| 单词 | byre |
| 例句 | Round the inner fort with its small rooms there was a wide byre, or shell-keep, into which the castle herds were driven during a siege. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He left the byre and strolled across the meadow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z There was bright sunlight on his face, and the cow byre was empty. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z This was the last blow struck, for the wounded cat made off across the yard and disappeared under the fence of the cow byre. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He returned to the cow byre, took off his boots, and slept until he woke, when the sun was high in the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The visitors came up the narrow road through the forest from the south; they filled the spare-rooms, they bunked out in cow byres and barns. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The travelers lost no time in helping themselves to Medwyn’s provisions, or in finding the byre. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Wakeful, Taran left the byre and stood outside, looking at the sky. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z On the east side, in front of the house, a barn stands clear of the ground on staddle stones; and opposite is the cow byre. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was then that a flash of lightning illuminated the byre, and in the light, Dunstan saw something small and hairy in the corner, wearing a large floppy hat. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Taran remembered nothing of returning to the byre or falling asleep, but he rose in the morning sunlight refreshed and strengthened. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It is now expected to sell off a series of less significant buildings, including bungalows, byres and farm steadings gifted in wills, and lease other major properties to charities, trusts and private tenants. Scotland National Trust properties up for sale after review prompts reforms 2010-08-09T17:09:00Z Happy Valley begins in a bitter landscape, where Halliday is attending a stillbirth; the atmospheric scene in a snowbound pub reeks not so much of the woman's pain as of the byre. Happy Valley by Patrick White – review 2012-12-19T08:00:06Z The great-grandfather bought the plot of land - which contained a derelict house and a dilapidated livestock shed, known as a byre - back in 1984. The man who built a Hobbit house by accident 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z We passed byres and stables, wary looking cows and nervy sheep still in their pens. Pinned down by Russian fire in key frontline village 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The research suggest both the barn and the byre and stable were also his work. Dumfries farm is 'most authentic' site linked to Robert Burns 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Since the odour of excrement is composed largely of organic compounds, and titanium dioxide is cheap, Dr Koziel wondered whether it might be employed to de-pong byres, sties, stables, sheds and other animal dwelling places. Smelly farms may succumb to subtle science 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z On the third day, we bring you the view from the Worthy Farm byre, aliens in Arcadia, and cabaret in Area 51. Glastonbury 2015 live: Sunday daytime – reaction to Kanye, Florence's early hours set, the Dalai Lama, the Who and more 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Over the years, previous residents of the byre had included a cow, a donkey and a pig. The man who built a Hobbit house by accident 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Another creature in Scandinavian folklore is known as the "tomte" or "nisse", thought to live in byres and stables and an influence on the look of today's Christmas elves. A very Viking Christmas 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z This homely business was half their lives; they knew the kine in the byre and the corn in the granary, as well as the service-books upon their stalls. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Burns fell early into his hands, and the ambition was soon formed of transferring the braes and byres of Scotland to the hills and folds of New England. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z On the third day, we bring you the view from the Worthy Farm byre, aliens in Arcadia, and cabaret in Area 51. Glastonbury 2015 live: Sunday daytime – reaction to Kanye, Florence's early hours set, the Dalai Lama, the Who and more 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z But before starting work on the house, he decided to convert the byre into temporary accommodation. The man who built a Hobbit house by accident 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Toady Lion ran through a slippery byre in which calves had been standing, and came to an inner division with a low door and a causewayed floor like a pig-pen. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z There was wealth in the stackyard, with the poultry strutting and scratching, and more in the byres knee-deep in straw, and the big barn where they flailed the wheat! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Very often they slept in the barn of the farm-house—or even sometimes in a clean corner of the cows' "byre." The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories 2012-02-06T03:00:12.143Z “Saint Mary! what a medley!” exclaimed the Squire, as he walked through the byres and stables, and past the styes. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z All that remained of the byre was its four walls and two entrances. The man who built a Hobbit house by accident 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z I crept nearer and nearer, and presently came to the door of the byre, where the cows were. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z Then taking a great axe in his hand he went out to visit his cow in her byre. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z He just took a look round the familiar byres and stables, and poked his head into a room whence a fresh-complexioned dairy-maid, in short blue skirts and bare feet, was busily chasing hens. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Those horses and cattle which had been saved were housed now in rudely-built sheds, among the fire-blackened ruins of their former wholesome stables and byres. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z And even after all his hard work to make the byre into a house, it still seems to be an attraction to livestock. The man who built a Hobbit house by accident 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z The byre recommended by Mr. Lawson consists of two apartments—an inner apartment, or byre for feeding the cattle, and an outer apartment, or barn for containing the fodder. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z "That must be the cowhouse byre, don't you call it?" Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z The inn, with its byres and stables, was perched on the top of a rocky hill, and men and horses had to climb like cats to get up to the doors. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And, when she had finished her bread and milk, she went and laid down by the side of a green knowe, which rose out of the moor not very far from the byre door. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z They would have had to sleep in barns and byres, under the hayricks and out on the heather. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z The dung of the byre, again, is cleared several times each day, and deposited in the dung-court. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z The westward part of the cottage was a byre: we could hear the lowing of a cow, the clucking of fowls. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Meanwhile, the prisoner, Watson, was put under the guardianship of a dragoon, and lodged in a small byre attached to the gavel of the dwelling-house. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z And he went out to the byre, and lifted the two other Princesses down from the rafters, and brought them in and laid them on the settle. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z From a byre comes the purr of milk falling into a pail. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z The lucky among us had early found quarters in byres and cattle-sheds, where the closely packed animals kept the place warm. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Impatient, he walked around the bothie and into the little byre beyond. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The house is now used as a byre, but its dimensions are exactly the same as when it became the home of Hugh Bront� and his bride. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z "To-morrow I will search the byre and the outhouses; in the meantime, I had better get on with my work." The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z When Neil Ross reached the byres of the farm in the wide hollow, he saw two figures standing as though awaiting him, but separate, and unseen of the other. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Besides, farmers are now more exacting than formerly; they will not put up with the byres that served their fathers. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Now Rann, the Kite, brings home the night That Mang, the Bat, sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. The jungle book 2011-05-02T02:00:19.467Z There are no trees; and for miles wide the only building is here and there a solitary byre. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z He begins cleaning the byre, but he might just as well keep baling the great ocean. Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:15.367Z He went by the byres, whence he had come. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z There was a church near the byre, but Gl�mr never crossed the threshold; he hated psalmody; apparently he was an indifferent Christian. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Ye make the Ghibellines free near and far, Here, there, in cities, castles, buts, and byres, Seeing how gallant in your brave attires, How bold you look, true paladins of war. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I hastened thither, but it proved to be an old tenement now used as a byre. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Twice has this cow been in calf in your byre, and each time she missed. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z I asked at the door there, near the byres. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Similarly there fell within its sphere the management of the byres and stables: thanks to it the cows gave milk abounding in butter, and the horses had round croups and shining coats. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z But, as sight and strength began to fail, the four-footed chieftain was deposed, imprisoned in a byre loft, and finally sentenced to be drowned. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 And once after mid-winter it happened one morning that the yeoman's wife went to the byre to milk the cows as usual. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn I saw him take a byre 'grape'—or fork of three thick prongs—and bend the three into one by the mere strength of one hand. Deep Moat Grange The farm buildings were connected with the main house and comprised a barn, hen-house, corn-crib, and byre, all huddled together in the most compact kind of way. Remodeled Farmhouses At La Masane, it appeared to them that an alarm had been given, and that, as little Andr�s the ape expressed it, "the whole byre had broken halter and run for it." The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion He was, so to speak, picking his teeth and whistling in an open byre of his own when the cattle arrived. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel She ran back, crying out, and said she did not know what devilry was going on in the byre. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn But now the soldiers had turned the steading out, the barn and byre were burned, and the stock driven away. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway And everywhere there are friends’ houses and friends’ byres and haystacks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) When they got to the byre, Margaret appeared more willing to resume the former subject than to look at her neighbour's chattels. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Then a door shut, and in a minute back came Judas with the air of a virtuous plough-bullock and took up his place in his byre. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel She heard great cracking in the byre and a hideous bellowing. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn In dirty byres in which care is not taken in milking, quite considerable quantities of hairs, pieces of manure, and other filth may get into the milk. The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente The old black long-tailed steeds, that had dragged the vehicle for nearly twenty years, had been lodged in what was called the Stable, and the horse behind had been introduced into the byre. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) On looking up, the woman saw the cow standing and lowing at the byre door. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III It was a dwelling once; now it is only a ruin, hut and barn and byre. Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 The niece, who followed her, presuming on “Auntie’s” high spirits, was flounced out of the apartment with small ceremony, and retired, smarting and half tearful, to bury her woes in the byre among the hay. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston Not a Murray was abroad; and to the extreme they carried the threat of the young laird into execution, of making “toom byres.