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The long low stable buildings, the tall white masts and bright yellow flags, numberless white-painted cages, aviaries, outhouses, and the spotless white of the fencings and gateways, all lend it a pleasing individuality.

From The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 by Various

Which infinitely quickens the shadowy rumorings and Diplomatic fencings of mankind.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas

The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest?

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto

A great new boon to the home gardener they are, these wire fencings and nettings.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington

As Pascal to Escobar, so is Palestrina to Master Hugues; quibbles, shams, fencings with truth, overlay God’s gold with the cobwebs of tradition, and must be brushed away.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward