corn-stack

The most effectual means he could devise was this show of good fellowship and neighbourly friendship, — under colour of which he made his annual cruise through the barony — numbered every corn-stack, and computed its contents by the boll, so that he could give a shrewd hint afterwards whether or not the grist came to the right mill.

The Monastery 2008

Huskers around the corn-stack, workmen in the field, master and apprentice in the shop, passed the brown jug from lip to lip.

Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott

This is usually so large that it covers the animal entirely, but the master is always in plain view, sitting astride the moving corn-stack.

Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades Marian M. George

I had not in all this time seen what we in England call a corn-stack, nor a dung-hill.

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

I had not in all this time seen what we in England call a corn-stack, nor a dung-hill.

George Washington Farmer Haworth, Paul L 1915

The scent of the stubblefields, of the great corn-stack just beyond the farmyard, of the big barn so full that the wide wooden doors could not be closed, was mingled with the strong ammonia smells of the farm-yard, and here and there with the sweetness left in the evening air by the chewing cows on their passage to the cow-house on the farther side of the yard.

Harvest Humphry Ward 1885

He turned to an opening in the hedge, which he found to be a gate, and mounting thereon, he sat meditating whether to seek a cheap lodging in the village, or to ensure a cheaper one by lying under some hay or corn-stack.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

He turned to an opening in the hedge, which he found to be a gate, and mounting thereon, he sat meditating whether to seek a cheap lodging in the village, or to ensure a cheaper one by lying under some hay or corn-stack.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

The flames immediately ceased to go under the bottom of the corn-stack, and stood up vertical.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

The flames immediately ceased to go under the bottom of the corn-stack, and stood up vertical.

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874