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    fence


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    1. solid wooden stock fence, and a straight run up to the house lined on the right with


    2. He tumbles and flips in the dirt before stopping near a fence


    3. Bolt pushes along the fence row, snapping pictures as he walks of rocks, an acacia tree covered with windblown plastic bags, his shoe, a pile of garbage rotting in the sun, a dead sheep rotting in the sun


    4. ” He slips through the hole in the fence, snapping pictures as he walks


    5. He bends to pick up a long stick and starts beating idly at the nettles standing harmlessly along the fence line


    6. One would then run some thongga to clean up what the karga wouldn't eat, or, if you had a fence, lentosaur, a better tasting animal but slow and soft and vulnerable to predators on the open prairie


    7. Native years whizzed by like fence posts on the side of the road


    8. Nothing caught his eye as being suitable, but there was a sign, faded and hanging at an angle because one of the cable ties holding it to a chain link fence had snapped


    9. “Near that fence where those animals are” said Cosmicblasto


    10. Fred put the shotgun against the fence

    11. but over by the far chain fence


    12. All my options were cut off by a broken down fence that stretched between me and the almost hidden shack


    13. ' On the table was a snap of Pantelis with me sitting next to him on the fence in front of their cottage in Cornwall


    14. The whole mountain was a garden and its very inaccessibility was its garden fence


    15. Soon after the hospital fence would be made to stand solid and ten feet high


    16. They had come to the garden fence


    17. They were all visible thru the mouth of Yoonbarla Vale from here at the garden fence on the edge of Desa’s patio


    18. There is a sudden clatter which makes us all jump – Treacle has jumped over the fence and come to join us


    19. The heavy bullring fence was set up and vendors were already setting up tents all around the other side of the courtyard


    20. electrified fence, it receives a slight shock

    21. Not long after the first electric cattle fence was installed,


    22. took hold of the fence, it was a shocking experience


    23. onto the fence grabbed hold of another boy, suddenly


    24. who grew up on a farm with an electric fence will


    25. There are still some flagstones remaining round the edges and a pile of them heaped up haphazardly against the fence


    26. “If she does, she’ll be late, and she’ll keep one hand on the fence gate while she eats and watches over her shoulder


    27. Beyond the fence, there were a slightly ramshackle collection of


    28. As he looked through the fence, Tom could see the usual military


    29. He found Harry dutifully finishing the white washing of the fence pickets at the far side of the Lodge grounds


    30. The wire-mesh fence which once prevented lost balls

    31. had long since removed, but the metal fence supports were still


    32. Tania and Poly made a simultaneous grab and leap, a little like lifting horizontal fence planks actually but exponentially quicker, their hands grasped the ends of the pole and they used it as a trapeze to vault over Harry head, never letting loose of the pole


    33. At the back of the traveller’s hotel at Roundswell, across a thin strip of grass and beyond a six foot high chain link fence, beyond a car park full of new model Peugeots waiting for eager buyers, the dark hulls of low rise industrial units lie at anchor


    34. Alex is a couple of metres further down the lane towards the farm house, crouched down by the fence


    35. The doctor makes a quick decision, floors the accelerator and points the car at the fence line


    36. She lets out a squeal, and then screams as she realises that they are heading straight for the fence


    37. Helen's arm snags in the steering wheel spokes and as she falls back into her seat the wheel is yanked to the left, hauling the car away from the anonymous body by the fence


    38. The drive itself is relatively long, running from the road to level with the back of the house where there is a fence dividing the drive from the back yard where I have a washing line and small shed, but the drive is not very wide and I have become adept at positioning the car in just the right place so I have room to get out without having to clamber through the hedge which separates this property from Sally’s


    39. Billy uses the fence to haul himself upright, wincing as he feels the bruise at the base of his spine bite and swell


    40. The place is a mess of broken fence rails and overgrown hedgerows

    41. across it; a green bollard fence, stuck firmly in the ground, just standing here out in the middle of nowhere


    42. Loretta threw caution to the wind, and touched the green bollard fence; she then vanished in a flash of light!


    43. standing before the three women, was a green bollard fence


    44. green bollard fence standing out in the middle of nowhere


    45. “That's strange; what's a random green bollard fence doing out here in the


    46. stepped closer to the green bollard fence


    47. hold of the green bollard fence


    48. When they had completely run out of fence, they resumed their walk on the roadway, with Harry calling 'Switch sides' at every odd moment or so


    49. And so it continued, when they reached that stretch of fence going or coming, they moved off the roadway and ducked back and forth beneath it until the end of it, then back to the roadway as if nothing had interrupted their progress whatsoever


