snake fence

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‘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

Here, for the first time in Canada, I observed hedges of the Canadian thorn--a great improvement on the old snake fence of rough split timber which prevails all through the colony.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

Out of the weeds in the corners of the snake fence, in the upper part of the rise, silently lifted the heads of men whose sallowness became a sickish white as the child flew by.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Tarkington, Booth

Along the left of the field the dark spruce woods came down close to the zigzag snake fence of split rails which bounded Hatch's clearing.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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)