1.   The cat knew every crumbling brick, every rotting piece of fencing, every dustbin-lined alleyway.

2.   Here, where bars and restaurants fill spaces once used for bordellos, three centuries of scandal are imbedded in the crumbling brick and mortar.

3.   Look carefully at the bricks and mortar in the chimney for cracks and crumbling brick or mortar.

4.   The property is surrounded by a crumbling brick wall, through which homeless Haitian peasants have been able to slip over recent months.

5.   The South of myth and fable still lives in Carolina mill towns, where the kudzu snakes over crumbling bricks.

6.   A huge crane was positioned shortly before midnight to pluck it from the crumbling brick and mortar.

7.   Along narrow roads, crumbling brick courtyard style homes stand beside gleaming new ten-story hotels.

8.   Tin roofs and crumbling brick walls are being stripped away to reveal concrete pillars that will remain and form the structure of the new buildings.