fencible
Britishadjective
noun
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So many years men fought and planned and struggled there, all forgotten now except by the gods; and silently gave away their life, before those countries could become fencible and habitable!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
You know Frazer, the hautboy-player in Edinburgh—he is here, instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this county.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
The Committee of Estates dared to resist the Remonstrants: even the Commissioners of the General Assembly “cannot be against the raising of all fencible persons,”—and at last adopted the attitude of all sensible persons.
From A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
It is certain that all fencible persons were not present, because the whole army being numbered, ver.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
You know Frazer, the hautboy player in Edinburgh—he is here instructing a band of music for a fencible corps quartered in this country.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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