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He left all his drawers open and all over the walls were fliers, notebook doodles, and movie ticket stubs
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On the walls, there were all sorts of posters of superheroes and some Indian cartoon of a monkey guy with a beard
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Johnny’s yell reverberated off the walls of the quickly descending elevator
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You are a streaming liquid pool that beads into the pores, cradles the air, and caresses the walls
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Whether it was water on the kitchen floor, crayon scribbles on the walls, the dog put on the roof, or dead rats stinking up the pantry, Millie always had the same excuse: mermaids
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She stole dad's toolbox and flashlight and started knocking out a crawlspace hole to search for mermaids in the walls
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The walls were also covered with writing, both on and off the multiple whiteboards around the room
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As Johnny looked through the special eye piece, he was able to see all the electrical wiring through the walls and door of the bank
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When the giants had crushed the outer walls of Svellgard, the war was over
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We wiped everything off with warm water, threw away a lot of grains, disassembled the shelves and painted the pantry walls
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The walls in the house are pretty thin, and I sometimes heard him pacing up and down in there in the middle of the night and I swear I heard him call out Liz’s name once
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Cockroaches have are hiding (attic, inside walls, drawers, cabinet, car port, as good a memory as ants
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They can move through the cracks in walls
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At the end of the fjord, in some of the highest cliff walls, is an immense oval, dimly lit by the lanterns of the ships traversing it
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Boric acid can be added to water for mopping, spraying around walls, etc
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The carpet was rich with red, and there were large, expensive paintings hidden in the darkness of the walls
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Low foundation walls that allow close to the earth to wood contact are the main areas to look out for as these are prime conditions for the termites to enter the house
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Some lizards and insects can live either way, but they can only stick to the walls
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“When they ran out of corpses to catapult over the walls, records say that an old bearded man took two axes to the wall and attempted to scale it in the dead of night
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Even the walls weren’t safe as they blasted them with laser guns and searched the holes for any trace of the technological wonder that Ackers had clutched tightly in his hand
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Walls are pale lime, the floor has square, plastic white tile
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There are bars on the windows and the same genre of drab reproductions in gilded frames that we saw in John’s room adorns the walls
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As he tasted them, so the walls and furnishings of the room faded and ripped,
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from the walls before their eyes, and there in the centre of the room by a bed now
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The last time I went in there I noticed that the walls were peeling badly
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The roof is corrugated iron and the walls are unpainted concrete
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Concrete walls and floor!
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There’s no denying the wallpaper has to come off … but that shouldn’t be too difficult to do and a coat of paint on the walls will soon brighten the place up
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The décor in the living room is pretty dire and tatty too, but once the wallpaper is removed, I’ll be able to paint the walls and then it won’t look too bad
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Liz arrives good and early, as we arranged yesterday, and I soon pack her and Stephen off to the local DIY shop to buy paint for the walls
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I’ll never forget the time he decided to spray paint the kitchen walls … I’d left a basket of clean washing in there … fortunately there was a fairly substantial towel on the top of the basket which took the brunt of the paint but I could have killed him when I found out
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between the stone walls that backed the hedges, and although the track showed no
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Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls
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ballroom, the sound of a single note echoed back and forth, bouncing off the walls and
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Everywhere, sprouting out of the walls and hanging
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Even when my eyes could only see the four walls of the
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Two guards with machine guns stand in the shadows against the walls
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Colours splashed across the walls
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other than for the fantastic whiteness of the walls and the deep blue cupola of their
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Everything about the living room also said 'home', from the child-made drawings displayed proudly on the walls, to the collection of pony paraphernalia strewn about the place
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There was an expensive looking desk, some high quality chairs and artwork on the walls
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cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay
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worked in a tower on the walls of the city to look out for invading enemies
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edges of the thick cell walls and dissolved the shifting shapes of the man that he had
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floor and up the walls
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So”, replied MacKenzie, gesturing at the thick stone walls of his cell, “you built all
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As he disappeared into the shadows he crashed his ham fists into the walls
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It was difficult to imagine walls in this darkness
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The mystery of infinite walls made my head spin
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The walls were breeze-block, roughly pointed, and the floor of the cell was the same rough concrete as the corridor
