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

He was what I expected, a bedraggled vagabond with tear-stains on his dirty cheeks and a vast shock of hair which I well knew would look, in daylight, like a burning haycock.

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

Riding Mountain Billy out into the meadow, I dismounted, and settled myself comfortably against a haycock with the bridle over my arm.

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

"How different," he exclaims, but in more flowery terms, "is a haycock in a field with girls rolling down it!"

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell

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