And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up.
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And yet the large blocks of stone are fitted together so closely that you cannot put in the point of a knife between them.
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A wheelbarrow fills the bill for moving concrete blocks.
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Children play with blocks.
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Go down this street three blocks.
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Go two blocks along this street and turn left.
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Go two blocks and turn left.
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My house is five blocks away.
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Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'.
[てい;ひのと, tei ; hinoto] (ctr) (1) counter for sheets, pages, leaves, etc.; (2) counter for blocks of tofu; counter for servings in a restaurant; (3) (See 挺) counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.; (n) (4) (See 半・はん・3) even number; (5) (See 町・3) 109.09 m#2197
[いたちのみち, itachinomichi] (exp) not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again)
[いたちのみちきり, itachinomichikiri] (exp) (See いたちの道) not to write to or visit someone; road of the weasel (it is believed that if someone blocks the path a weasel, he will never take that path again)