How To Use Farmyard In A Sentence
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Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard.
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Some students have been making wacky farmyard animals out of modelling clay, which will be out on display.
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For farmyard manure and slurry the closed period runs from August to November.
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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They turned the field into a farmyard - complete with poultry, geese, rabbits, dogs and quad bikes.
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The buildings looked mainly to be made of wood and roughly cut stone and many farmyard animals were walking around.
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The one drawback is that there is a row of grain cylinders in the adjacent farmyard.
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The farmyard is covered with houses now, and the fruit trees blew down in storms a couple of years ago.
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After fixing the gates across the entrance to the farmyard to keep the sheep in one place we marched up the hill to drive them down.
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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Caryatids hold up the entrance to a barn and the former farmyard is littered with modern sculpture.
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There was one floor of all matching camping gear so dolly and you could hit the hay in cloned sleep sacks and pyjamas, and then get up, all cosy and co-ordinated, in farmyardy dungarees and cute knobbly lumberjack shirts.
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And indeed at La Ferme, where authentic farmyard smells permeate the eating area, diners can look down through the glass panes in the floor onto the flock of mountain sheep, a carthorse and a flock of hens.
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The increased phosphorus is arising from run-off from agricultural land and farmyards as well as from municipal and industrial effluent discharges.
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To be sure, there was a gender division of labour: for example, in agriculture women worked in the farmyard and sold produce at the local market, while men ploughed the fields and dealt in livestock at fairs.
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Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck.
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Farmyard manure is prepared from dung, yet about 60 to 70 per cent of dung is used as fuel in rural areas.
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They caught him rustling cattle in their farmyard.
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Any celebration of Stravinsky must include dance, and Mark Morris, whose choreographic work for a previous festival, "Mozart Dances," miraculously captured every musical shape and impulse in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, is now offering Stravinsky's "Renard," a small theater piece based on a Russian tale about farmyard animals outwitting a prowling fox.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle, lovable creatures.
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Unlike the aerobic reaction that produces farmyard manure, anaerobic fermentation gives off little heat, so disease organisms thrive.
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When they came up to the farmyard for Dad to shovel the corn out of the wagon into the crib, the girls came to the house to get warm.
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On the left hand side of the farmyard stood a fifties-built bungalow with a neat front lawn and potted geraniums on the porch.
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The disappearance of chickens in many farmyards and back gardens must have reduced the availability of food.
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Bluebirds may also choose to nest in farmyards, feed lots and other areas where humans and cattle are found together.
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We're coming to a farmyard I suppose we can just walk through.
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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The disappearance of chickens in many farmyards and back gardens must have reduced the availability of food.
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Next day little boys were scraping the village over like fowls in a farmyard, getting a chip 'ere an' a shaving there, an 'making themselves such a nuisance that there was talk of calling the gendarmerie out.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20
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Many renovated their farmyards and erected new livestock housing and waste storage facilities to comply with the stringent standards that is required to participate in the scheme.
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Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle, lovable creatures.
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Then, unless you're a Gascon peasant with a farmyard full of ducks and pigs, the shopping alone is going to eat into your house-in - France fund, not to mention occupy you for a good day.
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We pass endless farmyards where cows doze under banyan trees in the morning light and goats bleat hysterically at the sight of her.
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Locally, it may be expected not only in gardens, but also in farmyards, sand-dunes, thickets, hedgerows and woodlands.
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The sanctuary needed more humdrum fowl, more farmyard ducks and geese.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Yet, predictably, there is no consensus across the political spectrum, just the usual bickering and farmyard squabbling.
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Soon they were in a big farmyard, with hens pecking around them, and ducks swimming on a round duckpond.
Five Go To Billycock Hill
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That's not the wind you hear; it's the loneliness of the empty farmyards.
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Exclude areas under buildings, farmyard, roads, paths, woods, ponds, expanses of bare rock or bogland that is not grazed.
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Some students have been making wacky farmyard animals out of modelling clay, which will be out on display.
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They are located at one end of the farmyard and are used for the purposes of a milking parlour, dairy, calf shed and granary.
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Sheep grazed the slopes above them; the descent to the shore ended in a farmyard.
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They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved -- precisely like the run of travelers -- by leaving home and wandering in the Orient.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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The one drawback is that there is a row of grain cylinders in the adjacent farmyard.
