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

Two fields away a man in a straw hat was slowly combing down the flanks of a haycock with a wooden rake, while a black and white cur slept in the young after-grass beside him.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

It was like an immense luminous haycock, which rose from the horizon and touched the great ring round the moon.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

The blue sky above us is bright and serene, No cloud on its bosom remains; The woods and the fields and the hedges are green, And the haycock smells sweet from the plains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

He jumped up with the agility of a deer, and stood ten paces distant from the haycock, which the soldiers at once began to upset.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper