dead wall

But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it.

With her mind she could feel the dead wall of the locksheets.

But here again, the absence of motive brings me up against a dead wall.

The wall remains the same, though playing with dead walls depends on the variation and the players.

If he took a dead wall in his walk, it would be alive with reproaches.

Ryeland felt as though the dead walls around him were closing in.

Now, we face blank, dead walls that eliminate any connection to the areas we're passing through.

I hate him," Snish said after staring at the dead wall screen a moment. "

Spacer blocks provide extra insulation by filling dead wall space.

Opposite rose the blank wall of the factory, a dead wall with no windows in it.

In plenty of occasions, a hand ends with all tiles drawn and the 14-tiles in the dead wall remain.

His teacher made diligent inquiry which always ended against the dead wall of an Indian, "No savvy."

There was only a dead wall.

By the side of the dead wall which bounded the College Park, the sounds followed, recommencing almost simultaneously with his own steps.

It is for want of realizing this idea that speculation, concerned with physical evolution, is so constantly finding itself stopped by dead walls.

And now--every afternoon at four--I come to a dead wall.

To the credit of the designer of this redo, every seat has a pleasant prospect; no diner faces dead wall space here.

Straightway, all the papers were filled with her name, and all the dead walls flamed with it.

Now he found himself struggling amid an ashen-dry, cold world of rigidity, dead walls and mechanical traffic, and creeping, spectre-like people.

Miranda had decorated the dead walls of her own stage with posters and photos of role models, largely actresses from twentieth-century passives.

Many are the honest, aspiring Souls now raising themselves like a dead wall against the torrent of the muddy waters of Materialism.

It adjoins the Bridewell at Tothill Fields, and is approached by a gate in the centre of what appears a long dead wall.

But where Mr. Thurston came to a halt in front of a dead wall, Scovill's scheming mind saw the loophole.

This pronouncement brings us to one of the reasons we like Lu Shane's, as might any diner who has been assigned a place facing a dead wall.

Once again I had reached that dead wall which seemed to be built across every path by which I tried to get at the object of my mission.