Fuzzy little yellow jackets buzzed around the honeysuckle on the alley fence. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But that’s all on the other side of the fence, unreachable—like our freedom. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I wore eyeliner most days, even when I fenced, and wasn’t interested in how anyone felt about it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

People climbed over the fence, and I could not see the man because the crowd was so thick around him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Now all I had to do was convince my friends to try out for the fencing team with me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She walked around the fence corner and went in the intimate gate with her heaping plate of mulatto rice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My sled was leaning alone on the fence at the street level. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s crazy how they do the fence when it gets to the water, by the way. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The trees disappear as we enter the area inside the fence. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He came to the fence and pointed his arm. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy walked back to the gate and opened the container of crickets and held it up to the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charming,” said Scrimgeour, stopping at the garden fence and looking out over the snowy lawn and the indistinguishable plants. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even without the extra competitions, fencing was expensive, even at the high school level. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I fenced my first six bouts and lost five, so I didn’t even advance to the direct elimination bouts. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Another fence post, another coffin lid, another skeleton to apologize to, another fire to build. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He came out into a field and saw men deploying, moving out on both sides of the road, cutting away the fences: Pender’s Division. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sabres and pistols and fencing foils, each twinned with another, prepared for dozens of potential duels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Why a gas, or droplets of moisture made to be deposited on fence posts? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between the two are old, pretty houses that seem to shine in the sunlight like charms on a giant bracelet, linked together by the flower gardens that spill over their neat picket fences. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see that some of the lake was drained so that we could build the fence, but we left as much of it intact as possible.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He got up from the table, wiped his face, then left, saying, “I better check the rest of the fences before dark.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kid pointed to the garbage can by the back fence and then turned to the kitchen window. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her regular voice had returned, as supple and sharp as a fencing foil. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I scrambled up the fence, which bowed and shimmied under my weight. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dozens of little brown kids were getting fencing lessons from coaches who were also brown. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This time, we waited until dark fell and slipped under a hole in the fence close to the butcher. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands did shake, but not all that noticeably, and perhaps the Inigo of before the brandy would have bested this fellow now in sixty minutes of solid fencing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Look here, toad,” she said, thrusting her arms through the bars of the fence and plucking at the weeds on the other side. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But behind the mausoleum, in the dim light of the torch, he found a stack of old fence posts. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean to jump a fence, climb a fire escape, and watch you have a nervous breakdown. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For a change, Nick was on time for fencing practice, and Mr. Armin was late. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kind of felt bad for my mom because she was so sure this was going to be the perfect activity for me, but as far as I was concerned, fencing wasn’t it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His horse standing sleepily near the fence came to his whistle and stood drowsing while he saddled up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped at her paint-chipped fence, looking at her from the side of the porch so she wouldn’t see me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each September, he leads a silent procession of people who place a cross on a fence overlooking the Rio Grande, one for each migrant who has recendy died trying to cross into the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

From here we can look through the chain-link fence and see the houses on the other side of the street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could see no signs of what had been set loose upon the earth: the highways, the towns, even the fences were gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she wheeled on me and put me on top of the rail fence as quick as a squirrel could have made it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fixed to the front of it was something that looked like a fencing mask, with the concave side outwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was a tern, and before she could answer he’d flown off the fence and down to the icy ground beyond it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was unhappiness in both houses, and the gossip fence gleefully sang with it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Actually, Wilbur felt queer to be outside his fence, with nothing between him and the big world. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Soon ladies in their backyards were repeating that remark, fence by fence, from one end of the valley to the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A small crew had already removed the rusted fence surrounding the courts and was now carrying over jackhammers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Behind the fence I could see the back of the large grocery store Mom and I had already visited. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once class ended, after about an hour and a half, we would have open or free fencing, during which time everyone would also take individual lessons with their personal coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was more interested in the children who hung out playing games in between the fences. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Matt saw they were driving parallel to the fence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the smoldering ruin of her fence and sighed deeply. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Josiah taught him to watch for loose strands of wire and breaks in the fence; he taught Tayo how to mend them before any livestock strayed off reservation land. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged it out of the heap of fence posts, hauling it loose from the ones it was stapled to, and began to work on the paddle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fence buckled outward as they slammed into it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

On the days I didn’t have to go into New York after work for fencing practice, I’d sometimes stop in then, too. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I gathered up the fencing supplies and went out to work. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only solution was to throw them over the top of the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a fence of jagged metal, the lot was covered in broken glass and rusty barrels. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Longstreet shook his head to clear the sound, closed his eyes, saw Barksdale go streaming to his death against a flaming fence in the brilliant afternoon, hair blazing out behind him like white fire. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are nearly at the end of the camp: nothing but the fence and, beyond that, the desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On the small porch, there are a couple of rocking chairs and hooks holding sickles, a scythe, and extra-sharp swords within close reach, in case shamblers get through the barrier fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the fence and hooked his fingers through the wire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fell away with it as the fence started humming. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And terrible punishments were promised him, such as being locked up in the cellar with the rats for a week, if he even so much as dared to climb over the fence. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Down the alley the women’s art guild members were removing their paintings from the fence and folding their aluminum lawn chairs like Arabs in preparation for stealing away. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the far side of the fence and reviewed the facts and made the decision. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the wire of the chain-link fences against my fingers as I climbed over them and ran away. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Following Elizabeth’s gaze, Melanie was horrified to see a huge misshapen figure teetering on the top of the high board fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I didn’t play favorites while I was coaching, but she really made me proud, and it was through fencing that Faizah and I morphed from sisters to best friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But once he had climbed over the fence and begun to trudge up the first field, the grass was thick and wet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When the rescuers arrived a moment later, they found April lying on the ground and Marshall squeezing out to meet them through the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I crouched my way through a couple of backyards, getting scratched and scraped by fences and bushes. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All around his house were small square patches of things enclosed in fences to keep the rabbits out, and—as Harry said—to keep the flowers and vegetables in. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue, almost cloudless, and a mockingbird sang from a fence post. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I run toward the fence, hoping to catch a glimpse of David. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The tree is easy enough to climb, and the limb closest to the circus wide enough to manage until he gets closer to the fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The perfect picket fence now had a gate over the top of it, and one of the pickets was broken, jagged. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a small pocketknife, sharpening the edges on the metal surface of the fence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the sun was setting and my family would be worried, I sat by a tree next to the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The executioner seemed to have swung it into the fence in anger. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

That little graveyard with its picket fence and its headstones and its lamb. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’m sure some of the younger fencers didn’t understand my tenacity or competitive nature during practice, but fencing was my only way to seek revenge on an enemy with no name. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He got there just in time to see the fire taking hold of his neighbor’s shed and fence, while the breeze blew a rain fire on his property. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And that up ahead of her was a great wooden fence. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then he would call the fence, who would come and make a personal appraisal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no guards, and no locks, save for the iron fence that hovered over the surface, raised just enough to allow trash to pass through. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even though my father was the major sports fan, he told my mom that fencing was not in his repertoire. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Barren and pock-marked, all dirt and no trees, fenced in all sides, a gold mine resembles a war-torn battlefield. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And the Opposite live on this side of the fence and the Tews live on that.’ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I never really imagined anything beyond college fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I arranged my life so that I could afford to travel and compete on the fencing circuit, but there was a key detail missing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to leave a blank piece of paper under a rock outside our weak place in the fence, showing they were ready to come. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I fenced completely on pure adrenaline and faith. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If Shin had not slipped in the snow, he would have reached the fence first and he probably would have died. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The music—the noise, whatever it was — came from the hootch beyond the fence. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it rushed madly across about twenty fields, breaking down all the fences and hedges in its path. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t manage without him, and yet here he was, about to take a run at a potentially electrified fence so that we could be sheltered and fed for another night. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The darkening gray sky cast everything in a moody, deep blue, but not the fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you know about Google Earth? Where it’s like you’re looking down from above? Just look for the fences that were around that house!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We circle around the ghetto fence to a new place, near a small basement window. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even though I lost, I realize I like fencing. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I yanked Georgie to the right, planning to run along the fence, but he slipped in the snow and fell by the gate, pulling me down with him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“So, school’s done. Are you and Miguel ready to start fixing that fence of mine?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The protestors line up by the fence, behind the wall of police. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was happier when I returned to the pre-K classroom with the fenced play yard and tubular slide. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They hide behind the teachers’ cars in the parking lot to avoid the security guard and then go through the hole in the fence to the Dunkin’ Donuts down the street. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was so near the house that the deer did not jump the fence and eat the vegetables in the daytime, and at night Jack kept them away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to the fence a little before seven. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It is too dark to see where we are, but if we are getting off, we are probably close to the fence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But first we had to fence, and only one of us could win—and that was going to be me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then the coaches sent us over to the team storage shed, positioned in the back corner of the cafeteria, to find protective gear to wear—they called them fencing whites. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I had been free fencing with my teammate and gotten really into it when I scored my last winning point. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I grab the fence with both hands and shake it. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

As we’re dusting off our clothes, I notice a small depression past the orange barriers, at the fence line. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ben clung to the fence, wailing steadily and hoarsely. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tops of the fences appeared again, and Joe measured how much more of the posts he could see every day. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It happens—the shift, the warm feeling—when he sees Frank sitting on the fence and all the other FDR trucks gone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We waited till she went inside, then crossed the highway and opened the gate in the picket fence that was about to topple over from the weight of Carolina jasmine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people are trying their luck selling food at the fence, but I take the back alleys to our spot, where the loose barbed wire will let me into the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I pulled my bike behind a big bush and leaned it up against the fence, and I took a good look through the row of trees at the chicken coop. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on the fence and watched the people filing through the border on foot a few yards away. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The guards hit the fence behind me and couldn’t follow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As if reaching for an electric fence, he cautiously extended his fingers toward the Spirit Bear’s shoulder. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The low rail fence was much easier to climb than chain link. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The top section of the tree had crushed a piece of George’s split-rail cedar fence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I held to the fence and watched them going away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone on the other side of the tall fence raised a bamboo stick with more ribbons attached to it, only these were wet and shimmered brighter than the ones already up. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He flew over the fence, did an unintended somersault in midair, then stumbled to a landing on the opposite side. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly the whole bunch of cows were right by the fence, looking at her. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Harry began to chop wood over on his side of the fence and she hollered to him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As she watched, he fluttered to the top wire of the fence, where he perched nervously for a moment. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was sitting on the ground, cutting a neat sharp end on each of a pile of fence sticks. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He paused in midair like a stop-action TV shot and turned, almost losing his balance, to face the questioner, who was sitting on the fence nearest the old Perkins place, dangling bare brown legs. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I walk around the hut and search for a part of the fence where I can make my escape. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind it was still her fence, even though she didn’t live here anymore: she had been moved to a hospice facility near Main Street. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And next day had seen the effigies they had hung, the Tory fences they had torn down or windows broken, and heard that Royal Commissioner So-and-So had been frightened out of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 10:00 A.M., six and a half hours before the race, a vast, agitated throng was already banging up against the fences. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me, as far as I could see was a trail of my own footprints in the snow, drawn like a line across the fields and fences that divided them up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Jonathan climbed the fence and dropped to the other side. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll want to hit the fence with enough speed to break through, but not enough for us to lose control and flip into the channel.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Course, it wasn’t only crops they got. I left my good jacket hanging on the fence post. Danged if those hoppers didn’t munch their way through that, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Certainly the owner never expected a horse and carriage to arrive—the fence gate is wide enough for a stout woman but no more. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He battled opponents on the strip and was forced to fight racism and classism in order to claim his spot among the annals of fencing greats, which he did on his own terms. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Max is stretching herself, standing on tiptoes and craning her neck to see over the fences and trees and into the zoo's enclosures. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He walked the length of the picket fence in front of the house, seeking for a walk leading to the rear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So fence mending must be easier than patrolling, if what Ida said about her being one of the sheriff's favorites is true. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Sentences wandered through the report like morning glory through the pickets of a fence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I felt like I did my part in that I gave myself over to fencing 100 percent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was moving so fast that I knocked down the fence my uncle Charlie had begun to build around Grandma India’s flower garden. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came hard upon my heels and I scuttled into the back yard, running blindly in the dark, butting my head against the fence, the tree, bruising my toes on sticks of wood, still screaming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood slack- jawed, trying to make sense of the railings, the fences, the bars, and the spaces, both tiny and immense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body tensed as the vehicle rolled past them and parked alongside the fence. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had to battle for my place at the top every single season, but I made it because I was stronger and fencing smarter. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He stopped opposite the fence and looked at Winnie with a friendly swish of his tail, and then he saw the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Finn, maybe the Google pictures of the other street were taken so long ago, those fences weren’t built yet,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

You can always hear traffic on the big roads beyond the fencing, and there’s a general feeling they never properly finished converting the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I climb over the fence into Bando’s pasture, a song sparrow clicks out his alarm note from the raspberry thicket. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of students without contradiction from children who might know something about what existed beyond the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nhamo backed one against the fence and, ignoring its angry protests, helped herself to the milk. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did not see the crazy old bag standing by the gate or behind a section of fence, Harlan naturally strode straight across the plaza area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The transport carried them to the other side of the island and traveled through a barbed wire fence with No Trespassing signs posted on it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was so shocked at the sight of them, I nearly missed the blur of green that was a little kid rushing for the fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They scrambled through the hole in the fence and, dragging Marshall to hurry him up, they dashed for the main alley behind the Casa Rosada. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there is Max, appearing like a shadow in the doorway of a building inside the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Barry looked around his neighborhood—the little houses, the scraggly lawns surrounded by chain-link fences, the palm trees and big oaks. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He delivered himself to a barbed-wire fence which snagged him in a dozen places. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outdoor path only goes so far—past twenty cages and a storage building—until it ends abruptly at a black iron fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Parts of the structure were used as a vocational shop until the roof burned down in 1984, when the building was permanently closed—boarded up and fenced in though, inexplicably, not removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mexican cattle settled down and moved more slowly, but they still had little regard for fences. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Margo put it, “Honestly, first garter snakes and now this fence? This security is sort of insulting to a ninja.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I am the company's fencing master, you see." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed to try fencing if his mother paid him five dollars. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I channeled all of my energy into devising a game plan to fence Kharlan. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered his grinning that way again yesterday, and I closed my eyes for a moment, then went over and stood near the wire fence behind the plate. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a very nice-looking boy, about the same age as Abby, helping a man roll out some green mesh fencing. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I feel calm until we reach the fence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if setting a trap solved the horned toad problem, Nali still wanted the fence fixed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Just a few months into the season, I had fenced well enough in the domestic competitions that I now had a high enough national ranking to compete on the international circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If fencing had looked this interesting, I probably would have kept at it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I followed the fence, and kept going, half-running, stumbling over twisted roots. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fence has vertical black bars with pointed ends that bend outward, as if to skewer anyone who might try to climb over it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance up ahead he occasionally caught glimpses of the cattle, trotting steadily; they appeared in clearings and disappeared into oak thickets again, still following the south boundary fence to the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next to a rope the most important tool a rider carried was a pair of fencing pliers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grasses and real trees and real bushes still grew beyond the barbed-wire fence posted with a big sign: PRIVATE, NO TRESPASSING. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Every time Faizah fenced, we had to have official paperwork from the New Jersey Board of Education with us, which stated her hijab was for religious reasons and she was eligible to compete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We turned and ran, scrambling under the fence. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each victory, Ser Loras would remove his helm and ride slowly round the fence, and finally pluck a single white rose from the blanket and toss it to some fair maiden in the crowd. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The lot was enclosed by a metal fence, and the gate that led to the side alley was closed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The twenty-three-year-old lieutenant got out his binoculars and scanned the landscape beyond the fences of the American base. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cattle would be easy to find because they stayed close to the south boundary fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius bellowed after he had promenaded up and down along the fence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t so difficult for her in the end: it was more a confidence thing, and with us there for support, she seemed to lose her fear of the fence. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day of tryouts, Ana, Nicole, and I met outside of the school cafeteria, where fencing practice was held. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a wooden hut like the others, but surrounded on all sides by a picket fence to give the prisoners a place outdoors to walk around in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the meadow they went under the wire fence. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The word was passed out among the neighbors where they stood close packed in the little yard behind the brush fence. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if I get stuck under the fence, what will I do? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But they said...They told me he’s reliable! He does business at the fence!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Radar raced along the fence until he found a narrow opening and squeezed through. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tall wire cyclone fences lay on both sides of the house itself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the race he goes down to the fence and watches intently He yells nothing. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Erudite can’t drive through the fence anyway, and it will take them a while to reach the gate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Drops of blood from his fingers dripped down the fence from wire to wire and fell on the ground. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Josh could make me laugh and tried to get me to not take fencing so seriously, but I didn’t know how to be anything but serious when it came to sports. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She rode the bike up to the backstop fence behind home plate and jumped off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The dog trainer then had hauled him toward the fence to point out another moccasin, then another, and still another—nine in all. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was washing myself at the camp water pump, part of my daily ritual, when I saw two SS officers lure a deer to the fence of their enclosure in the zoo. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was not far from the fence when a whistle began to shriek and the floodlights went on. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and find Michael Clark watching me from behind the chain-link fence at home plate. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A fence here and there, a gate there and here. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The energy that filled that room was palpable, and I wanted to be a part of it, to fence with other athletes of color and learn from Olympians and Olympic hopefuls alike. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A gathering murmur, people in their yards talking across the fences, coalesced outside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And beyond that was the fence itself, which consisted of seven or eight strands of high-voltage barbed wire, spaced about a foot apart, strung between tall poles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Next was the southeast corner, where shabbily built wooden fences held in several cows, goats, sheep, and pigs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Get back from the canal,” she yells whenever one of us kids wanders too close to the fence behind our house. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was a gate in the fence, and Hazel rushed to it and knocked. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What are those boys doing cutting fences, anyhow?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was a very thick fence post at the corner of the garden nearest the farmhouse and the tractor shed. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out through the windshield, to the electric fence and the dark, familiar forest behind it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It isn’t until Emmett waves from the porch later, his phone in his outstretched hand, that Axel drops from the fence and joins the others. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

