Virginia fence
Example Sentences
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Sitting on a Virginia fence is the only exercise I remember that suggests the exceeding narrowness of the benches at the ragpickers' ball.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
The logs were laid one above another, to the height of four feet, intersecting at the corners of the houses like the rails of a Virginia fence.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
They will be so much magnified as to present very much the appearance of a Virginia fence.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
In a large pen or 'corral' built of railroad-ties, in a manner partaking of a Virginia fence, a log-cabin, and a block fortress, were a cage of youthful bears and cages of other animals.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
I do not suppose he liked a Virginia fence better than Cobbett did.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various
