Tis Maypole-day tomorrow, and the Shadwater folk have clubbed with a few of your neighbours here to have a pole just outside your palings in the heath, as it is a nice green place.
She went forward to the palings and leant over them, looking at the moon.
He had reached the whitepalings and laid his hand upon the gate when the door of the house opened, and quickly closed again.
He stood leaning over the palings in an indecisive mood for nearly a quarter of an hour.
Evening drew on, and sounds of life and movement in the lower part of the domicile became more pronounced, the gate in the palings clicking incessantly.
The little gate in the palings before his dwelling continually opened and clicked together again, but when he looked out eagerly nobody was there; it was as if invisible shapes of the dead were passing in on their way to visit him.
To look at the palingsbefore the Yeobrights' house had the dignity of a necessary performance.
In front of the white garden-palings the path branched into three like a broad-arrow.
Behind the white palings was a little garden; behind the garden an old, irregular, thatched house, facing the heath, and commanding a full view of the valley.
Thomasin came down when the apples were collected, and together they went through the white palings to the heath beyond.
The house was a white one, a little removed from the roadside, with closepalings in front.
Immediately Jerry came to the gate and stood just inside growling in his throat, so The Laird thrust an atomizer through the palings and deluged Jerry's hairy countenance with a fine cloud of spirits of ammonia.
The palings by the road are falling, and are held up chiefly by the brambles about them and the ivy that has climbed up.
Two squirrels one day ran along the palings and up into a guelder-rose tree in the garden.
Once, and once only, a pair of them ventured into the garden itself, deftly passing along the wooden palings and exploring a guelder rose-bush.
Looking up he saw the palings give way, and a huge boar rushing through the gap, followed by half a dozen dogs and a man on horseback.
Sir William Ingleby being a "forester," therefore had the right of following game in the forest outside the palings of Haverah.
In his wanderings he had come near the palings of the park, and sat down to partake of a luncheon he had brought with him in his pocket.
A door in thepalings opens, and one of the captives comes forth and stands before the rail.
The officer grasped the prisoner again and pointed him to the door in the palings whence he had come, and whither he now returned, without a word or note of distress.
Without the slightest change in her action his mare flew over it; the palings vanished, and he heard only a crash behind him.
At the same instant, under Vronsky's eyes, right before him flashed the palings of the barrier.
She was borne on, breathless, unprotesting, to the white palings where the paygate was.
As they stood there he could see over the low palings of the gardens the window of the little house where he had climbed in that night, that Sunday night, more than two years ago.
The palings and gardens ceased; and on a terrace built on an open space stood a mosque, surrounded by a few trees; not cypresses, for the climate scarce allows of them, but those of the forests we had passed.
We continued along the river Raska for about an hour, and then descried a line of wooden palings going up hill and down dale, at right angles with the course we were holding.
He had repeated them over and over to himself that morning--he had spoken them aloud, in what had seemed then an unaccountable sincerity, to old Mother Blondin as she had clung to the palings of the cemetery fence that morning.
The scene of that morning, when she had clung to the palings of the fence outside the graveyard while they shovelled the earth upon the coffin of her son, rose vividly before him.
Long clutched one of the palings of the fence with his gloved hand and swung back from it and took a deep breath.
Henley was quite calm, though a great new light was flaring in his eyes as they rested on Dixie, who was looking off in the direction of the mountain, her little hands grasping the palings of the fence, her tense body thrown slightly backward.
He says the bluepalings are not so blue as they are painted.
During his sober days Bogg used to fossick about among the old mullock heaps, or split palings in the bush, and just managed to keep out of debt.
I asked him if he'd ever got stringy-bark palings or shingles out of mountain ash, and he smiled a smile that did my heart good to see, and said he had.
He saw Tom, and Tom saw him, and smoked through a hole in the palings into the scrub.
He was wandering ankle deep in the dew, towards a belt of poplars like birch-rods on the skyline, and a row of spiked palings right in front of his nose.
It was exactly the same mood in which he had scaled the upright palings in defiance of the policeman who said he might not sleep in the Park.
Pocket crept along the palings towards the chairs by which he had climbed them.
Asthma,” wheezed Pocket, clinging to the palingsin dire distress.
So then the cunning dog put his handkerchief through the palings and wiped the grit from the chair on which he had stood.
The boles of the fruit and shade trees about the house were whitewashed, and the palings of the fence renewed.
These palings have since been removed, and an iron fence substituted.
No spectacle can be more distressing than that of this cemetery, to which access is gained by a side door in the wooden palings that fence it round.
The wooden palings which surrounded the weed-grown gardens were strewn about and broken; hogs, goats, and ill-fed poultry wandered in and out through the gaps.
At that moment Lisette, who had risen from the bench on which they had seated themselves, looking toward the palings of their garden, perceived a tall figure leaning there.
He began to grope his way cautiously with his hand on the palings whilst waiting until his eyes got accustomed to the darkness.
Along the whole extent of the palings belonging to the Nikolaeievs' house he walked with stealthy steps, cautiously and gently dragging his feet from the mire, as if he feared he might be discovered and arrested as a common vagrant.
He was the owner of the house near by, whose palings we had almost looted.
There were red-roofed cottages smothered in orchards of plum blossom, and simple palings set across gaps in the hedges, with gardens beyond filled with spring flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