No mistaking him: matchless rider gliding over rail fences in parade-ground precision, effortless motion, always a superb rider. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the icy water would shock his skin like an electric fence, but this morning he needed desperately to calm Bis troubled thoughts. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

One sunny morning, with stolen bread in her pocket for dinner and a bit of old cheese to share with the cat, Beetle started for the fence post. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said his fence would take root in places, maybe, and get green leaves on it in the spring. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

An iron fence surrounded it, topped with sharp spikes, sharp as needles. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The magical flames had formed some kind of fence, and must’ve cooked up all the liquid. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Candace had been fencing saber from an early age and was a better fencer than me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Tell him he’s my dog now, and I’m not never going to let anybody hurt him again ever, and then I leave, wiring that fence good. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pigs root dully at the posts of a wooden fence. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where I lived before you came,” I said, stopping at Mrs. Croft’s chain-link fence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Back in Raleigh, we’ve got a fence around our yard, so he can run free back there,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was walking along a street one afternoon when I saw a piece of magazine impaled against a fence of cacti. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had reached the far corner of the garden, and there, at the edge of the woods where it met the fence, was a stump. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He walked that rail fence. The hackberry tree has something to do with his trick, but I don’t know what.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A barbed wire fence ran from the gate in either direction. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We pull into the empty parking lot and to the far back fence, where there’s a concrete aqueduct stretching as far as the eye can see in both directions. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I had been told, the next morning, that I could stay outside the fence as long as I wanted, that I was free to go, it would have sent me sprinting for the compound. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the fence and continue walking south and a bit east, searching for pig tracks among the rushes and trees along the swamp stream. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, though, she would come at night and scratch at the fence for food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started typing questions about fencing into the search bar on my computer, and one hour later realized I needed to give fencing another try. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Finding the fence we used was a rare piece of luck. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this arena, fencing seems like a white sport. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was living in a hotel for women in Greenwich Village, working as a waitress in a German restaurant, and taking art classes and even fencing lessons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We collide with the chain-link fence, but rather than busting through it, it holds...and then I realize it’s slowly bending forward. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yup. Every single one of them. Had to climb a fence to get the last one, but I got it.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It had no fences, no running water, and no electricity. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I knew, she liked her resurrected rose-garden fence just fine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mong stood up, still laughing, and leaned against the fence to watch the seals. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

George leaned against the fence and looked up at the cloudy sky. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In front of them about a football field away, he saw a tall metal fence with looping razors at its top. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When I was eight years old, a flock of wild, green- rumped parrots moved into the fishtail palm tree by the back wooden fence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Places like the caves at the narrow end, and the breaks in Lalao’s fence, and the shortcuts through the woods that led to the next barrio where all sorts of pocavergüenzas took place. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The children’s center turns out to be a row of four shipping containers surrounded by a broken fence. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The piece of iron lay on the inside of the fence at the boy’s feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since tennis shoes don’t have a lot of grip on the ice, Larry would go into the fence hard and couldn’t control what part of him hit first. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t see anything clearly, and when I look up and out past the fence, I only see waves of a mirage displacing the desert plants and the mountains in the distance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

George leaned against the chain-link fence, watching some girls from her class jump rope. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He stepped through the fence into his yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The marquess made sure Dumas could fence. Skilled, courageous, Dumas was famous right up to the day he was jailed.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Wes and his friend ran through a dark alley, jumping over trash cans and fences, trying to get to the other side of the complex as fast as possible. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He saw his mother hanged, Park’s body on the fence, and visualized the torture he believed his father was subjected to after his escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I scratched the top of his head as best as I could through the fence. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look in the distance, at the chain-link fence bordering the parking lot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I bit my lip and grabbed the fence. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Below him there was a planted field, rows of low green bush, rolling toward a creek, broken by one low rail fence and a few thick clumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historically, fencing was a sport for society’s elite, which meant it was a predominantly white sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We were out at the ranch, up in the hayloft, sweaty from helping Mr. Klauson mend a fence, and we were sharing a bottle of root beer. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They had a bottle they passed between them, and Leroy staggered when he walked down the old barbed-wire fence, gathering tumbleweed tangled in the bottom wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no grandstands; people drove their cars and trucks up to the edge of the fence and sat in their front seats or on the front fenders, drinking beer and looking on. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters hung from trees, perched on fences, stood on cars, and darted about with their usual urgency. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very quickly, fencing became a big part of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On Sunday night, I once more went under the fence to see Mr. Bykovski, carrying Auk I with me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ted was picking up plums from the ground and tossing them over the fence into the neighbor’s yard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, miraculously, Jesse was there, crouching just on the other side of the fence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stared at the muted brown home, a tall chain-link fence rising up around it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have to remind myself that he's still not used to the woods, that it's the scary, forbidden place beyond the fences of District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And they burned every fence and house and barn in sight; the railroads they bent up like hairpins—over two hundred miles of’em.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the fall when I played volleyball, I still had fencing practice in New York City at the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Making a calculation that was short on information and long on aspiration, Shin told himself he had a ninety percent chance of getting through the fence and a ten percent chance of getting shot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Technically I wouldn’t be earning a salary—instead I received a training stipend from USA Fencing, the official organizing body of fencing in the United States. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, he crawls back under the fence, dragging his loot and grinning. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I likened the top sixteen fencers in the world to superheroes, insanely fast, mesmerizing to watch, and lucky enough to not even have to fence the first day of World Cup competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I went over and sat down on the grass behind him, putting my back against a fence post. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, not more than a few feet away on the other side of the enclosure fence, is Otto. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, as she came out of the woods from Mr. Ages’ house and reached the farmyard fence she thought about Timothy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of her fenced yard were planks, a sawhorse, and a big circular saw. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

You'd walk by the garden, covered with snow, just the fence tops sticking out, and you'd try to remember it back in July. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After fencing, one of the hired men, a former apothecary's apprentice named Richard, instructed us in the art of painting our faces. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Nobody runs away from here. We don't need a fence. Know why? Because we've got the only water for a hundred miles. You want to run away? You'll be buzzard food in three days." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Finally we arrived at a place where the perimeter fence was cut through,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look like I’m hanging around, waiting for someone at the ghetto fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I can feel the vibrations from the tracks in the fence behind me—the train is almost upon us, its sound like a scream. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were fencing terms, some were peculiar to London, some were the jargon of the players' trade. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the horses were midway down the first pass through the homestretch, the crowd suddenly gushed over the infield retaining fence ten feet inside the track rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he followed the cattle too closely or pushed them too fast, they might break and scatter; they might miss the opening in the fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Restive, he stalked the fences on his lame leg. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Robert climbed over that fence, filled a bucket with peaches. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And now he was walking past the trees, through a gap in the enclosure fence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dad squatted outside the fence opposite the cheetah. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Flora ran through the tall grass and cleared the fence between her yard and the Tickhams’ in a single bound. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was wood everywhere: in fences; as cooking spits; laid down in walkways over muddy patches; and in big stacks by the fires. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

First night after dinner, Jacob Little showed me how to bring the cows into the barn, or, if the weather was good, to leave them be but check on the fences. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my worst days, fencing was my therapy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But the evil was all about, hidden behind the brush fence, crouched beside the house in the shadow, hovering in the air. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have any role models to look up to who looked like me in fencing, and there weren’t any other Muslim women wearing hijab at the elite levels of sport to inspire my quest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I stash my weapons in the hollow log nearest my old home in the Seam and head for the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And set four hundred eighty rods of fence?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the bull smelled the cow he jumped his pasture fence and came towards the truck. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After volleyball practice, I reminded Nicole and Ana that fencing tryouts were coming up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At the very least, the border patrol would keep an eye on that particular area of the river in case anyone else tried sneaking through that gap in the fence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fence was strong, but it always needed repair, and an angry tiger could claw open a small tear in no time. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I waited while Roy Lee leaned on the fence and had a bout of general fidgeting, clearing his throat, squinting, running his hand through his hair, and so forth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Quickly telephone to Helmholtz Watson.” “. . . upwards of five thousand kilometres of fencing at sixty thousand volts.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she noticed a collapsed fence running along the edge of the marsh. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silas slowed for a heartbeat, then leapt to the fence to gain access to the roof and his furry meal. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the buck tied to the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She missed me; the force of her blow was so strong that she fell down the steps, headlong, her aged body wedged in a narrow space between the fence and the bottom step. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of my parents’ house were white balloons, tied off on either side of the white fence’s gate, floating arrows that pointed us up to the open front door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They fenced them off, boarded them up, and some even hired security firms to walk around the perimeter and make sure no one was looking to survive on corporate-sponsored vacancy. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Like me, she was relentless on the strip, but she was always able to leave fencing behind once she took off her mask and carry on with life in a loving way. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Because I happened to be standing next to the bus driver, who was Black, she assumed the two of us were together and not part of the Duke fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take them long to learn where the electric fence was strung. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

One day he was leaning on the stone fence, arms crossed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

"You can put up a thousand warning signs and still they jump the fence." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Union soldiers are digging trenches and fortifications along the road and reinforcing them with fallen trees and fence rails to protect themselves from rebel bullets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sealed away behind an electrified fence during the 1990s, Shin was unaware that millions of his countrymen were desperately hungry. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And I remember that hole, or whatever it was, I saw at the fence before Soheil got in that scuffle with the guard. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was headed straight for the rough branches of the bush on our side of the fence. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A gate in the fence hung open on crooked hinges. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It looked inhabited; there was a strong fence before the entrance. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell reversed out of the parking spot, and curiously this time the fence post didn't even touch his vehicle. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Without realizing it, Axel has followed Byrd from the field back to the fence, back to Frank. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After a while, we started climbing on top of the fence so we’d get better aim and make sure our rocks landed in the water every time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Birds sang in the leafing hazel bushes along the crooked rail fence. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow seeing that deer there thrashing around, trying to free itself from the fence, made my blood boil. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I check the spot at the fence every day in August. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The teachers couldn’t stop us from hysterically rushing to the fence and clinging to the wire mesh. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of fences and unpassable hedges rose around him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She turns the boat toward the shore and suddenly I can see my Liars waiting, not on the dock but by the weathered wooden fence that runs along the perimeter path. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a royal photographer right on the other side of the fence, so he smiles winningly and says through his teeth, “Let’s get it over with.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No fences, no fields of crops, and no signs of any kind of settlement or people except for the dusty road itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Floating toward him parallel to the fence is a black boy astride a mule. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six seconds later Lavadie called, wanting to know could he shoot her or not, because she went through a fence on his property and zigzagged around a field, killed a couple of sheep, then left.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the three girls and Marshall squeezed through the fence to Egypt, where Ken and Toby were already waiting, a great deal of the necessary background material was already beginning to take shape. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more, I find myself hovering at the edge of the schoolyard, always with an excuse, like picking avocadoes from the trees by the fence, or pasturing the cow. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was doing so well with the saber, Coach Mustilli mentioned the idea of me entering some of the local and regional fencing competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I believe I still lost a line or two during the riveting fencing match, but no one would miss them. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed through a hole in the chain-link fence he had discovered that morning and ran into the iceberg- lettuce farm next to the apartment building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of them have white picket fences. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He’d copied the yard and house perfectly: the uneven wooden fence, the listing palm trees, the open scuttle window upstairs. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drugs were hid-den in tennis balls painted grass green and thrown over the double rows of twelve-foot fences and into the exercise yards. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Halfway to the end she darted to one side and pulled me after her, both of us ducking under a line of sheets and hopping a chicken-wire fence into the yard of a little cottage. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was always a bit awkward to fence against one’s own teammate, but it was a casualty of war. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Once she’s inside, I cross to the other side of the street, then easily and quickly monkey up and over the fence. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Coach Mustilli said he wants me to start going to some local fencing competitions,” I announced. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And the shadow of a man behind the ghetto fence sits down in the doorway and cries. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rosalita sits in her usual lawn chair, in front of the fence at the community garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Once a storm blew down the fence to the Turner property, and a neighbor’s cow wandered onto their land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Caleb and I jumped over the fence and found the animals huddled by the barn. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

As a journalist, I found it edifying to experience things from the other side of the fence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere right along here,” Justin remarked, “we’re entering the woods. You’ll notice the tunnel runs a bit crooked. We had to bend it to go around tap roots—some as thick as fence posts.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were enormous, pungent, and hoary beasts, and Ishmael and Hatsue stopped to stare at one rubbing his hindquarters against a fence post. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had enough of what they needed, and the mine was closed, but the barbed-wire fences and the guards remained until August 1945. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed, and I looked, and there was Old Yeller jumping the rock fence and racing toward the pea patch. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly something crashed against the fence in front of the boy’s face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded Mia, oddly, of herself at around that age, traipsing through the neighborhood, climbing over fences and walls in search of the right photograph, defiantly spending her mother’s money on film. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

A fence separated them and Anne was sick with typhus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We walked along past this fence until we reached a gate. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sadly, we had to end our fencing matches when we were issued new M-l rifles. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of the fight Trip managed to break his sword, hide under a lady’s dress, fence with a sausage, and perform such fantastical acrobatics that it’s a miracle he didn’t seriously injure himself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Garbage littered a front lawn enclosed by a rusted chain-link fence. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He already had his eye pressed against a hole in the school’s tall wooden fence. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Shin did not know if touching wires in the fence would kill them, although he worried about it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was so nervous that I wasn’t fencing my game. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The girl takes a sharp turn behind one of the tents, down a passageway Bailey had not even noticed, and there is the fence again, and the field outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, Roberto and I crossed the fence earlier than usual to wait for the Noon Train. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I force myself out of my trancelike state and run toward the fence from the inside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The window is so close I have to pull it open while I’m only halfway through the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hear someone behind me step over the knee-high fence, but I can’t take my eyes from the light that wants to both pull me in and lock me out at the same time. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He just sat on a box against the fence and watched with big sad eyes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small gate in the high chain-link fence led out into open tiger territory. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She entered the fenced area and shooed the thankless chickens to one side, blocking them with a large board Papa kept just for cleaning day. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I climb on the chain link fence. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We fenced them out of the fields, but never into a pasture; we had no pastures. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benches are lined against a metal fence, and the gray-blue water immediately draws me in. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, the fencing world gets better today,” hollers Trey, opening the nylon bags. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before I know it, I’m over the fence, and hustling down a pitch-dark alley, one in which girls get bludgeoned with chisels. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At the other side of this field there’s another fence, a higher one, and he scales this too. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk around the backstop fence and sit down on the bench in the dugout, my back against the aluminum wall, warmed by the sunlight, and I cry. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

"And those children along the fence down there?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yard is thick with trees and bushes, and surrounded by a tall metal fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from where Nhamo squatted outside the fence, she could smell the rich aroma of meat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of fence that keeps some people out and some people in. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’d crutched over field and woods, through mud and gravel, up hills and down rock faces, over stone walls and under fences. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ignatius scrutinized the offerings furiously for a while all by himself, for the ladies had stepped back from the fence and had formed what looked like a protective little grouping. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Need to patch up a few spots over behind the barn next,” called Mr. Babkow, fastening the fencing to its post. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Winnie, the only child of the house, never went there, though she sometimes stood inside the fence, carelessly banging a stick against the iron bars, and looked at it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mitchell shouted as Ricky drove his dirt bike into the field on the other side of the boys’ fence. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I wriggle through the opening at the bottom of the fence and come up in the Meadow, just a stone’s throw from my home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I started fencing, though, both of my parents could tell I was serious. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We’ve been hanging out, doing our best to escape the claustrophobia of living behind a guarded electric fence—gabbing, taking circuitous walks around the camp, meeting other kids who have nothing to do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The ball landed in the second-base dust and rolled all the way to the fence in center field. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not get to the Reveres’ front door, but by climbing a few fences he reached their kitchen door, and knocked softly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then another drunk started out from the fence with a blouse in his hands. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then another baby spider crawled to the top of the fence, stood on its head, made a balloon, and sailed away. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And the heap would roll down the slope and lodge against the fence, like the scarecrow rolled along a bean row until it caught in the brambles at the edge of the garden. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can teach me, and then when we play Hamlet, you can be Laertes, and we’ll make a fine thing of the fencing scene.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longshoremen, or fences for them, would come into the bars selling guns, cameras, perfumes, watches, and the like, stolen from the shipping docks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cowboy rounded up the cattle in Lalao’s finca, and on her side of the fence, Doña Ana led her cow to the shack behind her house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the open market was a towering wooden building with four separate roofed sections and fenced- in courtyards. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traft’s help in the field had brought up a memory of me and Charlie painting half the fences in Arlington that one summer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

To confirm I got electrocuted by the fence or trapped in the woods so they could take my family in for questioning. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One had a log fence around it and another, a small garden. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The wind here was really powerful, and a gust pulled at me so hard, I had to reach for the fence post. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody climbed to the top of the fence and hung his feet over and looked paternally down at the mare. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is not the same thing as knowing what’s outside the fence.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I get over the fence Seven tosses the ball to me and climbs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For the edification of the fence gossipers, he would later describe what he had seen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Keeth had parlayed his skills and work ethic from fencing into an MBA from Columbia University and a job in the financial sector. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We stood huddled by the fence, dreading the inevitable as we watched both the Quinceañera and her mother freeze in their tracks. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I’d asked about all the rock fences weaving drunkenly along others’ fields, Perilee had provided an answer straight from the Bible. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli kept Rachel and me there fencing with each other for the next hour, and I began to get the hang of working with my new weapon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s half the fence team, as well as a few folks from the patrols.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I asked of an older boy leaning with me against the fence and watching the group of men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My leg gets caught on a wire as I climb over a fence, cutting me sharp. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While the dogs groaned and gasped the fence was cut and the mob poured in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His arms were folded, now, and he seemed of a piece with the split-rail fence behind him—numb, brown and inconsequential. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The miners started to climb over the fence to help her, but she told them to stop, dared them to take a step farther. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tied him with rope and then with big thick rawhide string that I cut from a cowhide hanging across the top rail of the yard fence. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the longest time he’s had a small, elite team, but now everyone wants to fence. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We’re closing the distance between us and the fence quickly—but just before we do, Henry suddenly hits the brakes, bailing, the way I bail from halfpipes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now that Faizah was fencing, she could help my parents understand the intricacies of competitions and explain that making the round of sixteen at an international competition was a huge achievement. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the waterway, the bright orange mesh fence barricaded the islands of the reserve. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fire ran along the dry grass and leaves, and took hold of a neighbor’s fence. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

With that they shoved Marshall through the hole in the fence and crawled in after him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning back, I realize the minivan is against the fence. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The town wasn’t far ahead, so I put my stick to the fence and continued walking. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In a flurry of jangling keys and heavy breathing, Manny shut down the industrial lights and let them out of the iron fence around the Junklot. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I watched women seemingly fill every available space, running, stretching, fencing, warming up for this, the first World Cup of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The woman who churned a man’s blood as she leaned all alone on a fence by a country road might not expect even to catch his eye in the City. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his friends, woken up by this cry, leapt to their feet and ran towards the fence of tree trunks, beating drums and shouting threats at the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

At that moment I hopped off the fence and ran as fast as I could along the warning track until I was well past the propeller, then I circled around to the passenger side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We leaned on the fence and watched the horses go by, their hoofs thudding as they went past, and saw the mountains off in the distance and Milan beyond the trees and the fields. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Alex dove after her and tried to squeeze under the fence, but he was too big. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I said good night to Roy Lee and moved away from the fence and walked to the apple tree, wanting to be near Daisy Mae. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had always spent his Saturday evenings taking the week’s earnings to various fences throughout Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It would have taken maybe six flatbed trucks to get all the fencing to the station. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I ducked around the corner into the narrow passage with the fence post. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually we came to an old iron fence covered with a tangle of weeds and shrubs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most fencers take a break from training in the summer since the fencing season runs from October through June, but when Akhi came back in early June, we got right down to business. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The family had fled the first day the riots broke out, and had left three vicious dogs to guard their property behind a high fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the back fence she’d strung a hammock between two palm trees that looked over a lazy canal. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A waist-high fence made of swamp-wood posts stretched around the hut’s perimeter. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I feel like I'm eleven again, tethered not to the safety of the fence but to Peeta, allowing myself twenty, maybe thirty yards of hunting space. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a night’s work, Joe silently delivered the fruit jars full of the good stuff to the fence posts of his own discreetly cultivated clients. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Outside that particular window was a small storage yard surrounded by a high board fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I’d been so thankful that Uncle Chester had laid in the fencing supplies. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He skirts by the orange plastic barrier, then jumps toward the fence, like he’s going to scale it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, right, nothing looks the same, and there are all those fences...,” he murmured. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We marched in silence, along the line of the fence rails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I snort as we cross through a gate in the fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

At first glance, it looked like an idyllic pastoral setting—except there were guards in Nazi uniforms on the premises and a stone wall with a barbed-wire fence surrounding it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I could not get through the opening under the fence, so I cut the bindings and lifted out two of the whale ribs and thus took him into the house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you were so little that you couldn’t reach the stirrups without climbing up on a fence or big rock, these details were important. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The best part, the doll would come dressed in a fencing uniform with a hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

All of ’em had to have a stoop and a picket fence and a flower garden out front and had to be exactly ten paces off the road. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

While fencing was still my priority, using my opportunity as an Olympian to unify and to lead was the greatest call-to-action of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I slowed still more, my shadow pacing me, dragging its head through the weeds that hid the fence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having expected childlike natives, empty vessels waiting to be filled by the Word, the Franciscans instead found themselves fencing with skilled rhetoricians, proud of their intellectual traditions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The steps to prevent drowning, meanwhile, are pretty straightforward: a watchful adult, a fence around the pool, a locked back door so a toddler doesn’t slip outside unnoticed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance on the other side of the fence, I see the steps that lead up to the recreation yard. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa gripped the fence until the wood groaned. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the fence, we see the Dauntless standing in our headlight beams, blocking the gate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Blank-faced burrowing owls perched unblinking on fence posts, watching him pass. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She led them along the narrow space between her house and next door’s fence, and stood back while they looked at the sandbags at the foot of the back door. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Slinking along side streets and back alleys, I make my way to the weak spot in the fence closest to Rooba the butcher’s. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I got closer to the fence I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was clear that both of our teams had lost in the semifinals and now would fence off for bronze, but they looked as if they struggled to move past their loss. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My parents had bought me my own fencing equipment after my first year on the team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was led to the dare, the men’s meeting place, which was surrounded by a sketchy fence. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t leave the fence,” Byrd calls after him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each fencer had to fence three bouts, one against each of the members of the other team in the same weapon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Abby lets her arms hang over the side of the fence, leaning in to watch. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

If it was a mild day, Miss Bessie would be mooing nervously, from across the fence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bergen-Belsen's yawning fences curl us back into the den where thousands still wait in limbo for an answer to the question, where? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was also a sheep corral with reflective aluminum panels as fencing, unlike the barbed wire of Nali’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But the fence was apparently not built with the express purpose of keeping ten-year-old boys out, for while the bars are solid, they are spread almost a foot apart. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soon the fire was nibbling at this peaceful strip, igniting the fence that ran along Clark Street, as well as trees and shrubs and the furniture brought there for safety. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

So much for thinking I was done fencing! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bigger, the people who hate you feel just as you feel, only they’re on the other side of the fence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He set the hawk on the top slat of the fence in front of the church, tethering the bird with its leather leg straps so it wouldn’t fly away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He crawled over a fence, found some rice straw, and dug in for the night. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I can’t tell you how much I appreciate everything you’ve done for us,” Mamá said, her eyes misting over again, as she stood just inside our fenced yard, shaking Special Agent Gonzales’s hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her fingers caught the strands of a wire fence, the fence that separated Miss Rachel’s garden from the Finch back yard. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A portable electric fence kept them from roaming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Now, we had been working from sunrise till noon dragging fence posts. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d hop over the short fence, open a gate, and use the two tough dogs to terrorize Fred into going for a little ride. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He found a few books where he had left them, near the garden fence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milligan, disguised as a gray-haired gardener in a straw hat, puttered gloomily about the iron fence, tending to the rose bushes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I run along the inner side of the fence, as close as I can get, calling out David’s name, but the sounds of helicopter blades and sirens mute my screams in the blizzard of dust. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I launched into my abbreviated life story where I highlighted my academic achievements and my success in fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He knew the prosecutors were on the fence, at best, about charging Reggie with negligent homicide. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead of fencing, there was a war of the Dozens between Danny the K and me. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Away from the fences, the armed guards, and the strange sense of threat that pervaded Sayle Enterprises, it was as if he were breathing fresh air for the first time in days. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the model homes area—four houses surrounded by the same white picket fence—and pulled off my glasses to clean them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our patch of dirt sat not far from the southern fence along E Street, where tourists often congregated to gaze up at the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A posthole digger, shovels, a few bags of quick-set concrete, large buckets with lids, a role of fencing wire, pliers, and a couple of hammers were piled on the ground near the bushes. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every time she climbed the fence she would see him making himself something to eat in his kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The long ride to Kansas and back had Papa drawn down till he was as thin and knotty as a fence rail. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a rusted shovel and experimentally scooped some away from the fence line. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We had fenced many times before, both in individual and in team matches, at World Cups and at World Championships. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Arnold Jones was being hoisted in the air above Finsterwald’s backyard fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli never made the kids who didn’t get to fence feel like we weren’t integral members of the team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The woods on the other side of the barbed wire fence burst with birdsong. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were houses very grand and old, with white columns and intricate fences of wrought iron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time Shin crawled through the electric fence, there was a well-established human smuggling network with tentacles that reached deep inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dock was a high chain-link gate and the fence that surrounded the ranger station. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a fence of sharp black teeth he glimpsed the furnace glow, the shimmer of a sleeping fire a hundred times brighter than his torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ducking backward through a fence, Herbie caught a sleeve on a barb, tearing the shirt in his panic to reach safety. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dived to one side and, too late, the driver saw the fence and rocketed on, straight into it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, Duke beat out NYU and Columbia as my top choice because Duke offered me the most money in academic scholarship funding and they recruited me to be on their fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I take photos all around: an herb garden planted in a giant cowboy boot; bicycles chained to the fences; a nautical steering wheel hung on a rail, splitting the sun into triangles on the ground. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They erect barriers and fences, hammer up giant gates. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Now these would look nice on the back fence. They’d screen off the slough. I wonder if there’s enough sun.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The reason I was standing way up on Thomsen Hill, instead of down at the game, was because I'd just got back from New York with the fencing team. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Jonathan climbed the fence and joined the Hessians. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I climbed down, I tied him to the fence. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile and a half of iron fencing dating from the 1750s had been taken away to be melted down to make Spitfires. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had torn the fence out of the ground. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I ran as fast as I could to the far fence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bernabe carried the ash drawer from his kitchen stove out to the chicken pen and dumped the ashes over the fence so the chickens could fluff it into their feathers and kill mites. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was able to take eight steps between the sides of the fence, which gave me all the room I would need to store the things I gathered and wished to protect. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old field at the community center was fenced off and private. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The more he broke, the easier it was to unthread the fence, and soon he’d created a hole big enough to drive through. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Texans who bought the land fenced it and posted signs in English and Spanish warning trespassers to keep out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I wasn’t going to leave my fencing home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One says the kid from nowhere hopped the fence, hopped it without ever laying a hand on it to boost himself over. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no sound within the bounds of the curling iron fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That was when the fence around his house had to be rebuilt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it ain’t the country home with yellow shutters and white picket fence that I pictured. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later April was taking the old-fashioned elevator, with its door like a folding iron fence, down to the lobby. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I wonder if I’m actually going to let Max and Danuta and Henek go hungry because I’m scared of a fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So, of course, I made application and donned my warrior garb because it reminded me of the forbidden fences of segregation in Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She danced, and I leaned against the fence. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“She said weddings mend fences. But I’m guessing you won't want to come.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I look down, I remember why Gale and I always waited in the woods rather than try to tackle the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day in early 2009, almost a year to the day since I’d committed myself to fencing, something happened that would completely change the trajectory of my career. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t even have guards near the fence until five years ago,” says Will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nah, it was something. Tell you what, don’t climb the fence. Go round to the entrance. And I bet’ not beat y’all there.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Now the guards were shooting the pepper spray through the fencing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The fence sometimes relayed tips as to where we could find good loot. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A squat public bathroom stood in the corner, surrounded by a chain-link fence. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The house, surrounded by a chain-link fence, was off-white with dark brown trim. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He went up the hill to the second street, went through a gate in a high board fence and was not seen again until evening. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday afternoon Billy Buck, the ranch-hand, raked together the last of the old year’s haystack and pitched small forkfuls over the wire fence to a few mildly interested cattle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking to the fence, I notice the woman is younger than Mom, with short, brown hair and sunglasses so dark I can’t see her eyes. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched uncomfortably as he and Hand Clap each grabbed a box of our belongings and walked into the alley between the iron fence of the house and the tenement next door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tournament was held at a fencing club, and when we walked in the door there were already tons of people inside. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“If the cat comes, he’ll knock you off the fence with one jump and catch you with the next. Be still.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The winter was half over before I finished the house, but I slept there every night and felt secure because of the strong fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It closed quietly after his mother bid him goodbye, and he jogged up to Esperanza, the chain-link fence screeching as she shut the gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s something sweet and salty on the other side of this fence, Duke!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the distance was a dark mansion and he was pleased to see a rosebush near the fence bursting with red blooms. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He crawled under the fence and wandered around without ever being challenged, thereby exposing an enormous hole in the security fabric of the nation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A red sports car zooms by on the road, puddle- spraying our fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fence loomed up behind them, its top wire humming and crackling in the dry air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forever painting his house and the white picket fence in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been working for the last hour, racing the sun to get this section of fence fixed, and I was exhausted. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pickett sat on the rail fence like old Baldy Ewell riding the horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house's fence shields me from view, but through the cracks I can see the soldiers waiting out side the door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Today, like a miracle, I could see fencing clearer than I’d seen anything before. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A gate in the first fence opens to admit us, and then a gate in the second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You could break right through an electric fence if you were strong enough to handle the current for a second. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hunkered down on the bluff, we could see the fellow heading for the Clemson fence line. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of sleepy snow birds rose from the thick cane, flitted over, and settled in a row on the old rail fence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at once, steer number 534 moseyed over to the fence and made eye contact with me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We face the crowd near the fence and raise our fists. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It all had to do with what side of a fence you were born on. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Loomis worked for us off and on all my life—milking till I got big enough, plowing the garden till I got big enough, fixing fences and chopping wood till I got big enough. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They waited for the sheriff to leave, but he leaned back against the fence and whittled away at his block of wood. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Past the fence, the house stood straight and ruled as it had for two centuries—maybe more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Adria and I jumped down from the fence, dropped our rocks in the rose garden, and ran back inside our house as fast as we could. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just beyond it, in the opposite direction, is a thatched hut surrounded by a white fence. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It charged against the fence, setting up a clamor that would rouse anyone in the house, Dicey thought. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to fence in ten minutes, but a referee was questioning her paperwork. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She left the fence and went back into the cottage. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the churchyard fence, intent on trying out the whipping powers of his fearsome tail upon a few rats that he had dubbed “the awkward squad.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Two of them are from the other side of the fence, Liam’s neighborhood. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Back at the fence, the judge stood and looked around for a few minutes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to win so badly for her, for my parents, and for all of the people who had been following my fencing career and found hope in my success. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne began to walk slowly to the northern end of the runway beside the wire fence that paralleled the strip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We move through the woods until the view of the fence has been obscured. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We started in the backyard with the fence and the trees, then moved on to the drainpipe that ran up the side of the house. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was just digging another hole under another fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fairgrounds’ new fence, turmoil and grief engulfed Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I move away from the road, toward the chain link fence that surrounds a vacant lot. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things about losing in the semifinals was that you had to be ready to fence off for bronze. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rondell looked to me, but I just did the same thing as Mong, stood against the fence, a ways down from him so I didn’t have to smell his puke. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He still had the strength to crush me, but I slowly backed him into the fence. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pushed close against the planks of the fence. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That afternoon they rebuilt the fence, hoping that it would stop the creature from visiting their fields that night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On weekends we often took hikes beyond the fence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fixing the fence wasn’t going to stop it. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Outside, the yard was an ocean of green grass, punctuated only by a clothesline, a barbecue, a hedge along one fence, and an assortment of fruit trees and vegetable patches. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the team competition, all three members of our team would fence against the three members of the opposing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He looks up again for a longer moment, then goes back to hammering the fence post. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come up here. I see a fence cutter!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

