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wall in

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Verb1.wall inwall in - enclose with a wall                  
brick in, brick over, brick up - wall up with brick
inclose, shut in, close in, enclose - surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence"
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vt sepmit einer Mauer/von Mauern umgeben; walled in on all sides by bodyguardsauf allen Seiten von Leibwächtern abgeriegelt or eingeschlossen


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Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I did it out of pure spite at the vicious thing.
This capacity in bees of laying down under certain circumstances a rough wall in its proper place between two just-commenced cells, is important, as it bears on a fact, which seems at first quite subversive of the foregoing theory; namely, that the cells on the extreme margin of wasp-combs are sometimes strictly hexagonal; but I have not space here to enter on this subject.
The fact that I live in the kitchen merely means that I live behind the partition wall in that apartment--that I live quite alone, and spend my time in a quiet fashion compounded of trifles.
 
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