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Example sentences for "stone walls"

  • A feast for the eyes of a lover of the nomads was this array of firelit faces set against a background of caravans, stone walls, and mountains.

  • No stone walls surrounded it; there was not even a fence; the fine trees around it had been so arranged by man or nature as to form an intelligible barrier, which, however, any person was at liberty to pass.

  • There was but little difference in this respect when we removed to Rosemullion, an old-fashioned, straggling mansion on the outskirts of Rochester, surrounded by stone walls, and secluded from public view by thick clusters of trees.

  • Thus, on a stormy night in September, when the rain came down in torrents, I heard the sounds of loud entreaty proceeding from outside the stone walls of the estate.

  • The Thrush builds her nest in hedges, banks, against the trunks of trees, in stone walls, and is fond of ivy against trees or rocks.

  • The nest of this bird is situated in holes in stone walls, bridges, crevices of rocks, quarries, &c.

  • The Blackbird builds her nest in stone walls, holly bushes, hedges, and amongst ivy.

  • This was, it appeared, fortified all round with schanses or stone walls, and contained numerous caves and koppies in the hill-side and at the foot of the mountain which no force had ever been able to capture.

  • We found that it was unoccupied, fortified with a regular labyrinth of stone walls, and contained three large caves and some smaller ones.

  • I discovered that the kraal was indeed impregnable to a front attack, but that it was very slightly defended to the rear, which ran up a slope of the mountain, indeed only by two lines of stone walls.

  • The whole country is formed into terraces by stone walls, which follow all the variations of the surface with the evident object of preventing the washing away of the soil.

  • In one or two cases there even remained standing portions of cut-stone walls.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being driven; brought upon; catch them; common roads; dark ages; five million; for the year ending; grey eyes; rise above; silk stockings; slight sketch; still extant; stone bench; stone bridge; stone circle; stone circles; stone fence; stone from; stone house; stone knife; stone mortar; stone quarry; stone steps; stone wall; stone walls; stones were