At the end of the woods was a fence topped with barbed wire.

It would be rude if people were greeted at City Hall by raw concrete pillboxes, fences topped with razor wire and police helicopters circling overhead.

A fence topped with razor ribbon separates the enclave from a Consolidated Edison parking lot that is immediately adjacent to the East River.

Except, of course, for the checkpoint on the road in, where a guard takes your license plate number, or the chain-link fences topped with both barbed and razor wire.

A fence topped with razor wire ringed the base of the tower.

At the land border are the fences topped with razor wire and in the harbor, high-speed patrol boats.

Quiet businesses like Unique Electric stare out at a pockmarked roadway and a fence topped with curlicued barbed wire.

The fences topped with razor wire, the truck-stop diners, the old brick warehouses and the fallow brownfields all suggest a different sort of drama, the kind featuring, perhaps, Tony Soprano.

The fence would top a two-foot-tall stone wall and rise no more than six feet, according to a letter presented by his lawyer to Rye selectmen.

The field lay beyond on a stretch of leveled ground, ringed with a high perimeter fence topped with floodlights.