neck of woods
Example Sentences
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He an’ I, Nuck, trapped this neck of woods together before the settlement was started.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by Foster, W. Bertram
Jim always uses bear's-paw shoes, and I don't believe there are more than half a dozen other pairs in this neck of woods.
From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
You can make up your mind that he knows Chess Copley has started for this neck of woods.
From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.
"No, by the neck of woods under the peak."
From In Secret by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
I know a neck of woods leading within a hundred yards of the cottages.
From The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
