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  • The bright metallic surfaces and light we would be blinded to, protected from, walled-up against.

    Lesson from the First Semester in Bogota « Unknowing 2010

  • Turns out some hotel rooms need a UV sweep -- some just deserve to be walled-up and forgotten about.

    Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Mali Elfman on Do Not Disturb Dan Persons 2011

  • Turns out some hotel rooms need a UV sweep -- some just deserve to be walled-up and forgotten about.

    Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Mali Elfman on Do Not Disturb Dan Persons 2011

  • And next to the pillar was the walled-up gate, its bricks a shade different from the rest of the interior wall.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

  • Knowing something of Poe's work before you enter the theatre would be useful if you want to catch the references to beating hearts, walled-up kittens and fears of being buried alive.

    Nevermore 2010

  • My walled-up heart has convulsed, cracked, gaped open to admit Marcus Antonius, the wedge that did it his own love for me.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • In that walled-up space I will let everything grow in wild abandon.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Before it, were two iron helmets, with breast-pieces: made to close up tight and smooth upon the heads of living sufferers; and fastened on to each, was a small knob or anvil, where the directing devil could repose his elbow at his ease, and listen, near the walled-up ear, to the lamentations and confessions of the wretch within.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • My walled-up heart has convulsed, cracked, gaped open to admit Marcus Antonius, the wedge that did it his own love for me.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving.

    Stress Positions 2004

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