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Examples
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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.
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The gate and snake-fence were carried away, but the rest was saved!
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We have left Peggy too long perched upon her snake-fence with Shashai and Tzaritza.
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It is nearly a year since we first saw Peggy Stewart seated in the crotch of the snake-fence talking with Shashai and
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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
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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
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Parts of the snake-fence in the rear have been broken down.
Act III, Scene ii 1920
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"I felt mighty shaky once, I rickalect; dat time yalla m'latta man shootin 'at me f' um behime a snake-fence."
Seventeen 1915
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It was standing almost leg-clear, in an angle of what seemed a drifted-over snake-fence.
Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914
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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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