"Hayrick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was shut up, it being the last train. There were only two or three porters left. Looking after a Jew with a Carpet Bag, on the Blackwall Railway, which was then the high road to a great Military Depot, was worse than looking after a needle in a hayrick. But it happened that one of these porters had carried, for a certain Jew, to a certain public-house, a certain - ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens
... 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
... right along, or he'll get soft; and if you couldn't practice every day, why what would be the use of your starting in? Five miles would make your ankle so sore you'd have to be carried home on a hayrick." ...
— Fred Fenton Marathon Runner - The Great Race at Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... 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
... asking for some men and taking up his own position, till I got angry, and the carbines began popping on the other side of the village. Then I said, 'For God's sake be quiet, and sit down where you are! If you see anybody come out of the village, shoot at him.' I knew he couldn't hit a hayrick at a yard. Then I took my men over the garden wall - over the palisades, y' know - somehow or other, and the fun began. Hicksey had found the Boh in bed under a mosquito-curtain, and he had taken a flying jump on ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling |
