By courier, winged messenger and hand-scroll, the spies among the renegades had informed him of their movements toward his walled capital. |
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Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples. |
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We saw ancient Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres and walled medieval cities. |
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The four bed detached two storey house enjoys many extras and has a walled garden to the front and rear. |
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She loved the high ceilings and large windows, the stone facade, and the walled garden, where a lemon tree grew. |
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For instance, one room is completely walled in mirrors with huge crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. |
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Most forms are somewhat thick walled, and are generally finished simply, even cursorily, with few extraneous details or surface treatments. |
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Deval's studio, a large, light room at the center of the house, looked out onto a walled garden, overhung with climbing roses and arbutus trees. |
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The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves. |
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Within the bustling capital is Old Havana, a walled city of 143 hectares with three military fortresses. |
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Take the track forking sharply left and follow this boggy walled route gradually uphill along a ridge for a further one and a half miles. |
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The 27 acres of grounds of Stainrigg include lawns surrounded by trees, a walled garden as well as a croquet lawn and a boule court. |
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An old walled kitchen garden to the east has become the setting for stone tablets inscribed by letter cutters. |
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The old walled garden is completely overgrown now but between 1880 and 1920 melons, cucumbers, vines and figs grew there. |
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It all takes place in a walled garden containing a pool used for either purification or sensual pleasure. |
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Floating covers of low-density synthetic foam rubber are effective for controlling evaporation from vertical walled open-topped storage. |
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It is in a walled garden next to Sion Hill Hall, an elegant manor house built in 1912 by the York architect Walter H Brierley. |
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Now you are in the bailey and exposed to arrow fire from the thickly walled structures within. |
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When I was a kid, high walled fortifications were virtually impenetrable to infantry or cavalry. |
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There is a walled concrete courtyard with a garage, boilerhouse and coalhouse to the back. |
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In the centre, the old town, or medina, is walled in by ramparts and gives it an historical and cultural dimension. |
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Ahead of you the landscape drops away, a basin walled on three sides by hills, and open ahead into valleys, trees, fields, the world. |
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The walled cities of medieval Italy were fixed universes, bastions of defense, outlets for commerce, which had been built out of fear. |
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A Victorian walled garden has been restored, which now contains western and eastern medicinal herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers. |
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Small banked and walled enclosures are associated with some of the houses, perhaps pens for animal husbandry. |
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Outside, to the rear of the house, is a walled garden with a terraced lawn, a patio, shrubs and mature trees including a pear tree. |
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There is side access to the walled rear garden which has also been laid with cobblelock paving and is bordered by various plants and shrubs. |
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In contrast, SFT is characterized by a less even distribution of blood vessels that are variably angulated or thin walled and patulous. |
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We drove two hundred kilometers to Bam, a sprawling walled city and citadel begun two thousand years ago by the Parthians. |
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Edinburgh had been walled in 1450, and so narrow was the circumvallation that the Cowgate was beyond the circle of towers. |
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The seating area looks good too, with walled booths creating a modern and very swanky impression. |
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Each consisted of a single walled town surrounded by countryside, which might include villages. |
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On inspecting the site, they found the three buildings in an area of land which had been walled off and covered with stone chippings. |
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We had gone ready for action with rods which used thick walled blanks and would throw the four ounce surface poppers with ease. |
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The bomb was believed to have been planted in a minibus parked outside the walled embassy compound and detonated remotely. |
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With the possible exception of Feature 1 at Vaughn Branch, all appear to have been vertical walled, with hip or gable roofs. |
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The town leaders climbed down the well next to where the Himyarite castle used to be in the walled city. |
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The roses are out in our walled garden, and the sweet peas, and the apricot trees have finally got some very nice-looking fruit on them. |
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On our way back to Karaganda we passed a series of small, ornamentally walled enclosures. |
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Mr Betteridge opines that publishers should stop putting their content into walled gardens, and make them easily accessible. |
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To stroll around the old walled city of Dubrovnik on the Croatian coast is to savour one of Europe's gems. |
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Linger over a four-course dinner in a candlelit dining room overlooking the walled garden. |