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Stables, byres, and sheds were in requisition for the horses, and, with every available atom of space of this description, it was found all too little, as people flocked from all parts of the country. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign At last they saw a movement among some straw in the byre, and Marjorie made a dash forward, just too late to catch Allan, who slipped out and made for the door. The Adventure League On the left of the manor lay prosperous barns and byres, full of sleek pigs and busy crested fowls. The Thread of Gold "Well!" she said to Henry as they moved towards the byre. Changing Winds A Novel He stole from the byre and went to the house. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule As they ate, the golden pigeon said: “Do you remember how I cleaned the byre?” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales There were barns and byres in the background, and it was hard to tell if Langrigg was a well-kept farm or a country house. Partners of the Out-Trail We walked through byres tenanted by comfortable pigs routing in the dirt. The Thread of Gold He moved a step or two away from the door of the byre. Changing Winds A Novel In barn and byre little groups discussed my preaching, and there was much wagging of the head and shooting out of the lip. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Three more grains of barley fell to the ground, and the golden pigeon again spoke: “Do you remember how I thatched the byre?” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales If you count barns and byres, and such more distant houses as are visible from the steamer's deck, there must be over a dozen. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Nights passed in barns, deserted byres, on the floor of cottages and infinitesimal cafés. The Belovéd Vagabond There is the hundred francs that Mr. Seymour gave me lying useless in the desk, and I insist upon your taking the half of it at least, to replenish the byre. Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly With hose in hand he cleans the byre, And saves himself a menial's hire; But gives his girls an education That may unfit them for their station. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Secondly, he was to thatch the byre with bird’s down; and lastly, he must climb a tall fir-tree and bring five eggs, unbroken, from the magpie’s nest for the Giant’s breakfast. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales I ’m no hunting man now, and I sit by the fire, And whenever the wind keens around by the byre, I shiver and rock like a reed that has root in the mire. Sprays of Shamrock The houses are usually divided into three apartments—one door in the byre end leading to the whole. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad This burner of peasants' hayricks, this pitiful plunderer of hen-roosts and cattle byres! The Doomsman The cattle in the byre heard it and were panic-stricken. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula He looked at the byre, and then he rubbed his eyes; and then he looked at the byre again, for, lo! it was clean. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales In the byre they lighted a fire, dried their clothes, and slept for some hours. The True Story Book A stone wall, or sometimes a partition of clay and straw separates the byre from the kitchen. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad These night-birds are not often seen in a blue sky, and luckily so, for the safety of your father's ricks and byres. The Doomsman He hath ingarnered his grain; he hath barned his fodder and straw; his sheep are in the byres and in the stalls his oxen. The Fifth Queen Crowned He had to clean a byre, or cow-shed, which had not been cleaned for seven years. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales It has been a custom on many farms to apply the liquid manure got from the oozings of manure-heaps, the drainings of the farmyard, byres, stables, piggeries, &c., directly to the soil. Manures and the principles of manuring She found him sitting on a knoll behind the byre, leaning his head on his hands. Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success When the Master-Maid came into Edgar's room she bent over his bed and cried: "I cleaned the byre for thee, I swung the axe for thee, And now thou'lt not speak to me." Europa's Fairy Book By shaking hands with her, and praising up her skyr, we made her understand by signs that we wished to see the house and byre. A Girl's Ride in Iceland When the Giant came home, he knew the King’s son had not cleaned the byre, but he could not prove it, so he had to keep his word. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The application of fixers is best made to the manure when still in the stall or byre. Manures and the principles of manuring At that very moment their enemies might be prowling from barn to byre, from cart-shed to stable in pursuit of their prey. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls He gathered the sticks for the fire, he swept the floor, he cleaned the byre, he ran the errands, and all he got for his pains were kicks 2 and cuffs and mocking words. Tales of Folk and Fairies His swart disciples knit their brows O’er algebraic signs; They build their byres, they milk their cows On scientific lines. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 The medley of barns, byres, styes, rods, poles and perches is a hive of restless energy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-19 The cleaning out of the manure from the byre is easier. Manures and the principles of manuring So he goes speedily toward the hall, and the women now come up after him, having gotten the kine into the byre; so they all three go into the hall together. The Sundering Flood His cows are healthier, their feeding costs less, there is no cleaning of byres, no washing of floors, no preparing of food, no never-ending carting of turnips, no filling of sheds with hay or straw. Australia, The Dairy Country They are managed, cleaned, and fed by two men to each byre holding about 100 cows. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock By, related to byre and to the preposition by, is especially common in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The Romance of Names Things real to them were the farm and farm stock, harvests and harvest-homes, the waggoners' teams, byres, orchards, garden, and cool dairy. Shining Ferry That was how they made a road to the byres where the stock were, and where they must be fed. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Dan was a man of action and few words: he vouchsafed no reply, but turned immediately and left the room, leaving a powerful odour of the byre behind him. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication At 1 o'clock the cows are allowed out to be watered, and during their absence from the byre it is thoroughly cleansed and ventilated. