hay-time

Lenny Fairfield was sure to be in the way, for his mother rented a few acres of grass land from the Squire, and it was now hay-time.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

When the sweet hay-time comes on, and mowers are busy in the fields with their great scythes, it is sometimes a dangerous season for larks, who make their nests on the ground.

Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous

If Nawabs have memories, and the Nawab Nazim of Bengal should to-day be thinking in his Indian palace, as I am in the Queensland bush, of the same subject, he will remember that summer day in hay-time when we sat side by side roach fishing in the Colne, and how we both agreed, after it was over, that it was the best day's bottom fishing we had ever enjoyed.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

The demand for country labour is greater at hay-time and harvest, than during the greater part of the year; and wages rise with the demand.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

It was after hay-time, and the wheat was tall and green, when Grace and I were married in the little wooden church at Carrington, and every man in the settlement rode there in her train.

Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

In the slack days between hay-time and harvest she was never tired enough.

The Romantic May Sinclair 1904

This year when hay-time came Jack was his daily companion, either following him about in dangerous nearness to the snorting scythe, or curling up an hour at a time on his coat to guard it assiduously from such aggressive monsters as Ground Squirrels and Chipmunks.

Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Still hay-time was a glorious season, when half our little town turned out, and made holiday in the sunshine.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

It was the time between the sowing and the hay-time, and there was a feeling of alertness in everything that had life, while even the rocks and solid earth seemed to stir.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

It was the time between the sowing and the hay-time, and there was a feeling of alertness in everything that had life, while even the rocks and solid earth seemed to stir.

The Money Master, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897