Creeping through the rustling straw thatch, Rattling on the mortared walls, Like some weary wanderer knocking- On the lowly pane it falls.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
In the place of the doorway by which Tiki-pu had entered he painted a solid brick wall; twice over he painted it, making it two bricks thick; brick by brick he painted it, and mortared every brick to its place.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
It was solidly closed and mortared all round, so that it might have been one compact coffin-shaped block of stone so far as its outward appearance testified.
"Thelma"
Marie Corelli