Virginia fence

Example Sentences

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The logs were laid one above another, to the height of four feet, intersecting at the corners of the houses like the rails of a Virginia fence.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

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)

I do not suppose he liked a Virginia fence better than Cobbett did.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

In a large pen or 'corral' built of railroad-ties, in a manner partaking of a Virginia fence, a log-cabin, and a block fortress, were a cage of youthful bears and cages of other animals.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James

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