21.   Historians believe the original mosque probably was built of mud bricks, with palm fronds for the roof.

22.   Iraq has restored part of the ruins, which are mostly heaps of mud brick.

23.   Long before Islam arrived in Central Asia, hundreds of Buddhist monks once prayed in solitary mud brick chambers built into barren slopes.

24.   Most died when artillery and mortar fire fell short of target and landed on mud brick houses near a strategic bridge and hydroelectric dam that somehow escaped serious damage.

25.   Most homes are one-story, made of baked mud bricks and topped by heavy wood beams and mud.

26.   Most homes in the area are one-story, made of baked mud bricks and topped by heavy wood beams.

27.   Most live in one- or two-story mud brick homes with wood beam roofs covered with mud that could cause heavy casualties if they collapsed.

28.   Several workers from the factory dug through sheets of tin, sun-baked mud bricks and slabs of wood to reach the bodies of the two men.

29.   Soldiers said they had found that homes were fortified from within, though on the outside they appeared to be normal mud brick dwellings, the diplomat said.

30.   She squats on the pile of mud bricks that was once her home.