"Barnyard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other farms in this section of Western Pennsylvania, the buildings were set so that the barn stood between the house and the main road, making the approach to the house past the barn and through the barnyard. For the first time, this awkward arrangement was apparent to him; he wondered why the buildings had been thus ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... astonished, as he started on again, at the pregnant weight of this new parcel. But he did not stop to investigate. He did not care to gulp and lose the mystery at one swallow. He scurried off with it, chucklingly, like a barnyard hen with a corncob, to peck at it in solitude. He swung south and then west again, to his own street. He went up his own steps, through his own door, and up to his own top-floor room with the rakish back wall. There he cautiously lighted the gas, drew the blinds, and locked himself in. ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... the attention of almost everyone, and after descending a little by permitting some of the gas to escape, we jumped over the side of the basket and came down on our parachutes. I landed in a deserted barnyard, and the officer hit the earth ...
— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll
... told you of the members of the cattle and Sheep family, what they look like and where they live and how. There is still one more member of the order Ungulata and this one is in a way related to another member of Farmer Brown's barnyard. I will leave you to guess which ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
... accosted his father in the barnyard. "I suppose you think sometimes I don't care so much about you and the folks and the old place ...
— The Third Violet • Stephen Crane
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