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Sentences ending with fence

Well, how have you arranged the fence? [5]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile a while, and then went on around the garden fence. [5]
He flew along unfrequented alleys, and shortly found himself at his aunt's back fence. [5]
Then Cynthia began to walk on, slowly, and he followed her on the other side of the fence. [9]
I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence. [5]
And curiosity beginning to get the better of her, she was emboldened to pay a compliment to the fence. [9]
To think of the eagle's wings, being clipped so that he shall never lift himself over the farm-yard fence! [6]
Another order, the soldiers fell apart and enclosed the square in a double-ranked human fence. [5]
The judge's house, outlined in the starlight, was a modest dwelling with a little porch and clambering vines, set back in its own garden behind a picket fence. [9]

Sentences containing fence two or more times

The fence is dead, driven into the earth in a rigid line by man: the fence, in short, is dogma: icy prejudice lingers near it. [4]

More example sentences with the word fence in them

Upon my soul, you two should fence like a pair of veterans. [11]
Most of the yearly ads were patent-medicine stereotypes, and we used to fence with them. [5]
How nimbly they would have scaled the fence and transfixed me! [4]
He sit there with us, and play on the fiddle, and sing songs, and act plays, and help Florian in the barn, and Octave to mend the fence, and the Cure to fix the grape- vines on his wall. [11]
Parpon the dwarf, who that moment perched himself on the fence, could not decide which Valmond was just then--dauphin or fool. [11]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
He spied me where I had wormed myself behind the foot-board of a picket fence beneath the cannon-port of a blockhouse. [9]
The two houses were separated by an ordinary yard, with a low fence running back through its middle from the street in front to the lane in the rear. [5]
In another place we were shown a sort of summer arbor, with a fence before it. [5]
And the sheriff was mettlesome, used to have high spirits, like as if he's lift himself over the fence with his bootstraps. [11]
Next morning he was found hanging dead on one side of the fence and the sheep on the other; in memory whereof the lord of the manor caused this monument to be erected as a warning to all who love mutton better than virtue. [6]
So now we was both on our knees with our chins on a fence rail and gazing--yes, and gasping too. [5]
Of course it was Bob, and he did not scruple to run, and in a few seconds he was leaning over the fence in front of her. [9]
In the rear was a small yard, surrounded by a board fence, in which the prisoner took his exercise. [4]
There are no unsightly stone walls and never a fence of any kind. [5]
The stranger spat twice, regarded Mr. Brice pityingly, and finally led him in silence past the picket fence and the New England-looking meeting-house opposite until they came to the great square on which the State House squatted. [9]
He was rather trying the common arguments, as one tries tricks of fence merely to learn the way of parrying. [6]
Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
Many a foot traveller hesitated to pass into that umbrageous circle, and skirted the fence beyond the branches on the further side of the road instead. [11]
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. [5]
Ida was seen to turn her face toward us across the fence and intervening lawn--Theodore waved good-bye to her, for he did not know that her sign was a speechless appeal for help. [5]
Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer. [5]
If you was to tackle this fence and anything was to happen to it--" "Oh, shucks, I'll be just as careful. [5]
I shall refer to it in the Legislature on the question of roads and bridges--there ought to be a stone fence on that dangerous road by the Red Ravine--Have I your attention? [11]
It was necessary to fence our property or we could not hold it. [5]
We had had to feel our way before, but we could make out to see the fence posts now. [5]
They were supposed to build a fence around it, but they were too full of the enjoyment of camp-life to complete it. [5]
As Pierre passed through the fence gate, he was enveloped by hot air and involuntarily stopped. [2]
But who is this officer breaking his sword to bits against the fence, rather than surrender it to a Yankee? [9]
Trying it a third morning, I was obliged to throw it over the fence in order to save from destruction the green things that ought to grow in the garden. [4]
As soon as they had passed the fence they all spread out evenly and quietly, without noise or talk, along the road and field leading to the Otradnoe covert. [2]
Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
All day long the warriors lined the picket fence in front of the house, and more than once Tom McChesney roughly shouldered a lane through them that timid visitors might pass. [9]
