s downtown.

    Museums Joel Weickgenant 2010

  • With its sloping gray roof, it had pretensions of being a brown-brick Versailles.

    Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

  • The 15-story brown-brick building with limestone base on Central Park West was built in 1910 and offers views of the park.

    Money's Worth: Pre-War Buildings 2008

  • The 15-story brown-brick building with limestone base on Central Park West was built in 1910 and offers views of the park.

    Money's Worth: Pre-War Buildings 2008

  • Set on a hill overlooking the capital city of Islamabad, the imposing brown-brick, for-tresslike building incorporates architectural motifs from the country's varied cultural past: Buddhist, Hindu, Mogul and British colonial.

    Surprised, General? 2007

  • The brown-brick pile is simply ignored by most Iranians as they whiz by on the boulevard.

    Dispatch From Iran 2007

  • They assembled in a brown-brick gymnasium on a bright morning, wearing their helmets, flak vests, and combat uniforms, and carrying a variety of weapons.

    Peace is Hell 2001

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