Sentence examples for house of bricks from inspiring English sources

And then the whole thing comes crashing down around him: it wasn't a house of bricks, after all, but a house of cards.

Still, in comparison with some other Internet start-ups these days, Tutor.com is like the house of bricks built by the third little pig.

Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway and Mia Wasikowska can be the three little pigs, trembling in their house of bricks while Timothy Olyphant's menacing wolf huffs and puffs at their metaphorical walls of modesty.

And by 1998, when they created "¿Provisionalismo?", a partly built house of bricks and pipes that was shown in New York at the New Museum, their work had repudiated the sculptural object in favor of architectural and furniture-based structures.

Pig number three built his house of bricks so that it would stand the test of time.

I was lucky to have a supportive family; my parents, my brother and I always felt like a unit, as solid as a house of bricks.

The house of brick is, as Victorian brick houses usually were, lacking in grace and lightness and charm, but it still stands.

The final building, on the northwest corner, is a large neo-Federal style town house of brick and marble.

He bought land and built a new house of brick, a material rarely used in Connecticut but common in Philadelphia.

It is good to be the little pig who builds his house of brick rather than straw.

First, visit the Seward house, a big yellow Federal house of brick, built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller.