Sentence examples for hayrick from inspiring English sources
The smell of that room leans you back against a hayrick on an autumn afternoon.
As darkness falls, Gigel takes us to our sleeping quarters: the hayrick.
By William Matthews The New Yorker, July 10 , 1989P. 40 From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay By Charles Bethea.
The work of Tolkien is infamously, almost scandalously, bereft of sex; nevertheless, at some point hobbit must have humped hobbit, presumably in a discreet hayrick, and, given the degree of superfluous hair that a hobbit displays on the parts of the body that you can see, such as his feet, one shudders to think of the forestation that occurs elsewhere.
With his hayrick of blond hair, rolling gait, exaggerated arcane comic-book delivery, Mr. Johnson seems to rise from the page created out of the leftover bits from Dickens, Wodehouse and Monty Python.
Then visit the protests being staged by dairy farmers across Europe (tread carefully, as these usually involve burning hayricks, spilled milk and a clutch of confused cows).
In the aftermath of the protests, police reportedly tore through the narrow lanes of villages, setting alight hayricks, destroying property and beating people.
At first they were simply hidden, in attics, hayricks and henhouses.
As with most of the machinery on view here at the annual Yesterday's Farming show, its natural element would have been a landscape of homely shapes – sheaves, stooks, handmade hayricks – not the ranks of geometrically accurate cubes, cylinders and black plastic parcels that are delivered by modern machines.
The story is set in motion by their rash decision to quit Paris for the Norman countryside: it was a rule of fiction before Flaubert that city clerks attempting agricultural improvements would end up with smellier sewage, thinner crops, sicker animals and more combustible hayricks than even the dullest peasant.
There were byres, hayricks, barns, dovecotes and fowl houses.
