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And they all lived happily ever after, except the dead soldiers, whose bodies were smuggled back into the country buried at the bottom of a haycart, lest people freak out or something.
sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2006
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Sivert came up with the horse and haycart, and all went at it, sweating at the work, and the hay was got in.
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The motor-car with the turbo-compressor overtook a haycart and disappeared over the horizon.
Maigret at the Crossroads Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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One was about Mr. Paul Shattuck; -- in descending from a haycart, he had fallen upon a pitchfork, and had seriously wounded his thigh.
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Most unpleasant, moving an inch an hour, Cossacks riding one down if one preferred to go on foot to being bumped in the haycart.
The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912
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No one was to be seen until we neared the ruins of what had once been a little town-hall or meeting-place, a procession turned the corner -- a procession of a peasant with a tall lighted candle, another peasant with a tattered banner, a priest in soiled silk, a coffin of white wood on a haycart, and four or five white-faced and apathetic women.
The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole 1912
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And when Bert saw a man on the outskirts of the crowd run to a haycart and get a brightly pronged pitch-fork, and a blue-clad soldier unbuckle his belt, his rising doubt whether this little town was after all such a good place for a landing became a certainty.
The War in the Air 1906
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He was driving a tiny little haycart with a tiny little horse, and up in the cart was a little red-flanked cow -- on its way to the butcher's, I suppose.
Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905
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A haycart had been decked with green vines and bunches of long-stemmed field daisies, those gay darlings of New England meadows.
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And that we were instruments to do this thing from the day when the hen saved us in the haycart in
Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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