| 单词 | fence rail |
| 例句 | When he arrived beside the men he put one foot on the lowest fence rail, rested his elbows on the second bar and looked into the pasture too. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The long ride to Kansas and back had Papa drawn down till he was as thin and knotty as a fence rail. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The boughs in the fir trees hung heavy with it, the fence rails and mailboxes wore mantles of it, the road before him lay filled with it, and there was no sign, anywhere, of people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z With a long-handled, double-edged axe, he split fence rails from massive cedar logs that washed down the Dungeness in the spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We marched in silence, along the line of the fence rails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Union soldiers are digging trenches and fortifications along the road and reinforcing them with fallen trees and fence rails to protect themselves from rebel bullets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In another story, a slave named Joe tries to attack his master with a fence rail, but the master kills him instead. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Theft of a fence rail could result in the same. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z To build fences in timber country, logs were split into fence rails. Need a fence? Start weaving. 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The state officials taking these steps may not be wearing Camp Auschwitz T-shirts, brandishing Confederate symbols, or attacking police officers with flags and fence rails. Opinion | The Jan. 6 attack demands that we protect voting rights 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z She walked along the fence rails, a small sledge hammer in hand, surveying the work and directing members of her temporary crew. Grand Teton park-goers lend a hand to public lands 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Leaning on a fence rail with a stub of a cigarette pinched between his fingers, he wanted to tell his side of the story about why he got arrested. Florida Opened a Fake Alligator Farm to Catch Poachers 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “Foot,” he said, and she obligingly put her foot on the fence rail. The Bronx Zoo’s Loneliest Elephant 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The company donated used drill stems to use as posts and recycled cable to use as a sort of fence rail to keep vehicles on the road, Crume said. Wyoming youth clean and get educated on trek 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z With the help of parkway maintenance staff, Drew Daniels replaced a dozen broken fence rails with salvaged chestnut posts. Volunteers help maintain Va. parkway cemeteries 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z A few fence rails were also secured and piled upon the fence in front of them. The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam 2012-04-19T02:00:29.860Z Only their egg box is made of silk and usually fastened to a fence rail or on the bark of a tree and left there. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z Long man punched small boy with a fence rail. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z The females survive the winter, and in spring build a tiny comb of papery material composed of saliva and timber scraped from old gray boards and fence rails. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Judging by the tangle of weeds and rotten chestnut fence rails in this small graveyard, she has most certainly been forgotten. Volunteers help maintain Va. parkway cemeteries 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The inhabitants were out upon all sides, on horseback, in buggies, in cars, or seated upon fence rails, every man of them hat in hand, every woman and girl a-smile, every child wide-eyed with excitement. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z White-flowered, the clematis and wild cucumber, the creamy honeysuckle of the amorous fragrance, cover fence rail and stone wall, give petals to the barren underbrush, twine fearlessly around barbed wire, and festoon deserted barns. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z He calls it a sleigh, but you remember, Doro, it is nothing more than the fence rails he took from Brady’s, buckled on the runners he got from Tim, the ragman. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z Instead of hopping, like most of its tribe, it walks over the frozen fields and rarely perches higher than a bush or fence rail, for it comes very near being a ground bird. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z His physique was remarkable, being very tall, and as slim as a fence rail almost, and with a long neck and mustaches as flowing as those of a “grenadier of the foot guards” of France. Life Gleanings 2011-12-01T03:00:23.890Z Nest and Eggs—The nests are rude depressions on the ground beneath a fence rail or fallen limb, or in a bunch of thick grass or brush. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Val parted the fringe of lower undergrowth and peered between the fence rails, but could see no one. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Pushing, pulling, prying with fence rails—all efforts left the big, red car stuck just where it had floundered. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z For this purpose we used fence rails when they were to be had; when there were none, we cut timber and brush. A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry 2011-10-15T02:00:29.757Z Soon a fence rail was slipped into the worn fence near by and a wash tub turned up and placed upon it. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z She sighed gently, for she was thinking of the rotting fence rails and the leaking roof at The Cedars. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z He winds along his crooked pathway of the fence rails and forages for half-forgotten nuts in the familiar grounds, brown with strewn leaves or dun with dead grass. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The brown, muddy current was littered with logs, uprooted trees, fence rails, pig-pens, hen houses, and other light litter wrenched from the banks during the last few days. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z They were bearing fence rails on their shoulders, fairly 112 staggering under the weight of their burdens. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z The maple grows but in good soil, Where nature doth reward for toil The farmer splitting his fence rails, He welcome bids the Prince of Wales. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z She remembered the empty flour barrel, and the falling fence rails, and the habit of a merciful Providence that invariably came to her aid at the eleventh hour. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Then all his men who could swim, piling their guns, clothing, and accouterments on a few fence rails, pushed these before them and thus gained the opposite bank. Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. 2011-05-10T02:00:58.760Z Ballots and fence rails; Reconstruction on the lower Cape Fear. The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter 2011-05-05T02:00:18.267Z After searching she found some pieces of old fence rails. The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country The Young Pathfinders on a Summer Hike 2011-06-13T02:00:31.687Z Tawny golden-rod and purple asters stuck their tops through the fence rails, and many kinds of creeping vines, some already scarlet and yellow, helped bind the angles together. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z As Lincoln was tall, three and one-half yards were needed, and he had to split 1,400 fence rails—a large amount of work for a pair of trousers. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z As they still refused, Jim Durham was sent to barricade the doors with fence rails, so that they should not be able to rush out unexpectedly. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z I sit on a fence rail, and, to let her know where I am, I whistle, Bob White! Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life After their inroads on the bait had become well established, Williams placed a trap at each of the remains, covering a little snow over them and stapling to pieces of fence rails previously placed. Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers She knew the spring, and, depositing her basket of eggs in a safe place, pulled a fence rail from its post, and with Ned holding one end hurried on to the spring. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School The broken fence rails still lay at the foot of the embankment. The Auto Boys' Vacation On the melting of the snow in the spring, the stumps left were of sufficient length to be used by Tunis for making fence rails! "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale The animals had been driven into the corrals, separate enclosures made of fence rails, one belonging to each of the neighboring ranches. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series If it was raining, he made his bed on top of two fence rails, if he could not find a better place. From Bull Run to Appomattox The pool was uncomfortably wide just where Nat chose to try its depth, so that it was difficult to span it with the fence rail. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School When we got back to where the bodies were I told them to take some fence rails and carry them as though they were a stretcher. Civil War Experiences under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864 It was a full hour later, and the Freshmen were crowding about the old cannon, round which a pile of boards, fence rails, barrels, etc., were stacked, all ready to light. Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 I have not so soon forgotten that gallant exploit with the fence rails!... A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois They gave us some fence rails, out of which we made little fires and broiled our cow meat. From Bull Run to Appomattox He traded well, for he says he would swap a belt for a man's labor for a day, or give one to a man for making a hundred fence rails. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia But, oh, dear me! for the third time, just in front of him was a big, fat cow who had to walk very carefully not to touch the fence rails on either side of her. Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse In less than twenty minutes a mass of oil-barrels and fence rails miraculously appears, and is heaped to the size of an ordinary barn. Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 Se�or Vallois waved his hand for attention and proceeded, with much detail and elaboration, to recount my simple feat with the fence rails. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois It was necessary for him, however, to go to the fortress, for he had accepted a contract to furnish fence rails. Waldfried A Novel "Some of you get hold of those old fence rails over there," Allan went on. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners Leaning their heads over the fence rail, the two animals gazed at them with expectant eyes. The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Jr. He has made his last charge, and gnawed his last fence rail, but there is from $20.00 to $40.00 in the old fellow yet. A History of the Town of Fairfax Harry hitched both of the horses to a fence rail and then came back to gaze at Eleanor until she came to herself. Madge Morton's Trust But the boy, with a boy's genius for investigation, brought a fence rail, put it under the branch, and shook them up a little. Upon The Tree-Tops They came running up, each bearing one of the old fence rails that had been at some time washed down the stream during a freshet. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners The state of the ground compelled us to improvise dry beds, which we did by taking fence rails and laying them side by side on the ground. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Major Webber, commanding it at the time, made every man lacking a gun, after punishment in other ways, carry a heavy fence rail upon his shoulder, until he procured an Enfield or Springfield rifle. History of Morgan's Cavalry But we had only fired a few shots when a shell burst in front of us, its fragments scattering dirt, fence rails, and splinters for yards around. In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House Some of the sticks seemed to have been cut for railroad ties, while others looked like fence rails, and there were not less than two dozen of them in a jumble among the jagged rocks. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields After this, Bumpus, take the mote out of your own eye before you try and get a fence rail from mine. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners On a convenient fence rail with a good outlook toward the west end of the village he ensconced himself and set about whittling a whistle from some willow stalks. Exit Betty He fired a round shot into the parapet thrown up in front of the trench, knocking the fence rails, with which it was riveted, into splinters, and probing the work. History of Morgan's Cavalry Gray squirrels were barking in the woods, and their cousins the reds, less shy, were scurrying along the fence rails and up the chestnut-trees to send the prickly burrs to the ground. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance He waded into a ditch where the snow was waist high, floundered up a bank, and selected a fairly straight fence rail that would serve his purpose, and wallowed back with it. Mixed Faces Why fence rails or timbers were not placed under them as is usual? War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 Let's get a fence rail, and lean it against the tree. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly She was as thin as a fence rail, and those colorful things Nancy remembered her wearing, the feathers and beads, the dyed quills, the painted figures on her dress, all were gone. Shaman The tireless little animal followed him along the fence rails for perhaps a hundred yards, seeing him off the premises and advising him not to return, then went back in high feather to his task. The Backwoodsmen But in the mean time Mr. Thompson had fallen asleep, and the old bee sat down on the fence rail and watched him. Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The answer is, there was not a fence rail nor anything of that nature probably within ten miles. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 After all, yellowhammers were the chief reliance in the chase; they were pre-occupied, unsuspecting birds, and lit on fence rails and dead trees, so that they were pretty easy to shoot. A Boy's Town “As true as I’m telling you, there’s a snake loose in there as big as a barrel, and as long as a fence rail around one of these cotton plantations!” Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam The lad took a fence rail from the tender, 184 placed it in the furnace, until one end was blazing, and then contrived to hand it to the leader from the rear of the tender. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War He shook his wings, arose, and, flying around for a few moments, settled on the fence rail. Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly At one time in the night some of the boys, rendered almost desperate by their suffering started to build a fire with some fence rails. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 She sat on the top of a fence rail and, her feet hooked around the next bar, was placidly, if precariously, watching Richard Gilbert tinkering with a cultivator that had developed a sudden "kink." Rainbow Hill It is often wise enough, however, to select a cavity already made, as the deserted hole of the Downy Woodpecker, a knot hole, or a hollow fence rail. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 I shall ask your mother never to let you ride a horse again unless you promise never to try to jump over another fence rail. The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail If the putting down of this rebellion depended on carrying fence rails around the Southern Confederacy, and I had to carry the rails, the aforesaid rebellion never would be put down. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 I throwed the bridle over the fence rail and went on up to the house, packin’ my saddle pockets over my arm and my gun and cartridge belt over my shoulder. Blue Ridge Country The picture had now become so real to Judy that her galloping imagination had leaped over every difficulty, as the hunter leaps the intervening fence rail. Molly Brown's Senior Days He was taken on shore at Sandy Hook, and on the beach a rude gallows was constructed of three fence rails, and there he was hung. Stories of New Jersey Queens, under such circumstances, sometimes seem unwilling to entrust themselves again to their wings, and the poor bees attempt to lay the foundations of their colony, on fence rails, hay-stacks, or other most unsuitable places. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual After dress-parade went out on a foraging expedition, with several others, after fence rails, as we had to have a fire to keep warm, also to make coffee and soup. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster The next day, however, they piled fence rails about the corpse to keep hogs from destroying it. Blue Ridge Country Go out in the sticks and talk to farmers; learn to sit on fence rails and whittle, asking after crops as if they were of interest to me? Greener Than You Think When the bark started from their fence rails, they felt the call to change. The Frontier in American History Many a fence rail was burned to give light to the conference which was held over the events of the day. History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: Beverly Ford. We managed to get some fence rails, build a fire and dry off, I was so drenched it took me nearly all day to get thoroughly dry. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster There'd have been falls of fence rails, roofs of houses, parts of trees. The Book of the Damned The freshet tore away pieces of orchard, and apple-trees in bloom came sailing along with logs and fence rails and chicken-coops, and pretty soon dead cows and horses. The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story Scare-crows were of no service in keeping the birds off, and finally the boys were put into the fields, upon little elevations made of fence rails, with guns loaded with powder and shot. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History This night the men disregarded the taboo and burned every available fence rail. The Long Roll With it the locust makes holes in fence rails, logs, stumps, and the earth, and in those holes mother locust lays her eggs. Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Plain proof of it was seen in the débris that floated on all sides—patches of grass and bushes, broken limbs, and here and there a fence rail. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters “I hit him as hard as I could with one o’ them fence rails.” Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea "Might be only a bunch of fence rails, and such stuff, that's got driven together in the flood, and is coming down on us in a heap," he announced. Afloat on the Flood Several pillars of fence rails were set up inside to keep the roof from sagging; then the castle was swept out, the floor smoothed, and the girls were allowed to enter. The Corner House Girls at School I hung on fence rails, my pet book forgotten under my arm, and gazed off to the yellow-streaked February sunset, and beyond, and beyond. The Promised Land Joe can sleep on the edge of a fence rail as well as anywhere else, and he never would have thought of making our floor soft and smooth. The Big Brother A Story of Indian War The roofs of the farmer’s buildings were100 covered with it, and so were the fence rails, and even the leaves of the big basswood were white in places. Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin The rattler was all of ten feet long and as thick around as a good-sized fence rail. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma "But where will I get fence rails?" asked the actor. The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film Some we found under piled fence rails, some under burdock leaves, some under nothing more protective than a plantain leaf. More Jonathan Papers We laid the axe where it would be at hand in case of need; and Tom trained the gun across the fence rail in the direction of the knoll. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's They fortified themselves with breast works made of fence rails and hay in such a bucolic manner that all the regulars in Boston laughed. The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" And Mike "swatted" with an end of a fence rail he was chopping up for firewood. The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Russ sat down on the fence rail, and the calf came up, bawling pitifully. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's It wasn't really a steamboat at all, being only some fence rails and boards nailed roughly together. Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's The first thing I realized I was over the fence rails, on the side toward the Edwards barn, running for dear life on the snow crust—and Tom was close behind me! A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Here he posted his brigade and hastily began the construction of breastworks and barricades of fence rails and earth. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 Some locusts make their holes in fence rails or in old stumps. The Insect Folk The fence rails were so old and dry that Russ could pull them, one at a time, away from the posts. Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Morgan, found a body of militia there, ensconced behind stout barricades of fence rails, stretching for some distance on each side of the road. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War He clung to the fence rail, staring out toward the house. My Lady of Doubt There was no means of cooking meat except by toasting it on the end of a ramrod poked over a fire of fence rails, but that was only a trifling matter to a hungry soldier. Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 Did you ever hear the story of the giant with two heads, who chased a whale, and caught him by the tail, and tickled the terrible monster with a big, crooked hickory fence rail? Bully and Bawly No-Tail Washington climbed hand over hand up the golden rounds of the ladder of success; Lincoln built the ladder up which he climbed out of the fence rails which his own hands had split. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Among the mountains and hills, down in the valleys, and on the plains; straggling along roadsides, clinging to fence rails, and sprawling over rocks, you will find the wild blackberry. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls It is often found in winter beneath chunks which are raised a short distance above the ground, or in the crevices of old snags and fence rails. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Again he teeters up and down on the end of an old fence rail with a rollicking eekoo, eekoo, eekoo, that sounds more like a laugh than anything else among the birds. Ways of Wood Folk She was stealthily approaching him with a piece of fence rail when I arrived and possibly prevented some broken bones. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine The reflection from trees and bushes, the gleam of fence rails, the travelling spots of illumination in the road, did not much help matters there. Wych Hazel For instance, a red squirrel or chipmunk will be lost amid, or against, the foliage of a tree, but on a fence rail or fallen log it will stand out distinctly. On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Over on the left, fence rails glistened purple in the sun and wind—a bluebird sat on a crumbling post and sang. Pembroke A Novel The nephew was greatly amused at seeing many of them with wooden yokes on their long necks, to prevent an easy entrance into fields and gardens by squeezing through the spaces between fence rails. Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills An ordinary fence rail will answer the purpose very well, although the log is preferable. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Thus, near Racine, Wis., I have known an ordinary fence rail, slightly sharpened on one end, to be driven against a young tree like a spear and pierce it several feet. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring "Why don't you take fence rails?" asked Bert, who felt better, now that his sisters and brother were all right. The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair Hundreds of men were busy making fence rails and fences, building houses, digging wells, clearing land, and plowing. A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints They hadn't gone very far before they met a grasshopper, who was limping along on top of a fence rail, and looking quite sad—I mean the grasshopper was looking sad, not the fence rail. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures "Are you all ready?" asked the wild duck of Jimmie and Lulu, as they stood beside him, balanced on the fence rail. Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble On the other hand, however, there are some micro-organisms which flourish luxuriantly when planted together in the same fluid, somewhat after the manner of pumpkins and Indian corn growing between the same fence rails. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 To whip me she put my head between the two fence rails and she taken the cow hide whip and beat me until I couldn't sit down for a week. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 Some of us got some fence rails and piled them together and worried through the night as best we could. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show A driver brought in a two-horse, side seated, depot wagon on three wheels and a fence rail. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura So they waited until the old rooster got up on the fence rail, too. Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble "Why, I'm so hungry I could eat a fence rail." The Boy Allies at Liege Especially went Stark and his New Hampshire men, who posted themselves behind a breastwork of fence rails and hay. A Short History of the United States The meadow larks are sending out their cheery "Spring o' the year" from fence rail and covert, a song most sweet and inspiring. Byways Around San Francisco Bay This property of wood is very important in certain uses such as firewood, fence rails, billets, and squares. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing Tiffles pointed with his wand to something that looked like the end of a fence rail sticking out of the water. Round the Block See, Doctor, there are some of them now on those fence rails and more up on the telegraph wires. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners This time he found a bit of shade and a fence rail for the too friendly nag, and entering the Jenks-Smith grounds afoot, followed the crowd that was gathering. People of the Whirlpool Old mars used to strip my sister naked and make her lay down, and he would lift up a fence rail and lay it down on her neck. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 So now we was both on our knees with our chins on a fence rail and gazing—yes, and gasping too. Tom Sawyer, Detective Two Old Crows Two old crows sat on a fence rail, Two old crows sat on a fence rail, Thinking of effect and cause, Of weeds and flowers, And nature's laws. The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems The Phoebe, like all other Flycatchers, sits motionless upon a dead twig, fence rail, or often the clothesline, waiting for insects to come by. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners He was far over six feet tall and as lean as a fence rail. The Redheaded Outfield You must have watched some infinitesimal red spider on a fence rail, bustling along—why and whither? The Haunted Bookshop The sun shone on, and Harriet still slept seated on the fence rail. Harriet, the Moses of Her People Icicles, glistening like jewels, hung from the eaves of the house, from the fence rails, and from the limbs of our little fruit trees. The Bark Covered House At the Beach Road Pembroke dismounted, tied his horse to a fence rail, and proceeded thence on foot toward the Cove. The Inn at the Red Oak A fence rail is not a comfortable seat. In the Midst of Alarms Some one yelled: "Ride him on a rail," and the suggestion finding an echo in the popular breast, a three-cornered fence rail was thrust between his legs, and lifted on men's shoulders. The Duke of Stockbridge One girl leant with her arms on the fence rail and her face buried in them, another was trying to comfort her. Children of the Bush No wonder he looks as if someone'd hit him with a fence rail. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch Daddy Blake took off his skates, and then, with a long piece of fence rail, while he stood on the bank, the children's papa broke the ice around the edges of the air hole. Daddy Takes Us Skating The division was astride the East Point road, the centre in open fields where no timber could be got for revetment, and only fence rails to give some support to the loose earth. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 My men probably took fence rails for their bivouac fires, and straw and hay for their beds, but to the best of my belief there was nothing done that could be called pillaging. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 Here's just the ticket—some old fence rails lying in a heap. The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup A broken fence rail was ablaze in the centre of the group, and as the red light fell on each soiled and unshaven face, it stood out grotesquely from the surrounding gloom. The Battle Ground Mr. Peabody himself was going up in the woods to mark trees for some needed fence rails. Betty Gordon in Washington The offer being accepted, a banner was borne up the hall upon two old fence rails. The Life of Abraham Lincoln He picked up a piece of fence rail and started at me. The Law of the Land Soon, he turned abruptly, strode away into the darkness, but came back after a while, lay down on the fence rails and slept soundly. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign Richardson is charging us across the ploughed ground and we are fighting from behind the stacked fence rails. The Battle Ground The river, swollen and yellow with the Spring rains, swept upon its bosom fence rails, hen-coops, and other flotsam of a Spring flood. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret A piece of the broken fence rail had jammed into the radiator, puncturing several coils and bending others out of place. The Motor Girls I hoped that maybe they would take this fence rail argument as a sort of temporary equivalent to a term in jail. The Law of the Land Harry and the major—Hawks was his name—hitched the horses, and gathered a heap of dry fence rails. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign That night they rested in a burned-out clearing where the pine trees had been felled for fence rails. The Battle Ground He was leaning upon the fence rail peering through his spectacles when Primmie came up behind him. Galusha the Magnificent Dying men, hurrying doctors, improvised stretchers made of wrenched fence rails; silent, slow-moving throngs following limp, bruised bodies,—are not pleasant objects to write about and should be disposed of as quickly as possible. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero I took up the same piece of fence rail and knocked him down. The Law of the Land Harry sleeping on his bed of fence rails did not dream of the extraordinary things that the little army of Jackson, beaten at Kernstown was yet to do. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign Bereaved man's hired girl told the agent that the bereaved man was splitting fence rails "over in pastur, about two milds." The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters Jumping from the fence rail, he laid a hand on his relative's shoulder. Galusha the Magnificent She climbed up the conveniently jutting ends of the fence rails and looked over the field. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies We gave him a good feed of hay and oats, and then Uncle Eb cut up a fence rail with our hatchet and built a roaring fire in the stove. Eben Holden, a tale of the north country Major Hawks had laid together and as evenly as possible a number of fence rails upon which Jackson was to sleep, but as yet no one was disposed to slumber. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign Another crash, and the Rebels had answered with musketry and artillery, that tore the cedars around her, sent the fence rails flying into the air, and covered the ground with blue-coats. The Red Acorn The little man stirred uneasily upon the fence rail. Galusha the Magnificent His lurching rush carried him across the narrow road and to the lake edge, barely in time to intercept the swinging sweep of the fence rail. His Dog "Why, I saw Tom about it three days ago," he said, striking the rotten fence rail until it broke and fell apart; "he told me it could run on at the same interest." The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields But when Harry rose the next morning from his fence rails he knew nothing of these things. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign Then one man seized him by the collar, while others brought a fence rail and some rope. The Life of Phineas T. Barnum Galusha started so violently as to throw him off his balance upon the fence rail. Galusha the Magnificent Other fuel, chiefly fence rails, was found, and a score or more of fires were lighted on the highway and in the adjoining pasture. Rolf in the Woods |
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