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The desert country through which he travelled, and of which we also saw something in coming to this place, he called "a little Arabia shut in by stern, Heaven-built walls of rock."
Caroline C. Leighton - Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

They are more ancient than the Roman Church itself. They have come down to us from the world before the papal flood, bearing in their heaven-built and heaven-guarded ark the sacred oracles; and now they stand before us as a witness to the historic truth of Christianity, and a living copy, in doctrine, in government, and in manners, of the Church of the Apostles.
James Aitken Wylie - Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber: Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge

Moreover let the heralds tell it about the city that the growing youths and grey-bearded men are to camp upon its heaven-built walls. Let the women each of them light a great fire in her house, and let watch be safely kept lest the town be entered by surprise while the host is outside.
Homer - The Iliad
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