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A key feature of the farm is the farmhouse and farmyard which is well laid out and always maintained in a very neat and tidy fashion.
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It was a wooden patten, once commonplace domestic equipment in most farmyards.
Country diary: North Derbyshire
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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The urine is collected by the fertilizer industry from farmyard waste and refined into pure urea, which is then sold to be used in the new engine.
The Bus Company’s Secret Weapon | Impact Lab
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Viewed from a distance through binoculars, the farm buildings were hidden in places by scaffolding and there were heaps of building materials visible all over the farmyard.
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He had refused definitely to enter the atelier of the gentleman who pleased his clients by ingeniously simulating the grain of walnut; and though he had seen the old oaken ambry kicked out contemptuously into the farmyard, serving perhaps the necessities of hens or pigs, he would not apprentice himself to the masters of veneer.
The Hill of Dreams
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It happened one bleak midwinter on the day of our annual farmyard Nativity play.
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And you'll not hear a pig grunting or a hen cackling in many farmyards today.
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On Monday, the farmhands were tested on their agricultural knowledge in a farmyard quiz.
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The protesters, who have been talking about repeating the exercise this Wednesday, should keep their tractors in the farmyard.
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Permitted visitors should be asked to park cars/vehicles in the residential area of the farm away from the farmyard itself.
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The wind, the night before, had blown down twenty apple trees into the farmyard, overturned the boilery, and carried away the roof of the barn.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
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Closer by, the route passes some super old farmyards and barns, one has recesses for beehives.
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A careful and conscientious farmer, he kept his farmyard, fences and land in good repair, and always had a neat and tidy garden.
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Next stop was Ballydoolin House, Carbury, which is a country demesne with a large Georgian country house and farmyard, built in 1821.
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Certainly Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle could not boast a better lineage.
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The project involved the application of farmyard manure and calcified seaweed to the land in order to increase its productive value, and enable the raising of 40 suckler cows on the land.
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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The judges were very impressed by the well-kept farm entrance and the high quality of buildings around the farmyard.
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It seems to me that the vehicular access route across the farmyard and the re-organisation of the farmyard could be determined with further negotiations.
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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The plants were grown in earthen pots filled with soil supplemented with farmyard manure.
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As a result many farmers and rural homeowners are re-siting diesel tanks and improving security measures such as floodlighting and alarms in their farmyards and gardens NFU Mutual oil tank security checklist
NFU Mutual advice on fuel tank security following attack on Warwickshire farmer
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A mix of liquorice, black fruits and farmyards tempt the nose.
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A strong emphasis of the judging will be on litter control in the farmyard, farm entrances, fields and watercourses.
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I assume the ‘very’ brown boots refers to farmyard muck?
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What do you call a pop band in a farmyard?
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A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
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However, the number of accidents caused by livestock, trips and falls in the farmyard increased.
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It can take up to a year to reopen paths across farmyards of formerly infected farms.
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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As we approached the farmyard, I could see the dog who had made a meal of my leg sunning himself outside the farm.
GOODBYE CURATE
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The West Country dialect smacks as much of the farmyard as the patois of the French peasant, or the even more deliberate drawl of the Texan cattleman.
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‘As I started to turn round a guy tipped a bucket of farmyard muck over me and then threw the rest of it over me and the car,’ he said.
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As we drove into the farmyard she wound down her window and addressed a man in a flat cap: 'Are you the farmer?
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Tom Frantzen guns his four-wheeler across the farmyard, a cart full of empty feed buckets rattling behind.
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The farmyard was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides.
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He also urged farmers to regularly inspect drains and watercourses downstream of the farmyard once silage making begins.
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A mix of liquorice, black fruits and farmyards tempt the nose.
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Jo then delved in to the toy box and brought out a farmyard set before passing round a bag of plastic animals for the youngsters to pull out and identify.
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I entered the barn at the corner of the farmyard.
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The coppice coppiced today is to be used to make a fence around the other caravan in the farmyard and I was looking for thicker branches no thinner than my skinny arms but definitely not as thick as Fred's.
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Regular readers will know that we have been taking a close interest in homosexuality among farmyard animals - specifically ovine and bovine lesbianism.
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In the rotting of our farmyard manure it is possible that the denitrifying organisms may be more active than we have hitherto suspected, and that a considerable loss of nitrogen may in this way be effected.
