Word: walls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...STOOD upon the fallen and crumbling wall...
...stumbled off the wall...
...with one of our oldest buildings, that it would be a pleasant and interesting custom if each occupant of a room were to inscribe his name, with some appropriate legend, on a tablet of some kind, when leaving it. These tablets might be kept under glass, on some convenient wall of the room, and, at a future time, might be very interesting. At Oxford is still shown, with pride, the autograph of Addison, rudely carved on a wall; and we hope that no one is so Nation-tinged in mind as to say that we are to produce no more...
Lying beneath the farther wall...
...first place, Barker's hotel was set on fire and burnt to ashes, the Sophomoric ruffians howling with demoniacal glee as each massive wall of the noble structure tottered, crumbled, and fell before the insatiate rage and devouring ferocity of the exultant fire-fiend...