What he remembers most clearly about crawling through the fence was that Park’s body smelled like it was burning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had never before seen bams and fences, farmhouses and outbuildings, so carefully painted. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately, I’d found myself praying mostly in times of distress, when classes felt too hard, when the members of my fencing team were giving me a hard time, or when I was homesick. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Eventually, after a few months or so, I got bored enough with the sneaking about to jump the barrier fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The electric fence was the outer ring, protecting the world from us freaks. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My heart sinks when I see the rows of high metal fencing topped with barbed wire surrounding the camp. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he was off the horse and over the laundry yard fence, pulling me to him before I could take another breath. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We whooped and hollered and made so much noise as we fenced with our rifles that Corporal Radant finally told us to do our bayonet practice outside. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The face of the gym teacher showed both compassion and alarm as she quietly pointed to a group of women some distance away, jumping over the rear fence as they shouted obscenities at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pool itself was cracked and unsafe, the pool house crumbling, and the fencing rusted and falling down. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He’ll notice I’m gone for sure if the cows break through the fence looking for water.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Through the breaks in the dense tree line, Taylor glimpsed men behind a barbed wire fence carrying guns. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Four nights I slept on the rock, and every morning I left the hole under the fence open so he could leave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. It doesn’t need to be full of air for very long. Just long enough for me to kick it to the ghetto fence.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tall, blonde, and the child of Olympic rowers, Mariel was the most decorated American fencer, male or female, and had been fencing since she was ten. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I swung myself over the fence and fell to the earth like a sack of logs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever night this was, he still had a big hole cut in their fence, and he had to find the cattle and get them out before the fence riders found the break. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are even sites where fences and obstacles were erected in order to create artificial traps and slaughtering grounds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans were lined behind the fence, standing in a dark row like cemetery stones against the blue-gray sky. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk Sarah cut Calebs hair on the front steps, gathering his curls and scattering them on the fence and ground. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Among his many exploits, he paddled his canoe up a river to the Fijian village of Kasavu, halted less than a pistol shot’s length from the village fence, and fired away at the undefended inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I just kept looking out the window until all at once there on my right was a white picket fence and a meadow, fresh and green as if it had just this minute been created. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His team would spend several days with the men in the village, inside the fence made of enormous bamboo stakes or barbed wire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of fencing blades clashing and loud chatter filled the room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every weekend, Dad drives Trey and me to fencing practice. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As for fencing, I figured that part of my life was over. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From the onset of the fencing match between Hamlet, and Laertes until Hamlet's death, I believe I did not commit to paper more than ten lines. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I would have done if Faizah hadn’t been there to help with my fencing bag and other luggage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The dense bushes along the fences, where many birds lived, had been clipped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once in a great while, the stick got a lucky hit, but the Goddess Kwan Yin was again merciful and sent the ball nowhere near the fence. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone drew back slightly as Hagrid reached them and tethered the creatures to the fence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“And I heard one of the moms say he is ‘over the fence and long gone’ from his mom drinking too much when he was the size of a peanut. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The power plant that electrified the fence was left unguarded. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we had done was blow up a fence and stink up Coalwood with our failures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan stood before the fence, desperately wanting not to go. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was tying the bean tendrils to the wire fence I had built when I saw a quiver in the leaves of the pumpkins. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the fire broke through the circle of engines, it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to maintaining an A average, taking all honors and AP classes, and playing on the volleyball and fencing teams, I had to go to the foundation three days a week, plus Saturdays. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a fence, it’s a sensor wire. You get within twenty meters of it and the Specials will know you’re there. Same goes if you touch the ground inside it.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I fantasized about leaving the fencing team and embarking on some other adventure. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Along what had been country lanes rich with berries, high wire fences and mile-long factories stretched, and the yellow smoke of progress hung over all, fighting the sea winds’ efforts to drive them off. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think they know about the fence,” I whispered. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smith’s neighbour’s children kept on casting curious glances over the fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma comes around to the trunk of the pine tree, unfastens the wire that holds the fencing closed, and lets herself in. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around them, he built a fence and painted it, also using supplies from the city dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I came to the edge of the bridge and was sort of surprised how there wasn’t any fence. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The wall of faded paper took a beating as the wind blew through the fences, ripping some of the more decrepit sheets free and making others flutter like hummingbird wings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Behind it was a latrine, which was a one-rail fence with buckets under it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I ran uphill and down, clambering over the stone and rail fences that divided the pastures. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drive past the fences and stop by the front doors, which are no longer manned by guards. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A neat row of daffodils lined up like soldiers along the edge of the chicken-wire fence that surrounded the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Leaning over a fence staring at nothing in particular. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning one of the boys who looked after the plants saw that a great hole had been torn through the fence of thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I cross the room and stand in front of the windows, staring at what we can see of the compound, which is just more of the same glass and steel, pavement and grass and fences. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the far side of that fence, the terrain cants steeply down, but it is not too steep to be traversed by foot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Director takes a step back to eye the press and the hundreds of Occupiers on the other side of the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As the years passed and his coal company prospered, Mr. Carter had concrete sidewalks poured, the streets paved, and the town fenced to keep cows from roaming the streets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment things got riotous, with everyone shouting and mimicking touching electric fences. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fencing was new and of high quality. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hopped the fence and merged with the line of people winding up the path toward the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie leaned against the fence, her hands gripping the warm metal of the bars, and thought about Mae behind another set of bars in the jailhouse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been observed, Miss Podgórska, going back and forth from the ghetto. We have seen you passing goods at the fence. We have seen your sister at the fence...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He quit the team before my junior year, leaving me as the only Black person on Duke’s fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He scaled a low wooden fence and dropped into scrubby brush. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Luster came away from the flower tree and we went along the fence and they stopped and we stopped and I looked through the fence while Luster was hunting in the grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting artificial habitat was meant only for humans and 'their' plants and animals, and was often fenced off by walls and hedges. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the fence, at the corner of an apartment block, a man is standing in the shadows. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli had grown his program and his footprint in the fencing world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then, in the evening, Max would whistle or cough, sneeze or sing, letting me know there were no police, and I would pass him food through the weak place in the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of com letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

John nearly pulled us both off, but we had a lot of ground to cover to catch up to Horace Danver before he cut the fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Marly saw them trotting along the tops as if they thought the fences were their own special little highways. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the fence, went to the house and up to the attic as quickly as I could and stuffed everything into my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A gap in the fence is a magnet. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The yard was bordered with a chain link fence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It came racing toward me through a field and over a rail fence, barking and growling. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not far beyond the fence there is tree cover. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Nancy picked up a stone, throwing it at a magpie on a nearby fence post. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A foot-high fence surrounded an area that was maybe fifteen feet by fifteen feet. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now in Juba there were no trash collectors, so people threw their trash outside the fences that surrounded their homes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Frenchified shotgun house, it sported a magnificent garden in the back and a tiny wrought-iron fence in the front. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They saw farmland give way to fenced lots and cobblestone streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a fence right there,” she said, pointing to a wooden patch we’d hit just after crossing the parkway. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Skulking along the fence trying to whistle her out like a puppy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the dirty window, I could see part of the overpass bridging the two Nogaleses and the chainlink fence separating the two cities. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even though I was still busy fencing, it was so much fun bringing Louella to life because I knew there was such a strong need for it within the Muslim community. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Three silly men who had drunk too much beer for lunch decided to climb over the high fence surrounding the pit, and of course they fell in. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I committed myself to fencing again, my life became a nonstop hustle to support my training. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His words were exactly what made me worry, as I wandered the ghetto beneath moonlight instead of streetlights because the electricity was out, back to the loose place in the barbed wire fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were extra careful with the barbed wire that they installed on the top and bottom of the fence, wire that could easily tear them open. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It placed Shin and Park within a stone’s throw of the fence that ran along the spine of the mountain. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It used to go with Bunny and me on long, grueling rambles through the countryside every Sunday, over fences and streams, through bogs and pastures. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finn saw a crumbling porch first; then a weedy, overgrown yard; and then the tall fences blocking off the houses on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I see the compound, shaped like the picture of a neuron I once saw in my science textbook, and the fence that surrounds it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a fence for as far as he could see, but there was a line of poles that could have supported a fence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to set up a goose fence around my grave, he thought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walter Johnson, maybe with the best fastball in the game, could drive a nail in a fence post from sixty feet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Use this time to jump the fence your mother says the Carters put up to keep Ms. Winston's little kids from playing in their pool that we're not sure exists. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Aside from the guards between the fences, there are few people outside. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was hedged in low stone fences and went up hills and down hills and around hills. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The line was so long that it wound all around the big, grassy courtyard, all around the tall barbed-wire fence and snaked all the way down the wide, tarred road. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ended up throwing a bunch of them at some bottles I set up on a fence. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I had to put that out of my mind, 'cause over the very next fence waited the most dangerous garden of all. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If the only problems on the fencing team were about certain girls not wanting to be my friends, I wouldn’t have minded that much, but the real issues at play were laced with racial undertones. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Usually the only sounds you heard at fencing tournaments were the primal grunts and yells from the fencers themselves on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Behind the school a high board fence separated girlside from boyside, and the back of the play yard was bounded by a slough of standing water in which tall tules and even cattails grew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time black children had been allowed inside the fences there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, we were in tight quarters, with Fang and the fence behind us and the table in front, and every so often the magnets collided. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Old Dan would rear up on a large hackberry tree that was standing about seven feet from the fence and bawl treed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max stays at the apartment because it’s too close to curfew to make it safely back to the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At first I see nothing but a stretch of farmland, a strip of empty ground, the fence, and the fields and beginnings of buildings that lie beyond it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kids turned and bolted in every direction, some heading back toward the school, others following the edges of the electrified fence, looking for another way out. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sohrab kicked his heels against the fence beneath us and studied the shadows we cast on the ground below. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We stopped by the toolshed for a freshly charged car battery we’d use to power the electrified fence. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He cabled Luther Rice, “...Burnham nor anyone else has any right to dictate whether we shall have a closed or open fence, any more than from an artistic standpoint.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could pace off the length of fence he built in ten strides. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I assumed the electricity for the fence had gone down with the lights. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Every burglar knew that fences robbed the burglars worse than the burglars had robbed the victims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the other kids talked about qualifying for the Junior Olympics like it was the pinnacle of their fencing career. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The police outside the fence turn their heads over their shoulders to look at us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On the way out here, we had picked our way through an inner, double-strung bobbed wire fence and the interior fence, which boasts five lines of wire. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As expected, the gossip fence had instantly informed their parents about our assault on the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They marched her to the rabbit pen, where about forty handcuffed Smokies sat inside the wire fence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian had us trapped between the fence and a thicket of bushes and vines heaped with snow. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We followed behind him until we reached a barbed wire fence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dry, fragile leaves dance around his feet, drawn in through the fence by the wind. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We made it to the trees, and through the fence, and to my bike. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mom was outside leaning on the fence, gossiping with Mrs. Sharitz, when suddenly our chimney erupted with smoke and sparks like a small volcano. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Shell comes over, knocks me back onto this fence of corrugated tin.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I passed the house and inconspicuously parked next door, just in front of their neighbor’s fence, away from the lights strung on trees and all around the dead man’s yard. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Finn leaned on the handle of his shovel and pointed past the fence. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was slowed by the fence, but not stopped. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The streets are fenced off, so that no cars other than ours can come through, and a red carpet lines the sidewalk. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the here-and-now those fences are all about keeping people in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One of my fencing strengths has always been my sense of timing and my ability to use the distance and false actions to trick my opponent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Whether Thread knows I left the district today or not, I realize my course of action must be the same: to get back inside the fence unseen and pretend I never left. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two streetlights illuminated the surface of the cracked asphalt, and a tall wire-netting fence rose to their left. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The music rattles The window and Scares the cat out Of one of its lives As it drops From the fence. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her right leg is up on the fence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I followed him over a low white-washed railroad fence and we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boys scrambled over, and Sergio positioned himself as high on the fence as he could. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Winnie had found some pebbles at the base of the fence and, for lack of any other way to show how she felt, had flung one at the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it like an iron fence shutting behind him and scaring his horse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The toad still squatted where she had dropped it, the dog still waited at the fence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, our coaches always say that fencing requires smarts and strength. We know we have the strength, so we have to be smart, too.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The view to either side was of a sort of tunnel with cells defining one wall and a mesh fence overlooking the flats the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a skill like being able to name all the capitals and principal products of South America or recite Scripture or walk on top of a fence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Matt had to do was shut down the electricity to the fence and climb over. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Number two: Do not enter an area that is fenced off. “Number three: No visitors unless you’ve made your request in writing one week prior to the visiting day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near it a dozen graves were outlined in the sand with small stones, and a barbed-wire fence surrounded them to keep back the cattle and the tumbleweed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Commandant!” a man called across the wire fence from the men’s camp. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Mrs. Todd waiting patiently at the next fence beyond. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In five days, I walk past the fence on my way home from work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The new goat, he’d be running headfirst into every fence post. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The SS officers laughed at it and taunted it, and left it tied to the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He crawls under a barbed-wire fence, then under a double strand of smooth wire. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He climbed the high fence, found the two-by-twelve plank that served as a bridge across the slough of dark water, and came out between Lang’s Bakery and the tinsmith’s shop on Castroville Street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I searched near the fence but found no compass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The train slows down when we get closer to the fence, a signal from the driver that we should get off soon. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The first day of school Mami walked me to a stone building that loomed over Graham Avenue, its concrete yard enclosed by an iron fence with spikes at the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It was good. I had a fencing lesson with Coach Mustilli today. He said to tell you hi.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t fenced competitively or trained for almost a year, and I had no intention of hopping back on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Luckily for me, because I was in the top sixteen in the world, I didn’t have to fence until the second day of competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He climbed over the fence and was immediately startled, because he could not see very far ahead, up the field, the mist was quite thick. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed more like Doom Manor than Daffodil Manor, since there wasn’t a flower in sight, just imposing gables and a wrought iron fence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The White House looked much as it does now, but there were no fences around it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was like seeing a gap in a fence. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was tiny, crowded on one side by a school district van and on the other by the chain-link fence that wrapped around the entire property. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I remember walking away to the other side of the park and then turning back and looking through the fence to where he was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and tried to imagine my life at Duke without fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Once there, the fence team checks out the interior fences, while the patrols walk the wall, watching the shamblers boil and froth beneath us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Kids were climbing fences and scaling fire escapes of strangers’ houses, just to see what they could see. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Shin did not know it, but to pass safely through the fence he needed a device that could shunt the flow of current from the fence to the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The shepherd’s got blood on his mouth and jaws, and as Dad takes another step forward, it leaps over the fence, same way it got in, and takes off through the woods. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way would be to climb out the window into the back yard and go over the fence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last few times Cecilia and I had fenced, I had won, but she was very good. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The same cows that had trampled the home-house floor had destroyed several sections of the cemetery fence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I left the cormorants hanging on the fence and went to the rock on the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was one small problem with my new lifestyle; fencing wasn’t free or cheap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a crowd of soldiers along the fence in the infield. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at the fence before the hum makes me remember how very trapped I am. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once she found a nest of baby mice who had frozen in the cold, and she left them by the fence post for the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help alleviate the costs for beginners or for kids whose parents weren’t willing or able to purchase fencing equipment, our high school had equipment for rent, like jackets, knickers, and lames. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I remember the smell of burnt straw; I remember broken fences and tom-up trees and heaps of stone and brick and pottery. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lead us out through the fence and turn around. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then I glance beyond the fence at the sea of people. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I knew at the foundation I was part of one of the best fencing programs in the tri-state area and receiving excellent training in a sport I had grown to love. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As Fudge’s voice started again, Harry darted out from behind his tree, vaulted the fence into the pumpkin patch, and approached Buckbeak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The machine jolted into gullies, lurched and coughed; Amarante bounced out of his seat, clinging for dear life; fence posts splintered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake’s been assigned a fence security detail, so I haven’t seen much of him, either, but when he can slip away without suspicion, he gets me updates. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We sat together looking through the crooked stick fence at the great variety of spurned blossoms in my father’s garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Details of men, in front, were removing white rail fences. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood on the bank, overlooking the tiny beanfield surrounded by desolate land, busted fences, rotting houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the armed riders made little difference because there were miles and miles of fence and two or three hunters could easily slip between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was bright over the mountains and sent a shimmering glow across the yard, making shadows that snaked around the dogwood tree and crept along the garden fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I can’t see stop signs, fences, or sidewalks that I know must be there. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I could fix it quickly with a hoe and a hand cultivator—both were leaning against the fence near the gate where I had left them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Spectators were asked to help and many responded by chopping up fences and sidewalks, hoping to deprive the fire of fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Laila watched a trio of men far below, talking near a cow tethered to a fence. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He would meet me at the fence at seven in the evening. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Zola scrambles over the fence and up the hill and peers in through the straggly wire fencing. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Soon the pins outlined Liyana’s body like a metallic running fence. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The giant crow landed near a familiar forest with the golden fence and gate running around it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To the left, I could see our fields and the zigzag lines of rail fences. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all said and done, I was out on the fencing strip alone, with nothing but my name and country on my uniform. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Only the icy path was left, and the snowbanks along the path and the fence and beside the woodpile. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pauline was leaning idly on the fence, her arms resting on the crossrail between the pickets. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last great storm, the one that Aunt Nancy called the Big One, took out the fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mom showed me where the property started and ended, with rows of bushes like fences. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I make it back to the fence, I’m so sick and dizzy, Thom has to give me a ride home in the dead people’s cart. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Pooh!” said Michael, as they were watching Andrew one day through the fence that separated Number Seventeen from Next Door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Teaching fencing, he sacrificed some of his secret. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As I stood under the warm Brazilian sun, I reminded myself to fence from a place of happiness and gratitude. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The cows on these “farms” spend their time in a fenced lot eating organic grain except for the three times a day they are hooked up to milking machines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ronan is now leaning against a fence in the parking lot with his fists tucked underneath his armpits. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Panting through the pain, I yelled, “Cut the fence and let the cattle trample them.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t fit through the hole in the fence with his boxes on, and the big box the boys had used for climbing over was too big and heavy to throw into the yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an old fence back there, so you can figure out which part is our farm and which part isn’t. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The padlock didn’t look very strong, and it was easy to thrust the end of a fence post behind it and pull down hard. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Five horses came down and drank, and then stood about, nibbling at the dirt or rubbing their sides against the polished wood of the fence. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get him out back in the fenced part of the yard. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

