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Example sentences for "walled city"

  • Escorted by two Austin and two Franciscan friars, the condemned men walked to the execution-ground from the chapel within the walled city, where they had been confined since the sentence was passed.

  • Established in 1839 in Calle Cabildo (walled city), its purpose was to instruct youths in the science of navigation and prepare them for the merchant service within the waters of the Archipelago and the adjacent seas.

  • To which end, in a certain great valley that lies securely hidden among the mountains of this continent, he caused to be built a walled city; and this city he then peopled with the very bravest and strongest of his race.

  • So who will deny the attribute of romance to the story of a walled city?

  • What wonder then that man should endeavour to express by pen and pencil his sense of the greatness and beauty, the Romance of a Walled City such as Constantinople.

  • The great wall, almost blank, except for the entrances, encloses the palaces like a walled city of the Mediterranean or the nearer Orient.

  • In Greece tribes were succeeded by cities, that is to say small communities in which a walled city is everything, and the country districts are of little importance: and similar communities arose also in Italy.

  • Greek communities with the exception of Sparta are to be classed as city states, or communities in which a walled city is of supreme importance and the rural districts count for very little.

  • As he said to me but now, my royal brother is weak and aged with sickness, nor can we hope that once his visit is ended, he will return again to the White-walled City.

  • So Abi returned to the white-walled city of Memphis and sat there sullenly, putting it about that a plot was on foot to deprive him of his heritage.

  • SIR--This is to inform you that David Harbor, he of whom you spoke to me, has come by a misfortune at Hatsu, a walled city in northern China.

  • David had remarked when entering this walled city of Hatsu upon the modern rifles of the Tartar-guard.

  • Supposing I find Dick and hoist him out, we are still in a walled city.

  • That evening, as the shades were lengthening, they slid through the gates of a walled city.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    always going; becomes necessary; behind him; being wounded; can remember; dashed forward; durable peace; good white; him with; human figures; imperial order; judicial review; material prosperity; natural tendency; other metals; peasant woman; school books; shall neither; small point; still further; taking away; walled cells; walled city; walled town