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 W. Bertram Foster
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
As he left the marsh and crossed from a neck of woods to the lake shore he saw two moving objects far out upon the ice.
From Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace
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 Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Why, take Texas himse'f: Thar's a fly-by-night party pesterin' 'round camp for a space, who lets on he's from the same neck of woods as Texas.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