For the segment, I would be interviewed by Ellen and then do a fencing demonstration with one of her producers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I went into the locker room and came back out in my full fencing kit, holding my mask in one hand, my saber in the other. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

At recess they sit together near the fence and share granola bars. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Large tree, smaller tree, steps, garden, stone path leading to a gate with a picket fence on either side. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker slowed and stopped beside a dirty white fence. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I saw her far up the old fence row, sniffing and running here and there. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a bigger swing and watch my imaginary home run soar over the fence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“And you must never go near that,” Rivka said, turning suddenly and pointing way across the compound to a large wooden fence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not just in fencing, but in every aspect of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Weeds along the edges of the fields and in the rail fence corners were up to Marly’s waist. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Carla spied them in the playground, looking through the chain link fence and talking about the cars parked on the sidewalk. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My insides kind of split into pieces as Pa stepped off that fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I think it’s a prison camp. Look—the lighting’s around the perimeter fence. To catch anyone trying to get out.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, Columbia High School’s fencing team was known for having the most state championship titles and the highest GPAs in the school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dead ivy along a stone wall and a mailbox and a fence along the road and the dead trees beyond. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He understood my desire to have at least one year of college where I could focus on something besides fencing and my classes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Trey, do you want to fence?” she asks. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He gestured near the edge of the fence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Line up a few cans on a rail fence and shoot ’em off. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice inside the fence. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stood back and pointed at me, and I was so scared I puked near the base of the fence. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But those fences looked really old,” Finn said, remembering the mismatched, faded wood. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

About fifteen feet away downhill was the fence to the neighbor’s house. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

There were buds on the wild roses that climbed up the paddock fence. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Might not want to thank me just yet. Were taking you with us. Outside the fence.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The old man described what food outside the fence looked, smelled, and tasted like. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Nazis had to turn off the electric fence to get him out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ball flew high above the cheering crowd into the twilight sky, over the billboarded fence. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My body felt strange in the neutral fencing position with my knees bent and pointed outward. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A fence surrounded the top layer, from which grew fir trees made of green gelatin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A chain-link fence ran all the way around, and it was bordered on three sides by squat stone houses and on the fourth by another of Yazd’s boulevards. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of the petroleum companies, Conoco, that was exploring for oil, agreed to build a big sanctuary for the chimps—a patch of forest with an electric fence around it. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

El Patron sometimes ordered dozens of the ridiculous birds when he was planning a party, and Matt liked to lean over the fence to watch them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to the fence, leading into the first field, just beside the copse, he looked back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It’s the desert, and nothing is out here but empty land and what looks like thousands of acres enclosed by a simple wooden fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Crows flapped off an occasional jackrabbit carcass; a black-and-white shrike sat on a fence post with a dead kangaroo rat dangling from under its talons; cows lumbered moodily off the dirt path into the sagebrush. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d come to the fence between us and the rest of the world. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Keep back there, Hagrid!” yelled a wizard near the fence, straining on the chain he was holding. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight he could see Harley’s body hanging from the fence, where they had tangled it upright between strands of barbed wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Something inside Axel has shifted by the time he and Emmett pull up to his fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He brings snacks and water bottles, not just for the fencing crew but for everybody. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a place to go in and out, I dug a hole under the fence just wide and deep enough to crawl through. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the difference between seeing a tiger on the other side of the fence and then on your own. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She looked down the fence and saw that it was no hen at all, but a young crow, flapping in the grass, acting most odd. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

While William’s rail fence cipher is easy to read, transposition ciphers can get much more complex. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I would never hurt anyone. Not even in fencing. I always keep the plastic tip on.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The buses slow down as we approach a perimeter of chain-link fence that must be, I don’t know, at least fifteen feet high. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Ben’s she was jumping over a fence. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walked to and from school alone, unable to befriend the sassy girls with budding figures or the boys who leaned against fences and lampposts to hiss and leer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The idea was to use fencing to not only teach a remarkable full-body sport, but also to teach life skills to underserved children from the New York City area. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

As I leaned into the fence to get a better look, I had the sudden prickly sense that someone stood behind me and swiveled around. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He leaves her at the fence, goes right past her. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You have spent ten entire years just learning to fence?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day they found out that it really was impossible for more than one person at a time to get through the hole in the fence, no matter how hard they tried. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer, Adria had jumped down off the trampoline, picked up a stone, and threw it over the fence. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It came from across the fence in the farmyard, a loud, sputtering roar. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I had in the past, I completely compartmentalized my life and prioritized fencing above all else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I call, reaching the corner of the fence. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My granddaddy built that house there, my daddy built the fence around it,” said Reverend Griffin. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were pursuing the sow along a road on the edge of the resort where bungalows were fronted by small patches of gardens surrounded by fences. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the nearest fence loomed a tall, thin neck topped by a small head. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the group she sent outside the fence, with Cara, and never heard from again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was heavier than Sohrab, and the fence’s structural integrity was highly dubious. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In early December our landlord fenced in a corner of the yard and led a squealing pig into the enclosure. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When it finally reached the fence, the dog trembled, keeping its head low and tail tucked. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She drove into a dirt parking lot outside the fenced area and parked near the few trees. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t fit academics, fencing, and socializing into my schedule. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him is the kid I fenced, oak grove imprinted on his uniform. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My whole family made sacrifices to help me on my fencing journey, and the last thing I wanted to do was cause anyone pain or embarrassment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It flies over the fence, and the Shark fans yell even louder. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He paints it showing a path that ends at the fence surrounding the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I try to enjoy the ride the way Madge does, the clacking and whooshing, the blur of trees, bricks, and fences. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I was ready to continue my fencing career somewhere I didn’t have to deal with people like Sam Jones. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Ruth stands at her fence, leaning against her cane. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a rope fence around a mound on the side of the hill. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the fence lie the release bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four hundred and eighty rods of mighty fine fence, if I did say so myself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looked around quickly for a fence rider on horseback or a patrol in a pickup truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They say everything is better in Paris, the food, the architecture, the romance; I found even fencing belonged on that list. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even with my ignorance of fencing, I could see that Mr. Armin was holding back, giving Nick time to ward and counter. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

His father wanted to fix up the cornfield fence. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This mild breeze, carrying the moist essence of early spring, caused a dead leaf to flutter here and there, and across the garden near the fence it moved something that sparkled in the sunlight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s lawyer talk—like a swimming pool with no fence around it; little kids come by and fall in.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched them place all extra baggage, all blankets, all kitbags, and post one lone guard—a frail young man who looked genuinely ill, who sagged against the fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance he saw the windmill where he and Josiah had chased the spotted cattle after they had wandered through the Acoma fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked the fence line, Curly was pleased not to come across a single cottonmouth moccasin. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

David, in fact, likes to go to the very top of that hill and then go running lickety-split down it, racing to see who’s first to the fence at the bottom. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then more screams, and the crowd outside surges forward, toward the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

That would have killed me, so I continued to hustle, working at the school and I also picked up a second job coaching the fencing team at Columbia High School. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This was just another day in my strange fencing reality. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then they could make straight for the Ferry over country that was open, except for a few ditches and fences. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I waited near the fence gate for it to leave again and jumped in the back, squeezing in between two piles of wooden crates under a blue tarp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I scoot myself back under, scratching my hand on the fence. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fence extended off into the trees as far as Kendra could see in either direction. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“There are no fences around this parking lot,” I point out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My stepbrother got bit by the dogs because his arm got stuck when he reached through the fence. Now ask me why he was reaching through the fence.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was good to have a fence enclosing her, a tribal person alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Pumpkin, his military tunic off hanging on the fence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clatter immediately followed—he had a good arm as well as being fast—those pebbles had reached the front fence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sad, lonely truth was that after a year and half on the fencing team at Duke, I could only call one teammate—Josh—my friend. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You can fit through the fence?” the girl asks, and Bailey nods. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When it happened, I was down the creek a ways, splitting rails to fix up the yard fence where the bulls had torn it down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were several lights attached to the roof of a large, square house, and they illuminated a grassland surrounded by a fence. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you found it. Good thing, too. The wolves are gathering. Don’t worry, the fence keeps them out of here.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plug and I battled through the gumbo mud to the fence line. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Joe finally stopped for air, the big morose drunkard said, “Jose, I let you put that sick cow in my field for nothing, so I didn’t have no obligation to mend no fences.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all we see are guards and guns and a fence whose sole purpose is to keep us locked in here—that, or kill us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Every now and then I would grab the paling of one of the picket fences lining the street to steady myself against the wind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did go down the pathway and over the fence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the back way around the fence, circling in a zigzag pattern through the alleys and behind buildings, until I reach the recessed doorway of the deserted shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Conner stopped to talk to each dog as we walked along the fence. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They say “Aiken” and you see a white butterfly glance off a fence with a torn wing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sounded like enough to build a fence from here back to Arlington. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what I would do or who I would be if I quit the fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mine is about two children who live in a white house with ruffled curtains, a front lawn, and a picket fence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The campus fence wasn’t locked, so I was able to walk right up to the classrooms. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But now along the roadway there were people rushing out, people lining die rail fences, anxious, overjoyed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the edge ran a high metal fence. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the left-hand side of the field, facing away from the wire fence and the village, stood long wooden benches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled the loose board away from the fence, so that there was a wide hole for Wilbur to walk through. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then they were running and I came to the corner of the fence and I couldn’t go any further, and I held to the fence, looking after them and trying to say. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fleeing outlaws, electrified fences, an independent District 13, shortages in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hammer felt like a feather as I finished the next section of fence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lindsey jumped up and ran back across the field and hurdled the fence. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A wrought-iron fence surrounds the parking lot, and Supreme has to let security know who we are before they let us through the gate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s not all, though, is it, because w'hen Anna woke up you weren’t there, were you? You were down by the fence, by the train tracks.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until Axel climbs the fence and sits just like his dad, feet looped behind the middle beam. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My eyes peer through the trees, past the fence, into the Meadow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is a fence at the edge of the field and it has a gate in it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no chained storefronts, traffic jams or pedestrians wandering around wearing Walkman headsets. The Texas League baseball park still has billboards on the outfield fence.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you are a fence guard, there is some potential for advancement, but not much. You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity’s farms, but—” “Patrols for what purpose?” asks Will. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The fences still buzz with news and gossip, and the mountains and hollows echo with the joyful clamor of childhood adventures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she finally told me to stop, it took everything I had to not punt the basketball over the fence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I knew Pa spoke of the man who’d cut through that fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“What if the other chickens have flown over the fence by now and Imm Janan has returned and the soldiers are circling our yard?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rail fences were good to keep, Mr. Chris said, because bushes and little trees and things grew in all the corners, on both sides, and made safe places for building nests—as safe as thornbushes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, come off it, Charlie. Don’t fence with me. I waited long enough for you to come and get me. I decided to come to you.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell that he was also watching the hot-air balloon behind the sugar mill fence out of the corner of his eye. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It took some doing, but right around the time California was swallowed back by the ocean, they were fenced off, too poisonous for use.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The cops grouped the boys together, lined them up against a fence, and demanded to know which of them had jettisoned the bag, which later turned out to be filled with quinine, not heroin. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train passed over the fair’s fence, then descended to the terminal at the rear of the Transportation Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He knew each fence post, each crossroad, each voice and smell and shadow. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

So he dawdled until he came to the picket fence, and every day Mrs. Cobb was standing at the door waiting for him, scowling and sour. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, Natalie stepped past the corner of the nearest fence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was fencing a line at the southeast edge of my claim, right where it butted up against Karl and Perilee’s. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Shin worked and waited, he brooded about how the other prisoners were oblivious to the fence and the opportunities that lay beyond it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hamlet replied swiftly, like one who delivers the winning thrust in a fencing match. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The fence was almost invisible, and the quad bikers, moving fast toward him, would be unable to hear the warning sound over their own engines... Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

