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  • I went up and spoke to it, but it backed into the hay-stack, and there it stayed shrinking away from me, with its tongue hanging out.

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • I travelled by ear across three meadows, till I came on a hay-stack by a pool of water.

    The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

  • Phineas had never seen his horse till he reached the meet, and there found a fine-looking, very strong, bay animal, with shoulders like the top of a hay-stack, short-backed, short-legged, with enormous quarters, and a wicked-looking eye.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • The word ‘wolf’ was hardly out of his mouth than the white horse was off like the wind, so that in the twinkling of an eye it had reached the shed, dragging the hay-stack behind it.

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • First he chose some stout ropes, and then he led the horse out of the stable and rode it to the hay-stack, which was made up of fifty cartloads, so that it could hardly be called ‘a little one.’

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • She sat down on a hay-stack, mowed that morning in order to give

    Strong as Death 2003

  • When you are ready, climb up the hay-stack and begin to count one, two, three.

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • Then get on the hay-stack, put the ropes round it, and harness the horse to the ropes.

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • He ran his horse down and then took it on foot, reached Wilcox's ranch about dark the next night, and hid in a hay-stack.

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

  • Here he remained, crouching in fear and trembling in the hay-stack, until he saw his companions ride in from the hill.

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

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