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Sentences starting with wall

Wall up the universities? [9]

Sentences ending with wall

True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
He sit there with us, and play on the fiddle, and sing songs, and act plays, and help Florian in the barn, and Octave to mend the fence, and the Cure to fix the grape- vines on his wall. [11]
He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. [10]
Fay lay, with wide staring eyes, in the shade of a gloomy wall. [13]
That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall. [5]
The sick man was turned on to his side with his face to the wall. [2]
But Mr. Harper was the first man over the wall. [9]
The handsome Anatole was smilingly talking to a partner on his arm and looked at Natasha as one looks at a wall. [2]
Presently his attention was drawn by the glitter of something upon one of the crosspieces of timber halfway up the wall. [11]
An old Tricolor was draped from a beam, and one or two maps of France were pinned on the wall. [11]

Short sentences using wall

He tapped the wall. [11]
The Church isn't Wall Street. [9]
He eyed the wall closely. [11]
They can't hit a wall. [11]

Sentences containing wall two or more times

You boldly drive your boat right into what seems to be a solid, straight wall (you knowing very well that in reality there is a curve there), and that wall falls back and makes way for you. [5]
It had a table hanging like a lid from the wall, a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red peppers, a crucifix on the wall, a short sword, a huge pistol, a pair of rusty stirrups, and several chairs. [11]
There is no space between the wall and the first circle of buildings; no, the village wall is itself the rear wall of the first circle of buildings, and the roofs jut a little over the wall and thus furnish it with eaves. [5]
I threatened to shoot him with my walkingstick, whereat he ran nimbly along the wall in terror The workmen shouted; and this started up a couple of yellow dogs, which came to the edge of the wall and barked violently. [4]
The Rock of Perce was a wall, three hundred feet high, and the wall was an island that had once been a long promontory like a battlement, jutting out hundreds of yards into the gulf. [11]
Imagine a great parallelogram made of log cabins set end to end, their common outside wall being the wall of the fort, and loopholed. [9]
They inspected the martial furnishing of the room: the drum, the pair of rifles, the pistols, in the corner, the sabres crossed on the wall, the gold-handled sword that lay upon the table, and the picture of Napoleon on a white horse against the wall. [11]
There is no house outside the wall on the whole hill, or any vestige of a former house; all the houses are inside the wall, but there isn't room for another one. [5]
He put the end of his stick within six or eight inches of a stone wall, and made the geese march in single file between it and the wall. [5]

