snake fence

Example Sentences

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So Jim ran lightly across the stony, clover-set ground to where the little girl roamed along the old snake fence, picking berries sometimes, sometimes watching the sportsmen out of shy, golden-grey eyes.

From The Dark Star by Stevens, William Dodge

At length, we left the path altogether, and pulling down a snake fence, passed through the gap into open fields.

From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

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)

‘I’m that beset I dunno where I’m standin’, for Miss Hardin’s been as crooked as a snake fence, an’ as contrairy as a yearlin’ colt, an’ the childern dew train awful.’

From A Princess in Calico by Black, Edith Ferguson

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