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

Shure that’s as asy as tumblin’ from a haycock.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

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

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

No, no, Princess," called her governess, "come back and finish the haycock.

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