He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

I came to Warsaw twice, but there was that damned ghetto wall ''

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head, fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed, but his face was turned to the wall -- there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster -- and I thought, Well you don't look much like a pig-drunk bully now.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.

On one wall was the brass front of a row of mailboxes ; ;

There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.

That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.

A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;

Sameness for the Old Man was framed in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city.

The wall was built by Ulrich III, Count of Abensberg.

Soon after the palace was constructed, a Cyclopean massive circuit wall was built, 760 meters long, up to 10 meters high, and ranging from 3. 5 to 6 meters thick.

The wall consisted of two parapets built with large stone blocks and cemented with an earth mortar called emplekton ( Greek: ἔμπλεκτον ).

Nevertheless, it seems that a nine-gate wall, the Enneapylon, had been built around the biggest water spring, the " Clepsydra ", at the northwestern foot.

) into the newly built northern curtain wall of the Acropolis, where they serve as a prominent " war memorial " and can still be seen today.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

Caesar ordered a wall to be built around Pompey's position in order to cut off water and pasture land for his horses.

Pompey built a parallel wall and in between a kind of no man's land was created, with fighting comparable to the trench warfare of World War I.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Additionally, the Aedicule would be quite close to the city even the west wall of the city had been to its east ; yet Akiba remarks that Jewish law insists that tombs should not be built within 50 cubits of a city.

The retaining wall was built to support the terrace housing the construction of the second temple of Apollo in 548 BC.

Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.

When Hadrian reached Britannia on his famous tour of the Roman provinces around 120, he directed an extensive defensive wall, known to posterity as Hadrian's Wall, to be built close to the line of the Stanegate frontier.

There is an old saying about life in Göttingen, still inscribed in Latin nowadays on the wall of the entrance to the Ratskeller ( the restaurant located in the basement of the old town hall ): Extra Gottingam non est vita, si est vita, non est ita ( There is no life outside Göttingen.

An AC powered unregulated power supply usually uses a transformer to convert the voltage from the wall outlet ( mains ) to a different, nowadays usually lower, voltage.

But despite intensive campaigns by the Clockmakers School, sheet metal fronts decorated with oil paintings ( or coloured litographs ) never became a major market segment because of the high cost and labour-intensive process, hence only a few were produced ( from the 1850s until around 1870 ), whether wall or mantel versions, and are nowadays sought-after collector pieces.

Moreover some parts of wall ruins lies all along the sea coast, ancient port and fish breeding pools remained to nowadays.