More example sentences with the word wall in them

If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
In the daytime you can hitch it up against the wall, out of the way--and then you have a big unencumbered and most comfortable room to spread out in. [5]
He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
He seized her wrist as it lay on the wall, and she winced from the sudden pain of his grip. [9]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
I thought I would feel along the wall and find the door in that way. [5]
But this is worse than ever, and she will lie for hours with her face turned to the wall, and not even Antoinette can arouse her. [9]
And then a woman in deep mourning emerged from a tiny shop and took her bicycle from against the wall and spoke to me. [9]
The wooden clock with the round face and quaint landscape below--the family's most cherished heirloom--though long familiar, was not so bad; but the two yellowed engravings on the wall offended her. [9]
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed. [2]
He was kneeling with his forehead against the rocky wall and his emaciated hands were closely clasped over Magdalena's ring. [10]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
Upon gaining the wide opening he decided to cross it and follow the left wall till he came to the cattle trail. [13]
Built on a wide lot, with a garage on one side to the rear, with a cement driveway divided into squares, and a wall of democratic height separating its lawn from the sidewalk, the house may for the present be better imagined than described. [9]
Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison. [5]
They watched him while, with a firm step, he crossed the room and pressed a button in the wall, and waited. [9]
The single torch which spluttered from the wall as they drank their coffee lighted up faces as strange, withdrawn, and unconsciously secretive as ever gathered to greet a guest. [11]
All the shots which just missed the top of the rampart cut into the dead wall pretty much in a straight line, and at length cut right through and brought the upper story tumbling down. [5]
The cushions among which he sat had come from Constantinople, the rug at his feet from Tiflis, the prayer-rug on the wall from Mecca. [11]
I'll settle millions where they ought to be settled, drop Wall Street, and--go into training. [11]
Stars were blinking when he reached his old hiding-place in the split of canyon wall, and by their aid he slipped through the dense thickets to the grassy enclosure. [13]
In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
Horses and men were to be cut down and a high wall was to be made of the fragments of the chariots to bar the way of the pursuing Egyptians. [10]
The innumerable exits were there in the wall of life and none had opened to him; but since the evening when he saw Jasmine at the railway station, there had been an opening of doors in his soul hitherto hidden. [11]
Soon their backs were bared, their faces were turned to the wall, and, as Gabord with harsh voice counted, the lashes were mercilessly laid on. [11]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
She felt her way to the wall, found the rain-proof coat, and, with trembling fingers, put it on. [11]
I made my way along the wall, finally reaching a side aisle, whence I could get sight of the platform and the speaker. [9]
If when he was talking and explaining anything to a monkey, its attention was easily distracted, as by a fly on the wall or other trifling object, the case was hopeless. [1]
Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
When the movement was completed, each man knew that he was not the only person who had crept to the front wall and had his eye at a crack between the logs. [5]
Still, the Serapeum was built for eternity; the ram might bring down a wall, but it could not destroy or even shake the building itself. [10]
The next night was appointed for a visit to the bottom of the crater, for we desired to traverse its floor and see the "North Lake" (of fire) which lay two miles away, toward the further wall. [5]
Behind the store was an old-fashioned garden, set about by a neat stone wall, hidden here and there by the masses of lilac and currant bushes, and at the south of it was a great rose-covered boulder of granite. [9]
When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. [5]
Why, if dey was a rattlesnake to come in heah I'd take en bust right out thoo dat log wall, I would, wid my head. [5]
Then, suddenly, there was a loud commotion; some elastic object flew against the wall with a loud flap, and Karnis, starting up, called out: "Get out--monster! [10]
Around the court-house was a familiar, buzzing scene,--the backwoodsmen, lounging against the wall or brawling over their claims, the sleek agents and attorneys, and half a dozen of a newer type. [9]
But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. [5]
But her mind wandered still, and she sat mechanically looking before her at a picture of the father of the late Seigneur, which was let into the moulding of the oak wall. [11]
Above these the walls were covered with a beautiful dark green material brought from Sais, and the same stuff was used to cover the long divans by the wall. [10]
Arrived within the wall, we found the usual village sights and life. [5]
Going to the wall, he hung up the rifle; then he came to the fire and stood holding out his hands to the blaze. [11]
They bruised the wall, broke the windows, and finally smashed in the door and took their man away. [4]
A bold headland--precipitous wall, 150 feet high, very strong, red color, stretching a mile or so. [5]
From a mountain wall you watch in the morning, and, when you see him, you follow, and follow, and do not rest till you have found him. [11]
Let into the wall was a star-shaped light. [2]
Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides! [6]
He had the Wall street slang at his tongue's end; he always talked like a capitalist, and entered with enthusiasm into all the land and railway schemes with which the air was thick. [5]
