"Fence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his hand into his pocket and withdrew a packet, which he tried to throw over a fence, but was prevented ...
— The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade - or, Getting Out of New York • Harry Moore
... his appearance. We went it on the sword, and fought—for further particulars see Ivanhoe, volume second. My foe was RAWLEY CHIVERS, of Tuscumbia, Ala., and as the mischief would have it, he knew all my guards and cuts. We used to fence together, and had had more than one trial at 'fertig-los!' on ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... negroes and the other to whites, and therefore the races alternate in the use of the same seats when the car turns back at the end of the line. The division in a railway station may be nothing more than a bar or a low fence across the room, and one ticket office with different ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson
... and evidently pluming himself on his performance. Frank's brow was getting blacker and blacker. Jerry Blake and young Brown were greatly amusing themselves at the exhibition, and every now and then gave him a word or two of encouragement, praising his mare, telling how well he got over that last fence, and bidding him mind and keep well forward. This was all new to Barry, and he really began to feel himself in his element;—if it hadn't been for those abominable walls, he would have enjoyed himself. But ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... with any peculiar emotions. She was not without sentiment, for she was a young girl just budding into womanhood, but all the scenery that the mountain or the valley could show was as familiar to her as the fox-hounds that lay curled up in the fence-corners, or the fowls that crowed and clucked and cackled in the yard. She had discovered, indeed, that the individuality of the mountain was impressive, for she was always lonely and melancholy when away from it; but ...
— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris
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