paling

• He could feel himself paling, the blood draining from his face as he reached the final damning passage: SWEETNESS: have u evr bn with a virgin HOTDAMNDADDY: I've had my share ... have you ever been with a daddy? —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
• We'll go back to that oak paling, and climb over. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• "That would madden a saint And he jumped down from the paling, and ran towards the crowd. —  The Crofton Boys
• As soon as the paling was finished Humphrey put up a board against the oak-tree, with the simple words carved on it, "Jacob Armitage Edward had every day expected that Oswald Partridge would have called upon him, as he had promised to do before the week was out; but Oswald had not made his appearance, much to Edward's surprise. —  The Children of the New Forest
• On the upper cover within the paling is a large rose-bush, bearing a large Tudor rose and two white roses in full bloom, with buds and leaves, some tendrils extending over the palings. —  English Embroidered Bookbindings

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