boneyard

Example Sentences

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Sometimes the beeyard was still, and he would ride up to the house and rap on her window.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Sometimes Petey was waiting in the beeyard, a fire lit, the bees humming soft and low.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

The horse allowed herself to be led behind the Corderos’ farmhouse, and then into Petey Willis’s beeyard.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

But the beeyard was not dark the way that the other yards were; a small fire glowed in the center of the circle of hives.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

The horse slipped between the Bone Gap cemetery and the Corderos’ stone farmhouse, winding her way through the grasses at the edge of the Willises’ beeyard.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby