"Hayrick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forward canoe. After the manner of his kind he had all his life soused his head in lime-water when making his savage toilette, and as a result his shock of black hair stood on end and bulged out like a crowded hayrick. He was naked, of course, and in his hand he held a ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... now who I am. His whole business is just like a hayrick; a match is enough to set ...
— Armenian Literature • Anonymous
... raised platform—to which the Kamschatdale climbs up by means of a notched trunk of a tree. There is only one story of the house itself—which is merely the sloping thatched roof—with a hole in the top to give passage to the smoke—and resembles a rough tent or hayrick set upon an elevated stand. The space under the platform is left open; and serves as a store-house for the dried fish, that forms the staple food of all sorts of people in Kamschatka. Here, too, the sledges and sledge harness are kept; and the dogs, ...
— Bruin - The Grand Bear Hunt • Mayne Reid
... Richard were two pretty men, They laid in bed till the clock struck ten; Then up starts Robin, and looks in the sky, "Oh, brother Richard, the sun's very high! The bull's in the barn threshing the corn; The cocks on the hayrick blowing his horn." ...
— Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes • Various
... Sir Michael Earnley, who hath taken the Castle.) That the Queen hath a great deafnesse. (Thou hast a great blister on thy tongue.) That the Cavaliers burned all the suburbs of Chester, that Sir William Brereton might find no shelter to besiedge it. (There was no hayrick, and Sir William cares for no other shelter.)[333] The SCOTTISH DOVE says (there are Doves in Scotland!) that Hawarden Castle had but forty men in it when the Cavaliers took it. (Another told you there were 140 lusty stout fellows in it: for shame, gentlemen! ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli |
