130 examples of fenced in in sentences

In the centre of the Circus is a space fenced in with iron railing, a small play-place and sylvan retreat for the children of the precinct, permeated by brief paths through the fresh English grass, and shadowed by various shrubbery; amid which, if you like, you may fancy yourself in a deep seclusion, though probably the mark of eye-shot from the windows of all the surrounding houses.

If cross Mr. Trius is keeping watch, we won't get very close to it, because the property is fenced in for a long way around.

Last summer I was surprised beyond measure to see the large herds of twenty to forty pronghorn antelopes still surviving on the Laramie plains, fenced in on all sides by the wires of the great Four-Bar Ranch, part of which I believe are stretched illegally.

The squatters thought us done when they fenced in all their run, But a prettier mistake they never made; You’ve only to sport your dover and knock a monkey over There’s cheap mutton for the Wallaby Brigade.

He shall sing as he goes: he shall not be held down nor fenced in.

A barricade made of light reeds, all matted together by string, is stuck into the stream, and a portion of the water is fenced in, generally in a circular form.

After men have fenced in pairs, practice should be given in fencing between groups, equally and unequally divided.

He crawled up on the broad hedge which fenced in the farm, and which was overgrown with briers and lichen.

You would have married him when your unclewhen everybody doesn't want you to?" To Jean Lambert's well ordered, carefully fenced in mind such wild mental leaps as Tony Holiday's were almost too much to contemplate.

I considered myself as one set apart from all mankind,set apart, and fenced in, by my own personal disadvantages.

The others I ordered to my bower, as I called it, of which I have given a full description; and as it was fenced in, and they pinioned, the place was secure enough, considering they were upon their behaviour.

Long before streets were built or fields fenced in, men wandered about the earth hunting for food in family parties, somewhat as lions do in South Africa.

After they passed the stone quarry, they left the country behind them, going down the stubble-covered hills that fenced in the town.

Wells were fenced in and put under lock and cover.

"You will get flocks of tourists"particularly if he fenced in the ruins of the library and burned leaves of ancient books were on sale.

The shell-fire was as thick at the P.P.s' backs as in front of them; they were fenced in by it.

Some of the lines of railway are not fenced in, not even in towns, so that the train runs through a town as openly as does an omnibus.

Here was a single grave nicely fenced in, and across the plaza were some large two-story houses in front of which was stationed a squad of cavalry standing as motionless as if every man of them was a marble statue.

They could not appear till the proofs of each article had been signed by the censor, and the whole process of printing and publishing was fenced in by such minute and annoying regulations, the smallest infraction of which was punished by such heavy fines that it was a marvel how any paper could be published under such conditions.

After the soldiers had gone the timid and scared slaves gave up most of the land; some few however, fenced in a bit of land while the soldiers remained in the vicinity and they managed to keep a little of the land.

" Thereupon they passed through a wicket-gate into a kind of glen or wilderness, at the end of John Mortimer's garden, and beyond the stream where his little girls acted Nausicaa and his little boys had preserves of minute fishes, ingeniously fenced in with sticks and fine netting.

It would appear that their difficulties commenced at the outset, as many weeks passed before they got clear of Rockingham Bay, its rivers, swamps, and dense scrubs, fenced in by a mountain chain.

This led past an enclosure of about three quarters of an acre, neatly and strongly fenced in, probably used as a pen for keeping pigs in, judging from the absence of anything like cultivation, and the trodden-down appearance, apparently made by these animals, a jaw-bone of one of which was picked up close by.

Most of the huts were situated in small enclosures, and there were other portions of ground fenced in with tall bamboo paling.

Long ranges of empty book-shelves fenced in with broken wire-work ran round the walls.

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