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They are surrounded with high stone-walls, or ditches, planted with a kind of cane or large reed, which answers many purposes in this country.
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Give me an old farm, with its stone-walls draped with Poison-Ivy and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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So, long before I left, the gleam of sunshine had left the narrow window and was hidden from the rest of the long room by the gray stone-walls of another building which rose up outside.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Our large and substantial mill was overshadowed by the high stone-walls of the rival company.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Nothing daunted, I take a short cut across the fields to Beersheba, bearding manifold dangers from rickety stone-walls, strong enough to keep women in, but not strong enough to keep bears, bulls, and other wild beasts out, -- toppling enough to play the mischief with draperies, but not toppling enough to topple over when urgently pressed to do so.
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Indeed, they had been annoyed all the way by them, as they fired from behind buildings, stone-walls, and trees.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson
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She knows the minerals in the stone-walls, and likes to trace the course of old glaciers across the farms beyond the village.
Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine
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He longed to be free once more -- free to scamper through the tree-tops, and along the stone-walls and the rail-fences.
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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Israelites worshipped the golden calf; the usual hunting people, who either ride straight and are grimly sarcastic or talk very big and go for the gates; and the usual English visitors, who astound by their guilelessness and simplicity when confronted by aboriginal horse-copers and native bogs and stone-walls.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 Various 1898
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Presently the stone-walls gave place to a most wonderful kind of fence, -- a kind that even country-bred
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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