What is "adobe brick"

Usage examples of "adobe brick".

Many of them were built of pale-rose sandstone barged down the Rainbow River, and those of adobe brick were whitewashed to brilliance.

He swung it to his shoulder and took aim at the figure of a warrior in the mural painted on the whitewashed wall of adobe brick across the courtyard.

Even to this day the adobe brick dwellings were protected from the wind and snow by the overhanging rock.

Beyond these wooden cloisters, the low-built expensive shops were modern, though constructed in part of real adobe brick.

One story and pitch-roofed, it rambled and spread in several directions from the central room, which was log and mud, to the outlying bedrooms and storerooms of adobe brick, freshly mud-plastered in the fall.

I planted a heel into his ribs, driving him off the wall before my foot could collide with adobe brick.

But the flames in the adobe brick fireplace shot up suddenly with a whoosh, several feet high, turning a bright blue and licking up the chimney, and a cloud of blue-green smoke appeared, shot through with tiny, shimmering lights.

It was a structure of sunbaked and plastered, whitewashed adobe brick, as were all the buildings on the main street of Salt View, built in a long, rectangular shape.

The building was new and built of adobe brick and had a high tin roof.

Members of the colony's government were drawn up in front of the Commandatura, a modest building distinguished from its neighbors only by having a coat of stucco over the adobe brick.

The town had a three-block main street, with about a third of the buildings of grandfatherly vintage, made out of adobe brick and sporting Western-style false fronts.

There was a small industry on the right, where men baked adobe brick in rough ovens, then stacked them in the sun, in shades ranging from brown-orange to yellow gold.

They had used a lot of stone, adobe brick, walls, courts, covered walkways.