farm-yard

But with bottle age, it can take on a farm-yard, yeasty character.

An Austrian Reawakening Will Lyons 2011

The dogs made such a noise and looked so fierce that he paused in the farm-yard.

An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010

The fellow stood there in the half-dark, yelling abuse at Julian and George as they made their way out of the farm-yard.

An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010

I never in my life chanced to see a peacock fly; and yet before, very long before I considered any aptitude in his form for the aërial life, I was struck with the extreme beauty which raises that bird above many of the best flying fowls in the world; though, for anything I saw, his way of living was much like that of the swine, which fed in the farm-yard along with him.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

And the title of all these heroes in succession was precisely that of “robbers on the highway,” or, if you like it better, that of foxes and pole-cats when they commit their depredations on the farm-yard.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

There are more quarrels than with us, and more threatenings than gentlemen are accustomed to exchange in any civilised society of which we have record: but farm-yard imitations have not as yet been imported from the

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

In short, Solomon in his harem was not to be compared to a cock in a farm-yard.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Then, we went to a dismal sort of farm-yard, by which a picture-gallery was approached.

Pictures from Italy 2007

There is not much apparent resemblance between a barndoor Fowl and the Dog who protects the farm-yard.

Essays 2007

In this very farm-yard, to give thee a familiar instance, I have more than once seen this remark illustrated.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006