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Born and bred on a fenceless expanse of golden grass and red dirt in the Australian outback, where horses, dingoes and crocodiles share the land, these animals are wild enough to charge a chopper.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

She found refuge first in the countryside, riding horses bareback across the fenceless prairie, and then in the air.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2019

Most of the Kachin villagers have fled to several areas along the fenceless border including Mai Jai Yang in Kachin state, and Nongdao, Longchuan and Leiji on the Chinese side.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2012

In October, 1884, Brooks House, newly built in a fenceless hilltop meadow that looked northwest to the blue New Hampshire hills, was ready for its first students.

From Time Magazine Archive

"To the far-flung fenceless prairie Where the quick cloud-shadows trail, To our neighbor's barn in the offing And the line of the new-cut rail; To the plough in her league-long furrow."

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans