Q. Some of the bricks on the side of my brick stoop are flaking off and chipping, leaving saucerlike depressions.

He walked to the front entrance, where he nodded at the guards, stationed on the covered brick stoop outside the foyer now that the weather had improved.

"Let me put it this way," he murmurs, seated on the brick stoop outside his beachside summer house, less than an hour's drive from downtown Savannah.

When she returned, the front brick stoop of her Cape Cod-style home was gone.

The next thing he knew, he was lying on the snow-covered brick stoop in front of the door, wondering how he had gotten there.

A cap clattered to the brick stoop; the beer was cold as promised.

The brick stoop was bare.

Dorrin sets Frisa on the flaking brick stoop.

The door, fronted by a semi-circular brick stoop, is framed in the same basic manner as the front, but has a simulated, all-wood overlight.

A brick stoop, a little button for the doorbell.