snake fence
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"Please be careful, Virginia," said Oliver again, as they left the road and cantered in the direction of a clump of pine woods in a hollow beyond a rotting "snake" fence.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
These two kinds of humour, the middle-class jokes about courting between lovers seated on a snake fence, or about Sunday schools p. 185and quaint answers there given to Biblical questions, leave us cold.
From Lost Leaders by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)
On either side of the lane, cutting it off from the fields, straggled a zigzag snake fence, with milk-weed, tansy, and mullein growing raggedly in its corners.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
Out of the weeds in the corners of the snake fence, in the upper part of the rise, silently lifted the heads of men whose sallowness became a sickish white as the child flew by.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth
He had just come out of the woods and up to the snake fence of split rails which bounded the pasture.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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