1.   Carlson decided to get down by climbing over her porch railing, hanging from her patio floor and dropping to the porch below.

2.   Everything is kid-size, from the porch railing to the stairs.

3.   Fragrant confederate jasmine wraps around gingerbread porch railings, and over-ripe mangoes hit the sidewalks with heavy splats.

4.   Ms. Styron talked on the front porch of her house, which looks out on the Hudson River and has wisteria growing on the porch railings.

5.   One large, prehistoric-looking bird perched on the porch railing and eyed our cat.

6.   Q. The paint is chipping badly on the tops of my porch railing.

7.   The nets are used to wrap shrubs or to cover horizontal features such as porch railings.

8.   They have two horses, a come-to-dinner triangle hanging on a leather cord outside their kitchen door and a porch railing to hold their saddles.