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The miserable houses, and even garden-walls of the peasants in this district, are built with these precious materials.
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Long garden-walls overhung by trees made a dark boundary to the pavement; an empty cab trailed along the deserted thoroughfare, and presently Selden saw two persons emerge from the opposite shadows, signal to the cab, and drive off in it toward the centre of the town.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Long garden-walls overhung by trees made a dark boundary to the pavement; an empty cab trailed along the deserted thoroughfare, and presently Selden saw two persons emerge from the opposite shadows, signal to the cab, and drive off in it toward the centre of the town.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Long garden-walls overhung by trees made a dark boundary to the pavement; an empty cab trailed along the deserted thoroughfare, and presently Selden saw two persons emerge from the opposite shadows, signal to the cab, and drive off in it toward the centre of the town.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Gray remarked on the absence of red roofs, gentlemen's houses, and garden-walls, and on the uniform character of the humble farmsteads and gray cottages under their sycamores in the vales.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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The rose that blooms by garden-walls still is the rose for me.
Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus
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'One wise man who grows fruit says that his best friends are the sparrows, and he makes holes in the garden-walls for them to build in.
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The next day, under the guidance of my old friend, M. Laurens, I wandered for several hours through the streets, peeping into court-yards, looking over garden-walls, or idling under the trees of the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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Although this road skirts the coast, very little of it is seen on account of hills and garden-walls.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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All the fountains are made of the crimson-and-white stone of Asisi, which is seen everywhere about the city -- in vases for holy water, in pavements, in garden-walls, in the foundations of houses.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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