The brow of the precipice over the cave--" "I've got a wire fence there, and a gatling. [5]
Green trees took the place of crowded rows of houses and stores, and little "bob-tail" yellow cars were drawn by plodding mules to an inclosure in a timbered valley, surrounded by a board fence, known as Lindell Grove. [9]
I went through the Peters yard, climbed the wire fence, my object being to discover first from Ella, the housemaid, or Hannah, the cook, how much was known in high quarters. [9]
She knew not the meaning of fear, and would take a fence or a ditch that a man might pause at. [9]
From the house-porch the grounds sloped gradually down to the lower fence and rose on the right to the high ground where my small work-den stood. [5]
Hawkins put up the first "paling" fence that had ever adorned the village; and he did not stop there, but whitewashed it. [5]
Wildcats might scale the fence, but no coyote could come in to search for prey, and no rabbits or other small game could escape from the valley. [13]
They sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life of them see what the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. [4]
When she found the entire fence whitewashed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable. [5]
Having gone round the corner of the hothouse to the ornamental garden, he saw that the carved garden fence was broken and branches of the plum trees had been torn off with the fruit. [2]
They are like the cattle-pens of a ranch--they shut in the several brands of historical cattle, each within its own fence, and keep them from getting mixed together. [5]
It is plain that this room was once larger than it is now, and that the wall at this end was built in some bygone time to make and fence off a narrow room there. [5]
I've told you that I take an interest in pretty much everything, and don't mean to fence out any human interests from the private grounds of my intelligence. [6]
The keeper said that he intended at the next court to ask the commissioners to build the fence higher and stop up the holes. [4]
Only his wish that he had a staff revived in his mind, and he soon contrived to possess himself of one, by pulling a stake out of the fence that surrounded the innkeeper's little garden. [10]
Therefore, as the sun was blazing hot, we did not climb up there, but took the place on trust, and observed it from a distance while the horse leaned up against a fence and rested. [5]
She saw him strike with his spurs, and in a twinkling horse and rider had passed over the dilapidated remains of a fence and were flying down the hard clay road, disappearing into a dip. [9]
A large, round stage, encircled by a fence of young birch logs, had been built for dancing amid the leafy lindens, and stood directly opposite to the imperial tent. [10]
One day he sprang over a fence, took from the hands of coquettish Elise Malboir an axe, and split the knot which she in vain had tried to break. [11]
On the other side of the brick walk, and near the iron fence, was an elm and a flower bed that was Uncle Tom's pride and the admiration of the neighbourhood. [9]
They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. [5]
They never had seen any good rocks before, or at least any that were not watched, and so they were excusable for hopping ashore in frantic delight and clapping an iron fence around this one. [5]
He did not seek the road directly, but, climbing a fence near by, crossed a hay-field, going unseen, as he thought, to the village. [11]
All that you say about his riding the mad colt is just what I should think he was up to, for he's as spry as a squirrel; you ought to see him go over that fence, as I did once. [6]
Venters had to rope him, and then he kicked down a section of fence, stood on his hind legs, crashed down and fought the rope. [13]
We put a rope fence a hundred feet square around the platform to keep off the common multitude, and that finished the work. [5]
The Heinies are right here, soaking in another ditch beyond a barbed wire fence, about the distance of second base from the home plate. [9]
When he had reached the fence, still without finding those he sought, he stopped and looked about him. [2]
Taking down the rails of the fence at one point, he drove the horse into the road and gave chase. [6]
Here was the ragpicker's shop, the fence covered with bedraggled posters, the deserted grand-stand of the base-ball park spread with a milky-blue mantle of snow; and beyond, the monotonous frame cottages all built from one model. [9]
Then, with a quick glance at her sleeping face-it was engraven on his memory ever after like a dead face in a coffin--he ran along the fence among the shrubbery. [11]
There were two powerful parties at Court; therefore to make a decision either way would infallibly embroil them with one of those parties; so it seemed to them wisest to roost on the fence and shift the burden to other shoulders. [5]