    50. He commended their efforts and reminded them that after the porch, they would need to repair and repaint the garden fence








































    1. their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city


    2. watchmen to the fenced city


    3. Herndon had used a little technology and a bit of money to establish this ranch farther into the chaparral than any other fenced operation, but tried hard not to upset the social or economic fabric of the area by encroaching too much on the open prairie


    4. Fenced crops extended about five hundred yards from the village and quite a few kedas lounged about in the shade


    5. Outside of the abbey, in a pantechnicon in a fenced off area, the


    6. fenced camp Tom had once mistaken for an Army base


    7. that the command post was within the fenced encampment near the


    8. Running left to right the entire area was fenced in with steel reinforced concrete blast panels


    9. The walk-in entrance, a simple chicken wire fenced door


    10. Through the glass she could see the little fenced off back garden with what looked like neat rows of low bushes and beyond that, the backs of a row of council houses which hadn't been there on her last visit

    11. On the other side of the farmhouses were stonewalled fences that held thousands of sheep and goats, a herd of cows, and three large chicken coops fenced off with meshed wire


    12. Slung over Op14's shoulder Gerrid was carried unimpeded through walls of the compound towards the fenced perimeter, without any sign of detection


    13. She hit the ground disgusted and went to share her story with the rest of the gossiping hens in the fenced in yard


    14. They were tired, so they locked me into a fenced paddock with tall wooden walls taller than I


    15. I fenced in about two and a half acres, built her a dog run, shelter for the horses, and a riding arena


    16. He turned the horse loose in a small fenced pasture behind the house, after unhitching her from the wagon in a shed that seemed to have been made to hold a carriage


    17. Kwonowski donned his overcoat and led Colling out into a fenced yard behind the shop


    18. 7 But the man who shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the


    19. 2 Now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced


    20. all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city

    21. 8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza, and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city


    22. should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps


    23. 5 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; 6 And Baalath, and


    24. which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities


    25. dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, to every fenced city, and he gave them victual in


    26. 19 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all


    27. the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, 6 And said to the judges, Take heed what you do, for you judge not for man, but for the Lord,


    28. things, with fenced cities in Judah, but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn


    29. fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself


    30. a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah

    31. 11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and has fenced me with bones and sinews


    32. 8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths


    33. lifted up, 15 And on every high tower, and on every fenced wall, 16 And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all pleasant pictures


    34. hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and


    35. crowd had gathered around the fenced perimeter of its base


    36. and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited


    37. throw up a mount, and take the most fenced cities, and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither


    38. forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities, but I will send a fire on his cities, and it shall devour


    39. holds in Judea, and fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up victuals in it


    40. strong city, which was fenced about with walls, and inhabited by people of various countries; and the name of it was Caspis

    41. settlers came to the region and fenced in open range land


    42. 42 And when they had come to the border of Egypt, the king's horse passed into a narrow place, elevated in the hollow part of the vineyard, fenced on both sides, the low, plain country being on the other side


    43. For the puppy's destiny lies at the end of the street, where a massive scar-pitted pitbull is pacing up and down a fenced enclosure


    44. 5 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many


    45. 1 Hear, O Israel: you are to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,


    46. 52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you


    47. 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities


    48. 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced, if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said


    49. 35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,


    50. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said














































    1. The fields are grown over with weeds, the farmhouse is falling apart, and the fences are collapsing all around


    2. He was told these plains are safe for fences because there are no kranjans


    3. He was told kranjans will flatten fences the way a landslide will


    4. It could be that fences had decayed along here, that was very possible


    5. In our village at home, gardens and fences separate one home from the other while here in Sophia there were no such divisions


    6. The base itself was surrounded by high wire fences, topped with


    7. Houses give way to fields, to the high banked hedgerows of the rural Devon landscape, to broken down fences and dilapidated field gates


    8. Each had its own little yard, surrounded and separated by white picket fences


    9. stadium was filled, and the crowd overflowed down the fences of both foul lines


    10. This fence had been constructed from material pillaged from fences in the interior of the walled area, Then it was fortified with earthen embankments and had a walkway six foot up to provide sentries with a good vantage point from which to see and to fire

    11. The side streets were lined with fences, many of which were heavy with the blooms of yoolin and margotty


    12. Everything was so choked with vines it was hard to tell where the fences ended and the houses began


    13. The sprays of flowers on the fences and hedges that lined the path seemed dedicated to the grief she felt


    14. Nate continued his aimless stroll, noting that all of the sidewalks and roads were clear of snow, the signs all polished and the fences newly painted