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The complexity and multivalence of the receiving tradition prevent the information from being somehow, simply, walled off or cabined. |
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This is a medieval walled village, with a fortress towards its northernmost point. |
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By courier, winged messenger and hand-scroll, the spies among the renegades had informed Izates of their movements toward his walled capital. |
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Standard features include wooden floors upstairs, coved ceilings, walled gardens to front and rear and gas-fired central heating. |
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The door was removed and walled up and from that point on the bowling green became a football area, plus a mountain bike play area. |
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They've bottled us up so that when the forces of the walled city arrive, we'll have no escape. |
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Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road. |
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The walled back garden is laid in concrete paving slabs with flowerbeds in the border. |
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The property's walled front garden features a tiled entrance porch, two side lawns and high hedging. |
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The motte stands at the north-east corner of a square, subdivided bailey, the inner portion of which is partly walled and has a gate. |
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Soak up the sun in the lovely adobe walled front yard, complete with barbecue and umbrellaed table and chairs. |
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It has a walled rose garden, chintzy rooms and splendid food, courtesy of its owners, Monsieur and Madame Nourrisson. |
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The centre of the city was walled and, with its water and food supply enclosed, could have withstood a long siege. |
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A second wall is being built around the old walled city, and a prison is being cleared out to house the troublemakers. |
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One new project on show this year is the walled garden at Broughton Hall, Skipton. |
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In August 1552 the young Tsar led a Russian army, perhaps 150,000 strong, to besiege Kazan, a walled and moated town set on a hill. |
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Here one sees grazing camels, a skeletal countryside of abandoned walled towns, dunes, and shimmering mirages. |
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The resulting crater is hundreds of feet from rim to rim and walled on one side by a sheer cliff. |
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He could see the walled orchard, the sun glinting on the topmost leaves of the apple trees. |
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The grounds are magnificent with an attractive walled garden, a topiarian maze and nature trails. |
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In addition there is a toolshed, glasshouse, a tarmac tennis court and a walled garden. |
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Crossing the street, he entered the light pink and white walled diner to find only one stool open at the double-U shaped counter. |
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Under the Abbasid caliphs who made it their capital in AD 762, it was a walled centre of culture and learning. |
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The houses will also have tongue and groove timber flooring upstairs and walled back gardens. |
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There are gardens to the front and rear, both walled in, while the drive has parking for two cars or more. |
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I thought the garden was walled all round, but there is a breach in the wall at the back which a healthy animal could have hurdled. |
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Outside the garden is walled to the front with a cobble lock drive and pathway to the front door. |
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They put these viewing platforms all over the place so that people can see into whatever area has been walled off. |
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There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets. |
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We put this in a corner, and walled a third side in with a small bench turned on its side. |
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If cable companies wall consumers up in a walled garden and just allow them to order a pizza, they won't get very far. |
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The property also features a walled garden and many extras, including a granny flat to the rear. |
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Undeterred, the couple walled it in and blended it with the kitchenette by placing the refrigerator and wet bar to either side. |
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They viewed the two acre walled garden which has been restored to its original 19th century design from old photographs. |
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A covered glass area will lead from the original house to the walled garden, about a quarter of which will become a conference centre. |
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The Lottery cash would also pay for an 18 th-century walled garden to be restored. |
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Gone are the dark depressing corners, the walled off open areas and the brick bin stores. |
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The house is surrounded by about 20 acres of grounds, including lawns, an old walled garden, a paddock and a wooded glen full of wildlife. |
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Survivors of the burning of Panama City in 1671 rebuilt a walled bastion on a rocky promontory to the west. |
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Brigade HQ was established in the grounds of Mezze House, a large building with a walled garden. |
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All this is set against the wild mountain backdrop which surrounds the walled garden in the distance. |
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Outside, there is off-street parking to the front of the house with side access to the south-facing private walled garden. |
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Pedestrian side access leads to the walled back garden, which is mainly set in lawn with a glasshouse and a single garage. |
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There is pedestrian side access to the walled garden to the rear which benefits from a sunny south-westerly aspect. |