Her face struck Pierre and, hurrying along by the fence, he turned several times to look at her. [2]
Janet did not perceive the workman engaged in building this fence until the sound of his hammer attracted her attention. [9]
There were twenty people who were just going to shoot her; when the doe leaped the road fence, and went away across a marsh toward the foothills. [4]
It was primly painted now, its posts crowned with the carved pineapples; behind the fence old-fashioned flowers were in bloom, lupins and false indigo; and the retaining wall of blue-grey slaty stone, which he had laid that spring, was finished. [9]
Tom Peters, leaning over the ornamental cast-iron fence which separated his front yard from the street, presently spied me scanning the sidewalk. [9]
Driving a horse out of this lot is too plain a proposition to be mistaken about; it is putting him on the other side of the fence. [7]
In a day or two we shall probably go to the Lake and build another cabin and fence, and get everything into satisfactory trim before our trip to Esmeralda about the first of November. [5]
Parents were more or less in the situation of the candidates who desired the honour and privilege of whitewashing Tom Sawyer's fence. [9]
He is not on the fence. [5]
From military point of view, bad position--ravine, stump fence, brave soldiers in the middle, food for powder--catch it?--see? [11]
A strange thought of their futility struck me as I climbed the rail fence beside them, and pushed on into the main road, the mud sucking under my shoes as I went. [9]
The eastern wall of the house was a mass of Virginia creeper, and beneath that another flower bed, and still another in the back-yard behind the lattice fence covered with cucumber vine. [9]
One swift clasp of the hand, and then he vaulted over the fence and was gone. [11]
If you do not, you must build a tight fence round the plants, which the toad cannot jump over. [4]
He was a nimble fellow, for he had risked the leap from the window, and then swung himself over the fence into the road. [10]
It had a neglected yard around it, with a paling fence that needed straightening up, in places, and a gate that would stay shut. [5]
It was so natural to be there that I scarce realized all that had happened since last I saw the back gate in the picket fence. [9]
They entered the narrow gorge to climb around the fence long before built there by Venters. [13]
Going out that morning she had seen some fence up the road that needed mending, and she told Mr. Devault that she didn't like such shiftlessness; she didn't know as white folks was much better than colored folks. [4]
None, indeed, seemed more cheerful than a recently captured group I saw later, who were actually building the barbed-wire fence that was to confine them. [9]
He might fence me about with what guards he chose, but I prayed him to let me walk upon the ramparts, when I was strong enough to be abroad, under all due espionage. [11]
There are so many things to distract the attention--a chipmunk in the fence, a bird on a near-tree, and a hen-hawk circling high in the air over the barnyard. [4]
The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway. [2]
After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. [5]
And the Cossacks looked round in surprise at the sound, like the yelp of a dog, with which Denisov turned away, walked to the wattle fence, and seized hold of it. [2]
Hereupon followed a long game of fence between Powhatan and Captain Smith, each trying to overreach the other, and each indulging profusely in lies and pledges. [4]
There is a little plateau on the side of the East Mountain in Rivervale, where there used to stand a shack of a cabin, with a wild sort of garden-patch about it, a tumble-down root fence, all in the midst of brush and briers. [4]
But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment before she disappeared. [5]
Medallion threw a leg over the fence and came in a few steps to the door. [11]
Between it and Judge Driscoll's house there was only a grassy yard, with a paling fence dividing the properties in the middle. [5]
No fence divides its grounds from the public walk, and on the smooth-shaven lawn between the ornamental flower beds and the walk stand two stern mastiffs of iron, emblematic of the solidity and power of their owner. [9]
Just outside of it, on the tree-dotted slope of a long hill, was a modern brick building, exceedingly practical in appearance, surrounded by spacious grounds enclosed in a paling fence. [9]
I stepped on it, but it bent and gave way and I began to clamber up a fence which I could scarcely reach with my hands. [2]
If you notice, it looks a lit--why, it _is_ a man!--leaning on the fence. [5]
A man who is white-washing a fence is doing a useful thing, so also is the man who is adorning a rich man's house with costly frescoes; and all of us are sane enough to judge these performances by standards proper to each. [5]

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