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Suddenly, halfway across the eerie water-walled canyon, their chariot wheels started veering left and right, chaos broke out, and the walls collapsed.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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Suddenly, halfway across the eerie water-walled canyon, their chariot wheels started veering left and right, chaos broke out, and the walls collapsed.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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She took his offered hand and stood up, looking around the water-walled chamber they were in.
Loving the Highlander Janet Chapman 2003
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She took his offered hand and stood up, looking around the water-walled chamber they were in.
Loving the Highlander Janet Chapman 2003
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England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure And confident from foreign purposes.
India and the Empire 1920
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England from Pope or Spaniard, its safety within its "water-walled bulwark," if only its national union was secure.
History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860
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There are no water-pipes or cisterns in this city such as we have, but men go about as they do in Paris, with huge water-butts, supplying each house daily; for although a broad river (so called) runs on each side of this water-walled city, the one -- the East
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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That water-walled bulwark, 'flill fecurc And confident from foreign purpofes,'
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773
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