palings

The street they walked up began from the wharf with two-storied respectable buildings – the Bank, the Post-Office, the police-magistrate's residence, some dwelling houses, within palings enclosing gardens – clumps of bananas, pawpaw apple trees, a few flower beds, bushes of flaunting red poinsettia, and so forth.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

The first who scaled the palings was a stoutish, middle-aged man: but who was the other?

Nearly Lost but Dearly Won Theodore P. Wilson

The farmhouse stood in the middle of a very large yard, and the yard was fenced on three sides with rails and on the rear side with high palings; against these stood the smokehouse; beyond the palings was the orchard; beyond the orchard were the negro quarter and the tobacco-fields.

Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

The goat surreptitiously nibbling the valuable shrubs outside the palings is a member of a flock that once seemed to promise fair.

Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867

In action this machine is worked thus: Supposing an insect is seen resting on a flat surface, such as palings, a wall, or the trunk of a tree, you having previously removed the cork and pulled the diaphragm out of the slot to its full extent, take aim, as it were, at the insect with the open mouth of B, and rapidly cover him with it.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

(Settlers Cooper and Greenlaw on what is called the Hill Ranch left two of their dead, 'Little Lillie' and 'Little David,' who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings)

Jack and Charmian London's Grave Site 2010

Cooper and Greenlaw — on what is called the Hill Ranch they left two of their dead, "Little Lillie" and "Little David," who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings.

Jack London's Kohler and Frohling Winery Ruins 2010

Cooper and Greenlaw -- on what is called the Hill Ranch they left two of their dead, "Little Lillie" and "Little David," who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings.

Chapter 37 2010

Summer and winter alternate like the sun flashing through the palings of a fence, the seasons are a blur of light and shade, and time slips by, and life slips by, and then

IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH 2010

He gained altitude and flew back to meet the hard wood palings of the fence.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010