For an hour they fenced with each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

April told everyone to wait just inside the fence while she tiptoed forward and lit the cone of incense on the altar of Set and the two candles that stood before the goddess Isis. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the fence, the old drunk was moaning a melody that Princesse had never heard him sing before, a sad longing tune that reminded her of the wail of the conch shell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Father had just completed another circuit of the estate and was banking to the left over the fences, so his nose at the time was pointed toward the hillside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until this point, I had always been taught to fence defensively by reacting to my opponents. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He sat down once more against the rail fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just keep going down the hill. There’s a split-rail fence at the bottom, where the trees are. Past them you’ll see the chicken coop in the field. I have to get home.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do to come out of the shadows, to make my feet walk down the sidewalk, to wait for the right moment and lift the fence post out of its hole. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I watch the opening to the fence through the store glass, and a policeman walks by, Polish, his cap pulled low. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The smaller stumps he could jump two at a time, and he could walk on the top rail of the fence without being afraid. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You take that eight hundred dollars and commute your claim. No more fences. No more backbreaking work.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rontu and I climbed to the headland and when we passed the house I saw that three of the whale ribs had been cut from the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin soon found himself facing the fence, which was about ten feet high. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Past the fence is a cluster of trees, most of them dead, some green. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Josh fumed at their ignorance and eventually decided fencing wasn’t worth subjecting himself to that type of abuse. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe Sam’s approach to fencing had worked back in the day when he used to compete, but it had never worked for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And a policeman stopped him on his way back to the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our lessons were all but suspended for a time, but Mr. Armin insisted on an hour's fencing practice each day. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like that complex, it was a vast grid of chain-link fencing with few walls, so the prisoners were visible to the guards and each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The path they followed led them easily through the woods, taking them directly to the fence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there is a hole in the fence at one place in the woods, and that’s where all the kids go through. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

When it came time to fence my first bout in the Palais, the faces of all of the young women who had asked for my autograph that morning flashed before me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I would have to keep veering from side to side to touch the rail fences and then make a guess about where the middle of the road was. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they made a move toward the fence, the guards would yell obscenities and threaten retribution. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, she succeeded in going over the high fence, and disappeared behind a cluster of shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as Finn raced faster than ever toward Ms. Morales, she suddenly screamed, “Watch out!” and police officers appeared at the tops of every fence and started dropping toward the street below. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

If she jumped quickly there—and there—and if she didn’t slip and fall—then she would be at the fence. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The cavalier, a beautiful man, was lounging against a fence, a white rail fence, in a circle of light, a circle of admirers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandstand was soon so crammed that just before the race, masses of suffocating fans spilled over the fence and onto the racetrack. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we came to a barbed wire fence, which was tilted and rusted, the wire itself yanked all over the place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tall wooden fence all around the yard, and to the left and right of our yard were other, identical fenced plots. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan’s house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drop my bike on the ground, and we crawl through an opening in the chain-link fence. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He takes off, past the fence, through the field, the tall pines like open arms in front of him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain went back across the stone fence, looked up toward the crest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that some of the financial burden of fencing would finally be off my plate, and I could quit teaching and focus the majority of my time on training. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“How was your walk?” she calls over the fence post. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In an explosion of dirt and pebbles, the pig burst from under the fence, heaving Taran into the air. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The gate was latched, the ground inside the fence undisturbed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The solar lights along Axel’s fence cast a glow around his house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I scoot back under the fence, too fast this time, and rip the back of my shirt. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t stay outside the fence for long; not with a frantic mother trying her best to escape from the reserve and find her cub. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Light barely trickled over crusted earth beyond the fence. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Four feet of the school yard faced on Francie’s yard and was segregated from it by an iron mesh fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looks up again, the figure springs across the low fence and jumps into the river, shattering the light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved watching Faizah fence because she was so talented, and I wanted to be that source of support that she always provided for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But when they came out to the fence, Winnie balancing a small bowl of water with enormous care, the toad was gone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, I could now say that I had a “career” in fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I also hadn’t heard a single peep from the gossip fence about my parents moving. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was as still as a fence post. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he fooled Mole by running the tops of fences or turning around and going back over his own trail. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

When April and Marshall and Melanie squeezed back through the fence for the second time they found everything just as they had left it. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing in there looked like anything to do with animals, except maybe some more pieces of fence. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bridge scanned the yard for Sherm and spotted him at the far end, standing against the fence with a few other kids. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He saw the cows right away, as soon as he got past the barn and the fence. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most of the fence lines tilted drunkenly but still retained their intimidating character. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“A way out? How? The only way out is through an electric fence.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It had been running along the ridge of the fence and she’d been mesmerized by the undulating arc its body and tail had traced as it ran. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fence was full of praise; he proved he meant it with his crisp, new money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the fence past the gates borders the edges of tents, so there isn’t really anywhere to enter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A roof of corrugated tin was supported in the front by a few wooden posts, and on the other three sides walls were formed by the tall boards of the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The guards always have their backs to the fence nearest the highway,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the center of the outdoor work area is one of Guillermo’s massive couples but unfinished, and against the far fence is another mammoth work called Three Brothers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The piping systems are all buried except one, which runs along the ground to send water to the power plant, near the fence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Holly felt the magic rush up her arm like a jolt from an electrified troll fence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed up and down the street, toward one tall fence or hedgerow after another. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With all his security upgrades, Thread has paid little attention to the fence, perhaps feeling harsh weather and wild animals are enough to keep everyone safely inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They walked us for hours along the perimeter fence,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“One, you must build and fence. Chester’s done the building, I hear. Don’t know about the fencing.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I had to pinch myself when I stopped to think about all the blessings, self-awareness, and lessons I learned because of my commitment to the sport of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rontu did not go with me to the beach because I had let him out of the fence and he had not returned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore hijab by choice, and I proudly represented my country both on and off the fencing strip, both in victory and defeat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When they got to the Sedillo fence, they dismounted and walked along a thirty-foot section where the tracks crisscrossed and the cattle had milled around before they broke through the fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the tall wooden fence at the side of her house, a head poked up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One day Melanie brought her poster paints and they painted stars and birds and flowers on the fence in back of the altar; and another day they made a canopy to hang above Nefertiti’s head. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even old stallions, decades away from the track, still duel with one another up and down the fences of breeding farms. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the air, I spied a particular rock lying in the rose garden by the fence. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They would enable prisoners to make an escape attempt, An said, and shoot them before they reached the fences that surround the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us slept, he took down the fences and let everything inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now they did strip off their shirts, for no other reason than to stay cool; their backs and ribs were marked where the fencing wire had whipped and stung them. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A group of guys started an "astral projection" circle, where they would sit around a card table and concentrate on breaking down all their molecules into subatomic material and drifting through the fences. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I hit the dirt in a hundred sprawling postures, each time righting myself in an instant and skittering to the safety of a tree, tractor or fence, in case the horse was feeling vengeful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He made it with ease to the fence, glancing back to check on his companion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There were houses there now, and a feed-and-grain store, but on the far side of the hill, inside a rambling iron fence, was a cemetery. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Junior Olympics was an individual event and had nothing to do with my membership on Duke’s fencing team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Lethal electric fences, however, use a continuous current that can make a person lock on to the wire as voltage causes involuntary muscle contractions, paralysis, and death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

So here I was ruining back and hands, picking rocks and building my own wobbly rock fences while Mr. Whiskers chased after the garter snakes I scared up. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hold tight to the fence and keep walking forward. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My success wasn’t only measured by wins on the fencing strip, but also by the number of people I was able to touch and inspire by sharing my story of triumph. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When we got home, Howard was sitting in a lawn chair by the garden watching Gus doing some repairs to the fence. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

At the fence, we watched the cattle mill around, stirring up dust and knocking into the wood. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized the place as soon as I saw the group of children in stiff new overalls who played near a rickety fence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were barred with ornate wrought iron fences and gates, and inside, women in flowered shifts dusted plastic covered furniture or sat on shaded balconies looking out over the commotion below. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, at Milla 12, the first INS checkpoint north of Laredo, the trains stop inside a fence. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I want to sink behind the fence and hide, but it wouldn’t do any good. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Along one street we saw a naked man and woman scaling a barbed-wire fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Trey and me started fencing, everyone wants to try, give it a shot. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seeing all of those Black people in the room was such a contrast to what we were used to seeing in the world of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I saw Geneva Eggers in front of her house, wearing canvas trousers and a plaid shirt and sitting on a fence post. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It only took about two weeks to feel like I’d been fencing saber all along. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Calamity Jane, Finn’s tiny striped cat, slunk under the fence and twirled around his legs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Since I couldn’t plant, I turned to another big chore: fencing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It disturbed him that the plants thrived and filled the fenced patch with bloom like a funeral parlor, but would not set fruit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fencing scene in. the play had displayed this same measured pace. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took us all day to get there, but at sunset we were walking through the gap in the acacia-branch fence that surrounded our camp. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, we had to learn basic fencing footwork: how to advance, retreat, and lunge. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If I were Gestapo, I think, I’d have a man in some of these apartments, watching the fence, unseen from above. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My options were shifting: My best hope now was to stay put behind the electrified fence and wait for my parents to come through and rescue me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I never found out why the fence cut off. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still dissatisfied, he went to the military school from time to time to throw corn at the cadets, shouting through the fence that they were all a bunch of chickens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My drawing takes shape under my hand: lemon for the stars, cream for the moon, pine for the trees along the fence, charcoal gray for the darkened windows, all but one. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took one careful step toward the fence, and the whole long row of them began moving again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But this takes a lot longer than I would like: we are a far cry from picket fences and white curtains, here in our lagoon of postwar mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother handed each of her daughters a stemmed blossom to slip into the chain-link fence. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She finally had a rhythm going, enjoying the sun on her back, when Jojo looked up from slapping whitewash on the front fence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They lost interest in food and displayed extreme restlessness, following the pasture fence around and around apparently searching for a way out . Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was too far away from the enclosure fence to see anything — or to be seen — but I could hear it all. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

From that moment, we’re comfortable again, sitting on the broken-down fence. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fence surrounded a treeless yard, and there was a large brown car parked in the garage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin was nearly through the fence when his lower legs slipped off Park’s torso and came into direct contact, through the two pairs of pants he was wearing, with the bottom strand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We run across the street in the falling snow, open the small wrought-iron gate in the cemetery fence, go in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in town, in a yellow house with a white picket fence lined with purple irises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Before the students had to file off to their next class, I did a demonstration introducing some fencing basics followed by a short question-and-answer session. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We stopped a distance from it, maybe the distance from home plate to the left field fence in a regular stadium. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he walked home, he went past Mrs. Cobb’s house and leaned against her grandfather’s fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Stand right here, right in the middle of the driveway until they look up from the creek, across the front yard, over Byrd’s raised garden beds, over the fence and see him standing here. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With his booming black motorcycle and his wide-brimmed Aussie hat, he seemed entirely out of place parking parallel to Grandma’s white picket fence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was my hope that my appearance, as a Black Muslim woman in the sport of fencing who was on her way to the Olympics, would help alleviate anti-Muslim sentiment in mainstream America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t hear anything, and I didn’t see any driveways before I got to the bottom of the hill and the fence Chris told me about. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” Bailey says, looking down at his scuffed brown shoes, and at her white boots on the other side of the fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I stood enthralled, letting my mind wander happily down the starry trail until my attention was drawn to the fence where I was surprised to see someone standing there looking my way. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sneak through the back alleys until I'm standing by our crumbling backyard fence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Jem parked his fishing car over there, we dug earthworms by the back fence, I planted a bamboo shoot one time and we fought it for twenty years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By this time, a number of police officers had arrived, and they joined firemen and citizen-volunteers in ripping down fences and sheds. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even the hens, fenced in by the wire chicken run, clucked and fussed in our honor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Immediately below my balcony, thousands of feet below, I could see a fence of spiked railings. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He stood up and walked to the stone fence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I gotta go,” he said, and before Mars Bar could react, he was over the fence and hurrying for the lean-to. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scrambled under the fence, abandoning her grain bag and spear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurdles a split-rail fence and tears across a hay field. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I watched him scale Grandma’s back fence in his suit. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when this was done, they set to repairing the fences which had been broken by whoever had done the damage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m still on the fence. There are some people who will be there whom I’m not sure I want to spend time with anymore. Why?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was back outside, thirty floors up on a flat roof with a radio mast and a tall metal fence running around the perimeter. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A regular landline dial tone, reaching out from the past like a security blanket, a sign that the world beyond this fence still exists. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I hear the faint click and zoom of the cameras beyond the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Once we passed a corral where the fence was coated in asbestos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to climb over the fence, I wanted to sit on the other side for a while, where no one else goes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when we got to the first picket fence, he held on. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Keeth would give me scenarios to try in practice that he thought would work against certain fencers based on their style of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

What was he thinking, giving some stranger at the fence my address and telling him there are Jews in my apartment? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With a long-handled, double-edged axe, he split fence rails from massive cedar logs that washed down the Dungeness in the spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I started on this journey I always told myself that I wanted to see how far fencing could take me, and now I realized that the journey was bigger than me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Though I’m not speaking, I’m pleading, Teach me how to fence. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So he rode north, looking for another fence that might be holding them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was her senior year, and she was legendary in New Jersey fencing circles. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I still can't explain why throwing stones over the fence and waiting for the splash seemed like fun to us. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the Princeton catalog just to double-check and, sure enough, under sports teams, fencing was listed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Running alongside the water was a waist-high iron fence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Searching for the lost trail, he had crossed the fence and worked his way out into an old field. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the fence Toby finally managed to get his boxy legs free of the barbed wire. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stands a foot or so back from the fence, totally sweaty, with a white turtleneck under his soccer shirt. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He follows them to the end of the field, where there is a chain-link fence. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What else? Chicken. Real gamey chicken. If that’s the case, we don’t need to fix the fence; just set up a trap,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So the animals disap-peared from the farm, and with them the pastures and hay fields and fences. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

About a hundred miles north of the Peru-Chile border, the coastal highway passes by an uninhabited beach ringed by a tall chain-link fence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is where we were now, up against the high fences surrounding Four Winds Resort, according to the faux-marble sign at the end of the weed-cracked driveway on the other side. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A policeman, bored and tired, dragged his nightstick along the bars of an iron fence. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed over the fence and knelt in the dirt. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any touching of any fence would result in severe consequences. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then—I kept watching carefully—she pulled herself together, smiled and said: “It’s just as well the fences at Hailsham aren’t electrified. You get terrible accidents sometimes.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small smile appeared on his face again, and he pulled himself up using the metal fence that surrounded the court as support. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The lower part of the fence was safe to touch, although the top wire buzzed and popped with electricity. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were tufts of hair snagged in the barbs of wire, and in some places a strand of wire had been pulled loose from a fence pole and was hanging slack like old clothesline. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most often the escape attempts were straightforward and totally ineffective—they tried to climb the fence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

At around four o’clock, with light draining out of the day, Shin and Park sidled toward the fence, trimming trees as they moved. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We can guard the fence or work for the security of our city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Matt was bursting to tell him to dump the Five Principles of Good Citizenship and the Four Attitudes Leading to Right- Mindfulness and head over the fence to San Luis. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they couldn’t prove it, they didn’t know for sure, he said, clinging to the wire fence. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It serves several purposes. Primarily, it is my connection to the circus, but it also functions as a safeguard of a sort. I neglected the fact that it does not cover those outside the fence.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ignored him and looked over the half-dozen hacks that stood idly inside the fence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The section was surrounded by a metal fence topped with a band of electrified chicken wire which during the cool summer mornings would be black with roasted swallows. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m gaining ground and getting close to the fence, but that’s not going to slow me or stop me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The kitchens were where I spent most of my day, since Momma didn’t want me out beyond the interior fence, especially after what happened to poor Zeke. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A high metal fence stretched along each side of the border, and a large building was set in the middle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Joel disconnected the electric fence from its battery and held down the wire with his boot to let me into the paddock. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The phrase “outside the fence” prickles in my brain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Under a lilac bush, around an old boat, then over two fences. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

By night some creature of great cunning had burrowed underneath the fence and eaten many pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When she was over the fence, she turned around to see what he’d do to escape himself, and he had walked right straight up to that cow and was rubbing her long nose! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fence that could hold the spotted cattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If you took enough you could forget which side of the fence you were on. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He dropped the harness, jumped over the rail fence, and in a long lope started for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was much different than fencing épée, where the tip of the blade had to be compressed on the target to score. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them, ten vehicles sat just outside the chain-link fence surrounding the court, including Coach Douglas’s Buick and Chip’s truck, all of them with their engines running and their headlights on. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As a rule, fencing is only allocated ten medals during the Olympic Games, even though there are technically twelve events. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Gummed into the straw, ground into the dirt, stuck in the fencing, flung against the slats of the wall of their enclosure. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She admitted she had initially resisted fencing because she really didn’t want to fight in my shadow, but Coach Mustilli helped develop her talents and made her a fierce saber fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Along the rail fence the sumac held up its dark red cones of berries above bright flame-colored leaves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He needs to work. Ain’t no time for moping when horses need feeding and fences need mending.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ruth’s walk was much steadier now and when we came to the fence, and I held up the wire, she hardly hesitated. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the house was a crooked rail fence, to keep the bears and the deer away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean I didn’t have to come to Boston to fence?” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I quickly made friends with the other fencers, and when we weren’t fencing against each other, we would be laughing, enjoying one another’s company, and making fun of each other in jest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That watching the people from inside the fence makes him feel like an animal in a cage. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He now had his own fencing club where he gave private lessons and where he trained the Columbia High School team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I never looked back as I tore down the street, dodging cars, leaping over dongas and fences and puddles; entering yards I did not know, only to leap fences again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always suspected that the fence himself sold the rags to the people we stole them from. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After adjusting his wooden leg to make himself comfortable, he leaned back against White’s fence to enjoy the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Students stood under the last line of lanterns, their fingers curling through the plastic- coated wire of the fence, peering into the vast blackness, straining for a glimpse, a scrap of sound. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I caught lizards on the rail fences, rats in the com crib, and frogs in the little creek that ran through the fields. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I played alone in the back yard, bouncing a rubber ball off the fence, drawing figures in the soft clay with an old knife, or reading what books I found about the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I always take a moment to listen carefully for the hum that means the fence is live. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But the whole time I was checking the yard, trying to see if Eddie was hanging by the weight bench or around the fence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

One had tried to climb the fence and got its spindly legs caught between the slats. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then they went on, and I went along the fence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally arrived at the fence they were out of breath. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slams her hand against the chain-link fence and it rattles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They made it clear they were willing to financially support my fencing career, which was a commitment in itself, because fencing was not cheap. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But for the buzzing sound that the fence was making, he would have run right into it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I went along the fence, to the gate, where the girls passed with their booksatchels. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had no trouble at all going through the cattle wire fence, but she approached the hole cautiously. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hear a loud buzz coming from the second fence, an electric charge. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a small neat place: white board houses, rail fences, all in order, one white church steeple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Father came out of the house he looked at me for a long time and then he punched the fence and made a hole in it and went away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“See that kid over by the fence? The one with the big nose? Her mother run away with a sailor last May.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But fencers always fence, and one of us has to make a move. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Courage, honor, integrity, and chivalry,” Coach murmurs when we finish fencing. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a surreal sight—the tidy white fencing, the bright green lawn. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Around the small front yard there was a picket fence. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Levi hangs his backpack on the fence post. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was like the ghetto fence post, thin and tough and so easily pulled in my direction. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Alex pressed against the fence; the sharp steel stung his fingers, but he held on tight as his world turned upside down again. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Since I’d started fencing, other parents had casually mentioned it to my mom when she was in the stands at my competitions, thinking she might be interested in checking it out since we were Black. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Somebody put it over the fence and left it in our front yard. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One jumped the fence, the second ran in front of the car, and the third stood stock-still before him, frozen in the light, no more than ten feet away. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The barbwire could come loose and the fence posts would rot out and need replacing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At noon, they rested by the roadside, leaning back against one of the low stone fences that ran all over this countryside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime, around eleven o’clock in the morning, students showed up outside the fence at Parker High School carrying big poster boards with large black letters that read, “It’s time!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fence said Dad had run him out, but I think the real reason was he had done his job for the steel company as the designated hatchet man. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of his body pulled down the bottom strand of wire, pinning it against the snowy ground and Creating a small gap in the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One day he backed himself up against a fence and froze there, Hard Tack-style, simply refusing to budge. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must’ve heard the commotion of us climbing, because when our heads popped over the top of the fence, he was staring straight at us! Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some questioned my traveling alone without a family escort, others opined that my fencing uniform was too tight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He climbed a stone fence, knee high, saw a shallow depression filled with dead horses, dragged there to get them off the crest, legs and guts and glaring teeth, beginning to smell. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the wet grass and pulled a latch on the fence, popping the gate open a few inches. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

There was a guard tower on the roof and a fence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This plan is laid out perfectly in his head as he walks from fence post to fence gate to stone pathway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A Vietnam veteran who opposes the war throws his medal over a fence that kept protesters away from the Capitol, 1971. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a stumbling, broken run, the prisoner threw himself on the high-voltage electric barbed wire that lined the fence. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I looked away from the fence, but Frankie continued to stare at the scene through an opening at the bottom. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Insects clustered around the lights at the fence. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were times I couldn’t wait to fence just so I could hide behind my mask and blend in with the other athletes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I knew every alley and every street, every back wall to climb over, every fence with a gap big enough to slip through. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There, it’s that one. No, no, that one, on the left—there. With the roses by the fence. That’s where it happened.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the sound of stick on fence carried off into the trees, but it didn’t fill the emptiness. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

By his retirement from competitive fencing, he had been to five Olympic competitions, winning a bronze individual medal in 1984. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This was a totally new experience for me; I felt kind of weird getting extra attention because people hadn’t seen a Muslim woman fence before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Tater was attempting to burrow a tunnel underneath the fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In some yards people were already trying to collect things and clean up the debris lodged against their fences. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crude log fence was half blocking the left fork. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were fencing exercises, made slightly more tolerable by the fact that Nick was gone—no one seemed to know where or why. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it also meant I couldn’t meet Max at the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

No one on either side of the fence makes a move or lifts a hand. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We drove to my aunt Angie’s and parked in front of the white picket fence she shared with Grandma. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The police were saying it. At the fence.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s surrounded by a tall chain link fence. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

From my window I have watched a girl with halting steps spread the wet linens on shrubs, rocks, and fences. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We went to the fence and looked through the curling flower spaces. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sprint next to a fence, then along a narrow path on a cliff above the creek. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The fence that told him exactly what was his responsibility and what wasn’t. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Burnham, obsessing as always over details, sought to decree the style and location of a fence for the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The figure climbed off the doghouse, padded across the yard, hopped the fence, and ran around to the back of the van. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon, we came to an open lot with a barbed wire fence. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode to a rail fence, stared down a slope, saw a battery a long way off, down in flat ground beyond the peach orchard. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We approached tentatively and peeked through the fence slats. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I ran upstairs and climbed out onto the terrace and I could see, through the trees, two women down by the fence a few gardens over. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita didn’t even look back at the fence damage as she put the car in drive. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled at them, knowing they couldn’t get over that fence. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After finding my pool number and strip assignment, I looked at which women from which country I was slated to fence and tried not to psych myself out. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So Pancho locked the goat in the shed next door to the henhouse, which was also surrounded by the chicken pen’s wire fence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I make it back to the fence that surrounds District 12, the sun is well up. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to be a certified fencing Maestro so I have to go through a certification course in Hungary, and it’s about to get started,” he said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I leave early and walk by the fence, just in case I can see Max. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We read the large sign on the fence: City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Alex rests his elbows on the lacquered white fence boards, fighting back the sudden, absurd feeling he’s underdressed for this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my fingers around the chain-link fence then and kind of bashed my forehead into it for a while. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle Chester’s efforts had included a chicken coop, but it wasn’t fenced. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could see them clearly because the standing part of the fence was on fire. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to say, but they went on, and I went along the fence, trying to say, and they went faster. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it isn’t the house full of the sick and dying, the bleeding backs, the gaunt-faced children, the marching boots, or the omnipresent misery that drives me under the fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my hectic schedule wasn’t going to last forever, and playing volleyball had its purpose in my plans to get into college just as much as fencing did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The boughs in the fir trees hung heavy with it, the fence rails and mailboxes wore mantles of it, the road before him lay filled with it, and there was no sign, anywhere, of people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fences, and the barbed wire atop them, gleamed in the sun. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mary, however, was determined to clamber over every fence she encountered and pull everyone she knew behind her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The foreman claimed he’d been awakened by a noise like someone climbing the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the fence with its fading streamers, the land bore no sign that the pancake-house people had ever been there. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I’d go down to the fence between our two houses and yell, “Cassandra!” as loud as I could, a human megaphone. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He came upon a large iron fence that stretched along the road. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I insist, “it’s like when the fence around District Twelve is on, only much, much quieter.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Walton County jail was a dull structure surrounded by a tangle of razor wire that ran along a chain-link fence and glistened in the sunlight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to fix the fence. It’s a waste of time. In all these years, the rain hasn’t returned. And you know what—it’s not going to!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The crowds gathered ten deep for one hundred feet in each direction, a few spectators reaching through the slats of the fence to stroke Seabiscuit’s chest as Smith cinched the girth on Woolf’s kangaroo-leather saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a deep breath and a wish with all of my body that no one is in the yard, I carefully lift the latch to the door in the tall wooden fence. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She ran circles around the other children, racing and playing and jumping over fences. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The hands left the top of the fence. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But in fact, I had no way of slipping past the electric fence—and no idea where the hell I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then I found an opening, and stepping through a ditch, came up to a fence. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurl the phone over the fence, as far as I can; it lands somewhere on the edge of the scree at the top of the embankment. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They started to climb up the fence, never taking their red eyes off me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan leans against our fence and blows a bubble with his gum. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fencing skills were no match for Nick's, so I fell back on the method of defense that every child of the orphanage learns—catch-as-catch-can wrestling. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It's not as if this is the first time I've been caught outside of the district by an electrified fence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is where, days before, the skip tracers had tried to slip through the camp’s wire fences and Hayes had “taken care” of them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He drove south from King City over the county road, through the gathering forces of spring, and the meadowlarks flew ahead, bubbling melody from the fence wires. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My leg hurt so much by the time I had reached the house that it was hard for me to crawl under the fence and move aside the heavy rock. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was fencing well, and we had the lead. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From two to three, he planned to scratch itchy places by rubbing against the fence. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

John stumbled and shook as if he’d been dead center in that cornfield when the herd charged through the fence. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We’d never get them back through the narrow opening in the fence line, but we could get them off our property. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day, about two weeks after she had left, I was standing against the fence watching a newborn calf wobble on its thin legs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Axel, like his own fence, like Byrd’s potting shed, like the flower boxes, like the remaining trees, is rooted to the ground. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the fence met the highway we cornered again, heading for the bus stop. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped off the oil tank, slipped on a golf ball, got up, dashed over the lawn, fell over an invisible croquet hoop, got up, then misjudged my jump onto the fence beam. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nothing had been harmed except the fence, which I mended, and in a few days the house was the same as before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beam searches out the pine tree, the fencing, the lean-to....And then I see this big German shepherd, mean as nails, hunched over Shiloh there on the ground. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, work was work and home was home, but for us, as for many people, the tragedy in Newtown shattered every window and blew down every fence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My new school was a few blocks down the congested avenue, through a gate into a cracked cement yard ringed with hurricane fencing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nathan slammed the mattock to the side of the metal fence post until it wiggled like a loose tooth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So I ran for the trees along Ms. Griegson’s fence, waving my arms and yelling, as though that could somehow save my chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But then I think about her coming into my house and taking my child, I remember the terror I felt when I saw her with Evie down by the fence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once started, he went on and on—boomingly. “. . . five hundred and sixty thousand square Kilometers, divided into four distinct Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran closer to the fence as Ricky splattered through puddles left by a recent thunderstorm. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We walked the unpaved streets along the fence, looking for a place to stay. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Here it was the middle of February and I hadn’t set one fence post or plowed one foot of dirt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were no other cars there, no bicycles locked to the fence, and no swimming pool—not even a trace of a pool. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the lower body, there were pants called knickers, long white socks, and special fencing sneakers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He was waiting outside the fence, his head on one side, peering at her longingly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was young, I tried to imagine what it would look like as a lake, with no fence built into the mud to keep the city safe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he’d be hidden by the fence the Sports Family shared with the Birdbrain Family—all those birdhouses might actually help. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Exhilarated by the sight of our paternal grandmother’s home, we walked hurriedly down the hill toward the pink stucco building within the corral-like fence, being careful not to jostle Pita too much in the stretcher. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They let them run around loose at Baron Park Zoo, and this white one opened up all its feathers and started dancing in front of me and backing me up against a fence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The barrier fence that surrounds the grounds is made of wrought iron at least ten feet tall, and I wonder how Jackson was able to scale such a high fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I scan the protestors for another glimpse of David, but I can barely see past the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The guard began to laugh again and threw the scrap of iron over the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I toss the ball to Seven and climb the fence. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I could see that in Juanita’s bedroom a nightlight was shining, but, when I jiggled the latch on the chain link fence, it went out. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Without cleaning a thing, Jeff lined up along the fence, and Rick followed. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Outside Dr. Medina’s Wild Animal Hospital, Mr. Reynolds, the mailman, was frozen in midair, both knees raised like he was leaping a fence and his mouth stretched in a yell. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the evening they stand again at the wire fence and the wind comes down to them from the beech woods. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a curious sharp sound with his lips and stretched one of his hands over the fence. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return, he watered for people who were sick and fixed fences and made other repairs. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spit a sunflower seed into the plastic cup stuck in the fence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Thing was that those fences always needed checking and fixing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of white youngsters in school uniforms leaned over the fence and requested my autograph. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut over the back fence and marched straight to the shed, knowing it would still be locked up tight. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He charges our way, but a chain keeps him near the fence. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You cant do no good, moaning and slobbering through the fence.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the islands of vegetation fenced in within the clusters of willow trees creating the illusion of a heavily forested swampland. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We stood at the fence and watched them. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that Faizah was fencing more regularly, we often traveled together to the same competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Just as we stopped playing I saw a slim, blonde-haired white woman in a white Adidas warm-up, standing near the fence, pocket- book in hand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Byrd that follows Axel out to the fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were working so close to the camp’s electric fence that I could smell the singed air and feel the voltage it shed vibrating in my teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was originally a male-only sport; women’s fencing was not introduced into the Olympic Games until the 1924 games in Paris. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The wagon passed the fenced field, and the cows and sheep looked up, too. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

