kail-yard

Josephine ("Kitty's eldest, " Jamie observed in an aside to me) was so inspired, indeed, as to engineer a raid upon the chicken-coop, wherefrom she and her Cousins all emerged bedecked with feathers, mud from the kail-yard being employed in lieu of war-paint.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

There grows a bonnie brier-bush in our kail-yard, vol. i.,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

And the lasses lo'e the bonnie bush in our kail-yard.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

AIR -- _ "There 's a bonnie brier bush in our kail-yard."

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

And the bloom 's blawn aff the bonnie bush in our kail-yard.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

The feebler members of a family of novelists, which some one wittily labelled as the “kail-yard school,” so irritated a young Scottish journalist, the late Mr. George Douglas, that he resolved to provide what he conceived might be a useful corrective for the public mind.

Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903

In South Kent villages with names ending in 'den,' and out away on the Sussex downs where villages end in 'hurst,' live the plain people who talk this plain speech -- a speech that should be sweeter in English ears than the implacable consonants of a northern kail-yard, or the soft one-vowelled talk of western hillsides.

In Homespun 1891

And white are the blossoms on't in our kail-yard. '

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

The feebler members of a family of novelists, which some one wittily labelled as the "kail-yard school," so irritated a young

English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870

From his description of the spot, however, the sly Scot at once perceived that the treasure in question must be concealed nowhere but in his own humble kail-yard at home, to which he immediately repaired, in full expectation of finding it.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855