But the tower's stonework has been repointed, its ironwork and glazing replaced, and the blackened foundations of the original keeper's cottage, just inland of the light proper, now bound a small wildflower garden. ❋ Mark Reep (2011)
At the head of the wooded valley the mine bousteads – where miners stored ore that they brought to the surface – have been repointed and work is nearing completion on the waterwheel pit and mountings of the Armstrong hydraulic engine that once hauled miners up the 177-metre shaft, the deepest in the dale. ❋ Phil Gates (2010)
They built a sunporch and repointed the brick exterior. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)
Any cleaning should be done after the brick is repointed, Vaughan recommends. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When the satellite was repointed, it turned out that the data indicated a far greater level of average warming than previously believed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The brick facade has been repointed, the broken windows knocked out and the window frames shored up. ❋ Brooks Of Sheffield (2007)
The brick facade had been cleaned and repointed; the long row of windows gleamed like teeth. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We then repointed the sidewalls that support the vault. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Directly inside the gates was a large paved courtyard, but the stones were old and cracked, although the cracks had been filled with mortar and the joins between stones had been repointed, if not recently. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2003)
The Nriln swiveled its eyestalks in a furtive scan around the entrance hall and then repointed them at Roger. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was a gentrified section of the city, characterized by art museums, the Free Library, and the family court, interspersed with blocks of colonial town houses with repointed brick facades and freshly painted shutters. ❋ Scottoline, Lisa (1993)
He wanted to blame it all on the paintwork rather than on himself, on the revoltingly tidy patio paving-stones, on the sheer disgusting abomination of the neatly repointed brickwork. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1988)
A few houses proclaimed by their gleaming doors and repointed brickwork that the aspiring young professional class had begun to colonize the street but, despite its nearness to Kilburn station and the attractions of Hampstead, it still had the unkempt, slightly desolate look of a street of transients. ❋ James, P. D. (1988)
The house to the right, in particular, looked as if it had had its brickwork repointed quite recently, and its windows reglossed. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1988)
Red bricks, freshly repointed; stonework; a polished oak door, with brass fittings … ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
The spire blown down in 1665 had been in the previous ninety years five times repaired and repointed. ❋ Frederick W. Woodhouse (N/A)
The timber beams in the roof are now (1903) undergoing thorough restoration, and the outer walls of the chapel are being repointed. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)
