snake fence
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
After a mile and a half we came to the corner of a snake fence.
From The Forest by White, Stewart Edward
‘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
Relieved that he was not to spend the night without food and fire, he vaulted the "snake" fence, and strode to the back door.
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
Longstreet was seated at the top of a snake fence at the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly calm and imperturbed.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
On either side of the lane, cutting it off from the fields, straggled a zigzag snake fence, with milk-weed, tansy, and mullein growing raggedly in its corners.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
