dooryards

The foothills were covered with white-flowering bocote trees, and rioting bougainvillea edged the dooryards of the sparse villages.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

The era of geographical exploration of the earth is about over, but the era of ecological exploration of our own dooryards has just begun.

Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

They kept him long enough to help pick the crops and help keep their roofs and dooryards shoveled.

Blaze Bachman, Richard 2007

Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies.

Main Street 2004

The windows and dooryards was full; and every minute somebody would say, over a fence:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

In the dooryards their wives and daughters shooed chickens into the coops.

The Lioness Berberick, Nancy Varian 2002

Chaya, Cnidoscolus chayamansa, is native to the drier parts of Central America and Mexico, where it is grown in dooryards, often as a hedge.

2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics 1996

Production of black walnut kernels in this country is fully 99 per cent from seedling trees of the fields, forests, roadsides and dooryards.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933

A number of our neighbors, however, were shot down in their own dooryards by those of the other side.

Trials and Triumphs of Faith Mary Cole

The dooryards have become little bird reservations.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson