| 单词 | sunk fence |
| 例句 | His people and hers lived in the same sombre London square: their Haslemere gardens were divided only by a sunk fence. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z It was semicircular in shape, with a stone balustrade, and hung some fifteen feet above a terraced walk which ran below it, and was separated from the chase by a low sunk fence. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Ha-ha, Hawhaw, haw-haw′, n. a sunk fence, or a ditch not seen till close upon it. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And in Spring what a choir of nightingales sang in the gnarled whitethorn trees by the sunk fence, and in late summer what myriads of grasshoppers chirruped in the twilight. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The white figure stood on the little bridge which led over the sunk fence into the meadow. Helena's Path 2011-07-29T02:00:22.607Z Mason and he crept like lizards to the sunk fence. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z They were faced by a lawn contained within a sunk fence. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z He got off his horse, tied the bridle to the sunk fence over which sunflowers poked their round faces, like night-capped women giving a sleepy and sulky greeting. The Undying Past So I went and got hold of a ripping good place in a kind of sunk fence. Deep Moat Grange She had always been a part of his life since the days when nothing but a sunk fence divided his father’s park from her father’s rabbit-warren. Man and Maid There is not much garden between it and the Park, which goes on for miles, and begins at the sunk fence over yonder. When Ghost Meets Ghost He touched the pony with his whip, and turning off the main avenue, drew up at the bottom of one of the lawns, before a sunk fence. The Moving Finger The wall is often concealed in a sunk fence, in order to give an idea of greater extent. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton There the going was splendid—till you came to the sunk fence…. Anthony Lyveden Right in front of the house at the bottom of the sunk fence, there ran a stretch of river,—about three hundred yards of it, clear deep slides with a level muddy bottom. The Tragic Bride On, down the long cedar alley, the dew dripping from the branches as they closed behind them; over the sunk fence, and across the lower garden to the summer-house, Hugh's summer-house. Fernley House But the third time I followed the ditch under the sunk fence till I came to the mound which is shaped like a green hat at the end next the house. The Dew of Their Youth He was kept at home for a week, and told not to go past the sunk fence. The Book of One Syllable Paddling carefully along to avoid running against sunk fences, they soon came into the open plains, and felt as though they had passed out upon the broad bosom of Lake Winnipeg itself. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Behind this came a square piece of kitchen garden, divided from the fields by a sunk fence, with a little wooden foot-bridge across it. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls There, away across the green park beyond the sunk fence, were people coming. The Magic City She had made a circuit of the ornamental water, and was returning by the footpath near the sunk fence which separates the Gardens from the Park, when she recognized De Burgh coming toward her. A Crooked Path A Novel Within we made the circuit of a neglected lawn, divided from a park by a sunk fence, across which some cattle stared at us in a lazy manner as we drove past them. Milly Darrell and Other Tales She half wished she was not too old and dignified to dart across the road, leap the sunk fence, and run to see. Mistress and Maid Close by was the sunk fence and the tiny rustic bridge—only a plank or two—which spanned it. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk When the hideous iron fence is replaced by the proposed ha-ha, or sunk fence, and new sward grows about the old stones the general effect will be greatly improved. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Everywhere there was a profusion of flowers, and on all sides beyond a sunk fence lay the great park. The Brother of Daphne Its garden surrounded by a sunk fence could be seen, and the figure of a lady walking in it. The Coryston Family A Novel She learns to look at everything in life as she does at six feet of timber or a sunk fence; she goes through the world as she goes across country—straight ahead, and over everything. Lady Audley's Secret He had come to her as usual from out the gloom, just as she was about to cross the little bridge which spanned the sunk fence. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk In the garden stood Rose, on the edge of the sunk fence dividing the Rectory domain from the cornfield. Robert Elsmere Once across the lawn, I was to drop it over the sunk fence close to the drive. The Brother of Daphne They killed near the big turnip-field, and all went down to see where you leaped Badger over the sunk fence,—they call it "Hammersley's Nose" ever since. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 There she made for a huge oak, which gloomed in the moonlight by the sunk fence parting the grounds. Mary Marston For this he had glued both eye and ear to draughty keyholes, had lain for hours under cover of prickly thistles in the sunk fence which surrounded the flower garden. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk The point to which Fan had wandered was a little beyond the orchard, close to an old sunk fence or ha-ha separating it from the field beyond. Fan : the story of a young girl's life The court is now thrown open, and converted into a lawn surrounded by a sunk fence, and overlooking a quiet valley of perhaps a mile in length, terminated by woody hills of great rural beauty. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 About three hundred yards before us lay the sunk fence; its breadth was about twenty feet, and a wall of close brickwork formed its face. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 My indefatigable superintendent goes every morning for two, three, or four hours to his field, to work at a sunk fence that 'IS to protect his garden from our cow. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Dougal led them along a sunk fence which divided the downs from the lawns behind the house, and, avoiding the stables, brought them by devious ways to a thicket of rhododendrons and broom. Huntingtower It was semi-circular in shape, with a stone balustrade, and hung some fifteen feet above a terraced walk which ran below it, and was separated from the chase by a low sunk fence. A Gentleman of France “Jane,” he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, and slowly strayed down in the direction of the sunk fence and the horse-chestnut, “Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?” Jane Eyre |
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