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Example sentences for "rail fence"

  • I approached the house, screening myself behind a rail fence.

  • A low grass-covered meadow was in our front, with a rail fence at the woods about three hundred yards from us.

  • Just before arriving at the point where we were ordered to turn to the right through an opening in a rail fence, into a field, Aaron C.

  • Half way down the slope was a strong skirmish line along a rail fence.

  • The confederates were behind a stone fence, we in a piece of woods along a rail fence, which ran along the edge of the timber.

  • A sharp fight followed on the other side with Early's infantry in which a portion of the First Michigan led by the gallant Captain Maxwell made a most intrepid charge on infantry posted in the woods behind a rail fence.

  • Our regiment was in some second growth pine woods and the rebels behind a rail fence on the other edge of the woods, and through the trees the moving wagons could be seen.

  • Late in the afternoon our regiment took part in a charge and had to go over a rail fence.

  • After brushing through the weeds and briers and climbing a rambling, rail fence, we came out on the road beside one of our friends and a small boy, who appeared to be striking a bargain over a long string of trout.

  • Hawks circled overhead, and on a rail fence, visible at one break in the forest, a line of crows was roosting, with their glossy black plumage reflecting the sunlight.

  • With the friendly aid of a rail fence we now built a fire, and prepared our dinner of hardtack and coffee, and remained quiet for the rest of the day.

  • About a hundred yards in our front was a rail fence, beyond which lay another open field.

  • We had soon come to its edge, and found before us an open field about a hundred and twenty-five yards across, separated from us by a rail fence.

  • As he made for it, he fell into a split-rail fence, some of which he knocked down until he could climb over it.

  • Beyond that, in turn, and outside the split-rail fence, rows of giant trunks lay piled in the tremendous ruin usually called the "slashing.

  • On the inland side it ran beneath a bluff; on the other a rail fence rimmed a twelve-foot embankment dropping to a streamlet and a wide field where the corn stood in shocks.

  • The 49th Virginia was strung behind a rail fence, firing from between the grey bars.

  • So when I come to a ten-rail fence, I got up on ole John.

  • A rail fence was on each side of a long lane that led down to the pasture.

  • I would have to git up on a ten-rail fence to git on him.

  • But he could not, in common civility, turn back until he had helped her to surmount this eight-rail fence; and indeed it was the great treat to which he always looked forward.

  • When at length he stopped to unshoulder his burden on a salient corner of old Lazar's rail fence, sunset had begun to bless the overheated earth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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