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

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

In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

The little haycock houses of musk-rats offer the trapper easy prey when frost freezes the sloughs, shutting off retreat below, and heavy snow-fall has not yet hidden the little creatures' winter home.

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

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