1.   The wall stood twenty yards back from the road.

2.   At the time, the Berlin wall was still standing and the cold war still dominated politics.

3.   But the Greek Revival walls stand as monuments to the way New Yorkers once viewed themselves and the democracy they helped build.

4.   In his bedroom, where a plain white wall stood before, mountains loom.

5.   Its cream-colored walls stand in contrast to the red brick of the housing projects that sit nearby.

6.   Its outer walls stand for the mountains at the edge of the earth.

7.   Its walls still stood the next morning, but the roof had collapsed in smoldering heaps and the stained-glass windows had melted and exploded in the heat.

8.   Just to the east of where the wall stood, the area called Mitte is still very much a construction site.

9.   Mullinix reckoned that some investors would take a hundred-year bet on the institution whose ivy-covered walls have stood well beyond a century.

10.   Only the rock walls were left standing.