| 单词 | Virginia fence |
| 例句 | In a large pen or 'corral' built of railroad-ties, in a manner partaking of a Virginia fence, a log-cabin, and a block fortress, were a cage of youthful bears and cages of other animals. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z But he knew that table-cloths could be washed, and Virginia fences changed in time for hedges and walls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Solemn shade-trees surround it; and corn and wheat fields stretch away from the Virginia fences of its spacious yard, down the slope of the hill and across the lowland to the margin of the James. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 I would go rods out of my way to get around a great bowlder, and come upon a conglomeration of big trees which had tumbled about till they made a Virginia fence fifteen feet high. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice The logs were laid one above another, to the height of four feet, intersecting at the corners of the houses like the rails of a Virginia fence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 This particular cow inhabited a small paddock by the roadside, which was enclosed by a Virginia fence, and contained very little grass, and no provision for shade and shelter. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales I do not suppose he liked a Virginia fence better than Cobbett did. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 They will be so much magnified as to present very much the appearance of a Virginia fence. Sevenoaks Virginia fence, to make a: to walk like a drunken man. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Sitting on a Virginia fence is the only exercise I remember that suggests the exceeding narrowness of the benches at the ragpickers' ball. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 |
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