• Of course it is, he told himself, sitting down on an old wooden bench against the wall of the station, preparing to kill some time.

    NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

  • And Zhizhi's town had a double wooden palisade outside its wall a type of fortification he said was often used by Romans and not by the Huns.

    ECONOMIST: So it's said, anyway

  • She squeals with delight when she sees the plastic-covered sofa and the wooden spoons hanging on the wall.

    NEWYORKER: Miss Lora

  • The Catholic and Protestant sectors of Belfast are still separated by an ugly wall reminiscent of a wooden fence in a ramshackle baseball park.

    FORBES: The Way We'll Be

  • It also said there was damage to wall and ceiling plaster and wooden panelling inside.

    BBC: The Hind Hotel in Wellingborough applies for repair grant

  • At about 11:00, she was found trapped by the neck between the wall and roof of a wooden play house.

    BBC: Rhiya Malin death: Trial of Eton Manor workers starts

  • Knocked the big wooden spoon she had tacked up on the wall to the floor.

    NEWYORKER: The Pura Principle

  • Once, he remembered, a boy in the room next door was thrown against the classroom wall, and he watched the blackboard on his side of the wall come off its hinges and fall to the wooden floor.

    NEWYORKER: Teaching

  • Kissa Sakaiki, located in the Shinjuku district, pays homage to the past by requiring visitors to remove their shoes upon entrance and displaying a wooden chest filled with a vast collection of vintage matchbooks from old jazz kissa along the back wall.

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  • Off to his right, beyond a wooden gate, dozens of stuffed animals and toy cars were stacked neatly on shelves lining the wall, held up as special rewards rather than put out every day as objects for play and learning.

    FORBES: Adopting a Crusade

  • Well, on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal did its part by running a story about how U.S. producers of wooden bedroom furniture have been extorting cash from their Chinese competition in exchange for dropping pursuit of even higher antidumping duty rates at the Commerce Department.

    FORBES: Tomatoes, Furniture, and Shrimp: Is Extortion the Main Purpose of the Antidumping Law?

  • In the sun room, for example, where Mr. Ye kept the traditional blue-gray-black wall paintings, the workers decided to save money by using plastic in the ceiling blinds instead of the wooden slats Mr. Ye had requested.

    WSJ: Inside the Home and Studio of Ye Yongqing

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