Farm enclosures

Usage examples of barnyards.

While he stopped at the farms on his list, Rodney sat in the car scrunched up in the front seat and watched Hamm trudging out in the fields, walking around in barnyards and pigsties, talking to each farmer, patting them on the back, saying whatever agriculture people say to each other, and swigged from his pint.

No longer did barnyards offer sites as rich as the ancient gift of the Nile, no longer was the countryside studded with beneficently unscreened privies, no longer did innumerable slums offer their choice piles of garbage and filth.

At a slower speed and in ground-focuslooking at farmers' faces and at barnyards and at washing hanging on the linetheir journey seemed to them remarkable.

Soon the population of quiet barnyards and homes thickened into the cramped and cobbled streets of a village, woven by its braided stones and slate roofs into the very rock of the hillside.

In the meantime, Hazel and Hattie were used every odd moment in hauling manure from Glen Ellen, whose barnyards had never known such a thorough cleaning.

They drove through pleasant countryside, and Mary Mallory gazed out at the black and white cows, and at chickens clucking in the barnyards, and once even a herd, or was it a flock, of pink piglets trotting along on delicate little hooves in wake of their enormous lumbering mother-sow.

Rusting machinery or the remains of old cars littered barnyards and the corners of fields.