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

Now it happened that my way led me near a haycock, and as I neared this haycock I heard voices from the other side of it.

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)

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.

It was not unlike a haycock of immense size, with a door in the side, or like the half of a cocoanut turned upside down.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon

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