rail-fence

His Virginia rail-fence, run by line, straight as an arrow, attracts their intelligent attention and imitation.

Notes Among the Indians 1995

The "happy couple" ride up to the low rail-fence in front -- the bride springs off without assistance, affectation, or delay.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

Minden, advanced in column directly on the rail-fence; when within eighty or an hundred yards, displayed into line, with the precision and firmness of troops on parade, and opened a brisk, but regular fire by platoons, which was returned by a well-directed, rapid, and fatal discharge from our whole line.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

When they had gone out, he hinted something to Flint in regard to the conquest he appeared to have made; but found him so loftily unconscious that his jest fell flat, and he dropped the subject to take up a more serious theme as they strolled along the road, and at length seated themselves where the turkeys had made their roost, on the gray rail-fence in the moonlight.

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

At last, the road, which had long been in a condition of ominous second-childhood, suddenly died a natural death at the foot of a steep hill, where a rail-fence presented itself as a barrier to farther progress.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

"That is because we have been to Rättvik so many times that we know every house and tree and rail-fence along the way," answered Birger.

Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald

There was an old rail-fence about the place, and a large pile of boards in front.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The twenty-two stubby snouts that were thrust through the opening of the rail-fence were quivering with eagerness and impatience.

Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

Sometimes the trees met across it; sometimes it was bordered on one side by an old rail-fence of moss-grown cedar, with bushes sprouting beneath it, and thrusting their branches through it; sometimes by a stone wall of unknown antiquity, older than the wood it closed in.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various

He succeeded though, and grasping a rail-fence and mounting it, dropped down into the lane.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand