3011 / bricks, all manner of

bricks, all manner of

all manner of bricks, his new invented engine
for the speedy and cheap making of; and a clause is inserted ₁

all manner of bricks whatsoever fitting and necessary ₂
all manner of bricks tricks played, in consequence of ₃

spasmodic activity giving place to
bricks and terra cotta, all manner of ₄

bricks and all manner of, from time to time, when and as ₅
Rome was a brick city and her works made all manner of

bricks, mostly red... but some gray ₆
bricks, whose type and meaning differ slightly or figuratively, all manner of ₇

bricks and mortar and pork, all manner of
both domestic and foreign vintage ₈

the butter for a brick charge,
the brick charge for yarn ₉

sources, all manner of

Bailey.
9th May 1741.
575. A grant unto William Bailey the younger, of Taunton, in the county of Somerset, gentl, his execrs, admrs, & assigns, to use and exercise his new invented engine for the speedy and cheap making all manner of bricks & pan tiles used in building, within the kingdom of Great Britain called England, the dominion of Wales, & town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Mâtie’s colonies and plantacons in America ; to hold and exercise the same within England, Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and His Mãtie’s colonies and plantacons in America, for and during the term of 14 years according to the statute in such case made and provided; and a clause is inserted in such case made and provided; and a clause is inserted for obliging him particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of his said invencon, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within three kalendar months from the date hereof. Witness His Mãtie at Westmr, the 9th day of May, in the year above. By writt, &c.
ex Titles of Patents of Invention, Chronologically Arranged; From March 2, 1617 (14 James I.) to October 1, 1852 (16 Victoriae). By Bennett Woodcroft, Superintendent of Specifications, Indexes, &c. (London, 1854) : 107
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Bennett Woodcroft (1803-79), patents in the fields of textiles and naval engineering; professor of machinery at University College London; first clerk to the commissioners of patents; important collector of mechanical relics of the Industrial Revolution; interesting personal life
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Agreement for taking down of an old House and building a new one.
Articles of Agreement made, &c. Between A.B. of, &. and C.D. of, &c.
Imprimis the said C.D. for himself, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, doth convenant, promise and grant, to and with the said [354] A.B. his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, by these Presents, in Manner following, (that is to say) That he the said C.D. his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, or some of them, for the Considerations hereafter mentioned, shall and will forthwith take down or cause to be taken down, the now Dwelling-house of the said A.B. situate, &c. and in the Room thereof shall make, erect, build and set up one new Tenement or Dwelling house of thirty Foot wide in Front, fifty Foot long, and three Story high, each Story being, &c. Feet, together with a Cellar of the Dimensions, &c. and shall also make four Rooms on each Floor; And that he the said C.D. his, &. shall find and provide at his own proper Costs and Charges, all and all manner of Bricks, Tiles, Timber, Laths, Nails, Lead, Iron, Sand, Lime, and all other Materials whatsoever, which shall be fitting and necessary to be used in or about the said Building, And shall carry away all Rubbish that shall arise by Reason of And shall carry away all Rubbish that shall arise by Reason of the said Building, which the said C. D. his. &. shall and will in all Things well and workmanlike erect and finish on or before, &c. next after the Date hereof.
ex The accomplish’d conveyancer. Containing the Nature and Kinds of Deeds and Instruments used in Conveyancing: and An Abridgment of the Law relating to all Sorts of Conveyances of Estates, with every Thing belonging to them; proved by many Law Cases and Resolutions thereupon... By Giles Jacob. Vol. 1 (of three); (London, 1750) : 354
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Ship Miseries.
Giving a dandy a tarry rope to pull by, by which means he has the delectable pleasure of walking oif with a good half-pound of tar, which takes him the rest of the passage to get off.
Soaping the cuddy ladder half way up, by which some annoying puppy has an opportunity of showing his skill in gymnastics, at the expense of his back and sides.
