What is "brickfield"

Usage examples of "brickfield".

She had gone on, she said in her note, to an aunt and uncle who had a brickfield near Horsham.

Instead, he reloaded his revolver very carefully, and then sat in the best room of the cottage by the derelict brickfield, looking anxious and perplexed, and listening to talk about Bill and his ways, and thinking, thinking.

And yet, poor, foolish child, fresh from the Egyptian brickfield, you could not rest satisfied.

And when the fire was out the giant rats came back, took the dead horse, dragged it across the churchyard into the brickfield and ate at it until it was dawn, none even then daring to disturb them.

I often take the women to Brickfield, and they generally sport a swig at the Eagle-Hawk.

Instead of a fair white bed with Austin lying in it, she was confronted by the sight of a gaping hole in the roof, something that looked like a rubbish heap in a brickfield immediately underneath, and the long slender form of Austin himself wrapped in a comfortable wadded dressing-gown fast asleep upon the sofa.

Some worked at the brickfields and other places when not wanted on the farm.

And then like the winter brickfields at midnight, hot fire lengthened out.

He employs on his estate--in mines, brickfields, and plantations--over four thousand men.

Felix had not failed to make enemies in the Brickfields by his youthful intolerance of idleness, beggary, and drunkenness.

Ketira that day, and the despair upon her face as she dodged about between Virginia Cottage and the brickfields, was like a gloomy picture.

It chanced that the monthly settling-day, connected with the brickfields, fell just after Kettie vanished.

Robin Stewart, who dared not be seen by any man, Scot, Frenchman or Londoner, was hiding in the brickfields at Islington, and making the rarest visits to the Strand.

He represented success, amity, excitement, and a haven from the brickfields of Islington.

There are saw-mills, breweries, brickfields and distilleries in the town, and numerous sugar factories in the vicinity, notably at Millaquin, on the river below the town.