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Definition of Brownstones
1. brownstone [n] - See also: brownstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brownstones
Literary usage of Brownstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Building and Ornamental Stones of Wisconsin by Ernest Robertson Buckley (1898)
"P- H brownstones of Pennsylvania, Appendix tc Ann. Hept . Penn. ... P-» brownstones
of Pennsylvania, Appendix to Ann. Rept Penn State ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1859)
"... with the Carboniferous shales and limestones; but I have never seen a satisfactory
correlation of the brownstones with the Old Red conglomerate. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1859)
"The brownstones have been constantly searched, yet no fossils have been detected ;
I suspect that in our west of England districts and in Ireland they were ..."
4. The Building Materials of Pennsylvania by Thomas Cramer Hopkins, Pennsylvania State College (1896)
"It is with the desire partially to till this want that the present report is
written, It is intended primarily "for the Pennsylvania brownstones, ..."
5. Building Stones and Clays: A Handbook for Architects and Engineers by Charles Henry Richardson (1917)
"The quartz grains in the brownstones of India, f are themselves white or colorless.
They are encircled by film of iron oxides to which the color of the ..."
6. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1904)
"Triassic brownstones of New Jersey (New Jersey Stone). — The Triassic sandstone
of New Jersey, with the associated sheets of trap rock (diabase), ..."
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