Virginia fence

Example Sentences

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They will be so much magnified as to present very much the appearance of a Virginia fence.

From Sevenoaks by Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert)

Sitting on a Virginia fence is the only exercise I remember that suggests the exceeding narrowness of the benches at the ragpickers' ball.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

Or does it educate in inductive philosophy to chase a pig through a Virginia fence?

From Russell H. Conwell by Burr, Agnes Rush

I would go rods out of my way to get around a great bowlder, and come upon a conglomeration of big trees which had tumbled about till they made a Virginia fence fifteen feet high.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer

This particular cow inhabited a small paddock by the roadside, which was enclosed by a Virginia fence, and contained very little grass, and no provision for shade and shelter.

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)