fenc'd

Thus are the outside Walks compos'd: Next these are six distinct Separations, three on a Side, fenc'd in with gilt

Exilius 2008

Persons in bad Circumstances, are like two weak Shrubs, which, by propping up each other, are fenc'd against a Storm.

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

All this is fenc'd by a Wall cover'd by several Stages of Box, and conceal'd from the Eye.

Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

When this Wall was finished, and the Out-side double fenc'd with a Turff-Wall rais'd up close to it, I perswaded my self, that if any People were to come on Shore there, they would not perceive any Thing like a Habitation; and it was very well I did so, as may be oberv'd hereafter upon a very remarkable Occasion.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

But then it presently occurr'd to me, that I must keep the tame from the wild, or else they would always run wild when they grew up, and the only Way for this was to have some enclosed Piece of Ground, well fenc'd either with Hedge or Pale, to keep them in so effectually, that those within might not break out, or those without break in.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

The other I order'd to my Bower, as I call'd it, of which I have given a full Description; and as it was fenc'd in, and they pinion'd, the Place was secure enough, considering they were upon their Behaviour.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

I immediately went to Work with this Piece of Ground, and in less than a Month's Time, I had so fenc'd it round, that my Flock or Herd, call it which you please, who were not so wild now as at first they might be supposed to be, were well enough secur'd in it.

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

The Government saw no harm in all this; here was no Law broken, here was nothing but Oppression answered with Policy, and Mischief fenc'd against with Reason.

The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

Learn from fo great a wit; a land of bogs With ditches fenc'd, a heaven made fat with fogs.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Learn from fo great a wit; a land of bogs With ditches fenc'd, a heaven made fat with fogs»

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790