Fences

Examples

• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was open for about an hour's ride, and after that it was cut across by various farms and fences. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What might be called a raft-bridge was soon constructed from material obtained from wooden buildings, stables, fences, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They show their real vitality by a relentless growth in spite of all the little fences and obstacles that foolish politicians devise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In a farm where all the necessary buildings, fences, drains, communications, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In _wire-working_ great advances have been made in machines for making _barbed wire fences_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the construction of long wire fences provision must be made for tightening the wire in summer, otherwise great sagging would occur. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As for you, Chettam, you are spending a fortune on those oak fences round your demesne. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Habitations, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, children, and the soil that bore them--all worn out. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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