barley-mow

‘For all the world like losing a rat in a barley-mow,’ said Hezekiah.

Two on a Tower 2006

Every vestige of the picturesque was gone, obliterated clean by soap and water, and Kate's hair-comb, a broken-toothed weapon that had come off second best in its periodic conflicts with her own barley-mow, had disposed for ever of the wild, curly tangle of hair.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

'For all the world like losing a rat in a barley-mow,' said Hezekiah.

Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884

Love*c*aIIs irie hetfce; a fav*rite cow Expects me near yon barley-mow;

Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In One Volume Complete 1792

The farmer's boy could sit under his barley-mow and pitch a stone into the office-window of the town-clerk; reapers at work among the sheaves nodded to acquaintances standing on the pavement-corner; the red-robed judge, when he condemned a sheep-stealer, pronounced sentence to the tune of Baa, that floated in at the window from the remainder of the flock browsing hard by; and at executions the waiting crowd stood in a meadow immediately before the drop, out of which the cows had been temporarily driven to give the spectators room.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

The farmer's boy could sit under his barley-mow and pitch a stone into the office-window of the town-clerk; reapers at work among the sheaves nodded to acquaintances standing on the pavement-corner; the red-robed judge, when he condemned a sheep-stealer, pronounced sentence to the tune of Baa, that floated in at the window from the remainder of the flock browsing hard by; and at executions the waiting crowd stood in a meadow immediately before the drop, out of which the cows had been temporarily driven to give the spectators room.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884