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The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.
He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.
The truck routes, the industrial areas with walls grimed with diesel smoke passed briefly through his mind -- back alleys were their access to a city and they could never stay.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.
This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.
Vernon's office adjoined the stable, and the walls were adorned with brightly colored lithographs, the folk art of the period.
Pictures of her in more glamorous days were on the walls.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.
The toilet hadn't had a sincere scrubbing in years and there were things written on the walls of the little boxed-in place because you couldn't keep the public out -- entirely.
She would not stop to read them in American Express, as many were doing, sitting on benches or leaning against the walls, but pushed her way out into the street.
According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.
The ancient population centers such as Chaco Canyon ( outside Crownpoint, New Mexico ), Mesa Verde ( near Cortez, Colorado ), and Bandelier National Monument ( near Los Alamos, New Mexico ) for which the Ancestral Pueblo peoples are renowned, consisted of apartment-like complexes and structures made from stone, adobe mud, and other local material, or were carved into the sides of canyon walls.
Houses generally faced the south, and plaza areas were almost always girt with edifices of sealed-off rooms or high walls.
Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.

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None of them reached our walls again.
In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.
About 300 AD the fort was again rebuilt, but the vicus was not reoccupied, so most likely the area remained too unsafe for life outside the defended walls of the fort.
A few years later, probably 514 BC, Babylon again revolted under the Armenian King Arakha ; on this occasion, after its capture by the Persians, the walls were partly destroyed.
He turned up again, however, before the walls of Erebor disguised as an old man, revealing himself when it seemed the Men of Esgaroth and the Elves of Mirkwood would fight Thorin and the Dwarves over Smaug's treasure.
Azzone Visconti grants that Monza is again surrounded by walls: the work beginning in 1333 and lasting until 1381.
He tried again with a larger, land-based tower named Helepolis, but the Rhodian defenders stopped this by flooding the land in front of the walls so that the rolling tower could not move.
As of July 2012, the area at the foot of church of Saint-Eustache is once again upturned earth, broken concrete and temporary construction walls, as construction on a new public green space atop the shopping center is underway.
But its walls and other fortifications were soon restored, and Totila again marched against it.
Then in 324, Constantine, tempted by the " advanced age and unpopular vices " of his colleague, again declared war against him, and, having defeated his army of 170, 000 men at the Battle of Adrianople ( July 3, 324 ), succeeded in shutting him up within the walls of Byzantium.
The Jews accepted, however, in order to ensure they would not rise against them soon again, the Syrian king and regent broke their promise and tore down the walls of Jerusalem before leaving.
Later on, he tries again to persuade the Trojans to stay inside the city in order to raise troop morale, but it is Aeneas that opposes his opinion this time, on the grounds that the Greeks will not be disheartened by a long stay inside the walls.
It is on display in the lobby of the Pacific Air Forces Headquarters building, whose bullet-scarred walls ( the structure was a barracks and mess hall known as " the Big Barracks " in 1941 ) have been carefully preserved as a reminder to never again be caught unprepared.
Painters again are coming to Palenville to enjoy its plethora of motifs and one day perhaps these newer canvases will join those from the 19th century that don the walls of museums throughout the world today.
It was besieged in 1172 and again in 1174 by William the Lion, King of Scotland and William was captured outside the walls during the Battle of Alnwick.
On April 2012, the sea walls were once again opened to public and it was also designed to become stronger to withstand strong storm surges.
When the Swedish Empire entered the war and advanced into Brandenburg, George William again claimed neutrality, yet Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden compelled George William to join Sweden as an ally by occupying substantial territory in Brandenburg-Prussia and concentrating an army before the town walls of Berlin.
The original structure was probably built in around 1080, rebuilt in around 1259 and rebuilt yet again in about 1450 which is the likely date of the walls seen today.
Eventually as the PV falls back into the PB, heat is applied again, but now the heater and the furnace walls are too cool and the temperature falls too low before its fall is arrested, so that the oscillations continue.
Eventually as the PV falls back into the PB, heat is applied again, but now the heater and the furnace walls are too cool and the temperature falls too low before its fall is arrested, so that the oscillations continue.
In 1239 he began to rebuild the walls ; but they were again demolished by Da ' ud, the emir of Kerak.
In 1243 Jerusalem came again under the control of the Christians, and the walls were repaired.
The Kharezmian Tatars took the city in 1244 and Sultan Malik al-Muattam razed the city walls, rendering it again defenseless and dealing a heavy blow to the city's status.
20 % of oocysts have thin walls and so can reinfect the host by rupturing and releasing sporozoites that start the process over again.
One particular routine designed to develop stamina, reflexes and ball skills was the " sweat box " which Shankly described as " using boards like the walls of a house with players playing the ball off one wall and on to the next ; the ball was played against the boards, you controlled it, turned around and took it again ".

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