worm fence
Example Sentences
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The worm fence disappeared and neat white lines flashed divisions of pastures, it seemed, for miles.
From The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John
A worm fence stretched along the road broken by two battered gate posts, and between the road and the house, the lane was crossed by a second fence and gate.
From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred
Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn.
From The Flower of the Chapdelaines by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
The old worm fence was distinctly American; it had a zigzag series of chestnut rails, with stakes of twisted cedar saplings which were sometimes "chunked" by moss-covered boulders just peeping from the earth.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
At the foot of the crumbling "worm" fence, skirting the edges of the wood, deep wind-drifts of russet leaves stirred mournfully.
From The Voice of the People by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