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Head chef Paul Hart uses the best fresh local produce, including vegetables grown in the hotel's own walled garden. |
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The walled garden is actually the first really serious garden I ever planted. |
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Ideally, the altar would be built in a walled garden where rites could be conducted in privacy. |
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It has an important collection of 18th century drinking glasses, a tranquil walled garden and a garden tearoom. |
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Outside, a landscape gardener has retained the original character of this part of the walled garden. |
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Limestone piers at the estate's walled gardens were also found to be decayed. |
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Last week T-Mobile Germany boasted that by breaking down the walled garden, ARPUs would blossom. |
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You can't control customers on the Internet, but you can if they're inside your walled garden. |
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At daybreak families emerge from their walled houses with cups and toothbrushes. |
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Canaanites in the Early Bronze Age lived both as wandering nomads in the countryside and as settled traders in walled cities. |
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Most localities, from walled cities to tiny hamlets, are still divided into traditional quarters or neighborhoods. |
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A covered side entrance provides access to the large walled rear garden, which also has an outside toilet. |
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Furthermore, the fact that the river is walled on each side, downstream of bridge, and there are gateposts on the river is also interesting. |
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A walled and deserted garden provides the idea place for adventure and excitement for the town's children, until its owner returns. |
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But now, people are walled inside their own little world with their keitai and aren't even aware of what they're doing in public. |
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On the left bank of the river, the works lie north of the present city of Samarra, which is a walled city. |
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In 1895 it was decided that the northern end of the Reserve could be walled to form a dam to supply the needs of the rapidly growing town. |
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He was in relaxed mood when they met at his dacha, a walled complex in a birch forest 25 miles west of Moscow. |
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One patient suffered from a painful furuncle, a little walled off ball of pus under the skin, requiring drainage. |
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The village square is dominated by a pristine, thatched church enclosed within a walled yard. |
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The walled front garden is landscaped with a selection of shrubs and railway sleepers. |
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The Duchess saw work in the floristry workshops, animal centre and walled gardens before viewing exhibits at Lackham's museum of agriculture and rural life. |
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There is a conservatory that looks out on to a large walled garden. |
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There's a loveliness of ladybirds in the walled garden at the moment. |
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Agulhon worked on the nucleated, walled villages of the Var. |
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The buffed and handsome pair could be seen on early-morning runs around the walled compound. |
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What is the grand purpose towards which he must suffer this indignity, this loss of sense after sense until he is walled in senselessly, no hope of escape? |
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This plus the fact the sheep pen is walled in on four sides by a solid board fence three and a half feet high on two sides and 15 feet on the other. |
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Last year the club visited the walled garden at Kylemore Abbey. |
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The bathroom leads to a sunken outdoor bath within a walled garden. |
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His friend Gertrude Jekyll designed the beautiful walled gardens. |
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The restored walled garden contains a collection of 160 varieties of Irish bred daffodils, many of them bred here in Waterford by Lionel Richardson. |
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To the side of the house there is a large walled garden with patio area. |
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A second give-away feature of 3 G is the way operators take you to their walled garden of paid-for services rather than let you roam the web freely. |
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At the entrance to the church, a large walled courtyard fronts the main road, allowing us to have two large notice boards that are used as wayside pulpits. |
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Meanwhile, Rathbone picked up a few tips on how to dance reels, how to negotiate her way around country-house bureaucracy and how to reconstruct a walled vegetable garden. |
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Raiding nomadic herders forced the populations to live in walled cities for defense and to entrust their protection to an aristocratic class of leaders. |
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Chinguetti, a town that sits on the edge of an immense sea of sand like a harbour village, is a sprawl of labyrinthine streets and walled courtyards. |
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So he was taken from his farmhouse and placed under arrest at a police facility, walled off from visitors and social media. |
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The estate also contains lodges, coach houses and a walled garden. |
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This westernmost tip of County Galway, its small walled fields full of rushy bog and granite boulders, has always been a harsh place to scratch a living. |
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It is simply a gravel yard walled off by sand bastions and concrete barriers. |
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Wesolowski is confined to house arrest in the walled city, awaiting trial in front of the Vatican tribunal. |
