...night in sheepfolds built with fences and gates.Fence-viewers were men who...charge ofbuilding and keeping in repair the fences that surrounded the "great lotts...amount each year on these"pales" as the fences were called, or paid his sharefor the...
...land any longer.Even the height of the fences around a common field wasdetermined by...infields where English grain was sown, fences must bekept up in winter as well as in...Records, p. 5. while in Roxbury fences had to be sufficient for the safeguard...
...back from Ohio; I hope you found your fences ingood condition." There was a general...urging him most earnestly to improve its fences,so that finally he went to Ohio to look...but had merely come "to look after his fences."The phrase caught the popular fancy...
...is nothing of the kind.""Where are the fences?" quoth André-Louis, waving thehand...if to indicate the openness ofthe place."Fences!" snorted the sergeant. "What have fences todo with the matter? This is terre censive...
...commonroads and railways. Water-fences, in the form of lazy greenditches...green hedges are seen; but wooden fences,such as we havein America, arerarely met with inHolland. As forstone fences, aDutchman wouldlift his hands withastonishment...
...right of the British, where there was no shelter butthat of fences, and those within forty or fifty yards of thehouses held by...about forty-five men of his regiment, pressingforward to the fences on the enemy's left, drew upon himthe bayonets of the British...
...erected the farm buildings; the hedgersand ditchers who made the fences necessary for the protectionof the crop; the miners and smelters...successively gathered until theplough, or the buildings and fences, are worn out. We mustadd yet another kind of labor; that...
...asserted, that we have on our farm, "the shabbiest stock, themeanest fences, and the poorest crops in the country." On the contrary, all ourstock are fat, and our fences and crops are good; but we spend about two thousand dollars...
...Why don't you keep your roads repaired and rebuildyour fences?""I don't live about here." This time the tone was alittle...how snug and trig and shipshape they are:houses painted, fences kept up, everything nice and neat.""Maybe, that's where...
...are but a few hundreds or thousands which come to the fences of the railroad, seventymiles from where the drift began...followthe drift when the weather has grown warmer use thewire fences as their drying racks.And of the men who were caught in the...
......popular. The advent of barbed-wire fences on the plains transformed the cattle...entanglements and obstacles. Barbed-wire fences have been replaced in some applications by other types, e.g., woven-wire fences....
......as an ornament. In newly settled lands fences are usually made of materials at hand...is called a dry-stone wall. Wooden fences may be built of boards, posts and rails...and barbed wire. Storm, or snow, fences are erected to prevent drifts from forming......
......developed for iron balconies, stair railings, and monumental fences and gateways, rich with scrollings and bold foliations. This...common in the early 19th cent. It was used extensively for fences and railings in the S United States. Since cast iron is cheaper......
......their lethal kicks by dropping to the ground. With the sale and division of the common pastureland and the increasing use of fences, the usefulness of the Cardigans as drovers was eliminated and the breed became scarce. Revived by the diligence of modern......
......using the natural materials at hand. Artificial dunes have been built by bulldozing sand back from the beach or by placing snow fences to trap windblown sand. Since beaches themselves are effective in dissipating wave energy, one remedy to the lack of a sand......
......Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes (1980). He returned triumphantly to the stage in August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning Fences (1987). Jones has had supporting roles in numerous films, most notably as the voice of the villain Darth Vader in Star Wars......
......where a heavy fall is likely to impede travel; the use of snowplows to clear sidewalks, streets, and roads; the use of snow fences to prevent drifting over roads; and the use of skis, snowshoes, toboggans, snowmobiles, and sleds for travel. It is a......
...Walpole, industrial town (1990 pop. 20,212), Norfolk co., E Mass., SW of Boston; settled 1659, inc. 1724. Machinery, trailers, fences, and roofing are the chief manufactures. Walpole is the site of a state prison....
......more than 20 years include various overlapping characters and themes. In addition to Ma Rainey, it includes Jitney (1982), Fences (1987; Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988), The Piano Lesson (1990; Pulitzer Prize......
......acacias are commonly called wattles—their pliable branches were woven into the structure of the early wattle houses and fences—and Wattle Day celebrates the national flower at blossoming time. Many wattles are cultivated elsewhere, particularly......
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