| 单词 | dooryard |
| 例句 | He woke once late that night and heard some of the men still talking in the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened that one evening the boys were playing peewee, a new game to them, in the dooryard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The old man slept day and night, and ate what was given him and there was still strength in him to creep about the dooryard at noon when the sun was warm. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Out in the dooryard the conversation continued to be mild. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind these rooms a kitchen extended the width of the house, with doors at either end opening onto the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finished eating, they rose and went outside to sit in the dooryard where a soft breeze gave them comfort after the heat of the kitchen. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z There might have been no war at all for an hour or so, as the men ate and joked in the mellow sunlight of the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, a branch broke in the wind, skittered across the dooryard of his shed, and slammed against the wall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All the others in the dooryard were tired too that night. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt did not sleep the night after Jethro’s return from Newton; and the next morning he was up at dawn moving aimlessly about the cabin and out around the dooryard and woodlot. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z As Jenny was leaving she stopped for a moment at the open door, where a ladder led down to the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Sounder panted faster, wagged his tail, whined, moved from the dooryard to the porch and back to the dooryard. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It had hung all summer and into autumn from a tree branch in the dooryard. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He would not watch Jenny write, but motioned to Ellen to help him walk outside under the silver poplars in the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Cuttings of red geraniums and rosebushes were planted in the dooryards. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z A little distance up the road, past the hedge of lilacs and under the silver poplars of the dooryard, Jenny stood at the gate, waiting for them. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, holding the baby, she ran around the small dooryard. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The harvests were past, and the grain they beat out upon the threshing floor which was also the dooryard to the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Mrs. Michot pointed to a weathered grotto standing in the dooryard. At Home With Louis Michot: At Home With Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers 2012-07-04T11:25:23Z I want the rebirth, the renewal, the rejuvenation, the dewdrops and showers, the first cuckoos and ascendant larks, the dooryard lilacs and budding twigs. Perspective | Beyond Vivaldi, a classical playlist to bring on the spring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Literally, in Amleth’s case, as he hacks, stabs and cudgels his way over ramparts and through muddy dooryards and alleyways. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The sloping land to the south and west of Mr. Minter’s dooryard belonged to the two historically black graveyards called Grace Hill and Shadow Lawn. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z Plus, many Vermonters have - for more than a century now - taken great pride in the ingenuity and resourcefulness of dooryard junkers. Editorial Roundup: New England 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z We can crawl over the dooryards at the back. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z They have been in this very dooryard, and on this veranda. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z One of the granddaughters pleasurably recalls the vision of Joseph Latimer, father of Sarah, sitting in his dooryard, under the boughs of a great Balm of Gilead tree, reading his Bible. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z The corner of its original dooryard is now Roger Morris Park. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Perhaps he would ride into his dooryard to find Ann Lytton cooking breakfast for her husband, smiling and happy, refusing to meet his gaze, ashamed of what had been between them. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z When at last they extricated themselves from the maze of dooryards they wandered for a long time through a maze of narrow streets. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z In many colonial dooryards it was the only shrub—known both to lettered and unlettered folk as Laylock, and spelt Laylock too. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Wisdom goes on laborious journeys, and comes home bringing her treasures from afar; and Humor matches them, every one, with what she has found in the dooryard. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z For a few moments we drove on in silence, the Senator making with his hat half-circle greetings to constituents who stood in a dooryard or who met us in the road. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z He pulled off the saddle, dropped it, drew the bridle over the sleek, finely proportioned ears and let the big beast shake himself mightily, roll in the dooryard dust and drink again. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z Whether we like it or not, we are out of our exclusive dooryard and will have to take our place on the great national street named America and play the game with our neighbors. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z If it grows not in the dooryard, its protecting branches are hung over the doorway. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Long rows of shining metal pans no longer adorn rural dooryards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Some of them, companioned by the faithful phlox and sunflower, once grew in dooryards now desolate. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z There were legends in the family of sharp skirmishes in the dooryard. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z A collie should have a run of ten miles every day, and it was pathetic to see Viola lying in the dooryard, ears erect, eyes eager, watching, waiting, hoping for something to happen. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Old New England villages and small towns and well-kept New England farms had universally a simple and pleasing form of garden called the front yard or front dooryard. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At the end of a year the Grouse grew a copper feather in its tail which it dropped in the dooryard. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z The auburn splendors are upon the sumac and the burning-bush of old-fashioned dooryards, where, too, the smoke tree holds its haze of seeds. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z One of the advantages of a home near the railway is the fact that you can see your friends off on trips without leaving your dooryard. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z Viola was a lovely ornament to the dooryard; but it seemed a pity that there were no flocks or herds to evoke her ministering care. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Gathering in the front dooryard of a fallen farm-house some splendid branches of flowering Lilac, I found a few feet of cellar wall and wooden house side standing, and the sills of two windows. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At the end of the second year the Grouse grew a silver feather in its tail which it dropped in the dooryard. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z When the cabin was finished and the last of the chinking rammed into place, he laughingly faced Joe Pete upon the trampled snow of the dooryard. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z The flowers in my dooryard have grown there for a thousand years! Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The dooryard was separated from the highway by a low adobe wall the color of the house. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z One unkempt dooryard of an old Dutch farm-house was glorified with a broad double row of yellow Lily at least sixty feet in length. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Yet the places for the beginner are his own dooryard, the streets he travels four times a day to his work, and woods for his holiday, though they need not be forests. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It was a vast elm which stood in the dooryard of the Olney Tavern on Constitution Hill. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z One wonders that those who exalt the outdoors as everything nowadays, do not find some better title for it than its dooryard term. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Lilacs again in the Whipples' dooryard bloomed, and the general's young cherry trees were white with blossoms. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z In its front dooryard are Lilacs still standing under the windows of Dr. Parsons' room, in which he loved so to write. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z As a dooryard tree this species has a wider popularity than it deserves. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Uncle Joe had shovelled off the porch and steps, and Prince had beaten his own dooryard in the snow in front of his house. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Think how my dad's eyes would bulge out, fellows, when I landed right in his dooryard, and asked how ma was? Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol 2011-07-26T02:00:18.713Z Our afternoons have been spent in pulling stumps in the vicinity of the barracks and grading the street and dooryard until now no one would ever recognize it for the same place. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z The flowers opened into a saucer of richest carmine, as fragrant as an American Beauty, and the little circles of crimson resembling the Rosa rugosa were seen in every front dooryard. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A fertile tree is sometimes counted a nuisance in a dooryard because its pods set free a great mass of cotton that collects in window screens, to the annoyance of housewives. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z A housetop, a dooryard, or even the spacious floor of an old-fashioned barn, as the case may be, offers just as good a chance for practice as a lake or river. St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-07-18T02:00:22.977Z There ain't any old ladies to help across the street up here; and dooryards to clear up of trash are as scarce as hens' teeth. Camp Fires of the Wolf Patrol 2011-07-26T02:00:18.713Z Cart-loads of this offal were also lying about the dooryard, and had been trampled into and mixed up with the mud until the whole outfit stunk like a tanyard. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z That noble, heroic dirge, the Burial Hymn of Lincoln, begins:— "When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd." Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A keen pair of eyes used upon a single elm in the dooryard for a whole year will surprise and inform the observer. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z As for the lava, which was its front dooryard, so to speak, for a hundred miles, the man did not live who could say he had crossed it. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Then they splashed across the creek, and rode up its steep bank into the clear, grass-covered government dooryard of the campers. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z Late that evening McKee went out into the dooryard to be alone with the memory of the one stroke he had made and to continue his plans for the master blow he was to make. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z No doubt Tansy was among the earliest plants brought over by the settlers; it was carefully cherished in the herb garden, then spread to the dooryard and then to farm lanes. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z A fine dooryard tree that bears delicious nuts, after furnishing a grateful shade all summer, is deserving the popularity it enjoys with small farmers and owners of the simplest California homes. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z There was a chorus of screams in the Caslons’ dooryard, but after that first cry, Ruth kept silent. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z There was now only the glaring sunlight showing up in all their barrenness the shabby little cottages with their dooryards strewn with tin cans and bits of paper, and swarming with half-clothed, crying babies. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z They heard him walk across the dooryard and into the stable. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Often its unbounded luxuriance exiled it from the front yard to the kitchen dooryard as befell the clump shown facing page 48. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z And his heart once more, as in the matchless threnody for Lincoln, When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, uttered its song of summons and of welcome. A Day with Walt Whitman 2011-06-05T02:00:12.967Z I know where I am now, however, I’ll go down the railroad beyond the water-tank a little way and find the very crossing of the lane that goes into their dooryard from the west. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z They, as often as not, end in a fisherman's back dooryard, but they are sweet as a young girl's caprice while they last. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Tom did not see her coming until she was halfway across the dooryard. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Lowell has given in verse a good description of the kind of New England house that always had a front dooryard of flowers. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Only the vines that still clamber over the porch, and a few hollyhocks that stubbornly refuse to die, remain to suggest the dooryard where the garden flowers used to “fairly run mad with color.” The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Still incredulous, the party of men followed Leo into the dooryard. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z In the dooryard, toward the river, are fresh graves, mostly of officers, their names on pieces of barrel staves or broken board, stuck in the dirt. The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion 2011-04-01T02:00:42.513Z It is a hideous thing, and yet a specimen grows in every dooryard. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Tulips are on all seed and plant lists of colonial days, and they were doubtless in every home dooryard in New Netherland. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z If not in the field, at least at the fireside and in the dooryard, he was a vast improvement upon his heavy-witted predecessor. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z She stared at him, but when he gave her a shove she realized what he was saying, and made such a spurt as had never before been seen in that dooryard. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z He described with abandon and fire the tall pines, the still darkling river running beneath the cedars and birches; the cabins, antler crowned, and the little gardens of their dooryard. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z It was a neighborly road, curiously intimate with the wayside life, its domestic geography and economies; there were places where we seemed to be actually in front dooryards. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z A vendue and a funeral were the only gatherings in country communities when the entire neighborhood came freely to an old homestead, when all were at liberty to enter the front dooryard. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Ross walked to the chopping-log in the dooryard, and sat down. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Without further explanation he stepped to the dooryard and scooped up two heaping handfuls of gravel from the Road. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Yet they waited, following long-revered precepts of wariness, before going onward across the open stretch of the dooryard for an ultimate investigation. The Law of Hemlock Mountain There were no dooryards, and the cattle owned the streets. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z I have known men deaf and blind to every other form of beauty who clung with a loyal and redeeming love to the flowers in their dooryard. The Idyl of Twin Fires A dog ran out of a dooryard as they passed, barking raucously. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z But when we woke again, the late, hot noonday sun was like a scorching fire in our faces, and the drenched dooryard steamed like a dye-house in the sudden burst of unseasonable heat. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z It was placed in the dooryard, and not over twenty-five yards from the house; several dogs were running about the yard, and the house cat was purring near the doorway. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life When he and Mona, loitering behind the rest, reached her little dooryard where the scent of many blooming flowers saluted him, they paused a moment. Rockhaven Then came the German irises, like soldiers on parade, around the pool, and the bright lemon lilies in the shady dooryard. The Idyl of Twin Fires In the dooryard, a dull fire smoked in a tin pan,—a "smudge" to drive off the mosquitoes. A Yankee from the West A Novel She turned the White Pony loose in the dooryard, and then went into the queer old kitchen, rolled up her sleeves, wound herself round with a blue-checked apron, and commenced to work. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Under these conditions a gray Wolf chased a buck and a doe right into the dooryard of one of Fred’s trapping camps 10 miles north of Windy River. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin It is mainly nocturnal, but it also travels in the early evening and later morning, and I once saw a mother and six young pass through the dooryard just at dusk. The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 As I came into my own dooryard, I found Hard Cider unloading lumber. The Idyl of Twin Fires He had dreaded to meet the woman who had scared him out of her dooryard. A Yankee from the West A Novel The dark dooryard before me was drenched with rain. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. The Vagabond in Literature It is well for every man to sweep his own dooryard first before he begins to peddle stories as to the condition of his neighbour's dooryard. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day It is quite possible, for example, to step into a bus at one’s dooryard and be carried to any part of the United States by the same method of transportation. A Living from the Land He never thought of Sam again until his wife said, as he reached the Quarles's dooryard: "Where is little Sam?" The Child's Book of American Biography The windows and dooryards was full; and every minute somebody would say, over a fence: "Is it them?" The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade In the dooryard fronting an old farmhouse near the whitewash’d palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love. The Vagabond in Literature I noticed a lot of old lumber around the barn," she announced, when he joined her in the dooryard—"old boxes and barrels and rubbish. The Destroying Angel Poverty there was, but also much happiness in the old parsonage, whose dooryard of trees and shrubs, joined on to the neighboring gardens, made a pleasant outlook into the world. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 The dooryard's lawn was smooth enough, and the great lawn was a dream of green grass, graced with the shadows of a few great trees. The "Genius" One morning as Checkers was working about the dooryard, he espied his father-in-law coming up the road at a gait which presaged important news. Checkers A Hard-luck Story With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate coloured blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break. The Vagabond in Literature "It can't be done," he called back, strolling out of the dooryard with much show of idle indecision. The Destroying Angel When he returned to his native land he never, as he drove past, looked at the youngster playing in Miss Lydia's dooryard. An Old Chester Secret It was farewell to the lovely fields and the blue hills, the long rows of trees down the lawn walk, the white and red and blue flowers about the dooryard. The "Genius" A great acquisition to our dooryard life is this bird of beautiful colors, quaint habits, and strange notes. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Mrs. Randall waited until the two little figures idled across the dooryard before she spoke. Stories of the Foot-hills There was an early peony or a late lilac in almost every dooryard. The Life of Nancy I was set down in the dooryard of a house built of hewed logs, whitewashed. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry They went out into the dooryard after a time and then Marietta appeared again, and with her Mrs. Blue, a comfortable, round bodied mother of sixty, who greeted Eugene cordially. The "Genius" The green dooryard had its special show of emeralds, set off here and there by a tuft of dandelion that had escaped the watchful eye of Mr. Sam. The Wooing of Calvin Parks The next morning a huge derrick frowned in the dooryard, and a picturesque group of workmen lounged under the acacias. Stories of the Foot-hills The immediate members of the family were photographed in a group on the old porch, as was also the dinner party gathered in the historic dooryard. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years A crude wash of ochre had apparently sufficed for the dooryard; no weed grew here, no twig. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Their arrival at the dooryard of the roadside farm was signalized by a frantic clatter. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France He used to drag them home and stretch them out in the dooryard, so as to show his folks how smart he was.” The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out "Where are you going, Tess?" shouted Sammy, as the Corner House girl kept on past the gate of her own dooryard, after the green van. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended In 1895 this had been held in the dooryard of the old Anthony homestead, and she had been invited to be present, but was otherwise engaged. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years So it’s back to the soil for mine, to the sagebrush and the pump in the dooryard, and maybe teaching in the little one-story schoolhouse in between chores. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars Picket fence for the dooryard may be made on wooden foundation with cardboard pickets. Primary Handwork Beside her kitchen wall the pink cones of rhubarb were showing, and the fat buds of the lilacs, which clustered coppicelike in her dooryard, were ready to unlock and flare forth leaves. The Bondboy The wire fence was cut between each post, beyond splicing or repair; the shrubs which some home-hungry woman had 250 set in her dooryard were trampled; the well curb was overthrown. The Rustler of Wind River You have a fortune right here in your own dooryard; or if not exactly out by the pump, then very near it!” Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune The old trees met overhead; there were dooryards full of sweet, old-fashioned flowers, and now and then the sound of a weak piano or a plaintive voice. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The final act of the performance was the presentation, rather fussily overseen by Philip's successor, of a mammoth bouquet of Spring blossoms, raised in the reclaimed dooryards of the Civic League. Kildares of Storm His life touches or mingles with ours at many points—in the dooryard, in the garden, in the orchard, along the road, in the groves, in the woods. Ways of Nature If Ury and I can turn the creek, Samantha, so it will run through the dooryard, you shall have a fountain right under your winder. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife This proved to be the case when about ten o’clock Johnson drove his worn-out team into his dooryard. In the Shadow of the Hills The porch was low,––only a step from the ground,––and the grass of the dooryard felt soft and cool to the bare feet of the children. The Eye of Dread They nest anywhere in trees or bushes, either in woods, pastures, parks or dooryards, and their sprightly song is much in evidence throughout the summer. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Motherly hens cluck to their broods in the dooryard. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance If Feng Shui should order a burial place in a dooryard it would have to be there. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife With that as a sort of natural buttress behind the house, and with the beautiful lake as his front dooryard, he'd have a location that any man might envy. The Planetoid of Peril Forty miles of snowcapped peaks were at my dooryard, and beyond, toward the rising sun, hazy plains stretched away to the illimitable horizon. A Mountain Boyhood They are sweet and persistent songsters and frequent side hills, pastures, roadsides, gardens and dooryards if English Sparrows be not present. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. A pile of logs lay in the dooryard, an ax hacked into the end of one. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek We drove through beautiful streets lined with elegant houses, and the dooryards wuz a sight. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Then they had to swim the Snake River and maybe wrestle with a tame bear that was loose in the dooryard. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry Slowly the marmot fed away from the rock, the farther he ventured the more luxuriant his feast, for the grass was eaten off short around his dooryard. A Mountain Boyhood I had scarcely driven the outfit away from my own dooryard before the wagon and wagon cover, and even the map of the old trail on the sides of the cover, began to be defaced. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail I suspects that this attitoode of mind on Bill's part is likely to provoke discussion, which suspicion is confirmed when Gene knocks Bill down, an' boots him into the dooryard. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories Eight hundred dollars don't grow in every boy's dooryard. Marcy The Blockade Runner If there were invasion, you know, a crippled man couldn't do more than try to defend his own dooryard. The Prisoner My mother watched the battle of Mine Creek from the dooryard; saw the soldiers streaming by, and prayed fervently as the tide of battle swayed back and forth. A Mountain Boyhood My first camp for the return journey over the old trail was made in my own dooryard at Puyallup. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail The country is delightful and very fertile; nevertheless, but few colonists venture to settle here, on account of the neighborhood of the panthers, which come to the dooryards to seize domestic animals. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery Through back streets, alleys, filthy dooryards—never once striking a main thoroughfare—until I had crossed the entire city and reached the west side of the square. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 With the passage of time and the coming of the mound in the dooryard, the feeling had developed into positive fear, and travellers avoided the place as though warned by a scarlet placard. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Look at those children playing in that dooryard. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas As they passed through the pleasant streets, between front dooryards banked with flowers, the talk after a while led quite naturally to climbing roses for the Colonel’s own house. Polly of Lady Gay Cottage Every night the red rooster, the five hens, and the turkey go to roost in its branches, and every day its green boughs make a pleasant shade across the dooryard. The Mexican Twins Imagine yourself face to face with the last thing you would expect to see in a modest front dooryard,—the figurehead of a ship, heroic in size, gorgeous in color, majestic in pose! Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland Next day to all he saw, he told the tale of supernatural things which lingers yet around a prairie ruin, in whose dooryard are mounds built of man. A Breath of Prairie and other stories You can’t have a mystery dumped right in your own dooryard without digging into it.” The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards At Hump Doane's stile Thornton flung himself out of his saddle and paused for no word with those neighbours who stood gathered about the dooryard. The Roof Tree No remnant of furniture—no rag of old clothes or calico; but in the dooryard a few garden flowers still struggled to keep their place, among daisies, thistles and burdocks. Say and Seal, Volume I Benjamin Ellison, James Ellison's nephew, a heavy-set, large-boned, clumsily-built youth, lounged lazily in the dooryard of the Ellison homestead as the girl neared the gate, a quarter of an hour later. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The mail carrier calling next day saw a man with spots of scarlet heightening the contrast of a face pale as death, digging in the dooryard. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Fences, roads, streets, dooryards, houses, all can be judged as to length. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts The man outside had by this time gained the dooryard and stood beside the tree trunk where the shadow was deepest. The Roof Tree The usual little gate and dooryard common to such country houses; the usual remains of autumn flowers therein; the usual want of trees. Say and Seal, Volume I Only the flies, buzzing about the ears of Colonel Witham's dog that lay stretched in the dooryard, were active. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Bye was in charge of the home bunch, and sat long after the others had left, upon the new-formed mound in the ranch dooryard. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Her little face was like the pansies that used to grow in mother's dooryard; and a dooryard is the place for pansies, not a stage. It, and Other Stories Informal and seemingly loose of organization was that meeting of the next afternoon when three Harpers and three Doanes met where the shade of the walnut tree fell across dooryard and roadway. The Roof Tree Of the two that now entered that little dooryard, one felt all this and one did not. Say and Seal, Volume I The girl's keen blue eyes perceiving, presently, an object in the distance looking like a queer combination of boy and bicycle, she ran out from the dooryard as it approached. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill His dooryard is a picture, while the weeds sometimes choke his garden.” Winning the Wilderness His employer winced at this new title, but nodded assent; so they all forded the shallow stream and entered the dooryard together. 'Me--Smith' Once only had Cal been out of doors and that was when leaning on the girl's arm he had gone into the dooryard. The Roof Tree The trailing arbutus trailed everywhere; the lady slippers grew even in the front dooryard. Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens The weeping ash in the dooryard Gathers the song in its boughs, And the gown of dawn she will never wear. Path Flower and Other Verses You are squandering your dooryard by plowing out there in front of the house. Winning the Wilderness He had finished and was reaching for his hat when footsteps were heard on the hard-beaten dooryard. 'Me--Smith' About him was a dooryard gone to a weed-jungle and a farm that must be reclaimed from utter wildness. The Roof Tree Thousands of farms have small streams in their very dooryard, capable of developing five, ten, twenty, fifty horsepower twenty-four hours a day, for the greater part of the year. Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine But I think it is possible that many people to-day will know the music and the solace of the great dirge beginning “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d.” Waiting for Daylight The very althæas, and lilacs, and clambering jasmines in the dooryard and the large trees that lent shade to a lawn alongside, bespoke the chronological superiority of the place. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York It lodged in one of the giant sage-brushes which grew some little distance away on the outer edge of the dooryard, and into this brush Ralston reached and carefully drew it forth. 'Me--Smith' In all the numbers of the crowd that stood about the dooryard that day waiting for the wedding party to come through the door one absence was recognized and felt. The Roof Tree In the soft, tree-dimmed dooryard among dry, blazing plains it seemed indecent to go on growling "Gee," and "Can you beat it?" Free Air "As well as I know that dooryard in front of you," replied the old man, pointing through the window. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts In the dooryard of the Jack-o’-Lantern, he paused. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern He wondered why he had been such a fool as to leave it in a dark street of flat-faced wooden houses with dooryards of trampled earth and a general air of poverty, goats, and lunch-pails. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Aunt Nancy’s dooryard was famous for its flowers, being a riot of pied bloom from March till December. Judith of the Cumberlands The old house is dusty and falling into ruin, and every passing car kicks up some bit of crushed stone into its tangled dooryard. Penguin Persons & Peppermints One day a family of wood pewees visited the dooryard of my tent. Our Bird Comrades The chickens were clucking peacefully in their corner of Uncle Ebeneezer’s dooryard, and the newly acquired bossy cow mooed unhappily in her improvised stable. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern There were pig-pens in the dooryards, and the single church had a square, low, white steeple like the paper cap which Labor wears in the posters. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Each dooryard had its heap of empty cans and pile of ashes. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall Dr. Cartwright sang out, the boys nearly colliding with him as he was driving from his dooryard. Far Past the Frontier A tousled head was thrust from the doorway, and after a moment of inspection a man stepped out upon the hard-trodden earth of the dooryard. The Gold Girl Grass-plots appeared in dooryards, flowers climbed up along castle walls and shrubs and trees came to play a genuinely esthetic rôle in the life of the times. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Then with a flirt of his short, round wings he hurried over to Farmer Green’s dooryard—after calling to his wife that he would come back and tell her if he had any luck. The Tale of Rusty Wren Well, Corbie's Happy Dance was as gay as both together, when he jigged in the dooryard to the tune of his own merry chatter. Bird Stories Hers was the task of rendering the lard in the great iron kettle near the dooryard. Blue Ridge Country "I'll take it right from your own dooryard in just about two jiffies." The Gold Girl Outside of the village and the streets were other and larger houses, in groups of two and three, with dooryards and gardens, and then came half a dozen farm-houses surrounded by fields and gardens. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood But it was hard to get him to do any errands, because he didn’t want to stir from the dooryard, he was so interested in what was going on. The Tale of Rusty Wren But a basin, however bright, is not enough to keep a crow in the dooryard; for a crow is a bird of adventure. Bird Stories Almost the first thing they did was to nibble at the tender young grass that grew in their dooryard. The Tale of Billy Woodchuck She whirled into Thompson's lane and, in the dooryard, threw herself from her horse almost into the arms of the big ranchman who stared at her in surprise. The Gold Girl Selena, people said, had married James Ford for no other reason than that his house commanded a view of nearly every dooryard in Amberley. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 His alarm clock was in his dooryard, for it was Rusty Wren himself who always warned him that day was breaking and that it was time to get up and go to work. The Tale of Rusty Wren The dooryard was scrupulously clean and unlittered; the little footpath through it was neatly bordered by white clam shells; several thrifty geraniums in bloom looked out from the muslin-curtained windows. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 The weather was fine and he had planned to spend the whole day sunning himself on a big rock not far from his own dooryard. The Tale of Billy Woodchuck Could these raiders have had the audacity to pass through the very dooryard of the ranch, knowing as they must have known, that four armed and determined cowboys occupied the bunk house? The Gold Girl Little by little Master Meadow Mouse wandered further from his own dooryard. The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse Before Rusty Wren came to live in Farmer Green’s dooryard the family had been known to oversleep now and then. The Tale of Rusty Wren As well as in the dooryard of my father's house in Miltonville. A Lieutenant at Eighteen She has a little hospital here, as complete as if she had New York City in her back dooryard; all her own place, you understand. Rita The outer door was standing open into the green dooryard, and a fat small dog lay asleep on the step. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories After his adventure with old Mr. Crow, Master Meadow Mouse scarcely dared stray from his dooryard in the daytime. The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse When Johnnie Green fastened the tin can to the tree in the dooryard he couldn’t have picked out a better spot for it. The Tale of Rusty Wren It hardly seems fair to Kiddie Katydid—this uproar right in his dooryard. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid His local interest, however, will naturally be around his own dooryard and neighborhood. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 Everything about the old farmhouse was clean and orderly, as if the green dooryard were not only swept, but dusted. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories When he reached the dooryard he stopped, pulled off his cap and stood looking at the doorway that had welcomed so many Mannings and sped so many more. Still Jim And before sunset as many as fifty of the field and forest people had come shyly to Farmer Green’s dooryard. The Tale of Rusty Wren Before twenty-four hours had gone by, the fellow returned to Farmer Green's dooryard; and with him came a great, fat person who belonged without question to the Locust family. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid As I came through this wonderfully fertile section of the country, I observed people building bungalows and cottages and setting out trees other than pecan in their dooryards. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 The trail south led directly through his dooryard, and loquacious cowpunchers stopped at all hours to pass the time of day. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The planters sent to England for herbs and drugs, as existing inventories show; and they planted seeds and soon had plenty of home herbs that grew apace in every dooryard. Customs and Fashions in Old New England And being very fond of water, Long Bill did not care to spend any of his valuable time in Farmer Green’s dooryard. The Tale of Rusty Wren "I wouldn't mind going, if I could take Farmer Green's dooryard with me," he remarked to a long-horned gentleman who stopped to talk with him one evening. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid Wreaths of blue smoke curled upward lazily from the kitchen chimney, and from the dooryard came the most tantalizing odors of chicken frying, coffee boiling, and fresh doughnuts. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's Oh, it seemed as if she were always cleaning because of that dooryard! The Story-teller First, it was whitewashed within and without; second, it was covered with house vines; third, the dooryard smiled at you from the face of a thousand flowers, like a Heavenly catechism of color. A Circuit Rider's Wife Sol had scant judgment and one suit of clothes available; the other, sopping wet from the wash, now swayed in the process of drying on an elder-bush in the dooryard. Wolf's Head 1911 And he almost wished he hadn't come to Farmer Green's dooryard that night. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid "We can't expect to do much till morning," the deputy opined as with his light close to the ground he looked for some strange footprint in the dust of the dooryard. The Lady Doc But as for the neighbor's dooryard it was as bare and ugly as ever. The Story-teller The same gray farmhouses brooded close to the earth, with children playing in the dooryards. A Circuit Rider's Wife A heavily laden freight wagon, piled high with ranch supplies, stood in the dooryard before a long loghouse. The Fighting Shepherdess They lingered around the dooryard and talked so loudly that they actually disturbed the household. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid When they had eaten, they spread their saddle-blankets in the dooryard and with their saddles for pillows covered themselves with the slickers they carried and so slept soundly until morning. The Dude Wrangler Hundreds and hundreds of feathery seed there were, and one day the wind from the west came by, and blew them away in a whirl over the fence and into the neighbor's dooryard. The Story-teller The chimney was sending up its hospitable smoke, and Jenny was at the well with the teakettle in her hand when he came into the dooryard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A horse snorted, and the sound of hoofs on the frozen dooryard brought Teeters to attention. The Fighting Shepherdess A good many of the field people stopped at Farmer Green's dooryard and told Kiddie Katydid that they thought he had made a mistake. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid "It might drown somebody half a mile from me but it wouldn't settle the dust in my dooryard." The Dude Wrangler Early and late she tended the plant and worked to make her garden fair and lovely; but she kept her eyes from the dooryard. The Story-teller A varied collection of old-fashioned plants and flowers crowd the neatly swept dooryard. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 The following morning, shortly after breakfast, Phil saw Rod turning into the dooryard of his home. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Following his cry with two or three quick beats of his wings, Mr. Nighthawk dropped swiftly down among the trees in Farmer Green's dooryard. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid Then he went out in the dooryard and stood a moment. The Dude Wrangler As the party came in sight of one of these farms, a great cry arose from the dooryard. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace A favorite shrub in our garden, as in every country dooryard, was southernwood, or lad's-love. Home Life in Colonial Days A man was crossing the dooryard and coming toward the barn! From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience Besides, as he noticed, it was not so cold in Farmer Green's dooryard as it had been by the creek. The Tale of Kiddie Katydid He who has no reason for his wifely choice except a pretty face is like a man who should buy a farm because of the dahlias in the front dooryard. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony First you knocks that tyrant Jim down; then you pepper him with shot after he has fired the pigpen of your new home, and now you brave him in his own dooryard. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast But first he must wait to be guided back through the devil's dooryard of crags and clefts. Bloom of Cactus By this time the Indian rider was close to the dooryard, and Dan walked outside to meet him. For the Liberty of Texas While my father was in the woods, the Indians used to come and sleep in the dooryard. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Now on foot and limping terribly, trying to look equal parts fire-eater and woe-begone, he applied to a grey-headed couple in the dooryard of a small clean home. The Long Roll I've seen twenty cars parked in his dooryard of a Sunday. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck On the edge of this devil's dooryard of bare rocks and no less dry and sterile ravines Slade gave over the lead to the oldest of his Navahos. Bloom of Cactus "And think of the grand view they had before their doors, with the canyon in places as much as thirteen miles across, and mountains in their dooryard, looking like anthills," Bob went on impressively. The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave He could see a kitten playing in the dooryard; and he would have liked to tease it. The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales Behind him the approaching wheels rumbled loudly; before him a narrow lane stretched through a ploughed field, to a grassy dooryard and a small house. The Long Roll A cat may look at a king; and we have a perfect right to stand here in our own dooryard, and gape at the show. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck Across the road was a large house with a pretentious dooryard and evergreen hedges. Children of the Tenements During the conversation recorded above, Ralph had been at work in the dooryard of the cottage, while his mother was busy tying up the honeysuckle vines which grew over the porch. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle Margaret was waiting for him, with the dog Captain beside her, wandering back and forth in the unfenced dooryard and watching her mountain. A Voice in the Wilderness Miss Kitty remembered clearly that the wagon had been climbing a long hill before it turned into the peddler's dooryard. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales Around each house was a picket fence, and the forms of the dooryards and gardens were regulated by the village lawgivers. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year In thousands of dooryards throughout the country wild birds, won by kind treatment, now take their food or drink within a few feet of their human protectors. The Bird Study Book "I certainly heard somebody walking in the dooryard." The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle Other than these there are only scattered trees either native or planted around the dooryards by amateurs without any very keen interest in northern nut growing. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 At last the wagon left the hard road and pulled up in a dooryard. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales Jimmy Skunk was quite contented with the eggs he had stolen from old Gray Goose—that is, he was until he saw the plump chicken Reddy Fox had brought from Farmer Brown's dooryard. Mother West Wind's Children But in Black Creek there were fish right in his dooryard, one may say. The Tale of Timothy Turtle He halted in the dooryard to see who they were. The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle The fourth walnut, the Chase, is growing in a dooryard at Oberlin, Ohio. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 Women and children stood in the dooryards watching the fire that was cutting through the thin-walled buildings on that side of the square—the hotel side—as if they were strawboard boxes. Trail's End Way over across the broad White Meadows, which in summer time are green, you know, in the dooryard of Farmer Brown's house, Bowser the Hound sat and barked at the moon, too. Mother West Wind's Children Her spinning done with the spirit of a true pioneer, Rebecca explored the surrounding woods and soon knew them quite as well as the nooks and corners of her own dooryard. Some Three Hundred Years Ago Sometimes she was even able to walk about the dooryard a little and gather flowers for herself. Girls and Women People do not let the time question bother them when they set out the usual dooryard trees because expectancy goes no further than trees. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 In front of the house there was no fence, but a dooryard that seemed to embrace the rest of the earth. Trail's End Reddy Fox had brought a plump, tender chicken, stolen from Farmer Brown's dooryard. Mother West Wind's Children In place of logs, houses were built of bricks burned in the dooryard; or else were constructed of frames of oak, often with pitched roofs that sloped to the ground. Some Three Hundred Years Ago Now, Mercy——" "Oh, Kitty," came a sudden wail of alarm from the dooryard where Rosslyn was still busy with his basket of chips, "Janie is gone! Tabitha's Vacation We walked down the street past dooryards where lilacs were blooming, keeping together till we crossed the river. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Some hardy flowers, such as zinnias and marigolds, stood clumped about dooryards; in the kitchen gardens tasseled corn rose tall, dust thick on the guttered blades. Trail's End Production of black walnut kernels in this country is fully 99 per cent from seedling trees of the fields, forests, roadsides and dooryards. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933 The two men parted and later Hinkson rode into his own dooryard, where he found an anxious little wife. Some Three Hundred Years Ago She loved the flowers that bloomed each summer in the wide dooryard, and had enough romance to enjoy nature's moods at all times. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England The lawn or "dooryard," should be the best kept ground on the place. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings As we passed the Murch farm the old man told me that he had tried to get Willis, who stood watching us in the dooryard, to go with him to listen for the bees. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's The Cap'n's house is painted brown, a little, brown dwelling with a blue-legged sailor man on poles in the dooryard, revolving in the breeze. Modern American Prose Selections The canary furnished materials for a Yellow May; a dooryard English sparrow, for a Brown Hackle. The Joyful Heart There were open fireplaces in parlor and sitting-room, and the wide dooryard was divided by a graveled and flower-bordered walk, where in summer bloomed syringas, sweet williams, peonies and phlox. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England The wooden pump, which took the place of the old well in many dooryards, was considered a great invention. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The carcass was lying in the dooryard when Tom's mother waked us. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Best of all I liked to shoot over Uncle Lyman's dooryard elm, or try for the clouds. Confessions of Boyhood "Advance, friend!" exclaimed the corporal when he got his countersign, and a moment later met his Major in the dooryard. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West How cheerless the snowclad dooryard, and what a cold glitter the stars seemed to have! Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England As we walked through a farmyard we saw a farmer lying at full length dead in his dooryard. Golden Lads Where he had expected to see nobody at all, his eyes bulged with surprise at the crowd that had gathered in his dooryard. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse Like many another ancient dooryard tree it carried back its traditional origin to a staff stuck in the ground and left to its fate. Confessions of Boyhood So she stood, Lady Bountiful for them as they swarmed about her feet in the dooryard. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West When our advance entered the building, they were found lying about the floor to the depth of fifteen inches or more around the doorsteps and in the dooryard. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy When he had washed the windows I had him get a garden rake and clear away the rubbish that littered the dooryard. The Prairie Wife He hardly dared hope, as he neared the dooryard, that he would not find a crowd waiting there again. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse Four summers had passed before I knew of any world beyond the walls of the Red House, the dooryard and the shade of the elm tree. Confessions of Boyhood He went to the edge of the standing grass beyond the dooryard, and began sowing, broadcast, spikes, nails, bits of iron, intended to ruin the sickle blades of the mowers when they came to work. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West The brand owners who haven't hedged theirselves beforehand will run down to file and find that nesters have had papers on all the good pieces right in their dooryard for months. The Settling of the Sage There shall be no more loose porkers wandering about my dooryard. The Prairie Wife The house was real, and in the dooryard he saw a human being busy about some task. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett The eastern windows of this little silver-gray house are gay with blossoming house plants and across the back dooryard, flapping gently in the spring breeze, is a line of gayly colored bed quilts. Green Valley Therefore, on this certain morning, she knew his voice, when, after stopping his car in the dooryard, he called out to the men before he approached the door of her own home. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West The living quarters were bad, too: shacks, with free straw on the floor for beds, and mud deep in the dooryards where the campers emptied water. Across the Fruited Plain Buster noticed, as he drew near to the Carpenter's house once more, that there was a crowd in the Carpenter's dooryard. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Of the Major's audience, the most astonished of all sat, unnoticed, in a tree in the dooryard and listened and looked on as if he could scarcely believe his eyes. The Tale of Major Monkey There was a dooryard defined by a picket fence, and near the kitchen door was a well with a high pent roof, where there had once been a long sweep. A Pair of Patient Lovers If we find him there as Rutter said, you can gamble that trouble has camped in our dooryard for a lengthy stay. Raw Gold A Novel Wells were being bored in gardens, in dooryards, and even in some cases in the bottoms of wells from which water had been procured for household purposes. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Buster Bumblebee did not stay long in the dooryard of the missing Carpenter. The Tale of Buster Bumblebee Anyhow, he dashed out of the dooryard and ran a little way up the road, growling and barking, and telling Major Monkey exactly what he thought of him. The Tale of Major Monkey The beauty of the European and Asiatic hazels, in general, makes them extremely desirable for ornamental purposes in parks and in dooryards. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 What family would not receive enjoyment and satisfaction from having, in its dooryard, a gracious English walnut tree, its spreading branches laden with nuts? Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin The wife of the deacon in charge was paddling about barefooted, in pursuit of her fowls, in the long grass of the dooryard. Russian Rambles The scene is outside her dooryard at Plymouth, Mass., in the Spring of 1621. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Now a rug or two and a few pictures gave to the floors and walls a cheerful note of color that the flowers had given to their dooryard during the season of their bloom. The Hidden Places On the left ranged the square whitewashed houses with their dooryards, the old church, the workshop. Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest Anyone wishing to make a planting of a few nut trees in his dooryard or a small orchard planting should join the Northern Nut Growers' Association. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Why some of them long, feathery leaves wuz so big, if the tree wuz in the middle of our dooryard the ends of 'em would go over into the orchard—one leaf; the idee! Samantha at the World's Fair Last of all he planted in his dooryard, in artistic irregularity, a wagon-load of small imported trees. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman Tappan Zee.—The steamer is now entering Irving's rich domain, and Tappan Zee lapping the threshold of "Sunnyside," seems almost a part of his very dooryard. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention "Oh, let us hurry!" she gasped; but at the gate of the tiny dooryard she stopped in sudden embarrassment. The Quickening Considering the nut tree as a dooryard tree, an ornament rather than a business, makes it possible to include many more species as suitable for growing in the north. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Then what took you in my dooryard here; for I heard a pack runnin' away when I kim out of the house? The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership If you hear three taps upon your window after dark or the hoot of an owl in your dooryard you will know what it means. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Abandoned implements littered the dooryard; a rusted hay rake with one wheel gone, a broken mower with cutter-bar drunkenly erect, and the front trucks of a dilapidated wagon. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country An airplane using our very dooryard for a flying field, mommie! Skyrider He must know the eight hundred miles of coast as we know the nooks and corners of our dooryards. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell All of you know that old Peleg keeps his dooryard in a horrible condition. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership Abe Lincoln and Harry and Samson and Sarah and Jack Kelso and his wife stood with the Rutledges in the dooryard of the tavern when he rode away. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy An hour later, moving with the stealth of red Indians, they posted themselves behind the stone wall opposite the lane leading into the Look dooryard. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Late in January the flash of a white skirt and a sky-blue sweater past his dooryard apprised MacRae that Betty was back. Poor Man's Rock Crows are especially tamable and may be allowed full liberty around the dooryard. Outdoor Sports and Games The leader silently opened the gate leading to the dooryard of Growdy's place. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership Meanwhile Brimstead and Harry had stood for a moment in the dooryard of the former, watching the party on its way up the road. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy I see my oldest boy in the dooryard with the toes of his boots yawed open like sculpins' mouths. