spooked

Example Sentences

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The corn grew ripe on braeland and field, was cut down, gathered, stooked, and finally carted away.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon

The sheaves, which are tied by the machine, are stooked in the paddock for ten or fourteen days until dry enough to be carted in and stacked.

From Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

The sheaves of corn were stooked in his neighbour's fields.

From Waysiders by O'Kelly, Seumas

At length, when the shadows of the stooked sheaves had lengthened across the crackling stubble in which he floundered, Lucy stopped her team a moment and looked back at him.

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold

A very young fellow he was, turned copper by the sun; and as he stooked he heaved such sighs that for every shock he stooked two tumbled at his feet.

From Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Farjeon, Eleanor