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Sentences ending with walls

Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls? [6]
But the plasterer works some hair into the mortar which he is going to lay in large sheets on the walls. [3]
The garrison replied with yells of defiance and well-directed shots, hurling back the invaders when they attempted to scale the walls. [4]
She heard the wind moaning in the cottonwoods and mice squeaking in the walls. [13]
And you, you--the wife of the man who has induced thousands to desert King Philip, the wife of the exile, who directs the resistance within these walls. [10]
Gaining the outlet which he took to be the pass, he rode on again under over hanging walls. [13]
The hanging-scaffold, on which he had lain for months, working on the master's pictures, had been removed, but there was still something to be done to the walls. [10]
I know not what comical sprites sit astride the cider-barrels ranged along the walls. [4]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
The entire floor was strewed with rose-leaves, and the room lighted by many lamps which were hung against the smooth, white, stucco walls. [10]

Short sentences using walls

Stone walls have ears. [11]

Sentences containing walls two or more times

They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
Inside, the walls were stuccoed in imitation of stone,--first a dark brown square, then two light brown squares, then another dark brown square, and so on, to represent the accidental differences of shade always noticeable in the real stones of which walls are built. [6]
The well is rich, its walls are sharply defined; outside of the walls are no diamonds. [5]
The walls and encircling walls of all were prepared, and we were drilled in the use of the poles. [10]

