back-yards

In realizing that all kings and rulers have messiness in their back-yards—Hell, even David had Bathsheba—I focus on the good.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

In realizing that all kings and rulers have messiness in their back-yards—Hell, even David had Bathsheba—I focus on the good.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

The truth is that if the problem is in our back-yards, we all pay more attention to it.

Do the Work Steven Barnes 2009

The truth is that if the problem is in our back-yards, we all pay more attention to it.

Archive 2009-01-01 Steven Barnes 2009

In connection with these breakneck steps I observe some wooden cottages, with tumble-down out-houses, and back-yards three feet square, adorned with garlands of dried fish, in one of which (though the General Board of Health might object) my Susan dwells.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Sheep, calves, cows were driven out of the back-yards into the street; boxes, sheepskins, tubs were carried out.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

She became daily and visibly more plump, and though she chattered as eagerly, she was less obviously admiring of marital bliss, less sentimental about babies, sharper in demanding that the entire town share her reforms — the purchase of a park, the compulsory cleaning of back-yards.

Main Street 2004

He leaves his cart somewhere in a thicket near the village, and goes himself to the back-yards and back - doors, like someone casually passing, or simply a tramp.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Yudino settlement consisted of six little low-pitched huts, the walls of which had already begun to warp out of the perpendicular, though they had certainly not been long built; the back-yards of some of the huts were not even fenced in with a hedge.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Marshal Soult, desperate for fresh troops to attack the seminary, had stripped the city itself of infantry, and the people of Oporto, finding themselves unguarded for the first time since the end of March, swarmed down to the river and dragged their boats out of warehouses, shops and back-yards where the occupiers had kept them under guard.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003