Only when Gertie began to sinitch ripe raspberries and peck holes in the just beginning to ripen tomatoes did Lila ask me to fence off the garden with some chicken wire.
It is not manly for you to fence off the consequences of your action.
But with the drought, the farmers began to fence off their land-even fallow land-for fear it would be ruined by passing herds.
To fence off large areas of parkland is often impractical and can also be immoral-in that it leads to local people being booted out.
