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Example sentences for "high wall"

  • It must have been a high wall, for as Boris fell through the air it seemed to him as though he would never reach the water.

  • The new city now possessed a high wall, strongly built, and likely to defy awhile the assault of the heavy but feeble ordnance of that time.

  • This ward is divided into four "apartments," each one having a high wall at the back.

  • The square garden is surrounded by a high wall, and has buildings on three sides.

  • There was an extensive courtyard in the centre enclosed by a high wall, and having a tower in the centre of each of the two sides of the quadrangle.

  • The town itself is divided into two sections--the city proper, surrounded by a high wall, and the suburbs outside.

  • SO THE son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypylus within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans in check longer.

  • Right for the city and the high wall, parched with thirst and grimy with dust, still they fied on, with Achilles wielding his spear furiously behind them.

  • On my left, I think, was a high wall, and before me, grazing in the road .

  • The sacred precincts are enclosed by a high wall, gray, ancient, and luxuriously ivy-grown, and lofty and strong enough for the rampart of a fortress.

  • This person had surrounded two mountains by a high wall, within which he had the fairest gardens, and finest fountains in the world, inhabited by great numbers of most beautiful virgins.

  • A high wall separates it from the street, and on this wall, which is divided by a large open gateway, are perched two overhanging turrets.

  • They found a place surrounded by a high wall and a deep ditch; they were admitted, on the Professor showing a pass, through a door at which a dozen female warders were sitting on duty.

  • Her residence was a large and handsome house shut in by a high wall, with extensive grounds, and surrounded by high trees, so that no one could see the garden from the main road.

  • Mankind is surrounded,' the Professor went on as if talking to herself, 'by a high wall of black ignorance and mystery.

  • Each house has a courtyard surrounded by a high wall.

  • The whole are enclosed in a high wall with a tower in it, underneath which is the gateway.

  • It stood, as most of the churches here do, upon slightly-rising ground, and was surrounded by a high wall, with the gateway entering beneath a sort of tower.

  • It is simply a high wall constructed of the enormous Pekin bricks, easily defensible against infantry attack, but I should doubt if it would long resist artillery fire.

  • Leaning from the windows we saw, apparently stretching right across the track, a long, high wall, with buttresses and lofty towers at intervals.

  • Quitting the station, we entered a small town of squalid native houses and proceeded through narrow and unsavoury lanes until we reached a low doorway in a high wall.

  • On one side was a high wall, on the other a precipice whose depth no one calculated.

  • On the bay shore, commencing near the Praya or Beach do Flamingo, is a pleasant garden, surrounded by a high wall, and guarded at its various entrances by soldiers.

  • The city of Canton is built on a plain, encircled by a high wall, at the foot of barren hills.

  • The palace itself, with its pagodas, and many other buildings, is surrounded by a high wall, having strong gates, and a guard of a miserable and undisciplined militia.

  • The avenue seemed to Donal about to stop dead against a high wall, but ere they quite reached the end, they turned at right angles, skirted the wall for some distance, then turned again with it.

  • A high wall surrounded an inclosure of a quarter of an acre.

  • I see now that our builders made a mistake in surrounding the city with a high wall; it would have been best to have built a mere breastwork at the very edge of the cliff all round.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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