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

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

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

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

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