Taking the head of the table as the least crowded place, by a sudden roll of the vessel find the whole of the dinner lodged in your lap, and the rearguard brought up by a score of fat passengers, who are all driven towards the scene of distress. When the ship rolls on the contrary side, you have the pleasure of being uppermost in your turn, and riding some of them back again, disencumbering your clothing and person of your hot and greasy cargo, to the great advantage of those beneath you.
Finding, from the stupidity of your servant, who has forgotten to lash your chair, that the first roll of the ship gives you an opportunity of cutting a summerset backwards. Endeavouring to save yourself, unfortunately seize the sea-pie, and get the contents in your palpitating bosom.
Being rather scanty of clean linen, resolve to have a general wash; for which purpose you tow over your little kit, when, from the injudicious manner in which you have tied the knot, you have the mortification of seeing the whole riding on the billows ; one satisfaction only remaining to you, that you know where you are.
Going up the rigging to look out for land, find yourself tied hands and feet by the sailors, and kept there till your liberality in the article called grog, is duly exhibited b}r an order on the steward for a gallon.
[18] Sleeping to leeward late in the morning, find yourself swimming Sleeping to leeward late in the morning, find yourself swimming, the morning watch having commenced washing decks. Symptoms of anger would only increase the laugh at your expense.
Shewing your agility in ascending the ship's side, miss your footing, by which you have a most favourable opportunity of shewing your swimming powers also.
Sitting between two foreigners, of whose language you do not understand a syllable; but who, from their violent gestures, appear to be laying deep plans for cutting your throat.
Sitting opposite, or next to a prodigious fat gentleman, or dame, who has the wheezing asthma.
Sitting next your tailor or shoemaker, to whom you owe a long bill.
Quarrelling with the officers of the ship; inconsequence of which, wherever you shew your nose, you are sure of being soused, and played all manner of bricks [tricks] with by the crew, to the great amusement of the passengers.
Being obliged to sit next a person with whom you have quarrelled, and are to settle the little affair of honour on arriving at the first land.
OCR misread, at Comicalities; or, Budget of amusement for all seasons: laughable anecdotes, jokes, puns, witticisms, novel notions, humorous tales, &c., &c.; forming a pleasant companion for spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and a rich banquet for everybody’s enjoyment; first series (Glasgow, 1800) : 18
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A Great Clay Industry for Calgary
As announced briefly in a recent issue of the Contract Record, Mr. W. J. Tregillus will be the head of a clay products company which will build a plant in Calgary for the manufacture of all manner of bricks and terra cotta. The concern will be known as the Tregillus Clay Products Company, a close corporation with a capital investment in lands, buildings and machinery of $500,000. (One hundred thousand dollars has already been contracted for the purchase of machinery sufficient to keep two hundred men employed. This contract has been let to the Bonnot Company, of Ohio, and calls for 500 tons of machinery to be placed not later than July 1, 1912. The plant will be located on the Bow River, four miles west of the Calgary post office, and the site is such that the raw materials will be brought to the plant entirely by gravity. The equipment of the plant will be sufficient to produce an output of brick and class products as great as that of any other concern in the Dominion. Twenty kilns of the rectangular down draft type, each with a capacity of 200,000 brick, will be installed ultimately...
“Calgary Settling Down to Steady Growth; Spasmodic Activity giving place Spasmodic Activity giving place to Continuous and Consistent Development — Important Features of a Busy Season,” Contract Record and Engineering Review 26:22 (May 29, 1912) : 62
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Quarrying, mining and digging of limestone, sand-stone, clay and shale, and the manufacturing from said limestone, sandstone, clay and shale of fire brick, pressed brick, stock brick, paving brick, common brick, decorative bricks and all manner of bricks, sewer pipe, tile pipe, building tile, crushed stone, paving stone, building stone, lime and sand, and the sale thereof, and the by-products thereof, to be used for any purpose, and for purchasing, leasing or holding, upon royalty or upon rental, clay or shale lands, from time to time, when and as clay or shale lands, from time to time, when and as the same shall become necessary or convenient in the transaction of the business of the said company
Ex Table 20 / A Sample of Pennsylvania Corporations Chartered in 1902 Classified on Basis of Bradstreet and Charter Descriptions
