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“He must have told her about the tunnel, because when I went by it this morning, the legionnaires were bricking it closed.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

The bank on either side they were bricking up and cementing. 

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

He sat down beside her on the gallery, and sighed as he caught a glimpse of the men who were bricking up the grave that yawned on the right hand side of the lawn.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans