A ten-foot-high graystone wall effectively kept out the outside world. From Wordnik.com. [Along Came a Spider]
She was going over the concertina wire of the ten-foot-high perimeter fence. From Wordnik.com. [When the Wind Blows]
Remo vaulted over the ten-foot-high brass gates and walked around to the back. From Wordnik.com. [Last Drop]
Then there was the ten-foot-high fence ringing the yard and topped with coils of barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Victim]
"Trust the Glods, kid," Remo said, and vaulted over the ten-foot-high fence out of the compound. From Wordnik.com. [Last Drop]
Farther up the reservoir bank was a ten-foot-high chain-link fence that girded the entire shoreline. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
Fifty feet above me, a short and steep gully of loose rockfall debris ended in a ten-foot-high roof. From Wordnik.com. [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference
He saw little but the eight - to ten-foot-high walls of the banks and, beyond, the nearly barren hills. From Wordnik.com. [Temple of the Winds]
You can't fit 200 guests, strippers, a four-star kitchen, and a ten-foot-high ice sculpture on a helicopter. From Wordnik.com. [Stanton Peele: Government-Media-Corporate Mantra: Only the Little People Worry About Money] Reference
The house he was looking for stood well back from the road, behind a ten-foot-high serpentine red-brick wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
Through the windshield I saw a ten-foot-high cyclone fence with three barbed-wire strands over the top of it. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Not A Psychic!] Reference
We eventually come out to a stretch of beach rimmed with eight - and ten-foot-high dunes and waving sea grass. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
The right side of the building was surrounded by a paved parking lot enclosed by a ten-foot-high chain-link fence. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Ice]
This anti-choice/abortion group produces semi trucks with VERY graphic, ten-foot-high images of dead fetuses on the sides. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 11, 2005 - September 17, 2005 Archives] Reference
The parking lot is Brooklyn south ... about an acre of second-rate blacktop surrounded by ten-foot-high chain-link fencing. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
Now, however, she stared at the high wall and at the ten-foot-high mural that stretched the full sixty-foot width of the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
A ten-foot-high wooden crate was braced in its bed, and a scruffy-looking man, presumably the driver, was prying the crate open. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Death]
Stepping out from between two ten-foot-high blades, he turned to confront them, sharp-eyed and unafraid despite his small stature. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
A wall of alders and willows lined one side of the river, on the other, sod sloughed into the water from a ten-foot-high embankment. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenth Circle]
Off we set -- first by a narrow path, thick on each side with scented violets, and closed in with the usual ten-foot-high cane fence. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Only a ten-foot-high beacon stood on the barren rock, useful in fog to guide ships around the island into the channels on either side. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead House] Reference
In the center was the eight-sided cage, with the ten-foot-high cyclone fencing that has become standard for Mixed Martial Arts contests. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Not A Psychic!] Reference
Somewhere near East Jerusalem, “CTRL + ALT + DELETE” was scrawled in ten-foot-high letters, as if cosmic reboot were the only solution. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
As the car approached, the shapes resolved themselves into the pointed bars of a wrought-iron gate, set in a ten-foot-high wall of moss-covered bricks. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Finally, after two weeks of asking and being told to get lost, I got to a house with ten-foot-high walls, and a cage of iron grilles around each window. From Wordnik.com. [THE WHITE TIGER] Reference
I opened the door that leads from the courtyard to my backyard and saw that fifteen yards of ten-foot-high brick wall had fallen over into my neighbors yard. From Wordnik.com. [Adjusting to life in Mexico: patience, acceptance and charity] Reference
Designed by architect I.M. Pei, the two Presidential Suites at the Four Seasons Hotel are 1,500 square feet each, with ten-foot-high, floor-to-ceiling windows. From Wordnik.com. [Most Expensive Hotel Rooms, U.S. ...] Reference
Tank commanders responsible for pushing down the ten-foot-high wire gates were kissed shamelessly by jubilant screaming men with tears streaming down their cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Jeffers)] Reference
I'm planting annuals, salvia, petunias, lobelia, and dusty miller, in a long built-in planter at the top of a ten-foot-high brick wall on the side of a long driveway. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Goddess for Hire] Reference
Morocco/Western Sahara: Known as "The Wall of Shame," these ten-foot-high sand and stone barriers, some mined, run for at least 1,500 miles through the Western Sahara. From Wordnik.com. [Security Fences] Reference
A grand balcony with a copper top was imported from the U.S. There is a games and playroom for their children and a ten-foot-high security fence to keep the paparazzi out. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Homes Of U.S. Celebrities ©...] Reference
Daily, we face a smorgasbord of news items that make us feel not only like we are backed up against a brick wall, but that the ten-foot-high wall encircles us, and is closing in. From Wordnik.com. [A CALL TO ARMS! Reaching Toward Quantum Politics] Reference
Two of the hotels had below-street-level barbershops, and at the curb before each stood ten-foot-high wooden barber poles striped red-and-white and surmounted by great gilt balls. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
ADVERTISEMENT ten-foot-high gate after the accident before collapsing. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He made a little motion with his hand and they came running, to leap up beside him on the ten-foot-high wall. From Wordnik.com. [Space Prison] Reference
"a ten-foot-high iron wall, watched by armed guards," just north of the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org] Reference
Harman stared in each ten-foot-high holding tank. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
More gable-ends, now painted with ten-foot-high Williams of Orange riding twenty-foot-high white horses. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
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