farm-yards

Several of the farm-yards have handsome gateways like the ancient “lychgates” of some of our English churchyards much magnified.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

As animals are not used for milk, draught, or food, and there are no pasture lands, both the country and the farm-yards have a singular silence and an inanimate look; a mean-looking dog and a few fowls being the only representatives of domestic animal life.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Thus the house sparrow is more abundant than the redbreast, because its food is more constant and plentiful, — seeds of grasses being preserved during the winter, and our farm-yards and stubble-fields furnishing an almost inexhaustible supply.

On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type 2004

Sometimes they are held in the open field, in farm-yards, or in billets; frequently in tents provided by the Y.M.C.A. A.tendance at these services is purely voluntary, and a large proportion of men attend whenever opportunity offers.

Over the Top With the Third Australian Division G. P. Cuttriss

Many large droves were about to set off for England, under the protection of their owners, or of the topsmen whom they employed in the tedious, laborious and responsible office of driving the cattle for many hundred miles, from the market where they had been purchased, to the fields or farm-yards where they were to be fattened for the shambles.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

Whole farm-yards of roosters, whose tails curled the wrong way, -- a slight defect, that was, however, amply atoned for by the size and brilliancy of their scarlet combs, which, it would appear,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

-- Detachments of dragoons are sent to scour the farm-yards, arrest the farmers, and bring off in triumph whatever the restive housewives have amassed, to be more profitably disposed of.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

There are several varieties of them, but all tolerably wild from being so much pursued in the chase; though the sight of this graceful animal is common enough in the farm-yards, where it has been tamed, and where when young it is a great pet.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

Thus the house sparrow is more abundant than the redbreast, because its food is more constant and plentiful, -- seeds of grasses being preserved during the winter, and our farm-yards and stubble-fields furnishing an almost inexhaustible supply.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

The cows, grazing below in the valleys, were whisking their tails, and from the farm-yards came the crow of the chanticleer.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd