"Fence in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... staring as the young girl came into view. Short wisps of golden hair waved about her face. Her beauty struck a sort of awe to the militant woman, who was standing on a mental fence in armed neutrality holding herself ready to spring down on that side which would regard the stranger as an interloper come to sponge on Miss Upton, or possibly she might descend upon the other side and endure ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... loose, and you look down in front of you and see the broad Pennsylvania Avenue stretching straight ahead for a mile or more till it brings up against the iron fence in front of a pillared granite pile, the Treasury building-an edifice that would command respect in any capital. The stores and hotels that wall in this broad avenue are mean, and cheap, and dingy, and are better left without ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... a fence in a' the town can hold him. He jumped into Colonel Crittendon's garden patch, and there's a dollar to pay for the cauliflower he ate, and he broke down a fence by the church, ye've to fix that up—but he's in ...
— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland
... never be extensively cultivated for live fence in this country, being subject to borers, as destructive as ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden
... he found that the police had already drawn a cordon around it with cords. Groups of morbid curiosity-seekers hung about it in twos and threes, some of them in fours and fives. Policemen were leaning against the fence in all directions. They wore that baffled look so common to the detective force of the metropolis. "It seems to me," remarked one of them to the man beside him, "that there is an inexorable chain of logic ...
— Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels • Stephen Leacock
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