neck of woods
Example Sentences
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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 Alice B. Emerson
He had nearly reached the limit of the farm, and entered his neck of woods, when the breathing of a cow trying to nip some comfort from the frosty sod delighted his ear.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
"No, by the neck of woods under the peak."
From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Every other railroad in this neck of woods is skinned, and M'Grath is having the time of his life trying to hold our levies together.
From Empire Builders by Jay Hambidge
Slim and I hiked out to a neck of woods just beyond town, and there was the push, a score of husky hobos, charmingly located on the bank of a little purling stream.
From Moon-Face by Jack London
