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    1. frame and hang them behind the microwave or on a close wall


    2. ” Micah tosses the crowbar to the ground and puts his hands on the wall


    3. This results in cheers from the entire wall


    4. He ran and grabbed for the horn hanging off the wall of the guard station and blew


    5. Schulz by the collar and shoves him against the wall


    6. When she got back to her, Yorthops was standing in front of the honor wall in the front hallway where Kulai commended his employee of the year


    7. Currently, he is helping on the construction of a new wall that will encompass both the refugee tents and the RV camp


    8. “Looks like you’re surrounded by the Fourth Wall,” said Frank while he hit his fist into his palm


    9. They called themselves the Fourth Wall because they thought they were all so big that if they had one more member they could hold a roof over their heads


    10. It was bad enough that he couldn’t take out the Fourth Wall, but it was worse that he might be rescued by a girl

    11. But then they remembered that they were the Fourth Wall, and they backed down from nobody


    12. Not finding what it was he was looking for, Henry dumped the massive pile back onto his desk and started opening his desk drawers, banging his elbow on the cubicle wall behind him


    13. The closet was on the end of the wall where the roof came up to a steeple, probably three or four times taller than it was wide


    14. She knew as he said it that he could not have said that to a native, they couldn't comprehend it, it was like saying Fort Knox had disappeared to a 20th century American or Wall Street was missing to a 21st century American


    15. For a moment, I just want to collapse here behind my ninja corpse wall, but then I hear Aiko


    16. A screen came up on the elevator wall with Ackers’ face on it


    17. As he spoke, the large image on the wall of the elevator continued to broadcast his image even though he was standing right in front of them


    18. But after there was no more space, the writing would continue off the board and onto the wall, sometimes even making its way across the wall and onto a new white board


    19. Ackers studied the holographic display on the wall


    20. Everyone was focused on the fight except for Ackers, who turned his head and looked at the sword sticking out of the wall

    21. Nancy started using the wall to push herself back up to a standing position


    22. Chunks of wall flew into the sky


    23. Vald's blade sunk below the wall and into the earth, creating a rift in the earth


    24. Scar and all the guards in the room had Silence trapped against the wall


    25. He swung with all his might and threw her at the wall


    26. Silence landed on the wall and stuck to it, orientating herself and getting ready to pounce


    27. She continued to cling to the wall, her feet and one hand used to hold her up, she still had her other sword strapped to her back, waiting for the opportunity to use it but feeling helpless without both weapons in her possession


    28. Scar couldn’t tell how she was able to stick to the wall like that, but it mattered little


    29. Silence blocked the punch and skipped up the wall a bit higher before jumping off it and hurling herself through the air at him


    30. You should be on my side, you've gone over to the natives, I'm trying to at least retain peaceful contact with them, not wall ourselves in some enclave or set out on a vain mission to rescue the motherland

    31. Unable to keep still in my exasperation, I rise to my feet and move over to the wall where there is a poster about something or other … I stare at it blindly, annoyed with myself for losing control


    32. The panels in the ceiling and wall slid back and the holographic keyboard display materialized in the middle of the room


    33. “He was like Attila the Hun… like Hadrian’s wall in the Alps


    34. The room was draped in shadows, the only light coming from an entire wall of regular monitors


    35. ’ He stares at the wall behind my head as though trying to work something out


    36. A good rule of thumb for crawl space ventilation is about two square feet of opening for every 25 lineal feet of wall


    37. 500 watts is applied to the house thru a funneled device the size of a toaster oven setup on a tripod close to the wall


    38. Ackers slumped against the wall, exhausted


    39. “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


    40. There’s a fire extinguisher on the wall

    41. Every bare wall, except in the computer room (he was afraid of shelves falling on his computer) had a bookshelf stuffed with books


    42. Bush strips off his jacket, tosses it in the corner, walks over to a refrigerator against the wall, opens it up, takes out a can of beer, pops the top and begins to chug-a-lug


    43. John picks up a book lying nearby, throws it at the wall


    44. A buffet with workers doling out steaming hospital slop lines one wall of the room as residents queue up


    45. knocked a double garage door in the rear wall so we could bring the odd car under


    46. On one wall he sees a framed photograph of a smiling


    47. There are some fishing poles in a corner of the hut and a mountain bike against one wall


    48. The crime scene was directly on the other side of the wall and as the Garda Liaison officer had pointed out, there was very little to see


    49. But why leave him inside the wall? Were the gangsters just stupid? Or was there a reason? If they had left the body outside in the woods it could have been weeks or even months or years before anyone found it


    50. Ivy covers part of the front wall of the house, giving it a solid, friendly feel














































    1. Into The Walled Garden


    2. Out Of The Walled Garden


    3. where walled in lives repeat themselves, until,


    4. Into the Walled Garden – poetry - collected works 2001-2010


    5. Hours later they came over a rise and Duncan saw it off in the distance, a huge mountain mesa jutting up out of the earth with a walled city strategically placed on the top


    6. Tarak left the walled area and made his way back to the main house; he wanted to be in his study before she returned for dinner


    7. We walled in the kitchen and put shutters for the winter, but our kitchen was no bigger, even when there were six of us


    8. around a walled yard


    9. The grounds were roughly walled with loose stone and the lawn was nothing but some mossy slopes leading up to the doors between the trunks


    10. walled area close to the causeway, where Bram had exchanged

    11. the grounds to the walled garden and old tennis court tucked away at


    12. With little exceptions, everything to sustain life was to be found within her mountain walled paradise


    13. ” He handed his daughter to Jameson, “You know, when we were children, after her mother died she walled herself in behind courtesy and elegant gowns, her house duties and her father's factory


    14. Directly ahead lay a walled


    15. She tripped away, and presently returned with a fresh trayful; and Toad, pitching into the toast with delight, his spirits quite restored to their usual level, told her about the boathouse, and the fish-pond, and the old walled kitchen-garden; and about the pig-pens, and the stables, and the pigeon-house, and the hen- house; and about the dairy, and the wash-house, and the china- cupboards, and the linen-presses (she liked that bit especially); and about the banqueting-hall, and the fun they had there when the other animals were gathered round the table and Toad was at his best, singing songs, telling stories, carrying on generally


    16. Silver spires rose from the central keep which was a single, thick walled tower that nearly touched the clouds


    17. This fence had been constructed from material pillaged from fences in the interior of the walled area, Then it was fortified with earthen embankments and had a walkway six foot up to provide sentries with a good vantage point from which to see and to fire


    18. The trunk came down inside a walled cemetery with probably twenty tombstones and a large marble obelisk in the middle


    19. Since that never ended well, he’d walled himself in


    20. He tried not to let emotion play a part in his reasoning; but it was there, pushing at his defences, like a walled off tide

    21. I looked to see if I could see Yvette as we crossed the garden walking on we came to a small walled orchard and I could smell the fruit on the trees then I saw a chair standing against the far wall


    22. The trail led down to the San Juan River, walled in on either side by impenetrable bush


    23. Carts on railroad tracks walled in one side of a huge scrapyard that stretched for a block around the central building


    24. I stood at the edge of a formal walled garden, the immaculate lawn clipped short within the boxwood frames that edged the paths


    25. As they were leaving the interrogation room, Linda walled over to inform Steve that Jonathan Smith-Hughes had just been brought in by the two detectives who were sent out to arrest him


    26. Caltineri gave them directions to the factory where they were to pick up the windows, and after a short drive, they pulled into its walled storage yard


    27. The Gasthaus Weisse Hirsch was located on the side of a hill, and a walled flagstone terrace had been built to provide a view of a small glen and low, forested hills beyond


    28. Within the glass walled lobby, banks of windows extended the length of a wall


    29. The architecture of the interior had greatly changed over the years, with rooms walled up halfway across…if he was not mistaken, that was the dining room of the adjoining apartment on the other side of a blank wall


    30. The two-story stucco building’s walled courtyard was filled with U

    31. signaled to; a walled off region of the suite that housed a private setting of


    32. As far as the cats were concerned, the best part of the arrangement was that the upper wooded part of the garden was not walled in as it was lower down


    33. It was walled but not defended


    34. and strong, and their walled cities


    35. We soon discovered that we had entered a small walled suburb of the city and had to cross an old stone bridge over the Main River to reach the city


    36. The triple walled pipe was actually heavier than the stove


    37. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it


    38. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee


    39. 28 Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there


    40. 28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there

    41. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full


    42. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever


    43. “The construction strictures of The Nine Valleys state that all above-ground constructions must be grown in the trees, yet this outline on the ground suggests a great building within a walled courtyard, both of them square


    44. of the building and were walled on one side by the


    45. Thus it was that twenty minutes later, while they had taken the time to again restore their appearances and to drop off their extra weapons at Hilia, they were still a bit dazed as they appeared in the early evening on the street in front of the guard house at the north entrance to the walled grounds of The Imperial Palace of Sming, in Latrel


    46. The perimeter of the walled courtyard was packed with jubilant people; most of them dwarves, and the air above was dense with flyers of every race in the Alliance’s forces


    47. They appeared on the front lawn of a property that was just large enough to be considered a walled estate, in front of a stately two story home that was just big enough to be called a mansion


