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Usage examples of adobes.

He knew everything about building houses, he knew how to mix mud and straw just right to make strong adobes that would not crumble.

Many townspeople treated the hippies in a similar fashion, looking upon them as a sort of manna from heaven, hiring them--for example--to make adobes, because the freaks learned fast and were willing--again out of middle-class guilt, and also because they were independently wealthy anyway--to labor eight or ten hours a day at what amounted to slave wages.

It was a far cry from Dublin or Cork, far different from London and Paris, yet she loved the old adobes where the whitewash was peeling from the bricks, the dogs lay comfortably in the dust, wagging lazy tails at the occasional passing rider.