enclosures
Example Sentences
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Giant pandas are solitary animals and are kept in their own respective inclosures.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2017
Darling seer, how much wiser and better might we be, if we had as open eye for loveliness and worth within and without the inclosures of our pride and our pets!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
Colonel Stone has called me to account for one of the five inclosures to this paper.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
The inclosures consist of the seven death-sentences, one of which has already been given, and the following lists, which show a number of glaring errors.
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by Pittenger, William
Where inclosures are used for yeaning, they should be kept clean by frequent litterings of straw—not enough, however, to be thrown on at any one time, to embarrass the lamb about rising.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert