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

Mountain Billy grazed near me till it occurred to him that stubble was unsatisfactory, when he betook him to my haycock.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.

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.

It overlooks a common hayfield, where, under the shade of a haycock, sat two lovers—as constant as ever were found in romance—beneath a spreading bush.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

Yes; Gianetto was concealed in your haycock there, but my little cousin showed me his trick.

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