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

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

One day she took her tiny rake and began to make a haycock, but before it was done something else interested her, and she dropped the rake.

From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Tappan, Eva March

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

From Miss Cayley's Adventures by Allen, Grant

Then I made a great effort, pulled at my trigger, and rolled backwards from my haycock into the spongy swamp, inches deep with water just there.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge