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  • I have spent my adult life exploring the slick rock ridgelines, red-walled canyons, and rock art galleries that were threatened by the recent lease sale.

    Robert Redford: A Victory for America's Land 2009

  • He stopped the wide chimneys, shaded the little windows, left the strong-stemmed ivy to wander where it would over the house-front, the moss to accumulate on the untrimmed fruit-trees in the red-walled garden, the weeds to over-run its green and yellow walks.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • Pasgen, who stood beside Rhoslyn before Aurilia and Vidal Dhu, who occupied a pair of magnificent gold-wrought chairs in a private, red-walled chamber in Caer Mordwyn, bowed slightly.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Tamira's jaw dropped, and she dashed into the red-walled tent to return with a cloak.

    Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984

  • And since he had had time to consider the late battle, he began to suspect that he had been a little too sure of himself when he had entered the red-walled building.

    Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

  • A ruined, red-walled kasbah faced it, apparently inhabited by storks alone, busy building their great rough nests: some were in the village.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • He had seen it from the river a score of times, red-walled, umbrageous and old-fashioned.

    The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • The track curved round a grove of great pines, and suddenly they were within sight of Billabong homestead, red-walled and red-roofed, nestled in the deep green of its trees.

    Back to Billabong Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • Pungar Vees, the red-walled city where the fountains are, which trades with the Isles and Thul.

    Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • One looks back, you know, to one of those old average afternoons at Polchester, my father coming back from golf, I myself going into the old red-walled garden for tea, with some novel under my arm, the cathedral bell ringing for Evensong just over the wall across the Green, then slowly dropping to its close, then the faint murmur of the organ.

    The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912

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