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The west gate wch I entred I came by a Large building of bricke within bricke walls, which is the hall for the assizes and sessions for the shire of Northumberland.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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And so facion it into lumpes muche like a bricke, but somewhat longer.
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In this towne the Emperour hath built a castle inuironed with a wall of stone, and bricke, the walles faire and hie, round about.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their houses (as I haue sayd) are for the most part made of bricke, not burned but only dried in the Sunne: In their houses they haue but litle furniture of houshold stuffe, except it be their carpets and some copper worke: for all their kettles and dishes wherein they eate, are of copper.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is a faire Castle, the walles whereof are of bricke, and very high: they say they are eighteene foote thicke, but I doe not beleeue it, it doth not so seeme, notwithstanding I doe not certainely know it: for no stranger may come to viewe it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The one side is ditched, and on the other side runneth a riuer called Moscua which runneth into Tartarie and so into the sea called Mare Caspium: and on the North side there is a base towne, the which hath also a bricke wall about it, and so it ioyneth with the Castle wall.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I haue bene in one of the monasteries called Troietes,222 which is walled about with bricke very strongly like a castle, and much ordinance of brasse vpon the walles of the same.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The towne is but euil builded, and for the most part all of bricke, not hardened with fire, but only dried at the sunne, as is the most part of the building of all Persia.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Citie a very faire Castle, strong, and furnished with artillerie, whereunto the Citie is ioyned directly towards the North, with a bricke wall: the walles also of the Castle are built with bricke, and are in breadth or thickenesse eighteene foote.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This building seemeth far better for their countrey, then that of stone or bricke; as being colder and more dampish then their wooden houses, specially of firre, that is a dry and warme wood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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