In the same way, he thought very well of all ranks, but he would not himself have liked to be of any rank in which he had not such close contact with "business" as to get often honorably decorated with marks of dust and mortar, the damp of the engine, or the sweet soil of the woods and fields.
But now in one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie's words had died away.
Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
The Chinese firm's aggressive positioning of its budget S series of smartphones — priced between $100 to $150 (the sweet spot in India) — in the brick and mortar market and acceptance of e-commerce sales helped it beat Samsung, said Counterpoint analysts.
This isn't an e-commerce site we're talking about, it's a bricks and mortar shop where you can only make purchases online.
A regional minister in the Spanish province of Castilla y León has come under fire for proposing that brick and mortar clothing stores charge a fee for customers to try on clothes in order to discourage the 'unethical practice' of trying on clothes only to buy them cheaper online.
Cui Qingtao, 17, was mixing mortar at a construction site with his parents on Sunday when he received his admission letter from Peking University, which is regarded as the best university in China.
That invisible wall was now being cemented by the mortar of indifference.
Mr Lau identified five sectors: video, payments, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and smart retail, which combines ecommerce and bricks and mortar shops.
Meituan-Dianping, an online retailer with platforms offering a range of services from food delivery and travel to beauty and movie tickets, has also moved into the world of bricks and mortar, setting up a pilot store in Beijing.
We are used to observing an online retailer that cuts prices relentlessly to undermine brick and mortar stores.
The structure was formed from a mortar resistant to heat transmission, in the shape of a dome.
"Bricks and mortar" bank branches and people-to-people interaction is still highly valued, although their role is rapidly changing to focus on meeting customers' wealth management and more complex needs.
With stores in major cities including Shanghai and Beijing, Ikea has followed a similar strategy to many other Western retailers; investing in bricks and mortar outlets in China's thriving tier 1 and 2 cities.
Chop root vegetables with a bit of enthusiasm, use a pestle and mortar to crush spices rather than an electric grinder, and do the washing-up yourself rather than languidly stacking the dishwasher.
That invisible wall was now being cemented by the mortar of indifference.
Bricks and mortar, the company knew, would not bridge the 4,000-mile gap between the two countries and put its products at the doorstep of its newest customers.
One blind man felt the elephant's foot and said:"The elephant resembles a stone mortar.
The building was old and crazy; and the dog, who was faithfully watching his master, perceived the walls shake, and pieces of mortar fall from the ceiling.
Besides, the mortar is good for nothing!