What is "dooryard"

Usage examples of "dooryard".

Indeed, we should describe Charlottetown as a place where the hollyhock in the dooryard is considered an ornament.

Snubnosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking their snouts into it, straight down the country, across the country, through fences, through dooryards, in and out of gullies in straight lines.

The fences were gone and the cotton grew in the dooryard and up against the house, and the cotton was about the shed barn.

The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house.

Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless.

It did my heart good to see the houses that had stood empty so long filled with women and children, and the paths and dooryards cleared, and the gardens new made.

But you could raise fish and train them to come to be slaughtered at need the same way farmwives back in the borough scattered grain to the hens at the dooryard.

Many of them had fences of whit­ened stone, and coleus trees and cheerful flowers had been plan­ted in the dooryards and on the median strip dividing the busy high street.

It was planted firmly at the edge of the dooryard, near the big blue spruce that guarded the house.