brickbat

Well, Pat, Jimmy didn't quite kill you with a brickbat, did he?

There is no more soul in him than there is in a brickbat, mother.

I said, just now, he might be at once outshone by a brickbat.

But he came back with a brickbat and hammered like a blacksmith at the spring.

There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.

It was a brickbat, sure, one of Maje Sampson's brickbat boys.

I caught him, put him back, and placed a brickbat over the hole.

It was a brickbat “Plug Ugly” fight—the result of animal, and not intellectual or patriotic instincts.

Well, it was a temptation to let something fly, be it Bible or brickbat, at the head of the average dullard.

Then came a brickbat, which missed the woman by very little and struck the truck wheel.