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  • I propose being home in the middle of next week; and if I see you at all it will be by a very early morning's walk to Clare Hall, and back the same night; unless Catherine can insure me a lodging in the hen-house or hay-loft, either of which would have the charm of novelty, a charm which often induces people to do much sillier and more unnatural things.

    Letter 232 2009

  • Inevitably, their sinister quasifoetus grows out of control, smashes out of its flotation tank, and with its tail, equine hind legs and poignantly vulnerable human face, it becomes the childless couple's dirty little secret, being kept in a grimy stockroom and then in a hay-loft in Elsa's derelict old family farm.

    Splice 2010

  • My first idea was to pull my bell, wake the servants, and remove to a garret or a hay-loft, to be ensured against a second visitation.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • My first idea was to pull my bell, wake the servants, and remove to a garret or a hay-loft, to be ensured against a second visitation.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • A desperate combat ensued in the first place, in a hay-loft, whence the pretender was ejected with immense loss.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • Sol went out for the man, whom he found snoring in the hay-loft.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • He stood a little, thought a minute, crept cautiously down from the hay-loft, looked round, and having satisfied himself that no one could see him, made his way successfully to his garret.

    Mumu 2006

  • A desperate combat ensued in the first place, in a hay-loft, whence the pretender was ejected with immense loss.

    Burlesques 2006

  • He rushed up to his garret, up to the hay-loft, ran out into the street, this way and that ....

    Mumu 2006

  • After dinner he went out of the yard again, but not for long; he came back, and went straight up to the hay-loft.

    Mumu 2006

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