The whole creature is little more than so many cells of sea-water, the walls of the cells being a very thin, transparent kind of skin.

This end wall of the barn is fallin' in.

The Aurelian walls are now only thirteen miles in circumference, but Lipsius estimates the original circumference at forty-five miles, and Vopiscus at nearly fifty.

Its walls at first were no less than 2000 feet in height, so that at all times we were in sight, so to speak, of land.

The walls and roof are all mud, and so low that a man cannot stand erect in some of them!

Alongside the walls were beds of virgin pine and moss, and on one of these beds lay Robber Father asleep.

"'The olde sea wall (he cried) is downe, The rising tide comes on apace, And boats adrift in yonder towne Go sailing uppe the market-place.'

The left wall is perhaps the favourite.

Later investigation by Dr. Bowman showed that the wall was about three feet thick and nine feet in height, carefully faced on both sides with roughly cut stone and filled in with rubble, a type of stonework not uncommon in the foundations of some of the older buildings in the western part of the city of Cuzco.

The old city wall, La Fuerza, and La Punta, are mere piles of masonry, more or less dull and uninteresting unless one knows something of their history.

Hitherto the house had stood detached and these walls were the originals of the colonnades, still a noticeable feature of the building.

The south wall is all windows; but the north and east have rows of doors, leading into the house, whilst the west wall is occupied by the great entrance.

The pillars supporting the nave are equally plain; the walls and ceiling are almost entirely devoid of ornament: and primitive white-wash forms the most prominent colouring material.

So it was with the most important of all news in the Middle Ages; and yet today, as I said, you in New York City have only to knock good-night on your wall, to be heard by your true love in Omaha, and hear her knock back three times the length of France; Pyramus and Thisbewith this difference: that the wall is no longer a barrier, but a sensitive messenger.

Next toward the docks is an old castle whose gray and lichen-covered walls are a striking contrast to the new modern buildings that surround it.

It covers over twelve acres, and its walls are about three-fifth of a mile in circuit.

The massive walls of the convent were a welcome sight as I waded through the snow-beds near the summit of the pass, and pleasant also was the courteous salutation of the brother who bade me enter.

Again, the long pebble wall of the Chesil Bank and the barrier "fleets" of middle Wessex are a real sanctuary of the wild.

These paper-muslin walls are a dream of loveliness.

The church itself is a burying ground; its walls are tombstones, and its floor roofs the forgotten and the unforgotten dead.

The wall of the reef opposed to the sea was a rough slope from the summit to the bottom, buttressed against the attacks of storms, and defended by chevaux-de-frise such as the Americans sank in the Hudson River in 1777.

The walls, font, and S. doorway are Norm.

But the leaf-tree wall was an obstruction behind which the men worked.

Some of the gaps reached nearly to the ground, and through these it could be seen that the wall was five feet across, a single adobe forming the entire thickness.

Many of us have thought that our sea-wall is a specially divine arrangement to make and keep us a nation of sea-kings after the manner of our forefathers, secure against invasion and able to invade other lands when we need them, though they may lie on the other side of the ocean.