Sentence examples for the ancient wall from inspiring English sources

She was a girl gripping her grandmother's hand when the ancient wall around Beijing was demolished.

Next door are the ruins of the ancient Wall of Dubai (12), a 600m stretch of gypsum and coral stone that encircled the city in the 1800s.

"Look at this — this is the east end of the palace," he said, slapping the ancient wall that also served as a wall of the bar.

Six large banners of various shapes were pinned to the other side of the ancient wall, depicting the government's "martyrs," including one of a member of the Shiite Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside Assad's troops.

Even as the Camorra preys on the beauty of its surroundings, and its corrupting presence threatens the ancient wall paintings of Pompeii with destruction, its thieves and killers bow down before the mystique of art.

In 1963, before the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was completed, three building stones were chiselled out of the ancient wall of the castle and carried to New York, where they were cemented into the dedicatory monument on the Staten Island side of the bridge.

They were, basically, townies — the kids on the other side of the ancient walls.

Mr. Benaissa, the mayor since 1983, has restricted development inside the ancient walls.

They were, basically, townies the kids on the other side of the ancient walls.

Several alcoves in the ancient walls contain offerings and prayers left recently by the faithful.

On several occasions, Li received a rare disposition to lecture inside the ancient walls of the Forbidden City, in Beijing.