Donley Brick Co.
Chapter 7, An Industrial Classification of Incorporations
George Heberton Evans, Jr., Business Incorporations in the United States, 1800-1943 NBER, Publication No 40 (1948) : 55 archive.org : link
Domitillia made it a practice to hold a day of profesti for herself at least once a week. It was then that she visited her brickworks and not only exhibited herself as a reminder to the slaves and freedmen who labored there that she was neither an absentee nor a careless owner, but she took an active part in trying to improve the product. Rome was a brick city and her works made all manner of bricks, mostly red in accordance with the dye chosen by Domitillia herself, but some gray bricks when that hue was available. Her constantly smoking kilns produced common bricks, capping bricks, feather-edged bricks, and buttress bricks, which had a notch at one end and buttress bricks, which had a notch at one end.
Domitillia derived a special pleasure in discussing the strength, texture, and variety of size in the bricks with Aponius Afrinus, the manager...
Ernest K. Gann, The Triumph : A Novel (1986) : 182
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Ernest Kellogg Gann (1910-91), writer, aviator... quite a life...
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Journalist Accuses Legislators of Losing Touch With People
45040355a Cairo AKHIR SA AH in Arabic 17 May 89 p 55
[Commentary by Faruq al-Tawil]
[Text] I believe — although I hope that I am mistaken — that Egypt’s crisis is hidden in its intellectuals, led and epitomized by a distinguished, pre-eminent group of revered doctors and scholars in various branches of [41] knowledge. Half of them rule Egypt and the other half is devoted to stoning the first half with all manner of bricks, stones, gravel and soil whose type and meaning differ slightly or figuratively. There are legal, legitimate projectiles worse than gravel and bricks. Some call these projectiles professional ingenuity, learned virility, technocratic conceit, and extraordinary, learned, professorial, legal ability and intelligence. It has reached the point at which the entire Egyptian arena has become transformed into a playing field for contests between these scholarly titleholders who have forgotten the interests of the people, but remember their own differences, and employ their academic and cultural virility only to scatter and eliminate each other.
Defense Technical Information Center, DTIC ADA348919: JPRS Report, Near East & South Asia, 1989
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Now, we are all painfully aware of this administration’s position with respect to LIHEAP [Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program] and its intention to eliminate the program entirely. These are not the people that we want to be making the decisions as to whether or not there is an emergency need for funding.
Access to affordable home heating oil is a necessity, particularly in areas like Maine where cold weather creates a demand for heating oil much earlier than other areas of the country.
Mr. Chairman, we manage to find room in our $1.3 trillion budget for all manner of bricks and mortar and pork, of both domestic and foreign vintage. Can we not provide funds sufficient to prevent Americans from freezing in the winter?
Olympia Snowe (R-Maine. 2nd congressional district), in discussion of H.R. 2708, “which appropriates funds for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year 1992,” (June 26, 1991), Congressional Record : Proceedings and Debates of the 102d Congress, First Session (1991) : 16388
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and much missed, her principled integrity, in Congress, in Senate Olympia Snowe (1947-), yet another interesting trajectory, among “these presents”
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...there is no shared standard when it comes to bartering. Anything can be priceless or worthless, depending on the person and the circumstances. It’s possible to go from bicycle handlebars to a bunch of beets in one step, if those are the things both parties need at the moment of exchange. But if the farmer doesn’t happen to own a bike, the handlebars may have to be traded for a bag of nails, the nails for butter, the butter for a brick charge, the brick charge for yarn, the yarn for the beets...
stored most of his wares neatly organized in the empty swimming pool He [Acevedo] was an archivist of obsolescence. This put him at the center of the tinkering world, since everyone at some point had to come to him for a hard-to-find or long-outdated component. Acevedo operated out of a former gym and stored most of his wares neatly organized in the empty swimming pool, which I found fascinating.
ex Hernan Diaz, Ply (2026) : 41, 42

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