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The masseuse applied fragrant medicated oils on the head and body in plentiful measure as one lay on a high wooden plank on the secluded verandah of an open walled courtyard. |
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The gardens, nurseries, orchards, walled garden, arboretum, ice house, oyster farm and barnacle goose sanctuary will all, in time, be revived thoroughly. |
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In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage. |
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After traversing multifarious crossroads, we arrived at a walled courtyard complex which, turned out to be the habitat of the friends I made last summer in Beijing. |
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Too many of us, not just celebrities, are too walled off from the real-life experience of warriors, including our own. |
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I told her to let it loose in the walled garden behind the house, and opened my letter. |
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In 2005, they all moved to Abbottabad and settled into a walled compound for the next six years. |
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Solid manure can be stored in roofed or unroofed, walled structures. |
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Some villages appeared to have been recently vacated, their neatly tended walled compounds of round mud huts and peaked thatched roofs empty of people and animals. |
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The four-bedroom semi-detached house, built of red sandstone in Hamilton Avenue, has the further benefit of a south facing walled garden to the back with a summer house. |
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It is a picturesque leafy enclave threaded by narrow cobbled streets and an ancient tramway, with close-packed houses, early nineteenth-century mansions and walled gardens. |
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The set, in an atmospheric walled garden of Queens College, is transformed into a fantastic fairyland of sparkling glass raindrops, twinkling lights and looming plantlife. |
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This recently renovated Vaishnavite Temple consists of seven concentric rectangular enclosures around the inner sanctum in a walled area of 156 acres. |
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There are many fine houses here as well as vast warehouses, all of which are walled and well guarded, for piracy and theft are as common as regular trade here. |
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The corner to Green Lane, a track, is wooded and walled, though part of the wall has gone and the curved coping stones are similar to some in the village. |
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In front of the house is a large field with copper beeches in opposite corners and curving stone walls aligned to the gates of the old walled orchard below. |
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In this research, we capsulated osmium nanoparticles on the surface of multi walled carbon nanotubes through a number of chemical reactions. |
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Pollarding began with walled cities in Europe which did not have room for large trees. |
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From the beginning of civilization to the Middle Ages, people were immured, or walled in, and would die for want of food. |
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Financial problems followed, leading in August to the tunnel being walled off just behind the shield and then abandoned for seven years. |
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The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was thought to be a good design for defence. |
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Another example of renaissance planned cities is the walled star city of Palmanova. |
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This period that left behind numerous courtyard houses, mosques, shrines and walled enclosures. |
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The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? |
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The area occupied by the medieval burgh of Dundee extends between East Port and West Port, which formerly held the gates to the walled city. |
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Widespread state intervention and regulation largely walled the economy off from the outside world. |
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Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs. |
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Yet as the Rapunzel-editor in her high tower, she said, she had begun to feel walled off from the legions of aspirers. |
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There were also palaces walled with a terrace in the form of a ziggurat, where gardens were an important feature. |
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A document from 1200 AD mentions a walled garden owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Peter, Westminster. |
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By 1200 part of it had been walled off by Westminster Abbey for use as arable land and orchards. |
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It's a lovely old walled city, touristed with being touristy, and the food easily lives up to lofty expectations. |
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It possessed walled gardens and terracing descending to rectangular fishponds, a rarity at this time, which were linked by a canalized stream. |
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In 1648, Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall. |
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Marie-Laure and her father, possibly entrusted with a valuable artifact, take refuge in the walled Breton town of Saint-Malo. |
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Anchoresses typically walled themselves up in a small room they never left and into which food was brought to them. |
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The walled garden full of shadows blazed with colour as if the flowers were giving up the light absorbed during the day. |
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The door through which he was taken has been walled up, though the old doorway is just visible. |
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This Elizabethan entrance to the walled town was destroyed in a fire in September 1990, but was rebuilt. |
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At the time, Shanghai was merely a small walled county seat in the old quarter around the present city's Yu Garden. |
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Their primary mode of production was farming while they lived in villages, forts, and walled towns. |
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The report contains an in-depth analysis of the PBB by type of structure such as glass walled structure and the steel walled structure. |
