"Hayrick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I see the hayrick where I sat In golden autumn days, And conned thy page, and wondered what Could be the use, excepting that It gained ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... to notice this counsel of perfection. She was too ugly. She was built like a hayrick. The Master had never cast his eyes on her, as doubtless he would have done, being a man, had she any of the qualities of allurement. She suffered, poor Blanquette, from the spretae injuria formae with reason even more solid than the forsaken Dido. She was humble, ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... mistaken. It was not the landlord, but his wife, wild-eyed, dishevelled, with bits of straw in her hair from some sheltering hayrick and in her hand a heavy gold chain which, as the morning sun shone across it, showed sparkles of liquid clearness at short ...
— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... cleverly, said it was only a joke on Josiah, and so on. I think, sir, and you will I hope excuse me—I do think that the man were better let alone. Every time you help him, he gets worse. When he was arrested and suspected of burning Robert's hayrick, you pleaded with the old farmer and got the man off. He boasted of it the next ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... the midst of plenty, and I know how to prevent hunger. The Hottentots subsist a long time on nothing but a little gum; they also, when hungry, tie a ligature around their bodies. Cannot I do so, too? The hedges furnish blackberries and nuts, and the fields, turnips; a hayrick will ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden |
