At best it was a treasure-house, which valiant Goths, if Fortune favoured them, might sack and plunder: but Fortune seldom did favour the children of Gaut in their assaults upon the fenced cities of the Empire.
So in five and twenty days the circuit of the walls was completed, truly in a most slovenly style of building, the marks of which we can see even to this day, but Rome was once again a "fenced city".
Five hundred acres are fenced to confine herds of elk, deer, and buffalo.
Many families lived in second stories, and on nearby farms platforms were built on the roofs of barns and fenced in for the livestock, which was fed from boats.
Within the fencedarea are the remains of the sod fortification, and eight Government grave markers have been placed inside it in memory of those who lost their lives in the episode.
We found by far the greatest part of the country cultivated, and planted with various sorts of productions; and most of these plantations were fenced round.
These plantations are neatly fenced round; and, for the most part, have only one entrance.
Close before me rose a soft hill, full of green cornfields, fenced with quick-hedges, and the top of it was encircled with a wood.
In this retreat, within fifty yards of the busy mill, but fenced about by the foaming torrent and quite inaccessible except by the footbridge, MacPhairrson lived with the motley group of companions which men called his Happy Family.
It whitelyfenced in the trodden, chip-littered, straw-strewn space of the yard which lay between the barn and the cabin.
I bent down my cheek to put it into the way of those natural weapons of his as hefenced about with them.
Each district was fenced in, generally with reeds, which were placed so close together that there was scarcely room for a mouse to creep between.
It turned out to be a plant of the common English pea, which was fenced round with little sticks, and had apparently been tended with very anxious care.
A flight of red freestone steps, fenced in by a balustrade of curiously wrought iron, ascends from the court-yard to the spacious porch, over which is a balcony, with an iron balustrade of similar pattern and workmanship to that beneath.
The coachman reined in his four black steeds, and the whole cavalcade came to a pause in front of the contorted iron balustrade that fenced the Province House from the public street.
We followed them up a stone-fenced lane just wide enough for the car to pass.
The upper lake is beautiful, fenced around by mountains of every size and variety of appearance.
From the grand castle of Lismore the road wound along between low range walls, ivy-covered and moss-grown, thatfenced in extensive woods, clothing bold hills and deep valleys with wild verdure.
After some time the wild mountains, where there was nothing but rocks and heather, were fenced off.
The barren mountains are fenced off, surely at a great expense, that no sheep or lamb might bite a heather bell without pay.
It is fenced in with chains looped up on posts--a fence that nobody minds except to step over and they track the grass with paths running in every direction.
And now, turning to me, my father fenced me with the whole weight of his sententious volubility, which was the force of a river.
He fenced the treacherous host during dinner with superb complacency.
We look over the fertile plain, dying away to the right into the Pomptine marshes, and fenced in by the mighty limestone bulwark of the Volscian mountains.
The arx is not in a corner, but in the middle; the lower town, fenced in by the wall of its own outer circuit, lies around it on every side.
And it was a house going back, not to dated Emperors or consuls, but to the unrecorded age which reared these cities great and fencedup to heaven.
The tale of those Hernican cities, fencedin with primaeval walls, among which we have been lately sojourning, is worthily brought to an end at Alatri.
Fence in the flood, as the elder Tarquin fenced it in beside the mouth of the cloaca maxima; make a strong wall of defence against the waters, and the remains which are left of Ostia may abide as long as the cloaca maxima itself.
The castle above, fenced in by its ditch, seems as desolate as everything around, save the new or renewed fabric of St. Margaret's.
So the monument which commemorates the bounty of Aulus Quinctilius stands in the open air clear enough to be seen, well fenced in withal, which the visitor may perhaps regret, as a little time may be wasted in searching for the key.
Diving still deeper down the lane, Roland perceived that it was now bordered by buildings upon the one side only, and that the other was fenced by a high old wall, over which some trees extended their branches.
The mud hovels of the colonists are black specks, and when you reach them you find that a big slice of the land has been given to the plough and is fenced with wire.
With the changes that have come over the estancias during the last twenty-five years--fenced fields of alfalfa appearing where formerly there was nothing but the open plain--the days of unrestricted gallop over the prairie are over.
And the children of Israel offended the Lord, their God, with things that were not right: and built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins: I have formed it, etc.
And you shall destroy every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall cut down every fruitful tree, and shall stop up all the springs of waters, and every goodly field you shall cover with stones.
He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.
The cabin built of boughs which I occupied was double; one portion was fenced off from the other with a wattling of branches, which ran up about seven feet, but not so high as the roof.
The other man, who had been delayed, the gate being locked, and fenced with thorns, had but just gained the field when Joey had his bundle in his possession.
But what she did not know, and could not divine, was the man whofenced her.
There is often on one side of the entrance opening a small space of the inside of the house fenced off for occupation by the pigs, and there is a little aperture by which they can get into this space from outside, (x.
And so they came to the gate of a fenced plot which was like a quiet garden on the plains.
It must befenced in, and whatever is fenced in is narrow.
In one of these openings, several miles from the Transit road, we passed a red-tiled building, the only one of any sort on the trail beyond the ring-fenced cultivation of Rivas.
