haytime

And best get on with it at once, while the potatoes were still in flower, and before the haytime began.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

I saw them rocking along on carts at haytime, chasing rats among the stooks at harvest, pottering around the buildings or roaming the fields at the side of the farmer; and I wondered ... what did they really do?

Favourite Dog Stories Herriot, James 1995

While he loitered about there, the master of an alehouse hard by took notice of him and asked him how he came to idle about in haytime, when there was so much work, offering at the same time to hire him for a servant.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Cling to the haytime of your life, ere the fields are bare, and all the emotions are stacked away for fear of the rain.

The Green Carnation Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

I consider it an evil state for the world to be in -- but no matter; I can't do anything about it from up here, with haytime coming on.

Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

In the morning, early, I went into the sea, and bathed, then rode to Colt's Neck and preached to a congregation chiefly of women, for it being the height of haytime not many men can conveniently leave their work.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

Charlie came to _us_, especially in haytime, for haycocks seem very comfortable (for people whose backs hurt) to lean against; and we could cover his legs with hay too, as he liked them to be hidden.

We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

You told me something before haytime about the Queen allowing me

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript John Clare 1828

While he loitered about there, the master of an alehouse hard by took notice of him and asked him how he came to idle about in haytime, when there was so much work, offering at the same time to hire him for a servant.

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735

[Illustration] "But Saunders hes been fillin 'his lungs for five and thirty year wi' strong Drumtochty air, an 'eatin' naethin 'but kirny aitmeal, and drinkin' naethin 'but fresh milk frae the coo, an' followin 'the ploo through the new-turned sweet-smellin' earth, an 'swingin' the scythe in haytime and harvest, till the legs an 'airms o' him were iron, an 'his chest wes like the cuttin' o 'an oak tree.

A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878