He said he believed that it was a mud-brick type house. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2001] Reference
A number of remote mud-brick villages are known to be badly hit. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2005] Reference
There were the mud-brick walls, the peasant fields teeming with men. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The little grain bin beside the family's one-room mud-brick hut is empty. From Wordnik.com. [Two Families' Shifting Fortunes] Reference
The mud-brick exterior camouflages stark white interiors and modern comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Away] Reference
The hole covered with cement blocks, and the associated mud-brick chapels behind. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2006 - Adventures Underground] Reference
As Pecina and his convoy rumble north, Iraqi civilians stand by mud-brick farmhouses. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do You Trust?] Reference
A mud-brick village 2,000 years old, unearthed by archeologists just a few months ago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009] Reference
Beyond the orchards lay a thick mud-brick outer wall studded with watch-towers and guardposts. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
Alexander had the governor's house, of real fired brick; a grandeur where mud-brick was the rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
Another four years would pass before the last mud-brick of the high triple walls was set in place. From Wordnik.com. [The Islamic Enlightenment] Reference
Why King Khasekhemwy should build two of these huge sun-dried mud-brick enclosures is still unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference
It was a temple, no different in structure from the one in the city, save humbler, wrought of mud-brick. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Modern apartment blocks compete with the older mud-brick buildings crowded onto narrow alleys and streets. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran or Bust] Reference
The longevity villages, with their stone or mud-brick houses and tile roofs, make for some scenic walking. From Wordnik.com. [Live Long and Prosper] Reference
One of the best places to stay en route is the Al Hawta Palace, the world's only first-class mud-brick hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Skylines] Reference
In a mud-brick building on the outskirts of Kabul, 25 women are sitting on a faded red carpet, learning to read. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Davidson: Real Housewives of Afghanistan] Reference
The sixth city was Kyropolis, the strongest; not built by the river, of mud-brick, but on a hill-flank, of stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
One would not suppose a city built of red mud-brick to be impressive, but it was, a good deal more than it sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Then the pattern of the dance changed; the islanders whirled to face the mud-brick buildings which housed the invading. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
The headlights shone on a mud-brick compound as Bismallah Khan, head of the Afghan National Guard, stepped out of his car. From Wordnik.com. [Treasures In The Tombs] Reference
And he never tired of visiting Miran Shah, a mud-brick warren of shops and homes largely controlled by various militant groups. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Al Qaeda] Reference
On an Afghan ridge 7,800 feet above sea level, about four miles from Pakistan, stands a mud-brick fortress nicknamed the Alamo. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. covert paramilitary presence in Afghanistan much larger than thought] Reference
Cladding of mud-brick walls by sisal-reinforced mortar considerably increases the flexural rigidity and strength of such walls. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Above it, we unearthed pieces of clay and carbonized wood, which probably came from the destruction of a mud-brick construction. From Wordnik.com. [Picture 155 « Field Notes 2009: Week 1 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project] Reference
It is a level of showy opulence that no one here imagined from a man promoted as a humble cleric living in a simple mud-brick house. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2001] Reference
No simple structure of wood and mud-brick, the frontage would be carved stone, the roof clay-tiled, the rooms airy and full of light. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
When I arrived with three other correspondents at Bagram, we found him sitting under a shade tree outside his mud-brick house near the airfield. From Wordnik.com. [First Person Global] Reference
"Ghani is a liberal man," Akbar, 18, told NEWSWEEK as she sat on the floor in the book-lined study of her father's modest mud-brick house on the outskirts of Kabul. From Wordnik.com. [Change They Can Believe In] Reference
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