    48. It was somewhat after sundown when they entered the gate of the walled town


    49. about the stone walled room


    50. Natalie found herself in a glass walled corridor which had rooms on one side and opened on the other side to reveal a group of modern buildings arranged in a circle around a central garden which was broken up by lawn areas walking paths and some nice shade trees which looked like eucalypts








































    1. The first floor was divided up into offices for the different administration sections by badly painted and grubby dry walling


    2. Walling), with no precedent in law or fact, by which the federal government might intrude into purely state functions


    3. William Walling is a classic case of white liberal guilt


    4. Walling had spent some years in Russia where his wife, working for the


    5. What I was walling in or walling out,


    6. The new surfboard was stable and beautiful to ride in the perfect, walling waves of Noosa


    7. The cultural gravity of the GlobalMind is affected by such things as net neutrality, access speed, DDOS, hackers, snackers and thieves – every and any thing that is casting, walling, traveling and clog-chatting the global brain


    8. Once their psyches became split-up, once civilization emerged, once we started building walls around ourselves: we began walling ourselves off from each other


    9. The idea of a community of selfish modern consumers loving each other: without exclusion, without exclusively walling off other people in their own society as being unlovable… is a joke


    10. Nor does it make any sense to selectively bequeath that giving only to a small circle of close friends and relatives while walling off the rest of society from that giving

    11. Washington’s stroke oar, Dow Walling, one of his legs grotesquely inflamed by three enormous boils, slid forward on his seat, drove both legs sternward, and took the rate up above the furious forty at which the Washington boys were already rowing


    12. The exuberant Husky crew gingerly hoisted Walling out of the shell and sent him off to the hospital


    13. RUSSIA’S MESSAGE: By William English Walling


    1. He left all his drawers open and all over the walls were fliers, notebook doodles, and movie ticket stubs


    2. On the walls, there were all sorts of posters of superheroes and some Indian cartoon of a monkey guy with a beard


    3. Johnny’s yell reverberated off the walls of the quickly descending elevator


    4. You are a streaming liquid pool that beads into the pores, cradles the air, and caresses the walls


    5. 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


    6. She stole dad's toolbox and flashlight and started knocking out a crawlspace hole to search for mermaids in the walls


    7. The walls were also covered with writing, both on and off the multiple whiteboards around the room


    8. 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


    9. When the giants had crushed the outer walls of Svellgard, the war was over


    10. We wiped everything off with warm water, threw away a lot of grains, disassembled the shelves and painted the pantry walls

    11. 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


    12. Cockroaches have are hiding (attic, inside walls, drawers, cabinet, car port, as good a memory as ants


    13. They can move through the cracks in walls


    14. 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


    15. Boric acid can be added to water for mopping, spraying around walls, etc


    16. The carpet was rich with red, and there were large, expensive paintings hidden in the darkness of the walls


    17. 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


    18. Some lizards and insects can live either way, but they can only stick to the walls


    19. “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


    20. 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

    21. Walls are pale lime, the floor has square, plastic white tile


    22. 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


    23. As he tasted them, so the walls and furnishings of the room faded and ripped,


    24. from the walls before their eyes, and there in the centre of the room by a bed now


    25. The last time I went in there I noticed that the walls were peeling badly


    26. The roof is corrugated iron and the walls are unpainted concrete


    27. Concrete walls and floor!


    28. 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


    29. 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


    30. 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

    31. 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


    32. between the stone walls that backed the hedges, and although the track showed no


    33. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls


    34. ballroom, the sound of a single note echoed back and forth, bouncing off the walls and


    35. Everywhere, sprouting out of the walls and hanging


    36. Even when my eyes could only see the four walls of the


    37. Two guards with machine guns stand in the shadows against the walls


    38. Colours splashed across the walls


    39. other than for the fantastic whiteness of the walls and the deep blue cupola of their


    40. 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

    41. There was an expensive looking desk, some high quality chairs and artwork on the walls


    42. cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay


    43. worked in a tower on the walls of the city to look out for invading enemies


    44. edges of the thick cell walls and dissolved the shifting shapes of the man that he had


    45. floor and up the walls


    46. So”, replied MacKenzie, gesturing at the thick stone walls of his cell, “you built all


    47. As he disappeared into the shadows he crashed his ham fists into the walls


    48. It was difficult to imagine walls in this darkness


    49. The mystery of infinite walls made my head spin


    50. 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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    Synonyms for "wall"

    bulwark rampart wall paries fence fence in palisade surround barrier obstacle impediment hindrance resistance bastion bunker dike battlement enclose partition divide shut off protect immure

    "wall" definitions

    an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure


    anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect


    (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure


    a difficult or awkward situation


    a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)


    a layer of material that encloses space


    a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)


    an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes


    surround with a wall in order to fortify