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palings

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Vertical oak palings were the fence, with a five-barred gate in the middle of them.

Each garden concealed behind its palings the "flower" of Kabyle chivalry, only to be uprooted by the bayonet.

In a short time the doors and palings were removed, and the walls demolished.

Shrubs and creeping-plants grew in the neglected gardens, climbed over the palings, and straggled about the streets.

MARTIN RATTLERR.M. BALLANTYNE

With some pains and no little violence to his hands, he wrenched one of the new palings off the fence, and let himself in.

Peering through the palings, she could see an unshoveled driveway which curved gracefully to a pillared porch.

Through the iron palings they could see a white-garbed figure walking with measured tread amid the shrubs of the frozen garden.

To look at the palings before the Yeobrights' house had the dignity of a necessary performance.

Beyond the irregular carpet of grass was a row of white palings, which marked the verge of the heath in this latitude.

Thomasin came down when the apples were collected, and together they went through the white palings to the heath beyond.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985