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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translations ? wall in vt sep → mit einer Mauer/von Mauern umgeben; walled in on all sides by bodyguards → auf allen Seiten von Leibwächtern abgeriegelt or eingeschlossen How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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wall in - enclose with a wall