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

The blue sky above us is bright and serene, No cloud on its bosom remains; The woods and the fields and the hedges are green, And the haycock smells sweet from the plains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Tim Sullivan spoke without humor when he made this correction in the name of his calling, sitting with his back to a haycock, eating his dinner in the sun.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)

Fortunato raised his left hand at the same time, and pointed with his thumb over his shoulder to the haycock against which he was leaning.

From Abb? Aubain and Mosaics by M?rim?e, Prosper

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