haycock

Example Sentences

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She had been concealed in a haycock, and had, at one point, spent a week hidden in a potato hole in a cabin which belonged to a family of free Negroes.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

I am innocent of having ever endangered the life of a haycock.

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant

This little haycock exhaled a penetrating fragrance, the essence of forest, grass, and sunshine, which the mare sniffed at longingly.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

But the tracks betrayed which way musquash was travelling; so the trapper goes on, knowing if he does not find the little haycock houses on this side, he can cross to the other.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Mackenzie sat with his back to a haycock thinking in this vein.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)