More example sentences with the word walls in them

Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
In Italy, the works of mediaeval Art seem to be of yesterday,--Rome, under her kings, is but an intruding newcomer, as we contemplate her in the shadow of the Cyclopean walls of Fiesole or Volterra. [6]
Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
How many have withered and wasted under as slow a torment in the walls of that larger Inquisition which we call Civilization! [6]
Our soldiers fight with weapons, such as are pictured on the walls of Theban tombs, wearing a newly invented head-gear as old as the days of the Pyramids. [6]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
Old-fashioned bookcases lined with musty books filled the walls, except where a steel engraving of a legal light or a railroad map of the State was hung, and the Honourable Hilary sat in a Windsor chair at a mahogany table in the middle. [9]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
There it was, with its solid green gates between the lions, its yellow walls with the fringe of peeping magnolias and oranges, with its green-latticed gallery from which Monsieur Auguste had let himself down after stealing the miniature. [9]
Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches. [5]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
But, on the whole, we rolled southward happily, between high walls and hedges, past trim gardens and fields and meadows, and I marvelled at the regular, park-like look of the country, as though stamped from one design continually recurring, like our butter at Carvel Hall. [9]
The walls are whitewashed, the wooden floor bare. [9]
You see the white walls of that temple yonder in the midst of its sacred grove. [10]
The room in which he was sitting was spacious and cool; the lower part of the walls was lined with earthenware tiles, the upper half plastered and painted. [10]
It shone from what appeared to be an old oriel window, and being surrounded by the deep shadows of overhanging walls, sparkled like a star. [12]
Pieces of board were nailed over the defective spots in the floor, and the lines where the walls met rarely showed a right angle. [10]
The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
The slanting walls were built as firmly as if they were intended to last for centuries and defy a violent assault. [10]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
So the four went beyond the power of gold and gewgaw, and were dragged in the mire around the walls and flung into the yellow waters of the river. [9]
Presently "Elfonzo again wends his way to the stately walls and new-built village. [5]
In due time we were challenged by the warders, from the castle walls, and after a parley admitted. [5]
The next morning we wandered back up the green valley, leisurely, with the curving walls of those bare and stupendous precipices rising into the clouds before us. [5]
Working by night, we stowed the powder in the tower--dug stones out, on the inside, and buried the powder in the walls themselves, which were fifteen feet thick at the base. [5]
As soon as we come out of the shadow that the great walls cast on the road we shall be in broad light. [10]
This western curve was the only part of the valley where the walls had been split asunder, and it was a wildly rough and inaccessible corner. [13]
Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
And if he was outside these prison walls, and in the Gulch, and the man was there alive before him, what would he do? [11]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
The great banqueting-hall was bright as day--even brighter, from the light of thousands of candles whose rays were reflected in the gold plates forming the panelling of the walls. [10]
Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
All my political warfare has been in favor of the teachings that come forth from these sacred walls. [7]
Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees that I knew so well echoed around the log walls, and the door trembled with a blow. [9]
There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. [5]
Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
Once within its walls, and confession made to the priest and absolution obtained, the wretch with a price upon his head could go forth without fear and without danger--he was tabu, and to harm him was death. [5]
It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner. [9]
The high stockade walls with stout bastions and small cannon looked formidable, yet there was no man of them but was better pleased that the odds were against him than with him. [11]
On the dark walls were Mrs. Forsythe's precious prints, and above the mantel a portrait of a thin, aristocratic gentleman who resembled the poet Tennyson. [9]
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]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
The grey granite walls of the valley exhaled fiercer and fiercer heat and drops of perspiration had long been pouring from the burning brows of the three men on the cliff. [10]
But on the walls of the little dining-room hung a Copley and two Stuarts. [9]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
For within the walls of the city, and on the shore of Beauport, protected by its mud flats--a splendid moat--the French more than held their own. [11]
Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]
Blowing down the walls of Jericho with rams' horns wa'n't as difficult, in my opinion. [5]
Within its stern walls Nathaniel Durrett had made a model universe of his own, such as the Deity of the Westminster Confession had no doubt meant his greater one to be if man had not rebelled and foiled him.... [9]
Any moment these walls may crumble upon us if you say such things. [5]
And no prison walls loom so high as to appall our heroine's soul. [9]
All over the walls hung the little prints and engravings, framed in wreaths of moss and artificial flowers, or in elaborate square frames made of pasteboard. [4]
On the stockade walls grass grew, as though where men will not live like men Nature labours to smother. [11]
Inside the canvas walls Ephraim was lying on his uncle's camp-bed. [10]
All the vast walls are made wholly of these precious stones, worked in, and in and in together in elaborate pattern s and figures, and polished till they glow like great mirrors with the pictured splendors reflected from the dome overhead. [5]
All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. [5]
With its massive walls and heavy, red-tiled roof that sloped steeply to many points, it seemed firmly planted for ages to come. [9]
It is a vision of dusty sterility, decaying temples, crumbling tombs, broken mud walls, shabby huts. [5]
It was a very dark miserable place, very low and very damp: the walls disfigured by a thousand rents and blotches. [12]
Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes. [5]
There it was vast and lone, Splendid in power, breaking against the stone Walls of the world in thunder symphony. [11]
Numerous lamps of various and singular shapes, filled with Kiki oil, hung against the walls. [10]
It is no use to call; no one can hear, for it is all roar outside, and these walls are solid and very thick. [11]
Catholic chapels stand upon these sites and protect the little fragments of the ancient walls which remain. [5]
There are no unsightly stone walls and never a fence of any kind. [5]
The walls were unpainted, but turned by the slow action of sun and air and rain to a quiet dove or slate color. [6]
With a vague uneasiness I turned away from the contemplation of those walls. [9]
Twilight had gathered under the walls. [13]
There were many uncomplimentary references, on the walls, to a certain unpopular dignitary. [5]
And was it true that she belonged there, securely infolded within those peaceful walls? [9]
Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. [5]
One more rehearsal to-morrow, and then the two voices would have given such a performance as perhaps was never before heard within the temple walls. [10]
It was impossible to wait longer for the sculptures which were to adorn the walls. [10]
Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
Yet from time to time, as he rested, he saw the massive red walls growing higher and wilder, more looming and broken. [13]
There they retired to the niche formed by the deep walls of the broad central window of the house, and Herr Berthold Pfinzing whispered to his wife: "There was too much philanthropy and kindness for me in there. [10]
My father used to say that the world was only the size of four walls to a sick person. [11]
It seemed cruel to keep that pitiless inscription still staring from the walls after the unhappy wretch had been in his grave five hundred years. [5]
Vague relief came to her in the sense of being enclosed between dark stone walls, deep hidden from the glare of sun, from the glistening sage. [13]
They stood elbow to elbow, on each side of Joan's road, and walled it in all the way; and behind these living walls knelt the multitudes. [5]
Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof. [9]
At the same time thundering plaudits echoed from the walls of the fortifications and broke, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, against the ships and masts in the calm water of the harbour. [10]
For the first time she observed the shabby colors on the walls, the damage the pillars had sustained in the course of years, and the loose slabs in the pavement. [10]
The road led through the town, which was surrounded by high walls and deep ditches. [10]
At least four thousand besiegers lay before the walls, and, far beyond, they could see the attack upon the Residency. [11]
To distract her thoughts she wandered round the room, looking at the works of art that stood against the walls, feeling the stuffs with which the cushions were covered and striking a lute which was leaning against the pedestal of a Muse. [10]
I have never thought, during my residence at Vienna, that because I have the honor of being a public servant of the American people I am deprived of the right of discussing within my own walls the gravest subjects that can interest freemen. [6]
And then, as though some supernaturally penetrating ray had pierced a square hole in the lower walls, a glimpse of the interior was revealed to her, of the living room at the north end of the house. [9]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
There were all those wonderful diagrams over which the reader may have grown dizzy,--just such as one finds on the walls of lunatic asylums,--evidences to all sane minds of cerebral strabismus in the contrivers of them. [6]
Peace be to those walls, forever,--the Professor said,--for the many pleasant years he has passed within them! [6]
To live like this--ah, I would break my head against these stone walls, I would choke myself with my own hands! [11]
If, up to this time, I had seen only one "old master" in each palace, instead of acres and acres of walls and ceilings fairly papered with them, might I not have a more civilized opinion of the old masters than I have now? [5]
These were by this time deserted by their inhabitants, who were busy in the field, the house, or the quarries; they consisted of a few ill-lighted rooms with bare, unfinished walls. [10]
The luxury of this room, with its shining mahogany tables, its tapestried walls, its rare fireplace and massive overmantel brought from Italy, its exquisite stained-glass windows, was only part of a play they were acting; it was not their real life. [11]
The walls of this room were whitewashed and decorated with pious glyphic writing, which framed in the door and the windows opening into the garden. [10]
The walls of this fine chamber were hung with Flanders tapestry, and I can to this day see the pictures which were so skilfully woven into it. [10]

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