Assertion: moisture | /r/CapableOf | strike across the mortar-joints
Facets:
value: sailor-like,
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Attempts have been made to remedy this evil of porous bricks by the substitution of the hard blue bricks of Staffordshire; and then it may often be noticed that the wet has only struck, sailor-like, across the mortar-joints and chequered the inside walls like a tartan plaid.