The English first settled Portland in the 1600s, using the reddish-brown stone _ far easier to carve than granite _ for gravestones.
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It is both a tribute to the dean and to the haunting brown stone building that both men call their spiritual home.
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Other possible long-wave fluorescence colors are green ( usually in brown stones ), yellow, mauve, or red ( in type IIb diamonds ).
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It was constructed of sandstone from the Credit River valley, grey stone from the Orangeville, Ontario area, and brown stone from New Brunswick.
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The name " La Croix-Rousse " ( The red cross ) comes from a reddish-brown stone cross erected there in the 16th century.
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The church, which dominates the look of the city, is built with the typical brown stone quarried from the hills in the surrounding areas.
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The colors were autumnal, with patches of pine-green kelp and red slipgut scattered among amber and brown stones polished to the consistency of dinner rolls.
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With its three-story turret of rustic brown stone and the castellated rampart that commands its entrance, Rao's new home is a three-dimensional symbol of assimilation and pride.
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By autumn, there stood a large, cavelike home of brown stone, about 10 feet tall, built for the Virgin into the side of St . Mary's hill.
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It looms on a lonely lot at the edge of downtown, a hulking pile of buff brick and brown stone, like some half-finished temple or Pharaoh's tomb.
