neck of woods
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What license have we in that neck of woods?
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by Kenneth McGaffey
In this neck of woods a man is liable to get himself disliked if he shoots off his mouth too prevalent.
From A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine
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 Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
He an’ I, Nuck, trapped this neck of woods together before the settlement was started.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
Some men meet the senders of this at Oysterman Dan’s, in neck of woods above Lower Point Gifford, to raid kidnapers’ roost from there, and effect rescue of young Anthony Sabaste.
From Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In by Wayne Whipple
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