Not even weeds knew how to grow in this field of concrete and brick rubble.

Nothing happened except that the duck feet crunched deeper and deeper into the brick rubble.

The rebel touched the splintered remains of roof beams and brick rubble, the result of a direct hit.

I saw a corner of what looked like a rusted iron plate protruding from a pile of brick rubble.

Just beams and brick rubble.

The tower is in flint and brick rubble, with the top stage in orange brick.

And before that, there'd been a similar band but of soft brick rubble, so crushed by cartwheels that it was practically a gully.

Their tubs were made of Terrazzo, a waterproof mixture of white lime mortar and brick rubble.

Kambala Vishwanath, 23, pointed out piles of brick rubble, evidence that the storm had packed as much punch as artillery fire.

The only remaining features of the house were the footing trenches used for wall sills, clay floors, and brick rubble remaining from a fireplace.

The aggregate varied, and included pieces of rock, ceramic tile, and brick rubble from the remains of previously demolished buildings.

Murch's Mom backed up slowly across the brick rubble toward the trailer, and May backed up against the car parked there.

In Switzerland, it is common to use alluvial gravels from the foundations; in London, a mix of brick rubble and some concrete has been used.

The old loco shed stood gaunt, derelict and roofless, amidst the mounds of brick rubble and refuse surrounding it.

At least four dead horses which were pulling carriages lie in their traces among broken carriages and brick rubble from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Underneath a sea of brick rubble from collapsed 19th-century buildings lies what remains of the foundry, where weapons were developed from the early 1800's through the Civil War.

"$) The clashes this month have transformed a corner of Yonsei University campus into an ugly heap of cracked glass, broken desks, shattered chairs, brick rubble and torn clothing.

Back at the headquarters building, sitting on the balcony amid the brick rubble and dust, he said he had lost three of his best commanders and some 30 officers in this week's battle.

The surface of the lot was crushed brick rubble, showing that some other building had also recently been torn down; the bank had probably timed its own reconstruction to the availability of a lot nearby.

It would have been easier if they could have moved around on their knees, but the brick rubble made that impossible, so they waddled around like ducks themselves, in tune with the appearance of the jack plates.

The snow was still heavy, in the thin light of morning he could see it blow across the vacant lots, swirling, drifting, and settling on the brick rubble, the remains of the houses that had burned in the riots.

The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument.

They were held up there by clips screwed into place, but each man was also equipped with a screwdriver, and it didn't take long to get the things unclipped, fold them down, and crank them till the bottom plates-which looked like duck feet-were placed firmly on the brick rubble underneath.

Flint, knapped or unknapped, has been used since antiquity (for example at the Late Roman fort of Gariannonum in Norfolk) up to the present day as a material for building stone walls, using lime mortar, and often combined with other available stone or brick rubble.

When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil, I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden, half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble, tilled chalk and grass seed.