Manures and the principles of manuring
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The largest dabbling duck, the commonest and most widespread duck of the region, and the origin of the farmyard duck.
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We could hear the piglets squealing as we entered the farmyard.
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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The bloke has done some job converting their garden into a little farmyard.
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He took a decayed farmyard, and by judicious restoration, demolition, and new building converted it into a house.
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By the time Edward and Cara turned into the farmyard she and David were there to greet them.
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Apart that is from the corridor to the toilets where a tape plays farmyard noises and birds' chatter.
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On Monday, the farmhands were tested on their agricultural knowledge in a farmyard quiz.
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All the farmyard life was wonderful there, -- bantams, speckled and topknotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; Guinea fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty spotted feathers; pouter pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bulldog, as large as a lion.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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Their cattle, horses, donkeys and flocks of turkeys grazed it, and they manured their domestic orchards and gardens from the farmyard.
Wildwood
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Every other crop was grazed off and large quantities of well-rotted farmyard manure were returned before cereals were sown.
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So we went through the farmyard, leant on the fence out the back and watched the sheep lolling about in the weak spring sunshine.
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The mud on the insteps of your boots remains despite the boot scraper and has therefore dried on hard - a characteristic of the farmyard.
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So we went through the farmyard, leant on the fence out the back and watched the sheep lolling about in the weak spring sunshine.
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Through gateways of trampled pineapple weed, in fields edged with creamy elder blossom, yet more grass has been cut for haylage, to be baled soon and carted to the farmyard for wrapping in plastic.
Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
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Good farmyard management and cleanliness can control scour, and early and rapid treatment are essential once an outbreak occurs.
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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Two of the farmyard cockerels had been cooked for the dinner and served with flowery potatoes and vegetables.
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The surest way to do this on a modern farm is to keep children out of farmyards or where there are other dangers such as livestock.
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We sit cross-legged, facing each other, on a charpoy - a bedstead - in the middle of the farmyard.
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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Bacillus coli inhabits the internal tract of cattle as well as of man, but when in a farmyard the privy is as near to the shallow well as is the dung heap, it is not exactly safe to suppose that these and other contaminating microbes are derived only from harmless cattle.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
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A rural haven of tranquillity, where the smell of farmyard perfumes the air?
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Such, to take a single case, is the history of the common alexanders, now a familiar weed around villages and farmyards, but only introduced into England as a pot-herb about the eighth or ninth century.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
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And you'll not hear a pig grunting or a hen cackling in many farmyards today.
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Outside of farmyards, bales should neither be stored or opened within 20 metres of watercourses or lakes nor within 50 metres of wells.
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Farmyard manure is prepared from dung, yet about 60 to 70 per cent of dung is used as fuel in rural areas.
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Let us also overlook Mr Clarkson's past record in decrying Norfolk as a place populated by retards, to be avoided unless one is attracted by "orgies and the ritual slaying of farmyard animals".
Clarkson - Apologising for the right thing and ignoring Scots MPs
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Formerly a dairy farm, the house sits in a farmyard setting flanked by historic buildings.
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So you may pass from village to village; now crossing green meads, now cornfields, over brooks, past woods, through farmyard and rick 'barken.'
The Amateur Poacher
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The lane had given way to a farmyard.
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In the West, they were largely unpampered farmyard scavengers until the 19th-century importation of large Chinese birds created a veritable chicken-breeding craze in Europe and North America.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Massive porn files, featuring teen and farmyard hardcore porn, have been found on the White House computer system.
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In French bistros I order andouillette, that gnarly French tripe sausage which smells and tastes like the farmyard before the farmer has bothered to clear away what the animals have left behind.
'My name is Jay and I am powerless in the face of pork belly'
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Across the meadow, to dine on the remembrance of field mice -- alas! safe now under the crust; along the brook, where he once caught frogs; through the thicket, where the grouse were hatched; past the bullbrier tangle, where the covey of quail once rested nightly; into the farmyard, where the dog is loose and the chickens are safe under lock and key, instead of roosting in trees; across the highway, and through the swamp, and into the big bare empty woods; till in the sad gray morning light he digs under the wild apple tree and sits down on the snow to eat a frozen apple, lest his stomach cry too loudly while he sleeps the day away and tries to forget that he is hungry.
Secret of the Woods
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A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
