brickfield
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brickfield
Example Sentences
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Golgotha was a grim garden compared with Paul's brickfield.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
He met men who wanted to extend a brickfield down by the railway.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Gone were the days of vagabondage, the lazy, the delicious even though cold and hungry hours of dreaming and reading in the brickfield; gone was the happy freedom of the chartered libertine of the gutter.
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
Do you remember, sonny, when I left you alone that night and went to the other side of the brickfield?
From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke
Nothing is quite so pleasant, so invigorating, nor quite so dangerous as life in these brickfield posts.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton
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