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Great Wall
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    They called it the Great Wall.  (source)
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    So on the first Saturday of October, after a week when Mr. McElroy had had enough of the Russian hordes and had probably run out of pinging filmstrips anyway and so we were now headed across the Great Wall into China, and a week when Mrs. Verne finally did call on me when I had my hand up and when I answered right —not to brag—that it was negative x and not negative y, and a week when I had snuck over to the Shirts team again and Coach Reed couldn't figure out why his platoon system wasn't working and how someone was pulling some funny business o  (source)
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    He'd gone to Beijing on a bankers' delegation and walked the Great Wall.  (source)
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    Is the Great Wall of China neat?  (source)
    Great Wall = an ancient fortification of walls built across northern China
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    I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.  (source)
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    I want to walk on the Great Wall of China.  (source)
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    They'd go to China and take a nice long stroll along that Great Wall.  (source)
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    "I'll give anybody in this car five dollars," Heinrich said through his protective mask, "if you can tell me whether more people died building the pyramids in Egypt or building the Great Wall of China—and you have to say how many died in each place, within fifty people."  (source)
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    After Tian an men Square we visit the Ming tombs, then drive out to watch the sunset from the Great Wall.  (source)
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    England was cautioned that impact north of Dover Straits opposite London Estuary would cause disturbances far up Thames; Sovunion was given warning for Sea of Azov and had own grid defined; Great China was assigned grid in Siberia, Gobi Desert, and her far west—with offsets to avoid her historic Great Wall noted in loving detail.  (source)
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    "Wouldn't it be nice to see the Great Wall one day?" my second brother, Cunyuan, had said.  (source)
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    This life in the shadow of the great wall was not the life Wang Lung loved.  (source)
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    So, Richard said there was an end of it, and immediately began, on no other foundation, to build as many castles in the air as would man the Great Wall of China.  (source)
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    His back was a great wall of black flesh, and I saw a cruel scar on one shoulder.  (source)
    great wall = large wall
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    Before long they saw in the distance the towers and flags of Dictionopolis sparkling in the sunshine, and in a few moments they reached the great wall and stood at the gateway to the city.  (source)
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    In moments we were carried downstream past the piers of Freniere and Pointe du Lac and then, as I could see the great wall of cottonwood and cypress growing green out of the darkness along the shore, I knew it was almost morning.  (source)
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    Those who had forgotten to snuff their candles did so, and they started out again, this time on pure snow that ascended in an incredibly steep hump to a great wall of rock.  (source)
    great wall = large wall
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    But beyond the jungle, at a distance that must have been at least fifty kilometres, a line of mountains ran like a great wall out of sight to north and south.  (source)
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    And so there grew up a great wall between the scholars and the people.  (source)
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    It towered above us, a great wall of granite that would have caused a mountain goat to back off.  (source)
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    But as these ranges approached one another, being indeed but parts of one great wall about the mournful plains of Lithlad and of Gorgoroth, and the bitter inland sea of Nurnen amidmost, they swung out long arms northward; and between these arms there was a deep defile.  (source)
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    It was built of unmortared stones, like the great wall of the keep, and the moonlight came through its single unglazed window to fall on the stone altar.  (source)
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    ...the convicts at Marseille piling rotting corpses into pits; the building of the Great Wall in Provence to fend off the furious plague-wind;  (source)
    Great Wall = the Plague Wall, also known as the "Mur de la Peste," was a 27 kilometer wall constructed in southeastern France between 1720 and 1722 to prevent the spreading of a plague
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    The flat and endless Pacific rose like a great wall around us.  (source)
    great wall = large wall
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    Standing in front of it, I can see the moonlit back lawn, the gardens, the chapel on the hill, and a great wall of trees.  (source)
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    The last great wall of the hills lay stark above him.  (source)
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