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During World War II, an American engineer, Charles Fletcher, invented a walled air cushion vehicle, the Glidemobile. |
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The major factories became the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras, and Bombay Castle. |
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The Spanish attackers tunneled an extensive network of passages in order to enter the city beneath its walled defenses. |
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Some counties were created by shiring, while walled towns and castles became a feature of the landscape. |
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Although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city, it was also used in English in reference to Guangdong generally. |
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Castles and cities are identified by pictorial glyphs representing turreted castles or walled towns, distinguished in order of their importance. |
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There is evidence that the Emperor Hadrian visited in 122 on his way north to plan his great walled frontier. |
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Pottery was characterized by thin walled vessels, subtle, symmetrical shapes, elegant spouts, and decorations, and dynamic lines. |
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And during the Spanish Era, The Intramuros is the old walled city of Manila located along the southern bank of the Pasig River. |
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This consisted predominantly of epitheloid, spindle shaped cells set in a collagenous stroma containing thin walled vessels. |
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It remained a relatively small walled medieval town during the 14th century and was under constant threat from the surrounding native clans. |
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Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches. |
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The city was once fully walled, and some wall sections and gates remain today. |
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Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets. |
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His lordship allowed Thomas to use the old apple house at the bottom of the house's walled garden as a quiet place in which to write. |
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English settlers were given incentives to move to the walled garrison town, which for decades the Welsh were forbidden from entering. |
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Ultrasonography showed bilateral hydroureteronephrosis with distended, thick walled bladder. |
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The whole of the walled cemetery next to where the chapel stood was completely covered in concrete. |
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In 1283, King Edward I completed his conquest of Wales which he secured by a chain of castles and walled towns. |
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English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses. |
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Its most distinctive feature is the parish close, which displays an elaborately decorated church surrounded by an entirely walled churchyard. |
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The layout of traditional Balinese and Javanese kratons is similar to the Chinese concept of walled compounds of royal pavilions, squares and gardens. |
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Trade was allowed in the walled areas and usually this right resulted in a larger population and the development of major villages and later cities. |
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Inside a walled square, 500 meters to a side, was the ceremonial center. |
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The walled towns were planned out in a regular fashion, drawing both on the experience of equivalent bastides in France and on various English planned settlements. |
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Fearing the possibility of a summary trial and execution, the Protestants proceeded instead to Perth, a walled town that could be defended in case of a siege. |
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Often the porticos were walled in between the columns, and the original cella front and side walls largely removed to create a large single space in the interior. |
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Most of these were assimilated into Irish culture and polity by the 15th century, with the exception of some of the walled towns and the Pale areas. |
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Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in Britain. |
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Before the foundation of Kiel in 1242 and the construction of a walled city there, the region could not have escaped settlement, especially by the Vikings. |
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The route follows a walled lane, Fell Lane, before emerging onto a flat area, Crina Bottom, scattered with potholes including the considerable Quaking Pot. |
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On a small relatively flat area just below the top of Ingleborough the remains of an old walled enclosure have been discovered, containing the foundations of Iron Age huts. |
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His impressions of headmasters were for the most part taken against a background of white-flannelled boys in playing-fields or grey-flannelled boys in walled court-yards. |
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This walled civitas, possibly the only one in northwest Britain, presumably served as the tribal centre of the Carvetii on the model of other such sites in Roman Britain. |
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The city was made famous for this checkerboard pattern of main roads with walled and gated districts, its layout even mentioned in one of Du Fu's poems. |
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Designed by the renowned Dutch plantsman Piet Oudolf, the walled garden features modern, perennial meadow planting alongside more traditional areas. |
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Welsh rebels then attacked and captured the rest of the walled town. |
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They walled up the basement space that had been used as a coal bin. |
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On a positive note, while carrot root fly has been a problem in the past in the walled garden, this year micromesh tunnels have protected the crops. |
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The previous owners had walled off two rooms, making an apartment. |
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