brickbat

A feeling of sadness and longingThat is not like being sick, And resembles sorrow onlyAs a brickbat resembles a brick.

It set Tom to thinking; he said afterwards the spectacle was enough to make a brickbat wake up and think.

Some of our readers may think that this was a fit punishment for having “pashed” the toad to “death with a brickbat.”

There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.

I was there myself, and did what I could to quiet the tumult, receiving more than one brickbat for my interference.