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I could visualise the blocks in the walls and the ventilation grill in the door based only on memories of things from another time, from another world
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Unbelievably, it takes us a further two hours to dress the tree and put up the festoons of streamers around the walls
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Whatever dimensional membrane made up the walls of the transit echoed with the detonation, rippling with waves so violent, the walls of that great vein seemed to reverberate against each other before they tore
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The walls of the interstellar transit tore away everywhere, seemingly rushing at the still open terminus of the transit in a fiery wave
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Behind me I heard the sound of a heavy diesel engine barking at the walls of the warehouse
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I go on to try and answer his question from earlier, or to use his words, why I put him through all of this, "There are forces beyond our walls, Apollo
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The snake-truck and I edged through walls of new sound
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Then he speaks, "I thought what you said about forces beyond our walls that I had yet to understand
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Aware at first of only my own shuffle and ache, I gradually began to distinguish other movements and routines within the close confines of these bare walls
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His walls are no longer covered in mirrors, but are made of just plain, white bricks
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Instead of white cinderblock walls, he's surrounded by books, thousands of them
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You alternate between the absolute frustration of never being able to make physical contact, aware all the time that the only thing separating you is the lath and plaster of flimsy internal walls
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When you are alone, to have even the slightest familiarity of walls and doors and floors shifted constantly, breaks you down and leaves you impotent and resigned
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Was the voice a product of my unhinged imagination? Would I be able to stand it if all I could see were bare walls and empty space? At the same time I felt like a small child again, receiving that one huge present so longed for
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Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?
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For the most part we relied on the vague memory of days and the scratched marks that we made to count them on the walls of our cell
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We both knew that this relationship was peculiar to our situation, that neither one of us would or could wish it to continue beyond the walls of confinement
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When he lived with Ava it was inside the walls of the Kassikan
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Book shelves covered three walls with doorways let into them here and there; a young woman stood apparently wrapt in the volume she was reading, a thirty-something man with a large backpack at his feet scanned the shelf above his head, neck craned, lips muttering silently as he concentrated
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The walls and ceiling are solid panes of reflective glass
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Suddenly, a large image of a woman's face is looking at him from one of the mirrored walls
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The painted walls were swaying tufts of long eared grass
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It was a long walk down from the mountain to his one-time home on the coast, a place that he barely remembered other than for the fantastic whiteness of the walls and the deep blue cupola of their little church
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Angie picked one up and started browsing through it while Kara looked with interest at the pictures hanging on the walls
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By repeating his name, by bouncing the echo of his voice off the cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him
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On every door a faceplate rusted on wrought iron runners, closed against the light of real wax candles guttering on stone ledges set into the walls
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The sharp retort of metalled boot heels struck out at the early morning stillness, announcing the arrival of Danton and his scowling, out of breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the corridor like cannon balls, casting their grotesquely elongated shadows across the floor and up the walls
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The walls, like those in the corridor below, were hewn out of huge blocks of solid rock and the space was illuminated by the soft glow of candles, candles that, in this simulacrum of past glories, illuminated the stone in a wash of yellow and amber
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As he disappeared into the shadows he crashed his ham fists into the walls until his knuckles were raw and bloody
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The bell rang out its departure warning and the kaht wheels started turning; green mist replaced the magnolia walls of the Bristol kaht station; the kaht and its occupants hung in limbo
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in a bare laid room, heavy with block grey walls and
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held in check by walls of manhandled rock
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that litter the harbour walls
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Plaster hangs on walls, stained red with the rust of long hammered nails,
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and self-pity at the dry stone walls
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dipping into bays and harbour walls
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The room revealed was about the size of Joris’s office at Abery, and similarly laid out with shelving around the walls and a table set in the middle
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Behind the ward walls,
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A deluge on the walls of Sumer,
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of the walls that surround him
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of walls and the laying on of messages,
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but the walls are all damp,
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It shakes the house and rattles the pictures on the walls
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into the mirrors on the walls, never, once the dance
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The whole house shook, several pictures fell off the walls, and she froze in mid step
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’ I said almost defiantly … sure is one thing I am not at the moment, but I can imagine that I shall be climbing the walls out of sheer boredom by then
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who could not get a seat stood alongside the panelled walls