hayfield

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And what about the next day's hay SILAS: A day in the hayfield is a day's hayin'--but a night on the hill FELIX: We don't have them often, do we, Uncle Silas SILAS: I wouldn't 'a' had that one but for your father, Felix.

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  • Over my fireplace he has painted a moonlight night in the hayfield, cocks of hay, forest in the distance, a moon reigning on high above it all. —  Letters of Anton Chekhov
  • As they were somewhat slow coming down, I climbed over a log into a hayfield, and plucked a long, delicate, white-blossomed vine, with which I garlanded the top of my flat hat. —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2
  • Of course there are vinegar-faced philosophers who say that the Scotch custom of pairing young men and maidens in the hayfield is not without its effect on esoterics, also on vital statistics; and I'm willing to admit there may be danger in the scheme. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
  • For example the one of my god-sister Mary in a hayfield is somewhere in Burgundy, France, this past summer and we were on a boat for a week that was crawling along. —  Personism
  • Malachi had witnessed the scene in the hayfield, and dreamed for nights after of the look on his master's face. —  Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
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