There are the trees, there is the pathway, and the snake fence with half a moon shining, and my bare feet on the gravel.

Deflated, he began to measure Mrs. Pierce's yard for a mesh snake fence, a barrier that would keep the elusive slithering beings at a distance.

As we sat there, along came McDermott, running along the top of the snake fence, agile as a squirrel, and zigging and zagging.

Michael Chikousky and Andrew Gilson, who live by these snake fences have noticed a difference and are thankful that the fences were built to save snakes' lives.

SNAKE FENCE McDermot... was morose and churlish.

I tell you, woman, that the snow lay so deep on the earth, that it blocked up all the roads, and we could drive a sleigh whither we pleased, right over the snake fences.

Here, for the first time in Canada, I observed hedges of the Canadian thorn--a great improvement on the old snake fence of rough split timber which prevails all through the colony.

The fences around the fields were of different kinds, snake fences of split rails, and others made of the tree roots pulled out of the ground, which looked like giant hanks of wooden hair.

The use of two rails to form a cross, having a top rail, bench rails and lower heaver rails, allowed it to be free standing, withstand heavy winds and take up less fence bottom than the zigzag or snake fence.

Beyond it all the dells and slopes and fields of the old farm, some of them fenced in with the barbed wire Pat hated, others still surrounded by the snake fences of silvery-grey "longers," with golden-rod and aster thick in their angles.

A split-rail fence or log fence (also known as a zigzag fence, worm fence or snake fence historically due to its meandering layout) is a type of fence constructed out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails and typically used for agricultural or decorative fencing.