    15. In a farm where all the necessary buildings, fences, drains, communications, etc


    16. white picket fences of their home


    17. Despite the fences, the cameras and the odd passing army truck, the place seemed quite empty, deserted even


    18. "After what happened with Mom, we started putting up perimeter fences


    19. As far as he could see, there was no security: no fences, no protection fields that his scanner could detect


    20. drinking, vaulting the fences in their own version of the Grand National and leaving a trail of litter and slightly damaged plants, but judging the

    21. On the other side of the farmhouses were stonewalled fences that held thousands of sheep and goats, a herd of cows, and three large chicken coops fenced off with meshed wire


    22. Solid walls and high fences made the building look sterile and unfriendly


    23. A double row of five metre tall electric fences stood before a towering brick wall, watchtowers dotted at fifty metre intervals, guards sitting armed and alert, observing everything before them


    24. Barbed wire fences barred the way, but Lieutenant Wise, of Military Kite fame, and other officers smashed the posts with logs


    25. Dawn rubbed her aching thighs, watching her friend jump the pony over some low fences on the far side of the field


    26. All camps were surrounded by wire fences and sand bags with machine gun posts strategically placed


    27. I was checking the fences in the bottom field when the commotion started


    28. We were walking the fields, checking for broken fences, when Uncle Hobart raised his stick, pointing at the old tumbledown building on the edge of the field


    29. "Yer really should 'ave fixed them fences, yer know," he told me


    30. I just wonder if mending fences with Sylvia is going to include Mike, because I’m not so sure that I want it to

    31. Anyway; the cops were coming, sirens going full tilt, so he ran around behind the building, jumped a couple of fences and hid in the long grass…”


    32. Cautiously leaving the safety of the fences they roamed out across the lush grass again, heads down as they grazed


    33. He then crossed several gardens climbing their fences before he was parallel to where the men in their cars were


    34. However, all that bullshit on the phone paid off and we learned that Novorski was sponsoring the fair - a highly prestigious event considering the amount of vomit already visible - and had been scheduled to appear right about midnight, say a couple of words to the gathered crowd and then probably go back to counting cotton balls in his well-guarded warehouse complex, complete with electric fences, a minefield, and a piranha-filled moat, with trained alligators for guards, riding sharks armed with lasers and rocket jets


    35. Do you really want me to give a rat’s ass about the United States? Have you ever had a look at the US – Mexican border? They have enough fences, razor-ribbon, watch towers, attack dogs and armed Border Patrol agents deployed along there to make the Iron Curtain that divided Europe look like a playground enclosure


    36. Also, his Port Authority Police had humiliated the OIJ; perhaps to mend intradepartmental fences, he could offer Captain Flores, as the new OIJ director, the opportunity to arrest Michael when he arrived, keeping him completely out of the picture


    37. In fairness, neither the Presbytery of Glasgow nor the Kirk spokesmen in Edinburgh seemed to be in the mood to mend fences either


    38. Trim houses lined up behind unnatural green rectangles, bounded by fences


    39. Beyond the two fences is


    40. I cross the room and stand in front of the windows, staring at what we can see of the compound, which is just more of the same glass and steel, pavement and grass and fences

    41. We drive past the fences and stop by the front doors, which are no longer manned by guards


    42. Without the fences for me,


    43. all along the fences were watchtowers and machine guns trained on


    44. The fences anymore


    45. As he walked, trying to copy Korah’s aimless-looking saunter, he paced off and eyed the strength of the perimeter fences, all the while hoping to appear to be only wandering aimlessly around


    46. strength of the perimeter fences, all the while hoping to appear to be only wandering aimlessly


    47. It had some fences and tents


    48. The place had quickly set up fences surrounding it


    49. She said some of the heads of our clansmen hung on other fences


    50. stonewalls and old looking wood fences














































    1. It was worse than I'd imagined - tourism as a front for fencing loot


    2. rattling the wire fencing


    3. Their progress down the road to town was naturally retarded considerably for the length of the fencing


    4. The horses reared and bolted, taking their helpless driver and passengers careening into the fencing


    5. There’s wood fencing and cars parked against it


    6. The machines coughed and spluttered, then surged into life, roaring and screeching they ambled forward taking the Clothiers fencing down in one concerted hit, then thudded on through the grass paddocks towards Dort Valley crossroads


    7. I remember we used all the wire fencing at the local hardware store, and a few of the men had to run to town to get some more


    8. But this skill and dexterity in the use of their arms could be acquired only, in the same manner as fencing is at present, by practising, not in great bodies, but each man separately, in a particular school, under a particular master, or with his own particular equals and companions