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock At the byre end the old rowan-trees were creaking and groaning to the violence of the gale, the bourtree bushes were flattened near to the ground, and everywhere was white. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Mrs F— told me the following anecdote:—Her father had four cows, which every evening, at milking-time, were driven from the field into their byre. Stories of Animal Sagacity You are standing there in the shadow of the byre. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America They lived in a small cottage, or off-shoot, at the back of the principal dwelling, in close proximity to which were the byre, stable, and barns. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication When the cows return to the byre, they receive each about 4 or 5 lbs. of straw, and at 4 or 5 o'clock an evening meal of turnips equal to their morning feed. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock The byre we built was not very big, and very dark, but it was cosy, too, under the crooked joists, and covered with heather scraws and thatch. The McBrides A Romance of Arran She was thus sometimes the last to be driven into the byre. Stories of Animal Sagacity The cause is almost invariably feeding on turnips that have grown on damp, ill-drained land; and very often a change of diet stops the spread of this disease in the byre. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure How he found to his amazement that the byre was under the same roof with the farmer’s kitchen, and only separated therefrom by a wooden partition with a door in it. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication I made an observation to the cattleman that I should not be at all surprised if the disease came from the infected byre through the opening to the byre where the cattle were sound. Cattle and Cattle-breeders You'll see yet the wee turf byres where the kye were milked, and the founds of the bochans where the old folk had their summer, with the hens and beasts about them. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Its byre was almost intact, and we ran to it up the burn as fast as we could, and concealed ourselves in the dark interior. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn She looked dubiously at the dry-stone walls almost tumbling, the cabars of what had been a byre fallen over half the interior, and at the rank nettles—head-high almost—about the rotten door. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure He looks at his watch—it is near six o'clock, and he had seen a man walk sleepily to the byre from a distant house. St. Cuthbert's If it get into a byre of weighty fat cattle the loss will be heavy. Cattle and Cattle-breeders "I ran, I ran all the long road, for I kent it all from the first o' it," and in the dimness of the byre I could see these two clinging to each other. The McBrides A Romance of Arran The murderers were ransacking the house when Betty and the child were escaping through the byre. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn And men would sneak out to the byre in twos and threes for a surreptitious glass of whisky.... The Wind Bloweth Then she thought of the cow, and made her way to the byre. The Old Castle and Other Stories I had a bullock showing some symptoms of the disease in a byre amongst ten. Cattle and Cattle-breeders They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain,15 The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year We lay buried to the head in bracken that filled one side of the byre, and keeked through the plenteous holes in the dry-stone wall at the passing army. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn It's got a byre with a slate roof, and a rowan-tree near it. The Wind Bloweth The beasts can talk in barn and byre On Christmas-eve, old legends know. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV I tied them in a byre where infected cattle had stood. Cattle and Cattle-breeders At length the animals are rounded up into the byre, and Elspeth proceeds with the milking. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton We slept for some hours, the seven of us, among the bracken of the byre, wearied out and unable to go farther that night, even if the very dogs were at our heels. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Is there not some extenuation for the man whose "pal" has been ambushed and butchered, when he gleefully places a match to the murderer's byre or dwelling? On the Heels of De Wet Caius took the precaution to step after her round the end of the byre, just to see that her husband was not lying in wait for her there. The Mermaid A Love Tale Making a horse sweat to death through the same means, and killing an ox by dancing on the rigging of the byre in which the animal stood. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The words bower, formerly the name of a sleeping-place for ladies and now generally meaning a summer-house, and byre, the place where cows sleep, both come from the Old English word bur, "a bower." Stories That Words Tell Us We looked at each other a little ashamed, for it seemed as if she had guessed of our divided company and the four men in the byre. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn They took the salmon and the otter with them, and came to a byre, where they entered. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda The beasts can talk in barn and byre On Christmas Eve, old legends know. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Ye make the Ghibellines free near and far, Here, there, in cities, castles, huts, and byres, Seeing how gallant in your brave attires, How bold you look, true paladins of war. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series It was some time before the natural order of her search brought her at last to the byre. Alec Forbes of Howglen And—except the minister—the other occupants of the byre were in an equal terror. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn In short, I've heard it from the lips of both,— A beck, a byre, two bosoms, and one troth. Love's Comedy The board was then dragged out of the hall; the loaf-eaters slunk away to have a nap in the byre, or sat drowsily in corners of the hall; and the drinking began. The Ontario Readers Third Book Another favourite air of mine is, “The muckin’ o’ Geordie’s byre.” The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham There were three cows in the byre, and she had called them after her aunts. Tales of the Ridings Stewart heard the woman's news that came to him as he was carrying in from the byre the vessels from which he had been serving his companions. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Without trouble the lads got the animals out of the byres and headed them up the road. Days of the Discoverers Now the dairy was divided into two parts, the sleeping-room and the byre. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic The roadside inn with its stable, byre, and barn under one enormous thatched roof resembled a deformed, hunch-backed, ragged giant, sprawling amongst the small huts of the peasants. Tales Of Hearsay She found Bildy quietly fastening the door of the byre before returning to the house. Up in Ardmuirland The Devil went and God's new byre soon found. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse A herd-boy has been seen to swing a bull-roarer of his own making, with the result that the beasts were soon running frantically towards the byre. Anthropology "O, Hawk and Hound Are safe and sound, Beast in byre and Steed in stall; And the Watch-dog's bark, As soon as it's dark Bays wakeful guard around Ingoldsby Hall!" The Haunted Hour An Anthology There was an enormous byre partitioned off into several pig styes, and this was allotted to the officers, one pig stye for each officer. The Story of the "9th King's" in France Another of the magic virtues of the Brown Bull of Cualnge was his musical lowing every evening as he returned to his haggard, his shed and his byre. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge God built himself a byre; the Devil scorned: 'What use a byre when yet no cows are there?' Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse There, when he had foddered the deep-voiced kine, he herded them huddled together into the byre, munching lotus and dewy marsh marigold; next brought he much wood, and set himself to the craft of fire-kindling. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Do you think, man, that the neighbors of an honest, industrious woman 'ud see the cattle taken out of her byre for a thrifle? Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Here the men were billeted in the peasants' byres, which were in rather a dilapidated condition. The Story of the "9th King's" in France There were buildings, too, low white-walled farms, roughly slated, much-weathered, with evidences of homely life, byre and barn and granary, all about them. The Child of the Dawn We found Gerda up the glen, watching Fergus milk the little black and white kine which had their byres in that sheltered place. A Sea Queen's Sailing The byres are full of cattle, and the treasury is well filled with gold, silver, copper, apparel, incense, honey, and unguents.... The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians This consisted of a byre, the bailiff's house, and other buildings; for the property of Sandsgaard was extensive, and comprised a mill, a dairy, and such like. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel After rising on New Year's Day, the first care of those who possessed cattle was to visit the byre or stable, and with their own hands give the animals a feed. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. Songs from Books Then came a gipsy to the kitchen door one morning when Jean was in the byre. Captivity There never was a dirty coo in the byre but it liket a neighbor. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner These creatures, ill clad, with matted, frowsy hair and hands that look as though they had never, never been washed, smell like the byre. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls A very common practice at the present day is to take the patient into a place where there is a tainted atmosphere, such as a byre or a stable, a gas work, or chemical work. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Aye, let the storm rave o'er the earth; Their kine are snug in barn and byre; The apples sputter on the hearth, The cider simmers on the fire. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems The king must have the king's sister, and Jehane go back to the byre. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Like the house the byre too had been ruined, gutted with flame. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy It was milking time and the cows were lowing in the byre when I crossed the fields and the farm-yard on my way back to my father's house. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill On Yule eve those possessing cattle went to the byre and stable and repeated an Ave Marie, and a Paternoster, to protect their cattle from an evil eye. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century In the pitch blackness of the night Hogg groped his way to an opening in the byre over which he and Borthwick slept, and thrust out a hand and arm. Stories of the Border Marches Nothing disturbed her; she slept in woods, in byres, in stackyards; bought what she needed for food, attracted no attention, and got no annoyance worthy the name. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay A shed thatched with heather and a rough stone byre stood near the house, and a big peat-stack filled one end of a miry yard. Carmen's Messenger I hung up the otter's skin on a hook in the byre, where I believed Thora would discover it, and so make what use of it she might. The Pilots of Pomona The farmer secured the rope, took it home with him, and hung it in the byre. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century In a cold sweat, Tam and the boy fled from the waterside and cast themselves shivering into their beds over the byre at home. Stories of the Border Marches The case was this—the gable of the byre had been blown down, which, as it was of his own building, was not of the most durable nature. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831 The slates that had fallen from the roof of byre and stable lay buried already under the growth of nettle and mallow and wild parsnip; and the yard-wall was down in a dozen places. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts And then, when my sport was over, I hung up my gun in its place in the warm byre, believing that I was now a man. The Pilots of Pomona In Dour the horses starved in the stables, the cattle in the byres. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 What to tell you of my coop and byre? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. As she turned to go, her eyes fell on a grey patch on the byre floor—his coat! Six Women Again, not only Swiss wealth, but Swiss character and institutions, go back essentially to the high pasture and the well-filled byre. Civics: as Applied Sociology After tea my mother went to the byre to attend to the cows, and Jessie stood for a long time at the door looking out for me. The Pilots of Pomona She was in the byre with a lantern of her own. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Grettir said, "I saw within doors there a young man who pulled on his mittens, and another going betwixt byre and midden, and of neither of them should I be afeared." The Story of Grettir the Strong His daughter, Miss Johnstone, was milking a cow in the byre, by daylight, when she saw a tall man, almost naked, probably a tramp, who frightened her into a swoon. Cock Lane and Common-Sense A poor Highland woman wrote to her son in Glasgow: “Don’t be thinking too much of us, or I shall be seeing you some evening in the byre”. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts One chief thing ordered was to burn to death a pig, and sprinkle the ashes over the byre and other farm buildings. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul She had the shank of the byre besom in her hand as she spoke. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 She heard great cracking in the byre, with bellowing and roaring; she ran back crying out, and said she knew not what uncouth things were going on in the byre. The Story of Grettir the Strong There were swarms of men in dark armor about it, running here and there, clapping straw and brushwood to hay-ricks and byre doors. Red Axe One morning after the middle of winter the good-wife went out to the byre to milk the cows. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts On a misty or rainy day a number of children will shut themselves up in a stable or byre and proceed to make fire for the purpose of improving the weather. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul Kit Kennedy came out of the byre, and trudged away out over the field at the back of the barn, to the sheep in the park. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The winter's hay is ribbed over with long lines of snow dust blown between the boards, and far below in the byre the oxen clash their horns and moan uneasily. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) And now the sun wheeled round his westering car And led still evening on: from every field Came thronging the fat flocks to bield and byre. Theocritus, translated into English Verse She heard a great noise and fearful bellowing in the byre, and ran into the house again, crying out and saying that some awful thing was going on there. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts The fumigation of the byres with juniper is a charm against witchcraft. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul As she did so, a figure came slouching round the corner of the byre. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 There was a row of houses, byres, and barns but no other sign of a town. Tales of Three Hemispheres Ay my poor boy, that doth he: I saw them yesterday Down by the byre; and, trust me, loving enough were they. Theocritus, translated into English Verse I learned them from little Sophie, at Wilna, and they meant: 'If the night is fine we shall meet under the oak tree, but if it rains we shall meet in the byre.' The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard A farmer of Vecoux once hid in a corner of the byre to overhear the edifying talk of the beasts. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul "You are mad," replied the pastor; but he went himself to the byre to see what was there. Grimm's Fairy Stories His father's cousin of the Ninemileburn was a brawling fellow, who never lacked beast in byre or corn in bin, and to him he had gone for the loan. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies When the King's daughter heard it she was full of sorrow, and went down to the byre to the Bull. The Red Fairy Book But hardly had they sat down together before she said that she had forgotten to bring in the calf, and must go out to put it in the byre. The Blue Fairy Book From this virgin flame fires were kindled in the byres. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul And everywhere there are friends' houses and friends' byres and haystacks. Kidnapped It was like a fight in a winter's byre. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies It was the little cow-boy driving his herd back to the byre. The Red Fairy Book The niece, who followed her, presuming on "Auntie's" high spirits, was flounced out of the apartment with small ceremony, and retired, smarting and half tearful, to bury her woes in the byre among the hay. Weir of Hermiston Fumigating the byres with juniper was a method adopted to ward off disease. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul But he put away the fat and all the flesh in the high-roofed byre, placing them high up to be a token of his youthful theft. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Now Rann the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free— The herds are shut in byre and hut For loosed till dawn are we. The Jungle Book The beasts are safely gathered in, —Black is the night and cold— They are snug and warm, and safe from harm, In stall and byre and fold. Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse Across the dirty, uneven yard, where the manure lay in heaps outside the byre doors, she saw the rude farm buildings huddled against each other in a mean, unsightly group. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I It is remarkable that the leg affected is cut off, and hung up in some part of the house or byre, where it remains suspended, notwithstanding the seeming danger of infection. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul Then, after he had well-fed the loud-bellowing cattle with fodder and driven them into the byre, close-packed and chewing lotus and began to seek the art of fire. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica She was left alone in the world, with a little boy baby in the cradle and only one cow in the byre. Welsh Fairy Tales They bulged, they toppled, yet they stood firm, holding the wild country in their mesh, knitting the grey villages to the grey farms, and the farms to the grey byres. Mary Olivier: a Life Across the yard, commanded by the window of the farm-kitchen, lay the rude byres where the cattle were prisoned from October to April. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I So she did that, and as soon as ever she began with the broom-stick, the byre was as clean as if it had been swept and washed. Popular Tales from the Norse She is good in the byre with Hermes to increase the stock. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Then, robbing the widow of her rent money, he picked the lock of the byre and drove off the cow. Welsh Fairy Tales The grey byre was warm with the bodies of the cows and their grassy, milky breath. Mary Olivier: a Life All was clean and in order, with that wonderful outside neatness which makes Swiss châlets look like painted toy houses popped down on the greensward without yard or byre. Three Weeks Then she was to go into the byre to clean it, and milk the kine. Popular Tales from the Norse The sunbeams slanting through those ancient trees, The sunlit lichens burning on the byre, The lark descending, and the homing bees, Proclaim the sweet relief all things desire. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 Now was winter-tide upon them, when there was nought to do in field and acre, and but a little in the byre. The Water of the Wondrous Isles The first of these was to clean out a byre or cattle place, where there was the dung of a hundred cattle, and it had not been cleaned for seven years. