What is "farmyard"

Usage examples of "farmyard".

He would hesitate gingerly down vertical Jenckes Street with its bank walls and colonial gables to the shady Benefit Street corner, where before him was a wooden antique with an Ionic-pilastered pair of doorways, and beside him a prehistoric gambrel-roofer with a bit of primal farmyard remaining, and the great Judge Durfee house with its fallen vestiges of Georgian grandeur.

They stood in the farmyard in their helmets and flying suitslooking, as always, like Astronauts.

Over the whole scene of rickyard, garden, outbuildings, horsepond and orchard, brooded that air which seems rightfully to belong to out-of-the-way farmyards, an air of wakeful dreaminess which suggests that here, man and beast and bird have got up so early that the rest of the world has never caught them up and never will.

Their ironbound frames and rugged dispositions make them hearty additions to the most prosaic farmyard.

When they left the lit farmyard, Will flicked on a flashlight and played its beam across the dirt laneway in front of them.

Only a few years ago quiet and pleasant, with farmyard muckheaps and a steeple with a stork on it.

It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction?

Ashby Grange, and tried the drain at the back of the farmyard, but Bootle had had it stopped.

When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm to farm.

Authentic studies of whitewashed cortijos with peasants sitting outside on straw chairs, still lifes of pewter plates piled high with Serrano ham and Andalucian figs, farmyards full of chickens, the plains of old Castile as seen from Toledo.

He recrossed the farmyard, quieted the dog, which had started barking again, went out on the road bordering on his ditch, and disappeared in the direction of Tourville.

The return of the nasty sprite had poignantly reminded him of the dangers in the region, and with the continuing inactivity in the farmyard, a fear budded within him, took root, and quickly grew into a sense of dread.

Ranger out of the farmyard and on to the track, moving expertly through the gears as the tyres fought for traction on the treacherous surface.

As the van entered a small, dusty farmyard, the old hunter kneed his bigheaded pony forward and banged scarred knuckles on the thick, plank door of the small, log-walled house.

Black Michael as easily as I could a barn-door fowl in a farmyard.