Those who know Wall Street best, by reason of sad experience, say that the presiding deity there is not the Chinese god, Luck, but the awful pagan deity, Nemesis. [4]
It should make Wall Street ashamed of itself. [5]
There upon the wall over the shrine was the white arrow with the tuft of fire. [11]
It struck the wall over Harris's head and fell down on him; I had not imagined I could throw so far. [5]
Leaning against the wall on the right hand side of the room, dressed in his long, snow-white priest's robe, Pentaur stood awaiting the princess. [10]
In the farther wall of this store-court was a very high doorway, that led into a large garden with rows of well-tended trees and trellised vines, clumps of shrubs, flowers, and beds of vegetables. [10]
By the high wall of the valley where no man bides there is a path which leads to the Bar of Balmud; but leave it not, whether it go up or down or be easy or hard. [11]
In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. [10]
Upon the inner wall is a fresco of "The Crucifixion. [4]
This sombre oaken wall had been handed down through four generations from the man's great-grandfather: the breath of generations had steeped it in human association. [11]
The corners of wall bluntly rose, scarred and scrawled, to taper into towers and serrated peaks and pinnacled domes. [13]
You bent that wall back like a piece of steel, and broke it. [11]
They surmount a wall about ten or twelve feet high. [5]
But they were voices and voices only; for they who sang were as unkempt and forceless as the lonely wall which shut them in from the insistent soul of the desert. [11]
This left my victory in such considerable doubt that I climbed the back wall forthwith in my new top-boots. [9]
Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
Upon each side Venters saw the sage merged into a sailing, colorless wall. [13]
A pleasant green valley lay to the north, and to the south, far off, was the wall of rosy hills that hid the captured town. [11]
At first he used regularly to try the bars of the window, and search the wall as though he thought my devices might be found there. [11]
Displayed on hooks upon the wall in all their terrors, were the cane and ruler; and near them, on a small shelf of its own, the dunce's cap, made of old newspapers and decorated with glaring wafers of the largest size. [12]
A smile played upon her lips as she perceived young Hermas, who had already been for some time leaning motionless against the wall of the house opposite, and devouring with his gaze the figure of the beautiful young woman. [10]
Suddenly we came upon a house with a great round hole in its wall, and then upon several in ruins beside the village street. [9]
We have grown up together like the ivy and wild vine on the wall, and cannot part. [10]
She hastily tidied up the table after his meal, and then came and sat in her chair over against the wall of the rude fireplace. [11]
The pigeon-house, built up of clay pots and Nile-mud, stood on the top of the storehouse, which lay adjoining the southern boundary wall of the temple. [10]
I hold it up as a wall between you and the heathen abomination which you hail with joy in your blindness. [10]
So they put up a stone wall. [5]
Shon did not understand it, but he saw The Honourable smile, so with a gentle kind of contempt he went on singing: "And it's hey for the hedge, and it's hey for the wall! [11]
You begin to understand how how this procession is going to look when it is on the wall. [5]
He did not understand about the wall, but perhaps he was bringing home some distinguished captive whom he wished to debar from all communication with the city. [10]
We were almost under the monstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was in vain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound. [5]
When his eyes unclosed, day had come again, and he saw the rim of the opposite wall tipped with the gold of sunrise. [13]
I set the umbrella slowly and carefully on end against the wall, but as soon as I took my hand away, its heel slipped from under it, and down it came again with another bang. [5]
The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
She was making two hooks for her kitchen wall, for she was clever at the forge, and could shoe a horse if she were let to do so. [11]
We belong to two different civilizations, and, until we recognize what separates us, we are talking like Pyramus and Thisbe, without any hole in the wall to talk through. [6]
At last he turned, and, seeing me intent, stooped, caught me by the arms, and lifted me upon the wall. [11]
The shadows of tree-top, thatch, and wall were lengthening as I walked along the Rue Bourbon. [9]
Every house, every tree, every wall seemed to radiate the heat it had absorbed during the day. [10]
Then she turned towards the row of pillars which stood by the right-hand wall of the hall, and which were at some distance from her couch, calling out "Verus. [10]
It was in total darkness, but through the narrow open door in the middle of the left wall one could see what was going on in Barbara's little bow-windowed room. [10]
The officer contemptuously tossed it back, and now, a little more courteous, ordered me against the wall, and I let my cloak fall to the ground. [11]
These necessities were tossed across, sometimes wrapped in the Vicksburg news-sheet printed on the white side of a homely green wall paper. [9]
He left the torch behind him, stuck in the cleft of the wall. [11]
All this was told in a whisper; only a thin wall of wood parted Ursula's chamber from ours. [10]
When I came to, I found that my foot had been bandaged, there was a torch in the wall, and by my side something in a jug, of which I drank, according to directions in a surgeon's hand on a paper beside it. [11]
The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. [11]
The face was to the wall. [9]
His back was to the wall. [11]

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