rail-fences

The rail-fences were somewhat disturbed, and the cinders of extinguished fires showed the use to which they had been applied.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

It was the wildest ride that Montague ever had taken -- over ditches and streams and innumerable rail-fences, and through thick coverts and densely populated barnyards; but he was in at the death, and Alice was only a few yards behind, to the immense delight of the company.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

He longed to be free once more -- free to scamper through the tree-tops, and along the stone-walls and the rail-fences.

The Tale of Frisky Squirrel Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

There were dark stretches of forest on the hilltops and in the valleys; rivers filled with floating logs; sawmills beside the waterfalls; wooden farmhouses painted white; and rail-fences around the fields.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

These kindling-wood toys will give a realistic idea of log-houses, rail-fences, log rafts, and primitive bridges, and while building them the children might be told stories of the way early settlers lived and made their homes, or the children may "make up" stories about the different scenes.

Little Folks' Handy Book Lina Beard 1888

There was an intimation of pensive farewell in his large illumined eyes as they rested on the circle of familiar things about him -- the budding trees, the well, with its great angular sweep against the sky, the still sward, the rail-fences glistening with the dew, the river with the moonlight in a silver blazonry on its lustrous dark surface, the encompassing shadows of the gloomy mountains.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Clean white shirt-sleeves are the symbol of our race's rustic Sunday leisure everywhere; and the main difference that I could note between our own farmer-folk and these was that at home they would be sitting on the top of rail-fences or stone-walls, and here they were hanging over gates; you cannot very well sit on the tops of hedges.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

The cabins by the way were rude; rail-fences, chin high, through which white-headed children peered suspiciously, ran by the front doors; near which the cow-yards were conspicuous.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

We were among cows and barns and homely rail-fences, and that was comfort; so we strolled contentedly through the pasture, found a river, -- I believe it was the Hudson; at any rate, Halicarnassus said so, though I don't imagine he knew; but he would take oath it was

Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

But the night fell, and Fleda at last could see nothing but the dim rail-fences they were flying by, and the reflection from some stationary lantern on the engine or one of the forward cars, that always threw a bright spot of light on the snow.

Queechy 1854