zigzag fence

Example Sentences

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Vacant of illusions was the winding road—silent, and empty, and white, its curve visible from the fireplace through the black rails of the zigzag fence.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Ah! the squatter’s clearing, with its zigzag fence, its girdled trees, and white dead-woods!

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been begun, but in no instance had it been completed; and the felled logs, half hidden in the soil, lay mouldering away.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

She sat down on the ruined and crumbling panel of a zigzag fence to rest and to wait for light.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham

I soon arrived at the zigzag fence bounding the fields of Gayarre; for we were still upon the very borders of his plantation.

From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Reid, Mayne