Randall begins with an account of his own sleep problems, which include laughing, humming, grunting, bouncing, kicking, and, on at least one occasion, sleep-walking into a wall.

NEWYORKER: Up All Night

When he had finished, the publisher lit a cigarette and paced up and down the office for a long time in silence, walking from one wall to the other, a distance of barely three yards.

NEWYORKER: ?lvaro Rousselot��s Journey

From making the Statue of Liberty disappear, walking right through the Great Wall of China to levitating over the Grand Canyon, Copperfield is constantly redefining the realms of possibility.

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Warren stopped walking and backed up flat against the wall.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

She and her mother Lindsay and brother Wilson had been to nearby shops to buy sugar so they could bake, and Meg was walking just behind her mother as the wall failed.

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He had foreseen mobile telecoms, iPods, wall-to-wall TV, talking trains and pedestrians arrested for walking the streets at night, but none of it was meant to spread unhappiness.

ECONOMIST: Ray Bradbury

As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.

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Pope Benedict insisted on beginning his emotional visit by walking alone under the infamous sign and saying a prayer in front of the reconstruction of the execution wall where Nazis lined up and shot thousands of prisoners.

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Mr Roe was walking home from a night out and walked past his ex girlfriend's house and sat on the wall outside.

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