Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维.智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? 柏拉图.理想国.
We have all seen fence posts and bricks pushed out of place because of the heaving of the soil beneath them. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
This does not require a multitude of cans and a great floor space, but a lot 25 by 50 feet is sufficient, for the ice is turned out in a continuous process like bricks from a brick machine. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Who could live to gaze from day to day on bricks and slates who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
They will be jumping about like cats on hot bricks shortly! 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
And I'll lay a wager we can get fine bricks out of the clay at Bott's corner. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
When the bricks in E′ C′ become cooled by the passage of gas and air, the valves are again adjusted to reverse the currents of gas and air, sending them now through chambers C and E again. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
He is in the confidence of the very bricks and mortar. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
I have walked up and down of an evening opposite Jellyby's house only to look upon the bricks that once contained thee. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Out there fell a cascade of children's bricks. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
But if, while I feed them, I employ them, some in spinning, others in making bricks, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
By adding a binding material, such as pitch, and pressing the mixture into briquettes or small bricks, an excellent fuel is made. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Hence the old metaphor of worthlessness of bricks without straw, but of course in burning, and in modern processes of pressing unburnt bricks, straw is no longer used. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I suppose you have hardly seen anything but chimney-pots and bricks and mortar all your life, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, smiling. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I can't make bricks without clay. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
We compress the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing what they are. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
Some of the houses are not of stone, nor yet of bricks; I solemnly swear they are made of wood. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
People who could lay hold of nothing else, set themselves with bleeding hands to force stones and bricks out of their places in walls. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I don't want no shelter, he said; I can lay amongst the warm bricks. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.