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Brownstone   /brˈaʊnstˌoʊn/   Listen
noun
Brownstone  n.  
1.
A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
2.
A building, especially a dwelling, faced with brownstone (1).





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"Brownstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... intend to marry and have already selected something: a brownstone house and a girl of twenty, a light blonde, plump, graceful and resolute. . . . If my mother helps me, I shall marry before this season ...
— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont
... house, which stood on the crest of Whittaker's Hill, and built in its place a big imposing residence. It was by far the finest house in Bayport, and Heman made it finer as the years passed. There were imitation brownstone pillars supporting its front porch, iron dogs and scroll work iron benches bordering its front walk, and a pair of stone urns, in summer filled with flowers, beside its big ...
— Cy Whittaker's Place • Joseph C. Lincoln
... never heard that he made any gifts. He took everything offered him from a brownstone front downwards, until it got to a bull-pup with the expressage ...
— The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880 • Blythe Harding
... homes was that of James C. Flood, a handsome and imposing structure of Connecticut brownstone. This building stood upon the eastern half of the block between Mason and Taylor streets and in order to build, a huge hill of rock as high as the building now is, had to be removed. This was in 1876. After the fire of 1906 this building was remodeled and ...
— California 1849-1913 - or the Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four - Years' Residence in that State. • L. H. Woolley
... of the church, you will see a plain brownstone slab, bearing this inscription: "The vault of Walter and Robert O. Livingston, sons of Robert Livingston, of the Manor of Livingston" This is one of the Meccas of the world of science, for the mortal part of Robert Fulton sleeps in the vault below, in ...
— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin


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