hayrick

• “The fans' player of the season last time around, the tall Argentinian with the hayrick hairstyle is a cultured footballer with a coolness that belies his Wildman of Borneo appearance.”

  The Guardian: Newcastle United Premier League 2011-12 team guide

• “It was a true meeting of minds, for I doubt if a woman ever stripped faster from full court regalia, and we revelled in each other like peasants in a hayrick, from bed to floor and back again, I believe, but I ain't sure.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “This is like someone selling you a dunce-quality hayrick and you not knowing any better.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Posner on Consumer Financial Protection Paternalism:

• “Yet logic threads manic needles lost in hayrick sanity; there is bread and fishes in your largesse, much wine in amphorae blessed with soporific gifts – we are pleased you came pissy-eyed to poetry gladly.”

  Pissy-Eyed

• “Blackwall Railway, which was then the high road to a great Military Depot, was worse than looking after a needle in a hayrick.”

  Reprinted Pieces

• “Wandering into a copse by the road – side — but not in that place; two or three miles off — he tore out from a fence a thick, hard, knotted stake; and, sitting down beneath a hayrick, spent some time in shaping it, in peeling off the bark, and fashioning its jagged head with his knife.”

  The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

• “Following the tracks with his eyes, the view closed with the new hayrick in a corner.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “Now, if he had gone on to the hayrick, and gone round it?”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “He assured me that no hayrick could now be found in London; upon which I was forced to leave him, and with mutual esteem we parted.”

  Lorna Doone

• “Nevertheless, I declined to wait, unless he could find me a hayrick to sleep in; for the insects of grass only tickle.”

  Lorna Doone

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