How To Use Hayrick In A Sentence
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Everywhere women were hard at work, hanging out washing, harvesting, shelling walnuts, building hayricks or even making mud bricks to bake in the sun while the men stood about chatting languidly in every village or squatted together at the roadside wearing their traditional tall Kyrgyz hats of embroidered felt, the ak kalpak, or the ornate pillbox hats of the Uzbeks.
Wildwood
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Peasants occupied common lands, cleared forest, butchered livestock, and burned hayricks.
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They didn't even give him a standing ovation, and instead returned to a placid debate on the countryside, like snoozing farm hands propped up on hayricks.
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Yet logic threads manic needles lost in hayrick sanity; there is bread and fishes in your largesse, much wine in amphorae blessed with soporific gifts – we are pleased you came pissy-eyed to poetry gladly.
Pissy-Eyed
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It was a true meeting of minds, for I doubt if a woman ever stripped faster from full court regalia, and we revelled in each other like peasants in a hayrick, from bed to floor and back again, I believe, but I ain't sure.
Watershed
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As a lad he stood on a hayrick, the proud young Hamlet, giving utterances of greatness.
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The hayrick steadily rose to its conical fullness.
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This is like someone selling you a dunce-quality hayrick and you not knowing any better.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Posner on Consumer Financial Protection Paternalism:
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Blackwall Railway, which was then the high road to a great Military Depot, was worse than looking after a needle in a hayrick.
Reprinted Pieces
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Now, if he had gone on to the hayrick, and gone round it?
Our Mutual Friend
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Wandering into a copse by the road – side — but not in that place; two or three miles off — he tore out from a fence a thick, hard, knotted stake; and, sitting down beneath a hayrick, spent some time in shaping it, in peeling off the bark, and fashioning its jagged head with his knife.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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A highland smell of dry grass and mould, smoke and hayricks, rode the breeze that pressed against her face.
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Small villages, hayricks, gloomy barns, steaming dung-heaps and frost blasted trees poked from the snow in black detail.
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He assured me that no hayrick could now be found in London; upon which I was forced to leave him, and with mutual esteem we parted.
Lorna Doone
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He conjured a small Charter light, and they found an open-sided hayrick in which to take shelter.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The firing of houses and outhouses, warehouses, barns, stables and hayricks, could all be the subject of arson prosecutions in the Old Bailey.
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Following the tracks with his eyes, the view closed with the new hayrick in a corner.
Our Mutual Friend
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It was only when she placed her hands on my head and felt the childhood scar from my fall off a hayrick that she acknowledged me as her son.
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The fans' player of the season last time around, the tall Argentinian with the hayrick hairstyle is a cultured footballer with a coolness that belies his Wildman of Borneo appearance.
Newcastle United Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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He left behind a very undistinguished education, getting thrown out of posh boarding schools, to walk at the tender age of 18 from Rotterdam to Istanbul, sleeping in castles and hayricks en route, and ending up living with a Byzantine princess, twelve years his senior, in Moldavia until the war separated them.
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