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单词 worm fence
例句 worm fence
This worm fence secured to the nature lover and to wild life a strip of land eight or ten feet wide, whereon plant, bird, beast, reptile, and insect flourished and reproduced. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z
With only the worm fence and its rough clothing of wild vines and briers between them, the women met face to face. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z
The same effect was further aided and preserved by the cumbrous and unseemly worm fence that shot forth its stiff angles around the tract. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
And every man simultaneously drops his traps where he stands, and makes a bee-line for the tall worm fences, which are vanishing in every direction, as if by magic. The Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. June and July, 1863
Meanwhile Si had strolled over a little ways to where an old worm fence had stood when the regiment went into camp. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign
The old worm fence was distinctly American; it had a zigzag series of chestnut rails, with stakes of twisted cedar saplings which were sometimes "chunked" by moss-covered boulders just peeping from the earth. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z
In this last fight, it was ordered to charge a body of Federal cavalry, who were dismounted and lay behind a worm fence, firing upon the column with their Spencer rifles. History of Morgan's Cavalry
I rode in advance, and found that about a half mile ahead there was a little knoll of cleared land, comparatively dry, and skirted by a high, worm fence of good oak rails. Campaign of Battery D, First Rhode Island light artillery.
It is screened by thickets of pawpaw, blackberry, sumac or elderberry bushes which grow thick in the corners of the abutting worm fences. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight
Carefully he climbed the worm fence—for it would not do to crush even so lightly his four remaining captives—and strode blithely on. Sunlight Patch
But there was seldom any lack of fruit—beside the orchard, there were trees up and down all the static fence rows—the corner of a worm fence furnishing an ideal seat. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
A worm fence is run around the house to keep the pigs out of the first story. Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819
When used in this way the lines of fence may be 300 to 600 yds. long, in plan like a worm fence, with the blockhouse at the reëntrant angles. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
Tobacco and Indian Corne are planted in hills as hops, and secured by worm fences, which are made of rails supporting one another very firmly in a particular manner. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
One of the figures in the foreground was a dead Confederate boy, lying in the angle of a worm fence. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
There seemed an enemy behind every bush, a rebel in every corner of the worm fence. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Out sprang the Chaplain, making a worm fence, Indian fashion, for a big chestnut. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
The black picket and crooked worm fences around the buildings were then removed and replaced with good board and wire fences. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
Mr. Greeley can lay Virginia worm fences in ink faster than any other editor in New York City.  Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
A tuft of oxeye daisies in the shelter of a ruinous worm fence attracted him, and he reined the cob from the highway to fetch them. The Henchman
Among the Orthoptera, the “grouse grasshoppers” live during the cold season beneath the loose bark of logs, or beneath the bottom rails of the old Virginia worm fences. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
Allemand, the pilot, had lost his head and was steering a course crooked as a worm fence. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
The fences were of various descriptions: hedge, wicker, some few pannel, and the old fashioned zig-zag, known as the "Virginia worm fence"—the hedge and worm fence being the most common. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
He makes a dash at the ink-bottle every twenty seconds, places the third finger and thumb of his left hand on his paper, and scratches away at his worm fence like one possessed.  Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
Beyond the high worm fence grew a stubborn tangle of briers, vines, and cane. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
He was the strongest man I ever knew, and has been known to lift a man of his own weight and throw him over a worm fence. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
As they drove along the hot road they saw a boy sitting on the top rail of an old-fashioned stake-and-rider worm fence. McClure's Magazine December, 1895
On a dim path in thick woods we paused at a worm fence lying squarely across our way. The Cavalier
Not to forget, hereabouts, in the Middle States, the old worm fences, with the gray rails and their scabs of moss and lichen—those old rails, weather beaten, but strong yet. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
I looked earnestly forward, and on each side, in search of some token of human residence; but the spots of cultivation, the well-pole, the worm fence, and the hayrick, were nowhere to be seen. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
They ascended a long hill with gullies, bordered by worm fences and half-cultivated fields. The Ghost of Guir House
At the edge of a clearing enclosed by a worm fence I came to a row of slave-cabins. The Cavalier
A worm fence stretched along the road broken by two battered gate posts, and between the road and the house, the lane was crossed by a second fence and gate. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
The worm fence disappeared and neat white lines flashed divisions of pastures, it seemed, for miles. The Heart of the Hills
The man crossed his arms on the top rail of the worm fence, and laughed. The Shepherd of the Hills
When he reached the worm fence of the hemp field, he threw his load from his shoulder upon the topmost rail, and, holding it there with one hand, climbed over. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
The Mormons in most cases fired from their houses, while the Antis found such shelter as they could in a cornfield and along a worm fence. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901
But there were no fat cattle browsing in the Dean pastures now, no flocks of Southdown sheep with frisking lambs The worm fences had lost their riders and were broken down here and there. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
The land was a great series of wooded parks such as one might have found in Merry England, except that worm fence and stone wall took the place of hedge along the highways. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
But only a moment, for he turned quickly away, the tears starting to his eyes, walked rapidly through the woods, climbed the worm fence beyond, and dropped, sobbing, in the thick bluegrass. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
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