Soon I hurried through narrow alleys between high-walled palaces. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The high-walled, irregularly shaped construction sat in a ponderous silence. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
We came out of barren hills into a high-walled canyon cut through black granite. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
A stone's throw back from the road, in a high-walled garden, stood the parsonage. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
He was the Penlop of Tuna, the great feudal lord of the province, whose high-walled. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Over the high-walled yard, the barns, the moon-white porch, dusk had brushed its velvet. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
Now the high-walled channel ran straight and Elric saw the quays of Imrryr ahead of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird of the White Wolf]
We had been lifted down from the wagon and placed on our feet in a high-walled courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Most revealing was the high-walled wooden corral that dominated the center of the village. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
And then a graph like this snaps me be back to reality: I live in a tiny, high-walled palace. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Seaver: Charity Rots on Docks and Lines Dictators' Pockets] Reference
Aket-ten turned and trotted down the long, high-walled corridor between the mostly empty pens. From Wordnik.com. [Aerie]
It's best to use a high-walled metal bowl and a flat spatula to fold the ingredients together. From Wordnik.com. [Guacamole Wars!] Reference
He opened the unbolted kitchen door and stepped out into a small high-walled square of backyard. From Wordnik.com. [Shattered]
In the early hour of the morning, Kenkenes emerged from a high-walled valley with battlemented summits. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
In the shadow of the mosque, at the corner of the high-walled lane, there was a heavy metal-studded door. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
Sheshaoua was no douar, but a high-walled collection of houses, overlooked by the modern kasbah on the hill. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Thin, forlorn cows huddled against the rain and a few sheep and goats milled uncertainly in a high-walled pen. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
It seemed that there was a gate to the high-walled grounds of The Haven, an iron grille affair which was kept locked. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow and the Rose]
But its 100 or so high-walled compounds and maze of deep irrigation channels offer good cover for determined defenders. From Wordnik.com. [Afstan: New ISAF offensive in Helmand province] Reference
Not so sure about those closed-bottomed, high-walled racks screwed firmly to the kitchen wall, especially right over the stove. From Wordnik.com. [Easier Than Boiling an Egg - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Then he slipped softly into the passage, and from that into the close, dark, high-walled corridors that led into the outer courts. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
The high-walled slash in the foothills narrowed rapidly, and five miles from the mouth of it the walls were so close together that. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Behind the mission in the high-walled, flower-covered graveyard are buried many of the famous dead of San Francisco's early days. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Mission in the Rain"] Reference
Priests in such feathered robes were evidently a common sight along the high-walled, cobblestoned streets of the lost Atlantean city. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
They go together across the lawn, and through a small green door into a high-walled garden, richly stocked with old-fashioned flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
Number twenty was a little over half way down the row, opposite a narrow, high-walled alley and the blank wall of some disused warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Cruise To A Wedding]
They attend the services in a gallery concealed by a grating; they take exercise in a high-walled garden; when they die they are buried in the convent cemetery. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
'Let's get out of sight of the house,' said Peter; and they went into the high-walled garden and sat down on one of Miss Abingdon's cheerful-looking white seats. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
For more than 17 years, the satellite dishes topping his high-walled luxury villa in northern Cyprus have been Asil Nadir's only connection with the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [Asil Nadir's return to UK fuelled by 'homesickness' and tax run-in] Reference
Secure an area, preferably within a high-walled region to keep bears and other predators away. From Wordnik.com. [Brunmarde.com] Reference
It stood in a high-walled garden, which was entered through heavy iron-barred gates, one of them now open. From Wordnik.com. [Denzil Quarrier] Reference
Presently it opened out into a beautiful V - shaped gulch, very different from the high-walled, shut-in canons. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
But as my brother and I walked away, between the high-walled gardens, back to the school, the first shadow fell. From Wordnik.com. [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference
We were getting ready to leave when suddenly four furry hats walked into the high-walled fence of the half-occupied duplex. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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