zigzag fence
Example Sentences
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In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been begun, but in no instance had it been completed; and the felled logs, half hidden in the soil, lay mouldering away.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Blackberry vines, sassafras and sumac bushes made one inextricable tangle of vegetation along the zigzag fence.
From The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey
Fortunately he found that there was a perceptible declivity as he approached the water, and not merely that, but that one of the rails of the zigzag fence had been detached.
From Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution by Major John Richardson
A zigzag fence is called in the Middle States a worm or “snake” fence.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
She sat down on the ruined and crumbling panel of a zigzag fence to rest and to wait for light.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
