How To Use Byre In A Sentence
-
I took the plastic tablecloth off my “raised bed” – under which it had spent the winter – and was so struck by the lovely softness of the soil that I confected a second bed with odds and ends of wood from the byre.
Archive 2009-04-01
-
The England they had shaped was still sufficiently intact to be recognisable as at least the grandchild of its ancient self - hedges and lanes, ponds and woods, barns and byres and trees.
-
Firefighters change en route, as they bowl down the Byres Road or hurtle along the motorway.
-
The concrete hut in a dip in the hills is like a cattle byre.
-
This poverty was glaringly obvious in rural churches, which were no better than byres, and christening, marriage, and burial dues, which were deeply resented.
-
He loves the warmth and passes the afternoons in a suntrap in the lee of the byre.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
-
He'd have to hunt more carefully, try the byre and the hen coop and the backhouse.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
-
They are put in the byres (cow sheds) for the winter period, and our byre is literally 2ft away from the back of the house.
-
The smell comes from the byres, past and present, that press about the yard.
-
He mixed in antiquarian circles, copied Antique frescoes, and painted a celebrated portrait of the Scottish cicerone James Byres and his family.
-
It was at this time of the year that the cattle would be brought down from the hills for the coming winter, to be either sheltered in byres or slaughtered for meat.
-
On one side is the byre, where cattle were housed; the other half of the building is divided into two levels - a small living and eating area too low to stand up in; and above it a loft for sleeping in.
-
A byre was added to the end of the original farmhouse, and an entrance in the gable was served by a narrow paved passage, through which animals would be funnelled one by one into the byre.
-
The harness was still hanging in the stables and the milking equipment was still in the byre.
-
The two romances last mentioned are so steeped in the atmosphere of the sagas, that what with folk-motes and shut-beds, and byres, and man-quellers, and handsels and speech-friends, we seem to lose ourselves in yet another version of a northern tale.
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
-
The Byre Theatre returned with a proposal to demolish the building and start again and was awarded £3.4m for its chutzpah.
-
And they knew their way, even into each of their respective stalls in the byres.
-
Some are simply dwellings, others are dwellings with a barn attached, still others have three components in the form of a central dwelling with a barn at one end and a byre at the other.
-
I took them into the byre so that they could shelter from the rain.
-
Perhaps in the later Middle Ages, some crofts were combined into larger holdings, occasionally with barn or byre as well as a farmhouse.
-
Because most houses used to own one or two cows that they would keep in a byre near the house.
-
It stamped on his side, winding him, then moved protestingly off, to skulk against the byre 's far wall.
THE LAST RAVEN
-
He got up onto his hands and knees and felt carefully round inside the byre, but there was nothing even faintly edible—only a scurf of moldy hay.
Songs of Love & Death
-
We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
-
She's converted a local byre (an animal house) into a wee dwelling - a simple, one-room affair with a box bed and a raised hearth, and all the objects that she is using have been meticulously researched and sourced.
-
On the farm, smells tended to be pungent; dung being removed from the cow byre, stable, pig sty or poultry house, rated high in that league.
-
The inn was a small cluster of a place, stables, byres, outhouses.
-
Our house was a byre which was first converted into a tearoom when the place was a children's farm park, and later became a cottage for the owner.
-
He put down the spoon and fled to the byre, his eyes glistening with tears.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
-
Presumably there were no sites left among the pungent stockyards of the Byres Road.
-
Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
-
His farm diversification enterprise pre-dates the buzz-trend, for he developed his interest playing guitar with a friend in a cow byres on his family's farm.
-
To your left, dotted all around, are the byres which characterise the region, their uniformity and neat, pitched roofs reminiscent of houses on a Monopoly board.
-
The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
-
He hath ingarnered his grain; he hath barned his fodder and straw; his sheep are in the byres and in the stalls his oxen.
The Fifth Queen Crowned
-
Joe made his way slowly to the barn and to the cattle byre where the milk cow stood in her stall, chomping at the hay.
-
Lord David Lindsay of the Byres compeir for the cruel coming against the King at Bannokburne with his father, and in giving him counsall to have devored his sone, the King's grace, here present: and to that effect gave him ane sword and ane hors to fortify him against his sone: what is your answer heirunto?
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
-
The other end had a hook which he fitted into a ring on the byre wall.
-
When we got there it was hanging in a farm byre with water running down it and holes in it, so I had to make a decision there and then.
-
At the byre end the old rowan-trees were creaking and groaning to the violence of the gale, the bourtree bushes were flattened near to the ground, and everywhere was white.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
-
However, the way things are developing in this country's byres, fields, piggeries and abattoirs, even those dates, some six weeks away, might be too soon, as the Irish ban is unlikely to be lifted by then.
-
The modern farm has no place for the 19 th-century classic steading, built to a formula with arcaded cart sheds, threshing mill, barn, byres and cattle court around a U-shaped courtyard.
-
The most recent addition to the West End of Glasgow's phalanx of themed restaurants, Arisaig, occupies the site of the former Living Room pub at the bottom of Byres Road.
-
Parts of the property date back to the 1770s, when it was a three-bedroom farmhouse with two reception rooms - a dining room and a sitting room - with a byre attached.