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Fitful sunshine slid through the cloud breaks to highlight a handful of stone-walled pastures, but the atmosphere was fairly grim; rain threatened on the chill wind.
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A short, stiff climb up the opposite slope brought me across more stone-walled pastures punctuated with molehills but these were beyond the border of the farm-wife's empire.
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In exchange for making a donation to a hospital on nearby St. Vincent, Jigsaw fashion moguls John and Belle Robinson waved the usual $14,000 weekly rental fee and lent the couple Villa Hibiscus, their stone-walled hilltop estate overlooking Macaroni Beach.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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It was the Democratic lawmakers that gave the recent increases to the GI Bill which had previously been repeatedly blocked and stone-walled by the Republican lawmakers.
First on the Ticker: DNC ad: GOP 'playing politics with our troops' 2009
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Expect parades, concerts, fireworks and a running of the bulls through the cobblestone and stone-walled streets.
Terri Colby: Visiting The Ancient Skyscrapers Of Cuenca, Spain Terri Colby 2011
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The worst Thai-Cambodian fighting in years spread Tuesday to a third stone-walled temple, as the neighbors exchanged artillery fire in border clashes that have killed 13 soldiers and displaced 50,000 villagers.
What's News— 2011
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In exchange for making a donation to a hospital on nearby St. Vincent, Jigsaw fashion moguls John and Belle Robinson waved the usual $14,000 weekly rental fee and lent the couple Villa Hibiscus, their stone-walled hilltop estate overlooking Macaroni Beach.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Heading to the courts is probably for the best, since any attempt to put the issue in front of the voters will be stone-walled by Christie (despite his rhetoric that the issue should be put in front of the voters).
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I should follow these other convicts out, endure the hell of inquisition they endured, and be brought back a wreck and flung on the stone floor of my stone-walled, iron-doored dungeon.
Chapter 4 2010
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He stone-walled everything that the Congress wanted to do because it was run by Democrats.
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