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Great Wall

noun

  1. astronomy a vast sheet of many thousands of gravitationally associated galaxies detected in the universe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Then there was that time in October he was carried up the Great Wall of China.

Because there was an Instagram photo of him being carried up the Great Wall of China.

It all began with one infamous performance: The Great Wall Walk.

In 1988, performance artist Marina Abramović started at the East end of The Great Wall of China and began walking west.

Now, as we know all too well, those walls are as effective as the Great Wall of China is in keeping the world at bay.

A great wall runs through the centre, dividing the long-term from the short-term prisoners.

Its ramparts are of stone, and its north rampart coincides with the great wall of Hadrian.

It was that evening I first heard the chant of the missionary brothers from over the great wall.

Others ran along the great wall, like tigers along their cage bars, as if feeling for an opening.

The great wall of High Fell, toward which she was walking, seemed to shelter her from its worst violence.

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