Parapet
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He was so startled that he nearlyfell and shrank back as far as the granite
parapet
.
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Why was I sticking my head above the
parapet?
The best homage to the UN’s 75 years, and to the constructive spirit of the peace factory’s first diplomats, would be to turn the organization into a reliable
parapet
from which to face the convulsions we can keep expecting in the twenty-first century.
The
parapet
of this wall, to secure which M. de Renal was obliged to make three journeys to Paris, for the Minister of the Interior before last had sworn a deadly enmity to the Verrieres avenue; the
parapet
of this wall now rises four feet above the ground.
The eldest, who might be about eleven, was continually running to the
parapet
as though about to climb on top.
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