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

But the tracks betrayed which way musquash was travelling; so the trapper goes on, knowing if he does not find the little haycock houses on this side, he can cross to the other.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John

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

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