But loss of contact can be based on a fence built between my garden and my neighbor's garden.
It cannot be based on a fence built right in the middle of the neighbor's garden.
They sat with their backs against the base of a driftwood fence that marked someone's beachfront rectangle.
At the base of the fence, an eighteen-inch apron prevents rats from tunnelling under; on top, an outwardly curved metal lip stops possums and feral cats from clambering over.
Early one morning, she, her father and her brother Max were startled to see what appeared to be a little girl slumped on her knees at the base of the fence, as if mourning alone.
It landed at the base of the fence, allowing both runners to score.
I kicked at the base of the fence with my wellingtoned feet.
Facing the reliever Aaron Fultz, who was otherwise masterly today, Piazza doubled off the base of the fence in the left-field corner.
Unbowed, Lee blitzed through the next 10 hitters, his run of dominance pausing with one out in the fourth, when Thames singled and scored on Alex Rodriguez's double off the base of the fence in left-center field.
By the time he had put the finishing touches on his painting outside A&T Deli (the plastic shopping bags snarled in the weeds at the base of the fence around the empty lot), the crowd had dwindled down to Julian, who had not moved for more than an hour.
