The floors are paved with brick-shaped blocks of stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

She could hardly believe that these strange brick-shaped things were really gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five On A Treasure Island]

At the back, in untidy piles, were curious, brick-shaped things of dull yellow-brown metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five On A Treasure Island]

At his 'cycle he dialed, not for an allergy pill, but for a wet brick-shaped slab of warm liver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringworld]

He trenched around his find, discovering that it was a great brick-shaped bronze mass with an excitingly hollow sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

The cambium cells are brick-shaped, and are placed end to end, with layer overlapping layer, like bricks in the wall of a building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

Cow-dung was dried in brick-shaped blocks, which were called “dythes”; or sheep-dung into “brocks,” and stacked like peat for burning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

It held a pair of Covenant memory blocks, brick-shaped chunks of some superdense material that could store who knew how many gazillion bytes of information.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

The spaces between the posts are filled with jumbles of approximately brick-shaped bricks and punctuated, apparently at random, with little windows and balconies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Egypt] Reference

One day you're a tight-slacks-and-sweater teenage heart-throb lip-synching your hit on Shindig; next, you are a white-haired brick-shaped old guy straining to recapture your lost youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stage Patter] Reference

It was a single gigantic ridge which we had passed through, standing up knifelike, built up entirely of great brick-shaped masses of bright red rock, some of them as large as the Royal Institution, Edinburgh, piled one on another by.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

I realized that night why I was so taken aback by the perfectly brick-shaped pieces of short rib I had recently been served at an ambitious new Boston restaurant: not only was the shape suspiciously neat, but the texture was oddly soft and homogenous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Frying Pan] Reference

Subway or brick-shaped tiles are a popular design trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

"But, brick-shaped tiles also can have a traditional look.".    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Poxviruses are large brick-shaped viruses with a double stranded DNA genome.    From Wordnik.com.  [BadEagle.com] Reference

This is moistened with sheep's or bullock's blood and pressed into brick-shaped cakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference

Harn was killed early Sunday by a blow to the head with a 6 - or 8-pound, brick-shaped landscaping rock, Lee County Sheriff John Varga said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Hands-On Review: Maxtor Shared Storage II Hard Drive Storage System The unit is vaguely brick-shaped, with rubbery, molded faces on two sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketnews Latest News] Reference

Great brick-shaped ingots, closely packed, covered the whole floor, while on every side they were reared up in compact barriers to the very ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doings of Raffles Haw] Reference

In fact, she long has been a fan of the Illinois senator, and when she came across some brick-shaped molds, she was inspired to craft a cheese in his honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference

Some of the most popular are oval - and bean-shaped gemstone, cube - and brick-shaped gemstone, nugget shaped, faceted cuts and button and roundel-shaped gemstones.    From Wordnik.com.  [RO.RSS] Reference

When buying coffee, maybe you look for specific qualities such as organic, naturally decaffeinated, fair trade or rainforest alliance designations on the brick-shaped packages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference

THE WORKING girls in the morning are going to work—long lines of them afoot amid the downtown stores and factories, thousands with little brick-shaped lunches wrapped in newspapers under their arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working Girls] Reference

It was a single gigantic ridge which we had passed through, standing up knifelike, built up entirely of great brick-shaped masses of bright red rock, some of them as large as the Royal Institution, Edinburgh, piled one on another by Titans.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

Sitting between the headset and the 3. 4m cable that connects to your computer is a desktop remote, a small brick-shaped component that sits on your desk with buttons for muting the mic/headphones and a ring for controlling the software volume.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Star Online: Technology]

There’s clearly some definition of brickness that does apply to real bricks, but could also apply to brick-shaped objects made out of concrete or mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse in the Machine] Reference

A brick-shaped structure rose above them.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

180º field off the wall, all of which are wired into a small black box sitting on a large brick-shaped object that's slightly smaller than a shoebox.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAKE Magazine] Reference

And factories, thousands with little brick-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Poems] Reference