The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.

Now converging, now diverging, these fences presented a striking irregularity of contour. No fence was party, nor any part of any fence.

When we heard the police car pull up, we were off like a prom dress.

Beneath their ruines: and these horrid sights / Lighted by scathe-fires, they that haue beheld […]