haystack

• The dim outline of the haystack was the wrong shape, but it was no time to be fussy, and I circled to the side away from the road, knelt, and started pulling out handfuls. —  The Black Mountain
• And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. —  Wired Top Stories
• As for me and my affair, I have not forgotten, nor am I likely wholly to forget; but your haystack is as difficile as you promised it should be, and--there are divers other considerations. —  Doom Castle
• He could not hit a pheasant sitting on a haystack, and wouldn't know one if he saw it. —  Phineas Redux
• And the proverbial little needle in the haystack might be as easily found," said the lawyer The announcement of luncheon put an end to the interview The two gentlemen passed on into the smaller dining-room where Lady Belgrade awaited them. —  The Lost Lady of Lone

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