| 1. | The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | .,-- Pandolfino's book, mortar ,-- Small knives, Venieri for th. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | The grounds were extensive, and a high and solid brick wall, topped with a bed of mortar and broken glass, encompassed the whole. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab's iron soul. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 7. | What story belonged to this disaster What loss, besides mortar and marble and wood-work had followed upon it Had life been wrecked as well as propert. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | You would have almost thought they were pulling down the cursed Bastille, such wild cries they raised, as the now useless brick and mortar were being hurled into the sea. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | The human body is like a tall building--the muscles are like the mortar and plaster, the bones are like the steel framework around which everything else is built and without which the structure could not stand upright. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 10. | Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are placed on bastions by day or by night,-. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 11. | In case of need I will make big guns, mortars and light ordnance of fine and useful forms, out of the common type. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 12. | Again I have kinds of mortars most convenient and easy to carry and with these can fling small stones almost resembling a storm and with the smoke of these causing great terror to the enemy, to his great detriment and confusion. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |