It would only be fit-ting that great horrors, great marvels, or both should lie behind such walls.
This is a point of some pride in Nuln where the bridge is seen as one of the great marvels of the Old World.
It's true, Tanzania is a place of great marvels - Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar.
The birth pains of a city--even a capital city--one of the great marvels of nature, so Questor supposed.
Its truly great marvels are the mosaics on the interior walls of its early medieval (fifth to seventh century) monuments.
The Sandhills are one of the nation's great if underappreciated marvels, and comprise some 20,000 square miles of Nebraska, or more than one-quarter of the state.
The engineers who built some of the world's great marvels, Parthenons of concrete and steel, and made the desert bloom, must resign themselves to tinkering with the system.
The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels, and the monkey as he listened grew more and more gloomy.
"I have seen," said he, "great marvels that no tongue can tell, and more than any heart can think."
Niagara Falls is one of the great marvels of the natural world.