snake fence

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Here, for the first time in Canada, I observed hedges of the Canadian thorn--a great improvement on the old snake fence of rough split timber which prevails all through the colony.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

"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

This was but a deserted lane, which Sydney had chosen as affording a short cut to Melissa's, and, of a sudden, the passage was closed by a snake fence eight rails high.

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton

A gleam of white through the snake fence against the pink of the clover caught his eye.

From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Connor, Ralph

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)