    9. “A fencing expert?” Amaranthe knew little about the sport dueling the warrior caste practiced, except that enlisted soldiers had little respect for it


    10. This helped a lot to gain access to crime scenes, since all South African properties have fencing as high as eight feet, and we frequently needed to either climb over or go through it in order to find out what is happening on the other side

    11. Maldynado was supposedly leading a fencing practice, though copious amounts of chatter punctuated the clanks of metal


    12. Our more affluent houses look like Fort Knox with high walls and electric fencing


    13. "Firstly, we'd need six foot high fencing


    14. Connect the ends of the fencing wire to Band D


    15. A diesel engine roared to life – the boat! They were leaving? And Raul? He looped his fingers in the fencing and pulled himself up, hand over hand, his feet scrambling for a non-existent toehold


    16. It was bordered by an old, six foot, redwood fence, and had a chainlink gate that gave me an excellent view of the rear of the house and a detached garage that sat within the perimeter fencing


    17. His other friend was Mike Osman, an ex-public school pupil who had become quite a master at fencing and would prance around offering up a challenge to anyone when he wasn’t medicated


    18. This same spirit carried him on to join the fencing team which at that time also bore a stigma which he felt was invalid, and he strived to prove that it was a sport that required skill and concentration rivaling any other athletic competition


    19. At this late date they required his fencing talents in the Dramatic Club’s production of


    20. Enrolling in the alterate standard physical education class required, I met with another champion in one-on-one sports when I took fencing during what proved to be the short time I survived at Cornell

    21. As I mentioned earlier, I had taken up fencing at Cornell my freshman year


    22. The person who became my supervisor that summer was none other than my fencing coach, since he had worked in Europe as an inspector for the Michelin Guide Books


    23. “I only took the basic fencing lessons that were a standard part of our curriculum at school


    24. “Your sword work definitely qualifies as fencing, which is the best method for dealing with foes who aren’t wearing armor, or who are very quick


    25. “But realistically, those methods aren’t pertinent to these weapons,” Talia noted, “Since GrimFang can cut through any enemy’s weapons and armor with the slightest pressure, and is more than light enough to use with the fencing methods, despite its great size


    26. The compound, surrounded by barbed wire fencing,


    27. fencing for the front garden, they’d drive by in their cars and shout snide comments about it


    28. With a flick of his wrist, Nem could easily spin the blade in his palm from a fencing grip to a stabbing grip


    29. Barbed wire fencing ran along the road


    30. followed beside the truck on both sides of the driveway, separated from us by fencing;

    31. Is she still fencing? She was really good


    32. Other areas were cordoned off with neat fencing


    33. `She's beautiful, isn't she?' she asked as she put both her hands on the fencing


    34. I want the main entrance to be guarded twenty four hours a day, the perimeter will be fortified with barbed wire, there will be secondary fencing within a meter of the first fence and the gap in between will be covered with landmines


    35. 2 meters by maybe 6 meters with fencing around it and a roof, it was for the lads to use outside for smoking


    36. The glass is far too large to fit the window and Stef peers the other side of the piece of glass hoping to see more, he is disappointed as there are only a few weeds searching for sunlight in the gloom cast by the shed and the new fencing


    37. Suzy soon returns with an armload of moss covered branches and drops them down besides the barbed wire fencing


    38. Musab mostly enjoyed fencing and playing chess for recreation, but Siri was no player


    39. However, at fencing, he had become almost unbeatable


    40. Fencing, securing the livestock, guard dog/s, and motion

    41. population reduction, demonization, fencing, the railroad and


    42. The fencing of private lands and faster travel removed the


    43. I bought sixty feet of fencing and then had to decide on a configuration


    44. This choice has maximized the area for the fencing I bought


    45. Now Jason was fencing with him, thrust, a question, parry with an unhelpful answer


    46. Three runs of fencing would enclose it, a cave with an open-air run, right next to


    47. And ever since they’d moved in, she’d been thinking about fencing off the cliff,


    48. ‘Whew! Lot of fencing, hey? Cost a bit


    49. Folks, My fencing skills or knowledge weren’t much


    50. The hallway leading to the secure police-only back parking lot that was surrounded by barbed wire fencing and accessible only through an electronic gate that required a passkey was fairly deserted as the clock approached nine o’clock












































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    Synonyms for "fence"

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    "fence" definitions

    a barrier that serves to enclose an area


    a dealer in stolen property


    enclose with a fence


    receive stolen goods


    fight with fencing swords


    surround with a wall in order to fortify


    have an argument about something