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  • Individual acts of sabotage, like hay-rick firing, the burning of crops, setting alight the houses and homes of slave owners as well as random acts violence against particularly brutal slave owners took place.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Individual acts of sabotage, like hay-rick firing, the burning of crops, setting alight the houses and homes of slave owners as well as random acts violence against particularly brutal slave owners took place.

    ANC Today 2007

  • It is true his labour more than requited his entertainment; for he wrought among us with vigour, and either in the meadow or at the hay-rick put himself foremost.

    The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

  • If you had all the men in the world to help you, you could not clear off this one little hay-rick in a week.

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • I met troops of horses, herds of cattle, flocks of sheep, wandering at will; here throwing down a hay-rick, and nestling from cold in its heart, which afforded them shelter and food — there having taken possession of a vacant cottage.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Just about an hour afterwards they all caught the unmistakable sound of wheels, and then came a well known voice calling to the horses to "get busy"; after which a big hay-rick turned the bend a little way ahead, with Steve wielding the whip, and a boy perched on the seat alongside him, possibly to bring back the rig after they were through with it.

    Afloat on the Flood Lawrence J. Leslie

  • So the hay-rick was turned around, and the girls made as comfortable as could be done.

    Afloat on the Flood Lawrence J. Leslie

  • The other four leaped into the hay-rick and fell on Jerry.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • Then the little boy went by a hay-rick, and he saw a bird pulling some hay out of the hay-rick, and he said, "Bird! will you come and play with me?"

    Harry's Ladder to Learning Anonymous

  • The day was over, but the light still remained as the hay-rick, with that little company of boys and girls aboard, reached the streets of

    Afloat on the Flood Lawrence J. Leslie

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