A dog growled and barked, snarled and leaped angrily up against the fencing on the right side of the house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four rosebushes with their roots tied in burlap were propped against the fence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I swing a fist to the side and rattle a rusted chain-link fence. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Under the critical eye of Redtooth a band of rodents was gnawing off a length of planking from a rickety lych-gate fence at the rear of the church. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When we make it to the field, she jumps the fence, peeling off the sweatshirt to leave it hanging there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s because of the electric fence that seems to separate us even when I’m in his arms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Some men and women make rude remarks; boys follow in crowds, or shout from behind fences.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I knew every alley and every street, every wall to climb over, every fence to slip through. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Another officer was on the gallery, escorting a civilian who was repairing the chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still astride the top rail when the struggling bulls crashed through the fence, splintering the posts and rails, and toppling me to the ground almost under them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only catch snippets of the conversation, but I do hear the words breach, eastern fence, and townsfolk. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He carried the books into the backyard and hid them in the bushes near the alley fence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Ben stopped the wagon next to the open hole near the iron fence, then climbed down and walked to where Nehemiah the gravedigger was waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to love fencing in here. It will truly feel like a fairy tale.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a tall board fence behind him, and on it a message was written with purple chalk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the only photograph I had of her, a snapshot, she squinted blurrily at the camera, one hand on the Cyclone fence and the other on my father’s new riding lawn mower. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But hardly had I settled down, the dry, dog-day smell of the hedge in my nose, when they stopped before the house, leaning upon the fence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reference points for sports were the more common football, basketball, and baseball; fencing was still new for him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The second hour was spent actually working with the farm animals— feeding, cleaning, fixing a fence, scraping up klunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He passed the picket fence of Mrs. Cobb’s, steering as clear of it as if it were the wall of Jericho about to fall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The week after that someone built a board fence. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad looked at the path along the fence, where I pointed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I unhook the wire, push the fence open, and lead Shiloh to the stream for a drink, filling the pie pan with fresh water. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. McDuff came down from the mine to restore the fence and reported it had been reduced to splinters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ran to my locker to grab my fencing journal—a simple black moleskin notebook with lined pages and furious handwritten notes—and then showed it to Keeth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“If anyone’s looking at me, all they see is unpatriotic activity like picking rocks and setting fence posts.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Moss blinked to adjust his eyes; he was next to a tall gray building, just beyond a chain-link fence with razor wire curled around the top. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We bring it in by the safety fence in front of the first-base dugout. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I pulled him through the opening under the fence and tied him to it with a thong and left food beside him to eat and some fresh water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a warning sign and an electrified fence stretching as far as he could see. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Haphazard cedar fences lined the careless roads, which slid beneath the shadows of the trees and past the bracken meadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He took to jumping the field fence and eating the corn that I’d never yet gotten around to gathering. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Chase said it was the fence falling down,” Mattie continued. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few hours before they left camp for the last time, however, she had walked to an open area and flung her basalt among all the others over the fence. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, come on. We got some more fence cutters to hunt up!” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, we see the house is surrounded by a foreboding iron fence. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was an immaculate and friendly house, grand enough but not pretentious, and it sat inside its white fence, surrounded by its clipped lawn, and roses and catoneasters lapped against its white walls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though Mr. Armin was unquestionably an excellent fencing master, when it came to a duel fought in deadly earnest, I feared that he was no match for Falconer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a break in the fence but another started up again around a cemetery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We rode our bikes to Rado’s house and jumped the wooden fence, which turned out to be a real bad idea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As we showed our I.D.s to leave the prison—a safeguard against inmates walking out the front door—I decided that if I were an escaping in-mate, I’d stay away from the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But outside the electric fence, an encampment has grown. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t notice a fence around Warren,” I said. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was six years younger than me, Faizah had closely followed in my fencing footsteps. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“He inherited this land. I’m sure the fence came with it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli had a way of making each of us feel equally valuable, whether we fenced, cheered, or kept score. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There are other children hanging around the fence today. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I’d left them locked up behind an electric fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ropes have been tied to the crate gates, threaded through the fence to our side of the enclosure. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man, in an almost deliberate provocation, reached out and touched the fence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I waited by the fence with the rest of the guests, who stood around the body speculating about Gabriel’s return. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“That fence could still be live. They could shoot us.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A clear rabbit track led from the bracken, under the fence and into the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching across the fence again, the Corporal turned Jonathan so hard that the boy stumbled. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could see Mars Bar’s dark form against the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And today, we’ll look the other way while you do business at the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Apparently, some other women on the fencing team were suffering from the same symptoms, so I was not alone in my misery. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The house took longer to build than the fence because it rained many days and because the wood which I needed was scarce. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Ohio people had them hooked to their fences or stuck out in their gardens to scare off the birds. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some kids listened and tried to bolt for the fence, only to have their path blocked by the line of soldiers in black that seemed to pour out of the air. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The barbed wire fence paralleled the rim, and he could see bits of belly hair the deer left on the barbed wire where their trails crossed the fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that’s the word. This hotelier brings him these parts. Now, this fence used to be a doctor, and he knows how to identify a skeleton’s sex based on, I don’t know, measurements.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With a long pole and wire, I’d drag the hide on top of rail fences, swing it through the air, and let it touch the ground twenty or thirty feet away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chain-link fences, topped by razor wire, had been erected into a long, sixteen-foot-high cage extending about a hundred yards into the lot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Near the brush fence two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can bring a letter to the fence,” she says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We have second-generation motion detectors; they only trigger if the moving object is large enough to be a human being—which means someone has hopped our fence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had my own dreams to pursue, and making Duke’s fencing team a more inclusive space wasn’t one of them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I wondered if “awkward” was a synonym for “the most painful thing ever” in the fencing world, but I didn’t say anything about my throbbing legs out loud. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The twisting iron fence that surrounded it, the smooth red rock that made up the facade, the wide windows that winked in the sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This was the largest fencing club I’d ever been in, and almost everyone there was some shade of brown. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rondell looked back and forth between us for a minute or so, and then he went up to the fence too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A breeze brought him the smell of clover—the sweet-smelling world beyond his fence. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the laundry yard fence, Kevin waited, feeding something to his mare. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The fridge seemed to be made out of car parts, while the oven seemed a mix of wrought-iron fencing and safety glass. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I clambered up after Sohrab, convinced the fence was going to peel off the building like the lid of a soup can just before I reached the top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

How does a few weeks of fencing compare with a champion’s years? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He found the Air Force base all right, barricaded, walled, fenced, with keep out signs starting a mile away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw felt his legs go weak beneath him, as he climbed the last fence, and stood in the place from which he had started out on his walk, by the edge of the copse. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” she says to a bunch of cow ladies who watch her along a fence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I picture myself coming home to a wonderful house with white picket fences, but slowly my picture starts to fade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I must have snagged it when I’d squeezed through the cemetery fence. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The more my mother read about the Columbia High School team and the sport of fencing, the more boxes it checked off her list. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s just what I was imagining. That’s what had me laughing. Thinking on being Hercules, flying down to stop the fence cutters.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They made sure the picket fences in front of everyone’s home had got a good slap of whitewash on ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The houses they passed were all fenced off or hidden behind towering hedges, so he could barely see any of them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They each ducked through a passage in the chain-link fence that surrounded it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went down to the rocket field in the early morning and yelled in through the wire fence at the men in uniform that he wanted to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer the farm outside the fence gradually shut down. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She knew about this place, and what was outside the fence.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I told you,” Coach murmurs, “all of you belong in fencing.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Begging your pardon, ma’am, it wasn’t a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin knew the layout of the camp from countless days of gathering wood and collecting acorns, but he knew nothing about how to get over or through the high-voltage fence surrounding the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Babulya’s garden grew close to the house and had a good, solid fence around it to keep the goats out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They’d have to be insane to jump the fence, Curly thought. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the group sips tea and discusses potential complications, I stand at the fence, blowing on Otto’s face and saying my good-byes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The line for tickets snakes around the outside of the fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I would see friends every now and then, but similarly to my time at Duke, I chose to focus on fencing and training. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But it was on the other side of the fence. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was still on the fence in the spring of 2006 when she went to watch the Fugees play and to cheer Grace on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He’s wandered off to stand by the fence across from the steps, watching us with his elbows resting on the metal railing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We entered a fenced compound that had several rows of houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wait in the shadows near my mother's house, close enough so I can actually peek through the gaps of our backyard's rickety fence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t about Erudite; it’s about everyone. All the factions,” he says, “and the city. And what’s outside the fence.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Birdbrain Family had set a row of thirty birdhouses along their backyard fence, even though Luke could have told them it was pointless to do that until spring. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around them and through the hole in the fence. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The others sit down and lean their backs against the fence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A final nuzzle, and he was back over the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He formed the team that pulled down the fence — now just a harmless chain-link barrier, with the electricity off—and led the people into the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So it was important to check the fences regularly, just in case there were breaks or any loose wire. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sat on a rail fence, watching the night come over Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now slipping over a back-yard fence, now at last on the waterfront, Sea Street, Flounder Alley. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet finished rewiring the fence and started repairing Nali’s second truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The man played and went on, Ben keeping pace with him until the fence turned at right angles, and he clung to the fence, watching the people move on and away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With the fence going on and me showing up late and the Peacekeepers waiting, he thought I’d made a run for it, maybe with Gale. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stood against the chain-link fence in front of the dead man’s neighbor’s house watching the gargantuan canine panting and licking his chops and whining inside the car. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He took Quentin up and we ran down to the corner of the fence and watched them pass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long journey through the snow today, down a couple of neighborhood blocks, then around the funny lime-green house with the tiny white fence, down the hill to the railroad tracks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, her father approaches the fence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The man from Bat Lady’s house stood with the crowd behind the fence. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He said you can use a section of wire fence to pick up radio signals, so maybe the silver in a tooth can too. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We slow slightly and I think we might be coming in for another stop, when a fence rises up before us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he must be trying to mend fences, because he asked for the south-side keys—he was actually going to help me lock my guys in, not just stand there and criticize. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn, my back to the fence, and watch him striding purposefully towards me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the east-facing entrance of the hogan, the metal fence posts of the cornfield poked out of the dry earth like splinters. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The boys helped short-circuit the electric fence and open the front gates. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A jagged piece of iron tore open the skin and crushed the fingers of one of his hands against the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As our tour group walked the perimeter fence to the main gate, I noticed that we looked slightly different. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m always hopping on and off the bench, pacing back and forth, rattling the safety fence, and spitting sunflower seeds. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She climbed over the fence and tried to go straight out toward one bunch of flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Annie and I poked our heads through the fence and peered down at the cars below. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not three feet from our backyard, on the other side of this fence, was a fragrant grove of grapefruit trees. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Park, dead on the fence, had not told him where he might find China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are. Today, you reminded me of me. Yet, still without question, you. Watching your focus, your joy, I knew you were born to fence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s also a good night to get caught by a teacher doing her rounds on the perimeter fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She gave the pump handle a few quick jerks, hurriedly splashed water on her face, then headed over to the barn, grabbing the feed sack that hung on the fence as she went. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d traveled to Morocco in college, this was my first international fencing competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When Styx was up and over, at the top of the fence, he reached back for the gunnysack. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She climbed up on the rail fence and followed its zigzag course until she disappeared in the darkness. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Axel wraps each hand around the fence bars. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The Danvers found over a dozen sheep dead and bound up in fence wire.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door I could see the constellation Orion. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I ease my way through a crack in the fence, push aside the loose board, and crawl underneath the porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Villagers like Baba ventured behind the nylon-mesh fence into the reserve at their own risk. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I take my place in the row of chairs along the fence outside the garden. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There were some small holes cut in the fence, each about a foot square. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fleetingly caught a glimpse of Roy Lee leaping over the still-standing part of the fence, clearing it by a good yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The list went on, and as I rolled through what I truly wanted in life, I realized fencing hadn’t even made the list. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He grabbed Julian's book bag and ran with it to a tree beyond the school fence. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the Common, the almshouse yard was thick that morning with Tory refugees fled to the city, groping now through the palings of the fence and clamoring for coin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I gripped the links of the fence with one hand and swung down until my feet got a purchase on the pipe, then ducked underneath the fence and came up on the other side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s brick with an iron fence surrounding it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was running behind my big slow friend Marvin and couldn’t make it to the fence on the other side of the junkyard where everyone else escaped. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night that May, he climbed the coliseum fence, dropped into the stadium, and ran the stairs until his legs went numb. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he sails over the fence like it’s nothing. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

They made their way out to the fence. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Next up, a song called “Road to Nowhere,” which is quite fitting, given what surrounds her—miles and miles of ranch fencing, and then brown and green and yellow hills marked with green scrub. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The largest chunk, which the donors call “the field,” is a rectangle of overgrown weeds and thistles held in by wire-mesh fences. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked he balanced himself with the help of a fence and kept his dark eyes on the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know she’s right, so I start off for the black iron fence. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t get down to where the stage was set up, but she had made her way to the tall fence where people had hung photos and flowers and stuffed animals. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Suspended over the edge, the car hangs in the fence like someone in a hammock—then the fence finally gives way. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Following tradition, most of New Jersey’s fencing programs were clustered in wealthy neighborhoods or private schools. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was ringed by hurricane fencing; a padlock sagged from a chain wrapped around the gate. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rider did as told, and Seabiscuit took off with him, trying once to hurdle the infield fence but meeting with no resistance from the reins. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m nearing the fence when a mockingjay lights on a branch and trills at me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was the captain of the fencing team for two years; I went off to fence at Duke. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Another reason to keep inside the fence of District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There might not even be a next time considering how badly I fenced today,” I said, which brought a fresh batch of tears to my eyes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The apparition jumped over a fence and chased a stick that somehow landed in the middle of Ignatius’ quilt. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swung the whole fence out like a door, stepped inside, and put the post back again, scraping my shoe over the fresh dirt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Faizah was only in eighth grade but was already taking private fencing lessons with Coach Mustilli in anticipation of being on the high school team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I felt like having a walk in the brisk air, and as I was strolling on the tarmac, I noticed some people standing by the airport fence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could stand on the Truman Balcony and watch the tourists posing with their selfie sticks and peering through the iron fence, trying to guess at what went on inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The lodge fence propped itself at my back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had become dizzy and fallen from the fence as they were hurrying to leave the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After almost an hour, we finally got to the fencing part. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When the Eberhardts arrived at the corner of Woodbury and East Oriole, two other vehicles were already parked at the fence gate. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had wriggled under the barbed-wire fence, and into the cornfield, he looked back over his shoulder again, and now, he could see much farther, the mist was clearing slowly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only one he knew of right off hand was in the Botanical Gardens in Brooklyn, and that had a fence around it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess shepherded Finn out past the fence as well. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even though he'd almost taken out the fencing along the passenger's side, he was still so close to the van next to him that he doubted he could get out of his car. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They put new glass in the cupola, painted the fence Mrs. Cobb’s grandfather had built, and then painted the porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A trampled fence ringed a big yard full of cement statuary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was no one on the fencing team at Duke who had my best interests at heart, and Josh didn’t believe I was serious. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Being a boy, I climbed the wires and pivoted over on a fence post, on the heel of my wounded hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’d reached the end of the driveway and the edge of the tall, faded, multicolor fence. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been three days since he had crawled through the electric fence, and he was still only about fifteen miles from Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I dont reckon he even knew what he had been trying to do, or why Mr Burgess knocked him out with the fence picket. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their fighters had gotten to the yard first, armed with shanks, and taken positions along the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What he needs," Julian said, "is not fencing lessons but lessons in manners." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was no wind, and this snow fell quietly; perched on a thousand fence posts, the meadowlarks waited for it to be over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, I drool over seed catalogs and study up on how to build a fence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

By now he knew every street, every alley, every fence in all the sprawling slums of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ivy stared up at the structure, nestled among the gnarly branches of a giant oak near the back fence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I—my hands are still chapped from putting up fence.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I ran across the field to a fence on the far side, popped through there, and then I was right on the road, three blocks from my house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It would of been a home run if we had fences. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man was still sitting by the fence cradling his leaf-crammed bottle of rum. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Faris comes hurtling out of the crowd, his giant body thudding into Julius and knocking him down, a bull ramming through a fence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And while he wasn’t thrilled about spending nights at the trailer, it was the only surefire way to stop the delinquents— or whoever was sabotaging the construction site—from jumping the fence and going wild. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked along the wire wall until Papa spotted a small hole underneath the fence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fence is maybe twelve or fourteen feet high with three strands of barbed wire run across the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the foursome went on he followed along the fence, bobbing and moaning. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a one-rail fence with twelve buckets underneath it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike a fencing uniform with a mask covering my face, the judge sees me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Qareeb gave a quick turn of his head to see what my mom was referring to and then said, “Oh, yeah. That’s the fencing team. I don’t know anything about it.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I don't say so but Peeta's words remind me of the warnings they give us about not going beyond the fence in District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Out in front, beyond the red fence, the sand of the ring was smooth-rolled and yellow. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling behind the fence, rubbing the dog's head, its tongue slapping the old man's cheek. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Papa, who led the way, paused, looked all around to make sure no one could see us, and headed toward the fence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They shimmied through a gap in the iron fence surrounding their school, just small enough for a Witchling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But images flash against my closed eyes—the Director’s leering red face, a drop of my blood falling to the floor, David’s smile, the Mess, the crackle of the fence as Soheil clutches it, Jake. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z