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  • She was seated in the crotch of a snake-fence running parallel with the road which ended in a curve toward the east and vanished in a thin-drawn perspective toward the west.

    Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

  • The gate and snake-fence were carried away, but the rest was saved!

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • We have left Peggy too long perched upon her snake-fence with Shashai and Tzaritza.

    Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

  • It is nearly a year since we first saw Peggy Stewart seated in the crotch of the snake-fence talking with Shashai and

    Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

  • A rail from a snake-fence was procured, the panther's legs were tied to it, and in this way he was borne to the village.

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • A snake-fence sidles from left to right along the top of the bank, passing beneath the apple tree. 3

    Act I, Scene i 1920

  • Parts of the snake-fence in the rear have been broken down.

    Act III, Scene ii 1920

  • "I felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin 'at me f' um behime a snake-fence."

    Seventeen 1915

  • It was standing almost leg-clear, in an angle of what seemed a drifted-over snake-fence.

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • They hitched the placid Bobby Junior to the top rail of a "snake-fence" climbed it, and headed toward a scrub-oak and popple thicket thrown like a blanket over the long slope of a hill.

    The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

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