hayrick

Example Sentences

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Cowsheds, stables, pigsties, barns, bungalows, hayricks, anything that got in its way went toppling over like a nine-pin.

From Literature

He sleeps alternately in mosques, hayricks and grand estates, and meets wealthy barons and humble peasants in homespun clothing. 

From New York Times

Half an hour's walk across the fields brought him to a hayrick something less than a mile from the spot.

From Project Gutenberg

The ballroom had been turned into a fine landscape, with scenes representing fields and pastures, with flowing brooks near by, and farmhouses, windmills, and hayricks in the distance.

From Project Gutenberg

And again, sailing from North Berwick in a boat like a chimney, they saw the devil—in shape and size resembling a huge hayrick—rolling over the great waves in front of them.

From Project Gutenberg