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul He would cross between the boathouse and the roses in MacRae's dooryard. Poor Man's Rock The orchards are heavy with harvest apples, the tassels of the corn are dark and rusty, and the dooryards of the country houses riot gorgeously in scarlet sage and marigold, asters and gladiolas. Diane of the Green Van In fact, I calculate it's as clean as any dooryard around Stanhope. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership It reminds me a little of the story of a rich man down in Lexington who put a cast iron buck in his dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Equally as saturnine, Cap'n Sproul walked through his dooryard, the battered plug hat in his hand, paying no heed to the somewhat agitated questions of his wife. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul He didn't groan, save inwardly; but respected her silence, and held his own in humility and mortification of spirit until they were near the dooryard of their boarding-house. The Day of Days An Extravaganza When the Rover boys reached the vicinity of the Staton cottage they found Alice and Helen in the dooryard, watching for them. The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island Just immense, that's what," declared his companion, slapping a hand on Paul's shoulder; "I'm glad we went there and cleaned up the old man's dooryard. The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership It had a little porch and dooryard enclosed by an unpainted picket fence. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy With an axe that he picked up at the dooryard woodpile, Cap'n Aaron hammered out the new door-frame, paying no heed to Mr. Luce's threats or Mrs. Luce's maledictions. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul The man, entering the dooryard, had cornered the girl in an angle of the fence. The Day of Days An Extravaganza He shall arrange pamphlets for every dooryard that cannot help being read. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Now, here was Jack Corey hiding in her very dooryard, one might say; and his mother absolutely distracted over him. The Lookout Man Between eleven and twelve o'clock Sarah and Samson were awakened by the hoot of an owl in the dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy I found Franklin sitting under a tree in his dooryard, surrounded by his grandchildren. In the Days of Poor Richard Mrs. Boyd had seen them coming, and she came out to meet them, as they turned into the dooryard. The S. W. F. Club Nevertheless he did go up to Farmer Brown's dooryard to make sure. The Adventures of Prickly Porky A moment later Abby Hender stood alone in her dooryard, watching and waving her hand again and again, while the wagon rattled away down the lane and turned into the high-road. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches They struggled across the dooryard, the ground trembling beneath their feet. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy The caucus is going to be held in the other end of the village—not here in my front dooryard. The Ramrodders A Novel That was enough to start Sammy Jay straight for Farmer Brown's dooryard. Bowser the Hound You could hear the poultry crowing, and the children playing in the dooryards. Lazarre In the green old dooryard at the Red Mill, under the spreading shade trees, two girls are shelling a great basket of dried lima beans for the winter's store. Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box "As Douglas Jerrold said of Australia: 'Tickle it with a hoe and it laughs with a harvest,'" said Dr. Allen, who still sat in the shaded dooryard, smoking his pipe. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy They left behind them the creek, the blooming dooryard, the small white house, and the gentle Quakeress. Audrey He approached Farmer Brown's dooryard just as carefully as if he knew Bowser to be in his little house as usual. Bowser the Hound And since Mr. Crow could not crawl inside her house, she received him in her dooryard. The Tale of Old Mr. Crow She went quietly to the dooryard looking upon the village street, and peeped into the window of the room where Grace was dressing with a little help from Agnes, their mamma's maid. Elsie at Nantucket A ragged, barefooted man and three scrawny, ill clad children stood in the dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Audrey, sitting by the window, her chin upon her hand and her dark hair shadowing her face, looked out upon the dooryard and the Palace Street beyond. Audrey But as he slipped along in the blackest of the Black Shadows, he was all the time working nearer and nearer to Farmer Brown's dooryard. Bowser the Hound So he went whistling on his way until he reached the Long Lane leading from the Green Meadows up to Farmer Brown's dooryard. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog Behind him the little city—so picturesque in its mountain basin, with the wild, unfenced land coming down to its very dooryards—was slowly awakening after the last mad night of its celebration. When A Man's A Man There were hollyhocks and sunflowers in its small and cleanly dooryard. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy Out in the dooryard the merry grandson of the Witch was dancing as if possessed by revelling devils. Truxton King A Story of Graustark "I hope Farmer Brown's boy has forgotten to close that little doorway where the hens run in and out," muttered Reddy, as he trotted across Farmer Brown's dooryard. Bowser the Hound It was a square, frame house—that of the Dunkelbergs—large for that village, and had a big dooryard with trees in it. The Light in the Clearing Daffodils and crocuses lifted yellow flames and ruddy torches from every dooryard. The Port of Missing Men Josiah, now a sturdy boy of thirteen, stood in the dooryard, holding the two saddle ponies from Nebraska which Samson had bought of a drover. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy "Wot's this?" gasped Mr. Hobbs, drawing rein at the edge of the pebbly dooryard. Truxton King A Story of Graustark How he did long for his snug, warm, little house in Farmer Brown's dooryard, and for the good meal he knew was awaiting him there. Bowser the Hound When we drove into the dooryard Aunt Deel came and helped me out of the buggy and kissed my cheek and said she had been "terrible lonesome." The Light in the Clearing Outside he could catch a glimpse of various animals frisking about the dooryard. John of the Woods Our travelers passed rough boarded houses with grand-looking people in their dooryards and on their small porches—men in broadcloth and tall hats and ladies in silk dresses. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy When they reached the old stone wall on the edge of Farmer Brown's dooryard, Tommy told Happy Jack to hide there while he went to see if the way was clear. Happy Jack At the bottom of a tree-covered precipice reaching a height of 2700 feet, was a strip of firm, level sand, tapering off with a slope down to the water, making a perfect landing and dooryard. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico The dooryard was covered with shadows and very still. The Light in the Clearing Starting back when he saw the strange group gathered in his dooryard. John of the Woods The selections include a study of the field, the dooryard, and the home interior, and range from the happiest to the most sombre subjects. Jean Francois Millet Tommy had been up to Farmer Brown's dooryard several times, and he hadn't seen anything of Farmer Brown's boy. Happy Jack Past the dooryard, coming out of a small canyon above the ranch, ran a little brook; up this canyon was a trail, the outlet to the ranch above. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico I felt sorry for the house and the dooryard and the cows and the grindstone and Aunt Deel. The Light in the Clearing "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed" is a great lyric. Emerson and Other Essays The cour, or dooryard, is the enclosure adjoining the house, and is surrounded on all sides by buildings or walls. Jean Francois Millet Through the Old Orchard, across the dooryard and into the big maple tree Happy Jack led the way, and Sammy followed, all the time wondering what was up. Happy Jack The sky became our companion with all its myriad stars; the sea became our neighbor with all the life it holds, and the landscape became our dooryard, with all its varied beauty and grandeur. Reveries of a Schoolmaster It is long, long ago since I first saw you in your father's dooryard—you said you were going to mill on a butterfly's back. The Light in the Clearing The two boys had fallen inside the dooryard, which was separated from the street by a low fence. Out with Gun and Camera In the dooryard are performed many of the duties both of the barn and the house. Jean Francois Millet So he followed Happy Jack across the dooryard and up the maple tree. Happy Jack Gradually, her dooryard had become a sort of clearing house for neighbourhood gossip. A Spinner in the Sun A barrel of hard cider had been set up in the dooryard, and I remember that some drank it too freely. The Light in the Clearing Their playground was the vast dooryard extending far out over the prairie. How John Became a Man Life Story of a Motherless Boy It is into such a dooryard that we seem to be looking in this picture of The Woman Feeding Hens. Jean Francois Millet By the time Happy Jack reached the dooryard, Shadow was only a few jumps behind him, and Happy Jack was pretty well out of breath. Happy Jack We heard the tramp of horses in the dooryard and the clinic of spurs on the stone step. D'Ri and I I went at once to call upon the Dunkelbergs and learned from a man at work in the dooryard that they had gone away for the summer. The Light in the Clearing The dooryard would be too small to do justice to you. Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition Indeed, there is here a genuine roof garden of the prettiest sort, and it extends along the stone wall separating the dooryard from the garden. Jean Francois Millet The next morning he and Tommy Tit went just as before, and this time Happy Jack scampered across the dooryard the very first time he tried. Happy Jack A woman, gathering chips in her dooryard, dropped them, lifted her dress above her head, and ran for the house. D'Ri and I What a shouting and jeering in the crowded dooryard! The Light in the Clearing When the wind blows, in the spring and fall, a fine assortment of desiccated rubbish is wafted up and down, and into the neighbors' dooryards. What eight million women want A young wife presides in the little cottage home and rules her side of the dooryard with gentle sway. Jean Francois Millet In no time at all he was across the dooryard and up in the big tree, his heart pounding with excitement. Happy Jack Groups of men were in the shady thoroughfare; children thronged the dooryards. D'Ri and I About twenty rods ahead I saw three riders in strange costumes come out of a dooryard and take the road at a wild gallop in pursuit of Latour and Purvis. The Light in the Clearing It was near dinner-time, and Allen, Trove, and the two hired men were trying feats in the dooryard. Darrel of the Blessed Isles His inquiring mind is at this age investigating all the corners of the house, and before long he will be the young master of the dooryard. Jean Francois Millet Along the stone wall beside the Old Orchard raced Happy Jack to the dooryard of Farmer Brown, and after him ran Shadow the Weasel, and Shadow looked as if he was enjoying himself. Happy Jack First a big ball went over the house-tops, hitting a cupola on a church roof and sending bell and timbers with a crash into somebody's dooryard. D'Ri and I Then we split some wood and filled the boxes by the fireplace and the kitchen stove and raked up the leaves in the dooryard and wheeled them away. The Light in the Clearing In a moment he came striding over the dooryard fence on a pair of snowshoes. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Presently he leads his family forth to begin their day's scratching in the dooryard. Jean Francois Millet A group of towering cottonwood trees, standing in the dooryard, is so conspicuous a feature of the landscape that it serves as a guide for the pilots on the river boats. Virginia: the Old Dominion Each day of the seven the thoroughbred with the slender legs and the tiny sensitive ears had stood in the barren dooryard before Elizabeth Landor's home. Where the Trail Divides What a panic it made in the little dooryard! The Light in the Clearing Adam had vanished, although the moon covered the dooryard with silver. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 As we have already seen in the picture of the Woman Feeding Hens, the dooryard in French village homes is so shut in by walls, that it has the privacy of a family living-room. Jean Francois Millet The first we knew Sam was buildin' a new house with a tower on it—by jingo!—an' hardwood finish inside an' half an acre in the dooryard. Keeping up with Lizzie Within the ranch house itself, or upon the dooryard without, there was no sign of a struggle or of aught unusual. Where the Trail Divides The sun was low when they awoke me in our dooryard. The Light in the Clearing On the left ranged the square white-washed houses with their dooryards, the old church, the workshop. The Call of the North The painter was among the fortunate ones who had a garden beyond the dooryard. Jean Francois Millet All about that cookhouse dooryard spread a confusion of empty tin cans, gaudily labeled, containers of corn and peas and tomatoes. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest In the dooryard itself was a dug well with a mound of weed-covered clay by its side and a bucket hanging from a pulley over its mouth. Where the Trail Divides Bill stood in his dooryard and greeted us with a loud "Hello, there!" The Light in the Clearing Felicia and Kirk, though they would have liked well enough to own the old white horse and the Jersey heifers, felt themselves unable to afford live stock, and stayed in the dooryard. The Happy Venture We may be sure that he often looked across the garden to the dooryard where the family life was going on, and at such times he must have caught many a pretty picture. Jean Francois Millet As we approached the west bank of the creek, which winds south past the town, we could see the branches on the trees in grandma's dooryard swaying. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Beyond the entrance stretched the open prairie: an endless sea of green with a tiny brown island, her own dooryard, in the foreground. Where the Trail Divides I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house. The Light in the Clearing Half-way up the sere dooryard, Ken touched his wondering mother's arm and drew her to a standstill. The Happy Venture The dooryard is made to appear much larger by the glimpse of the orchard we get through the gateway. Jean Francois Millet Little Jim Chute had been gloating over the fact that it must pass by his house, and when it stopped short under the elms in the dooryard his heart almost broke for joy. The Village Watch-Tower A big shaggy-haired collie, guardian of the dooryard, paused in his aimless wandering about the place to thrust a friendly muzzle into the stranger's hand; but even then he did not respond. Where the Trail Divides I behaved myself with great care at the table—I remember that—and, after dinner, we played in the dooryard and the stable, I with a great fear of tearing my new clothes. The Light in the Clearing Here was a man, as if back from the dead, standing in his own dooryard, telling him that Jack knew he was alive. The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama The dooryard itself would be a bare place but for the shady garden beyond. Jean Francois Millet The dooryard was of packed yellow clay, treeless, barren of grass, littered with rusty plowshares and wheels of discarded cultivators. Main Street She crossed the dooryard, followed the path through the orchard, and came to the lane. The Song of the Cardinal Mr. Wright hung his sickle on a small tree in the dooryard and answered. The Light in the Clearing Dannie had long since found it convenient to have no fence about his dooryard. At the Foot of the Rainbow They found a woman in the front dooryard moaning and groaning as if in great pain. The Emerald City of Oz Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies. Main Street They were much too small for certain pleasurable activities planned for that afternoon; but they were not to be despised, for they had the most fascinating dooryard in the village. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm The huge stables, the wide corrals, the low living-houses, each shut in its dooryard of blazing riotous flowers, were all familiar. The Mountains She planted both in this way, one in her dooryard and one in her cemetery. At the Foot of the Rainbow My friends stopped several times for brief dooryard visits, and made so many promises of stopping again on the way home that I began to wonder how long the expedition would last. The Country of the Pointed Firs Garden time came, so leaves had to be raked from the beds and from the dooryard. Laddie; a true blue story It was late spring now, lilacs in all the dooryards, all the houses being cleaned inside out, and they were to be married in the fall. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories When we were at grandpa's last summer, we used to stay out so long, playing under the trees in the dooryard, that nearly every night we saw the moon. Classic Myths We went in two wagons and by the light of mounted torch-bearers, and Charlotte and Ferry stood at the dooryard gate and sent after us their mirthful warnings and good-byes. The Cavalier "You may call it that," retorted the elder man with a fleeting smile as Kirkwood slipped inside the dooryard. The Black Bag The west side—that is, the one behind the dooryard—was running over with interesting things. Laddie; a true blue story The well-built houses, perfect fences and tidy dooryards give the place a homelike air such as we had not seen before in Texas. Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert And Sandy knew that he could have a neat dooryard without being obliged to go to the trouble of cutting the grass himself. The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk It set some of us a-hoping--to see them there--a dooryard gate means so much. The Cavalier At the corner below the Keiths' house she stopped, watched until Nan had gained her own dooryard, then turned toward home, a smile sketching her lips, a light in her eyes. The Gray Dawn He was buried the next morning with military honours, in the little graveyard on the bank of the Walnut, where his body still rests in the dooryard of the ranch. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway She had called the cabin with its shaded dooryard a picture, but now she knew she had been wrong. The Call of the Cumberlands So Mrs. Pepper was turning in at the dooryard of the little brown house in a happy frame of mind, when she heard a babel of voices, and Phronsie's little shrill voice above them all. The Adventures of Joel Pepper From there we could see the missing two, lingering at the dooryard gate, in the bright moonlight. The Cavalier A number of our neighbors, however, were shot down in their own dooryards by those of the other side. Trials and Triumphs of Faith Then old Mr. Bayne drove into the dooryard with a pair of knitted bedroom slippers, wrapped carefully in a newspaper. Life at High Tide He couldn't have gone through all those dooryards to save his life! Three Young Knights "Now where'll we go?" asked Joel, leaning breathless against the big maple on the edge of the back dooryard. The Adventures of Joel Pepper We kept to the garden fence till it brought us along the dooryard front, facing the house. The Cavalier I had called his attention to one singing in an adjacent dooryard. A Florida Sketch-Book It was painted white, and there was a paling in front, and a dooryard with grass. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 |
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