door-yard

Arriving where the man lived and finding the cow in the door-yard, he directed the boy to let her out into the road while he went into the house and made known with his business.

Living in Dryden: March 2004 Archives 2004

Arriving where the man lived and finding the cow in the door-yard, he directed the boy to let her out into the road while he went into the house and made known with his business.

Living in Dryden: John Southworth 2004

At night, when the taverner lay down in his narrow bed in the smallest room above the kitchen, he listened to the sound of iron-shod hoofs thundering into the door-yard, and he lay a long time awake hearing the raucous voices of a half dozen or more Knights feasting from his larder and drinking his bar dry.

The Lioness Berberick, Nancy Varian 2002

Chickens minced though the mud in the door-yard, dipping low to find the leftover corn from the morning™s feeding.

The Lioness Berberick, Nancy Varian 2002

The saloon's door-yard was a beaten dirt square bisected by a long hitching rail with a watering trough beneath.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

"Very domestic, " Roger said under his breath, stopping in the door-yard.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

Sometimes you see a hen partridge and her brood of chickens crossing your path with an air of comfortable door-yard security.

The White Rose Road 1995

He sees a sign in the door-yard of a farmhouse; BERRY PICKERS WANTED.

Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

But conditions which exist on the big, bare public-school playgrounds, away alike from parental restraint and parental protection, are quite different from those in the home door-yard, and the code which obtains in the ward-school world is not an open book to all mothers of chubby-fisted sons who are called upon to observe it.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various

-- This was his little room; yes, it was his -- the same little room; the same white curtains, the same little window, the same view of the little green door-yard and the apple-tree and the cedar-hedge; the same soft sunset light coming in upon him where it had come so many, many other evenings, ever since he could remember.

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Various