Walled

Examples

• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At the foot of this slant is the walled town of Gibraltar--or rather the town occupies part of the slant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The main entrance to the church was on the side next to the burial-ground, and the door was screened by a porch walled in on either side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A double walled globular vessel has between its walls air spaces and non-conducting packing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I mixed one part of aqua-fortis with five parts of water, and poured it on the stone to the height of two inches, having previously walled it round with wax in the usual manner. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His faculties seemed walled up in him, and were unmurmuring in their captivity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They do say that one can get into any walled city of Syria, after night, for bucksheesh, except Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Shipping and agriculture, walled cities and writing, were already there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The terrible tension grew stronger and stronger, it was most fearful agony, like being walled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was walled three feet above ground with squared and heavy blocks of stone, after the manner of Bible pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To-day charcoal is made commercially by piling wood on steel cars and then pushing the cars into strong walled chambers. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Far away to the east Shi-Hwang-ti had routed the Huns and walled them out of China proper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The letter I bore from them gained me immediate entrance to the vast, walled city. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I then returned: You are not without sense, cousin Eliza; but what you have, I suppose, in another year will be walled up alive in a French convent. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I complied with this new requeSt. The garden was carefully walled in, all round. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Vera Cruz, at the time of which I write and up to 1880, was a walled city. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Each facet of a diamond (by reason of the method of cutting) is a window looking down a clearly defined walled chamber, like a hall-way to the culet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A good-looking young girl conducted us to a window on the second floor which looked out on a court walled on three sides by tall buildings. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Abraham