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland Now they beheld along the wall the weapons of Camorak's men, of which already the lute-players made songs, and tales were told at evening in the byres. A Dreamer's Tales Still, she went out into the byre, but when she got there, she couldn't get on at all with the pitchfork, it was so big. Popular Tales from the Norse Getting a key to the padlock, and a big birch broom, he returned with Barron, and soon had the doors of the disused byre thrown open to the air. Lying Prophets He begins cleaning the byre, but he might just as well to keep baling the great ocean. Celtic Fairy Tales Then the golden one said, "If thou hadst mind when I cleaned the byre, thou wouldst not eat that without giving me a share." Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland But the talk of the Weald arose and went back well fed to byres. A Dreamer's Tales When the king's daughter heard that, she got very sorrowful, and went down into the byre to the Bull. Popular Tales from the Norse Despite their haste the man and the girl were very wet before reaching the shelter of the byre. Lying Prophets "If you remembered when I thatched the byre, you would not eat that without giving me my share," says the golden pigeon. Celtic Fairy Tales Then said the golden pigeon, "If thou hadst mind when I thatched the byre, thou wouldst not eat that without giving me a share." Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland Well-fed, they went back slowly to their byres, being at truce with hunger; and the night filled with stars. A Dreamer's Tales He would leave his sheep and byre, he'd drop his duty and desert his old, and follow. The Happy End A pathway to outlying farms cut the fields hard by the byre, and about it lay implements of husbandry—a chain harrow and a rusty plow. Lying Prophets I saw beyond me a few farm-buildings, a byre, several pigsties, and three disused waggons. Jim Davis When she brought home her firstborn, mooing plaintively, he, big and fat for his age, walked into the byre as a matter of course. Tropic Days His aunt showed Boris the alterations in the stables, the horses and the separate space for fowls, the laundry and byres. The Precipice The canonization of the cow must needs carry a penalty with it, and Benares might be described as a sanctified byre without any labouring Hercules in prospect. Roving East and Roving West An' I looked 'bout tu; an' I went up to the lil byre, where your things was, an' peeped in en. Lying Prophets Bring a Cow to the Hall, and she will run to the byre again. Collection of Scotch Proverbs Outside, in Petersham Park, was a picturesque thatched byre where the cows were milked. Lady John Russell The heathen pilled and wasted, but gathered neither corn into barns nor cattle within the byre. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut You run across to Tom Brooke's house and fetch that measuring-rod he used to lay out his new byre. Stolen Treasure She hated herself, held the thought a sin of her own commission, and sped onward until she stood upon the northern side of the byre in a shadow cast from it by the sun. Lying Prophets If my kine would seek the corn, He will turn them by the horn— And I'll find them all at morn Lowing sweet beside the byre. Elves and Heroes At night the stockade was broke, and the family woke from sleep to hear the war-whoop and see by the light of their blazing byres a band of painted savages. Salute to Adventurers "What a place of vile laziness!" grumbled Mr. Mordacks, as he got off his horse, after vainly shouting "Hostler!" and led him to the byre, which did duty for a stable. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale I built a parlor end to my house, and a kitchen; also, a dairy, barn, byre, stable and pig house. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland They should have good tight stables or byres, well ventilated, and so warm that water in a pail will only freeze a little on the top the severest nights. American Woman's Home Oh! my cow you would take from my byre?— Elves and Heroes She then undid the gates of the tower, and made towards the byre, or cow-house, which stood in one corner of the courtyard. The Monastery I made no hesitation, but desired the train to follow me into a byre belonging to the good shepherd who was my host. The Scottish Chiefs She was laughter, as the little children laugh when the cattle are loosed from the byres at last to feed in the valleys. King of the Khyber Rifles The carle laughed: ‘Sooth is that,’ said he, ‘that there is little gear therein now; for the strong-thieves have voided both hall and bower and byre.’ The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale A favourite trick of the Gruagach was to untie the cattle in the byre, so as to bring out the milkmaid, especially if she had forgotten to leave the offering of milk. Elves and Heroes Cattle and sheep were snug and safe in the byres, guarded by the wise watch-dogs. Masters of the Guild "Thou art mad," replied the pastor; but he went himself to the byre to see what was there. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm These are not the days of Du Guesclin, when a lad came in from the byre and bore down all foes before him.' The Herd Boy and His Hermit Dark shall the night be round the byre, And dark as we drive the brindled kine;Dark and dark round the beacon-fire, Dark down in the pass round our wavering line. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale "Oh, they will have a little—a little byre!" she answered, readily. Harriet and the Piper Now Ebie Farrish had been over at the Nether Crae seeing the lassies there in a friendly way after the scene in the byre, for Galloway ploughmen were the most general of lovers. The Lilac Sunbonnet That night three of the outlying farms were in flames, and the cattle were slaughtered in their byres, but no attack was made upon the dwelling houses. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce The country seemed absolutely deserted; such labour as was going forward was being done in barn and byre; beasts being fed, hurdles made. The Altar Fire The whole prosperity of the town, especially the fruitfulness of farm, byre, and marriage-bed, was linked with his life. From Ritual to Romance True Tammas, who had slept all night under the straw-stack by the byre, came bounding down the little path to meet her, wagging his tail and barking his morning greeting. The Scotch Twins As he entered the low square on his way across to the stable door he was surprised to notice a gleam of light in the byre. The Lilac Sunbonnet Sylvia felt that if she had come across any human beings in this wilderness of barn and byre they would have fled wraith-like from her gaze. The Chronicles of Clovis In some parts of Brittany, especially about Morbihan, branches of mistletoe are hung over the doors of stables and byres to protect the horses and cattle, probably against witchcraft. The Golden Bough Passing through the byre, the human habitation is reached. Second Shetland Truck System Report Jock knew the signs and decided he'd go out behind the byre and look for eggs, but Jean had her eye on him. The Scotch Twins So he stole on tiptoe to the byre door, circumnavigating the "wicket," which poured across the yard its tell-tale plank of light. The Lilac Sunbonnet Gilly ordered that the goat, the sheep and the bullock be put into the byre, that the door be locked and the key be given to him. The King of Ireland's Son It seriously annoyed the Captain at intervals when he came upon his daughter directing operations in barnyard or byre. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Peer slipped softly through the gate and stood listening against the wall of the byre. The Great Hunger The two children ran back of the house to the cow byre, and there in the distance they saw him coming across the barren moor. The Scotch Twins Ebie in the silence and the darkness had almost persuaded himself that he had been dreaming, when his foot clattered against something which fell over on the cobble-stones that paved the byre. The Lilac Sunbonnet Take it and open the byre door at such a place, and you'll find in that byre your goat, your sheep and your bullock. The King of Ireland's Son The poem reeks of the byre and the shambles; its theme is the misadventure which befalls an ox in its stall and its final despatch by the butcher's mallet! Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Rats and mice around byre and dairy were legitimate prey; but he learned that he must not annoy sheep and sheep-dogs, nor cattle, horses and chickens. Greyfriars Bobby When I had done an' looked about, Gudefaith, it was the byre, O! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 No man is his brother's keeper when he goes to the byre to plait cows' tails. The Lilac Sunbonnet Then, when the Giant had driven out his cattle to the pasture Flann cleaned the byre and made the mortar, mixing lime and sand with bullock's blood and new milk. The King of Ireland's Son T'nowhead had not taken his off, either, but that was because he meant to go out by-and-by and lock the byre door. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) He might have been carried to the distant farm, and shut safely in the byre with the cows for the night, but for an incautious remark of the farmer. Greyfriars Bobby In a corner the ground sloped sharply down, and Razumov followed the light of the lantern through a small doorway into a long cavernous place like a neglected subterranean byre. Under Western Eyes The sound grew fainter and fainter as Jess proceeded to the top of the byre where Marly stood soberly sedate and chewed her evening cud. The Lilac Sunbonnet With a piece of glass she made on the wall of the byre the shadows of flying birds. The King of Ireland's Son There she laid him on his side in her bed, covered him gently over, and hastened to the little byre at the end of the cottage, to get him some warm milk. Sir Gibbie But as they were leaving the byre fresh doubts assailed her. Greyfriars Bobby We have trodden the mart and the well-curb—we have stooped to the field and the byre; And the King may the forces of Hell curb for the People have all they desire! The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition For black-browed Egypt, the serpent of old Nile, can sit in a country byre, and read a letter to another woman. The Lilac Sunbonnet Afterwards, in the evenings, when he came back from his ridings, he would cross the meadows with Art, the King's Steward, or would stand with him while the herdsmen drove the cattle into the byres. The King of Ireland's Son Oh! for the stamp of a horse from the stable or the low of a cow from the byre! Sir Gibbie The byre was no sooner locked than Bobby began, in the pitch darkness, to explore the walls. Greyfriars Bobby The steer may low within the byre, The Jat may tend his grain, But there'll be neither loot nor fire Till I come back again. The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition Then Jess went into the byre, lifting up her house gown and covering it with the dust- coloured milking overall, in which she attended to Speckly and Crummy. The Lilac Sunbonnet He did not go amongst the strangers in his father's Castle that evening; but he stood with Art who was watching the herdsmen drive the cattle into the byres. The King of Ireland's Son Gibbie shot round the corner to the byre, whence through all the roar, every now and then they had heard the cavernous mooing of Crummie, piteous and low. Sir Gibbie Bobby made a tour of the sheepfold, the cowyard and byre, and he lingered behind the byre, where Auld Jock had played with him on Sabbath afternoons. Greyfriars Bobby Abundant grain lies stored in the byres, and great stacks of wheat are glowing comfortably in the morning sunlight. Poor Folk Opening the envelope carefully, he let the light of the byre lantern rest on the missive. The Lilac Sunbonnet "I am here," said a voice from the byre. The King of Ireland's Son Rising, she went quickly to the byre, and returned immediately with a chain they used for tethering the cow. Sir Gibbie It was firm, green, and fresh; and proved that he had been working in a byre. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Jehan forsook his woodcraft for the work of byre and furrow and sheepfold, and the yield of his lands grew under his wardenship. The Path of the King Farther up the byre, Meg leaned her head against Crummy and milked steadily. The Lilac Sunbonnet More cattle were in the byre and someone was milking them. The King of Ireland's Son He supposed that as she could not well speak to him in the presence of a man like Angus, she had gone out to the byre to have her talk with him there. Sir Gibbie Thus Scotland became a land of dread; the most restless man within her borders hardly dare travel beyond his byre. A Book of Scoundrels The poultry was shut up, the cattle were all in the byres, there was scarcely a sound of animal life. The Country Doctor A subtle something, the influence of a presence, remained, which mingled strangely with the odours of the clover in the neuk, and the sour night-smell of the byre. The Lilac Sunbonnet The cattle that were in the courtyard went into the byre one by one as they were called by the voice of the byre-maid. The King of Ireland's Son He would not go into the byre, for that might disturb her, for she would have to look up to know that it was only Gibbie; he would listen at the door. Sir Gibbie Adjoining the house are the stable and byre, which would not disgrace a model farm in Germany or England. Russia When Saunders Mowdiewort heard the last chain drop in the byre, and the strident tones of Jess exhorting Marly, he took a few steps to the gate of the hill pasture. The Lilac Sunbonnet Moreover, it was quite in accordance with her character that, in her byre flirtations with Ebie Farrish, she should take pleasure in his rough compliments, smacking of the field and the stable. The Lilac Sunbonnet He went into the byre and came out with a great vessel of milk. The King of Ireland's Son A moment sooner and he would have met Janet; but she had just entered the byre again to milk poor Crummie. Sir Gibbie More than once the Daur was frozen thick; for weeks every beast was an absolute prisoner to the byre, and for months was fed with straw and turnips and potatoes and oilcake. Sir Gibbie |
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