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As Robert Frost once put it: Before I built a wall I'd asked to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Titus was walling against a wall; turning upon the Jews that same thing which they had reared against him.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
We had much ado to escape being thrust into the deep lane the bank was walling.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.
From North of Boston by Robert Frost
