mud-bricks

They perform the same work men, carrying adobe mud-bricks, climbing ladders up to eight meters high, moving wheelbarrows from one side to another, from top to bottom.

Global Voices in English » Peru: Preservation Efforts in the Chan Chan Archaeological Site 2009

El Kab, an arena-sized wall encircling grass, made of mud-bricks, dating from at least 3000 BC.

Karin Badt: Going Down the Nile in Style: the 19th Century Dahabiyya Restored 2009

Hence the stiff, insentient spines, the rich physique, and the heavy, dreary natures, heavy like the dark-grey mud-bricks, with a terrible obstinate ponderosity and a dry sort of gloom.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The first seven years were spent in learning how to make mud-bricks for walls and put up framing for roofs and doors and windows.

The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

The tumbled mud-bricks formed a steep ramp, and Shufti scrambled up it, slipping and falling, but rapidly nearing the top of the wall.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

Here they had hewed timber, made mud-bricks, planted their vine-slips and their seed-grain, bred from the few cattle they had managed to bring; all the time fighting off the Thracian tribesmen, who thought it unmanly to grow what they could steal.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

The fine buildings of the haciendas, and more especially the churches, contrast strongly with the generality of houses, all of one story, built of adobes (mud-bricks dried in the sun), with flat roofs of sand and lime resting on wooden rafters, and the naked ground for a floor, all dark, dirty, and comfortless.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

We passed many little houses consisting of one square room, built of mud-bricks, with mud-mortar stuck full of little stones; without windows, but generally possessing the luxury of a chimney, with a couple of bricks forming an arch over it to keep out the rain.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

They are all fabricated of mud-bricks, and the divisions are according to necessity.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

But the study of the evolution of the early Egyptian grave and tomb-superstructures suggests that the early use of slabs of stone, wooden boards, and mud-bricks helped in the process of determining the four-sided form of house and room.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith