| 单词 | rick |
| 例句 | The street was a noisy lane in a maze of alleyways choked with pedestrians, bicycles, and rickshaws. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sir Ector stood on the top of a rick, whence he could see what everybody was doing, and shouted commands all over the two-hundred-acre field, and grew purple in the face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘They bring fire,’ said Théoden, ‘and they are burning as they come, rick, cot, and tree. This was a rich vale and had many homesteads. Alas for my folk!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When the wagon was loaded, it was drawn to Sir Ector’s rick and pitched to him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z College players will continue to test the waters with potentially greater rick to their eligibility, well-established agents such as Paul won’t be affected, and many expect agents to find myriad loopholes. ‘Rich Paul Rule’ seems to target agents, but some say college players will be hurt most 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Down in the tunnels, workers sorted the remains of the dead, filing them by bones into space-efficient ricks and stacks. The Invisible City Beneath Paris 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z He and Phyllis do the ricking — barrel loading and organizing — every week. A spirited partnership with Woodinville Whiskey Co. saved the day (and then some) at a struggling family farm 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “Kabila’s failure to do so would heighten the rick of large-scale violence and instability, with potentially devastating consequences across the region.” Corneille Nangaa, Congo’s election chief, welcomes challenge of December vote 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z It was all so seductive — the bluegrass and the beautiful horses, but especially the big, old rick houses, where the whiskey reels in the years in wood barrels. A Career Change? I’ll Drink to That! 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z For more updates, follow rick_n on Twitter or on WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram. Here’s why you should pay attention to this weekend’s German election 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z It looked like Bassong might have got away with his rick as Rooney got the ball caught under his feet before he could pull the trigger. Norwich City 0-1 Manchester United: Premier League – as it happened 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z BST10:16 15 min: Song makes a bit of a rick inside the centre circle and Newcastle are able to break onto the West Ham back four. Newcastle United v West Ham United: Premier League – as it happened | John Ashdown 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Burnley’s welcome back to the Premier League ends in encouraging defeat, while Monday Night Football ends an hour later with no obvious ricks or gaffes. Gary Neville’s eye for detail rules MNF’s world of the sonic screwdriver 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Kahn conceded just three goals, keeping five clean sheets and becoming the only goalkeeper to be named the tournament’s best player, although a rare rick in the final gifted a goal to winners Brazil. The World Cup’s top 100 footballers of all time 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z There’s rick material to be mined in comedy when cultures, on the surface, do not mix. 'Almost White': Your Unofficial Guide To Hispanic Heritage Month 2013-09-16T21:43:00Z It looked like Bassong might have got away with his rick as Rooney got the ball caught under his feet before he could pull the trigger. Norwich City 0-1 Manchester United: Premier League – as it happened 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Here's a hint ..... they are robbers .... rick baca If his gun came out of its holster those robbers should have been dead. Twelve Dead, Dozens Injured, in Shooting Rampage at Colo. Movie Theater 2012-07-30T06:55:00Z There are four or five other immense cairns close to the town, and there is the extraordinary mountain of Ben Bulben, anciently Ben Gulban, that is shaped like a gigantic rick of turf. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z I expect he much enjoyed his little joke, for after turning over a dozen or so of these ricks under the scorching sun, the soldiers gave up the task as hopeless. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z If need be, Burt and his men would work till nearly midnight, and feel well pleased if thereby the last rick of dry, sweet-smelling hay was covered with a tarpaulin. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z The aeroplane was run into the yard, and placed behind a row of ricks that concealed it from the outside. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z But I’ll leave you now—it’s gone six, And the smoke is curling over the ricks. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z A singular instance of legal nicety occurred in a recent trial of a man charged with threatening to burn the house and ricks of a neighbor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z I'll run round to the yard and try if I can pull some straw out of one of the ricks. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z The sun is already setting behind the wood and the ricks are not yet in order: there is much still to be done. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Bidding the boy wait below, he climbed a ladder set against the side of the rick, raised his field-glasses to his eyes, and adjusted the focus. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z The ghosts then separated the grain from the straw, stored up the grain in one huge store-house, and piled up the straw in many a fantastic rick. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z By this little engine applied to a thrashing-machine, corn is thrashed at once from the rick, instead of being carried into the barn. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z His ricks were built, and he was happy—happy as long as he thought nothing about the expense. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Pressing herself back against the rick with a girlish movement of shoulders, head, and arms, Rousille raised herself and knelt forward the better to reach her pocket. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z There was a shuffle of feet all round, and a general rush of anxious mothers into the rick to fetch out their young. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z A new vocabulary emerges – code names such as rick and rack or rock to indicate the field position and planned play. Guest post: Five things I learned from the football team 2011-12-05T14:50:00Z The portion which forms the roof is covered with grass pegged down and secured to the poles, something after the way in which ricks are thatched in England. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z It seems that in building a rick he had somehow been knocked off by a sheaf flung up at him thoughtlessly before he had adjusted the previous one. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Its stout and much-curved hind claw gives it great facility in clinging to the twigs and branches of trees, sides of ricks, and even the walls of houses. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z He was born in the middle of a corn-rick, and there he might have lived his little life had not the farmer who owned the rick caused it to be pulled down. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Iv�n hitched his mare, and went with the girl to haul away the ricks. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Can you play Fr�d�rick's part in Trente Ans?'—'I'll play it for you right away, if you want,' said I, with a laugh. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z It is probable it had been borne from its domicile on some hay rick, and, observing the swan, had made for it as an ark of safety. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z That fine broad thoroughfare is now bordered by an almost continuous row of modern shops, erected, many of them, where barns and ricks stood less than ten years ago. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Huggy was waiting at the entrance; so, as soon as he caught sight of his mother, he raced off with her to join the fast-assembling crowd at the back of the rick. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z The hay was long since in, standing in high ricks in the farmyards, or built up into stacks in lonely fields with a hurdle round them to keep off the cattle. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The Frenchmen tried to rally, but in vain, and among those huge burning barns and blazing ricks they all fell or were captured. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z Then Nick Stoner struck flint, and dropped his tinder upon the remnants of a hay-stack, where wisps of last year's marsh grass still littered the rick. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Tired out with walking, and weary of waiting for me, they were fast asleep on some loose hay pulled out of the rick. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z To-morrow they will pull down this rick, thresh the corn, and replenish the empty bin. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z He had just entered the rick yard when the shot was fired. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z How gloomy the shadowy hill looks, and the black mass of the mill yonder, and the tall trees over the white ricks!” Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z When he walked out, every one slipped aside and avoided him, hiding behind the ricks, and Jack’s pointer slunk into his house, drooping his tail. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z This I secreted in stack, rick, or disused farm building, until such time as it could be safely fetched. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z In a few moments he slips, as it were, from his balance, but brings, himself up again in a few yards, turning a curve so as to still hover above the rick. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Was not hard cash better than ricks, and an uncertain and falling market? World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z On the other side of the wall, and on somewhat lower ground, was a pigsty, beyond that a cow-yard, then a barn and some ricks. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z I have often tried to discover how the snakes get upon these summer ricks. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Others had to tell of country people, coming in from neighboring villages, who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z He ornaments the wheat ricks with curious twisted tufts of straw, standing up not unlike the fantastic ways in which savages are represented doing their hair. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z In a word, he hinted that Albert himself had fired the ricks. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z So the beautiful moonlight streamed down calmly upon the white ricks, the white loaded waggon, and the white stubble on the slightly rising ground. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Solomon could not understand the “way of a serpent upon the rock,” and the way of a common snake up the summer rick seems almost as inexplicable. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Then, blocks of ice came down from the mountain streams above, and swept along bridges, and hay ricks, and drift wood with them, just as happened once, you may remember, when Susan was alive. Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles 2011-07-18T02:00:20.857Z Them summer ricks be all rotten at bottom. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Eight and thirty ricks, placed in a double row, were on fire. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z With this weapon the Jeremy of that day had successfully defended himself against a crowd of rascals who came out to burn his ricks in '32. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z In summer ricks there are sometimes many mice, and in pursuit of these the snake may find its way up through their “runs.” The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z But when it comes to job creation, the question for candidate Perry may be one of substance, not style. job-raiding, jobs, rick perry, tort reform, Can Michele Bachmann Win the GOP Primary? Rick Perry, the Jobs Governor: TIME Fact Checks the Texas Swagger 2011-06-27T10:10:00Z If the hurricane roughs up the straw on all the ricks, in the parish, unroofs half-a-dozen sheds, and does not spare the gables of the dwelling-houses, why he has work for the next two months. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The third evening afterwards she was suddenly called out by gossiping old Hannah Bond, who rushed in, in a state of intense excitement— “Farmer Herring’s ricks be all ablaze!” World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Aware of the impending danger, Jeremy had built his ricks that year within the defences of his courtyard, the walls of which he had rendered unscalable by various devices. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z A hare when sorely tried with the hot breath from the hounds’ nostrils on his flanks, will sometimes puzzle them by dashing round and round a rick. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z On the other side of the train a chaotic waste of huge grey boulders—up, up, up—until you rick your neck looking to see how high they do extend. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z Some elm trees shade the ricks, and once now and then a wood-pigeon settles in them for a little while. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z They looked at their thatched houses, at their barns and ricks. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z And besides, behind them were the ricks and barns, vomiting a perfect sea of fire, from which large flakes were ever and anon borne by the gale over the hall. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Often when the waggon comes, and the little rick is loaded, the “pitch” of hay on the prong as it is flung up carries with it a snake whirling in the air. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z "When Jim told me about Mr. Rupert, he never thought the rick was on fire." Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z He skirts it for some distance, and then shoots out into the air, comes back half-way, and hangs over the fallow below, where there is a small rick. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Aymer reached Dover with five shillings in his pocket, and walked the whole of the distance, one hundred and fifty miles, to World’s End, often sleeping out at night under a rick. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z A range of farming offices, with some ricks, stretched to the west, and therefore to windward, of the hall. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Toads are also occasionally found on these ricks, and it is not exactly clear how they get there either; but their object is plain—i.e. the insects which swarm on the hay. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z He will think of the value of the ricks, the money lost to him. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z This is so well known that when the flies are more than usually busy the farmer makes haste to get in his hay, and lets down the canvas over his rick. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Eight months after this, I was painting my house and, over-reaching myself, ricked my back, and the year before I fell on the frost and severely hurt my head.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z The one was Hugh walking out of his own gate, the other Quin’s rick, still rearing its glistening yellow ridge into the sunshine. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z From time to time a flock of chaffinches rose suddenly from the ricks and flew, a chattering flutter of wings, down the wind. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z It appeared that Rupert had written an account to Mr. Daw of these unhappy circumstances; his setting the rick on fire in his passion, and his arrest. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Cats contrive to climb some way up the perpendicular sides of wheat ricks after the mice. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z He paid it with a rick of discolored oats that had been cut in the wet and threshed before it was dry. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Old Nan Byrne’s just after bringing in two or three fresh ones she got back of the Quins’ rick, where our hins do be laying.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z She is turning away back to her ricks and her reapers when he recalls her. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The wood blazed away, sending up its flame in the yard, but they advanced into the open space, away from the ricks and danger. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z His rick, when complete, did not rise perpendicularly, but each face or square side sloped a little outwards—including the ends—a method that certainly does give the rick a very shapely look. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z I know what importance that is on large estates; the well-filled barns, the ricks in all the fields; because it is a bountiful year. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z Already it had come to his knowledge that rumours were afloat in the village about how Mrs. Lennon was threatening to burn down the Quin’s rick. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The favorite style of trimming Leghorns is with fancy straw, tastefully intermingled with velvet or ribbon, of some dark rick color. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z "You told me it was Rupert Trevlyn who had fired the rick." Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Yonder is a row of wheat ricks, the fresh straw with which they have just been covered contrasting with the brown thatch of the farmhouse in the hollow. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Even the lawyer, who we thought would have remained faithful to the end, pleaded that since he ricked his knee he is obliged to have plenty of rest. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z “Anyway, I was took up with watching the baste of an old rick flaring itself into flitters; and a rale good job.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Another gust of wind, and the flame leapt joyously up to the pinnacle of the rick, and sent forth other tongues to lick and to lick, to enfold the straw, to devour, to consume. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z And Chattaway had a word or two with him, and then horsewhipped him; and Mr. Rupert caught up the torch, which he had let fall, and pushed it into the rick. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z My attention was called one spring to a robin’s nest made in a stubble rick; there chanced to be a slight hollow in the side of the tick, and this had been enlarged. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z South of England farmer writes to us to say, that he has an early harvest in view, as he has already got three ricks in his neck, and is doing very well. Mr. Punch's Country Life 2010-12-20T17:12:17.723Z “And I do declare there’s the big rick in it yet.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Give the courier a glass of ale, Fr�d�rick," he said, "and tell him he can go; there is no answer. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z I pulled the burning hay out o' the rick, and thought I pulled it all out, but suppose a spark must ha' stopped in. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z There was perhaps here and there a crooked line in his fields and a rick awry behind the barns. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z A dreadful goalkeeping rick cost Algeria the points in their opener against Slovenia, a match in which they played dismally. England v Algeria - live! 2010-06-18T17:15:00Z “I seen the blaze of a great fire down here last night,” she said, “and I thought it would be Quin’s rick, and they knowing I had some talk about it.” Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z He appeared very tired and in rare ill-humour: but Fr�d�rick had delivered the message from M. le duc, whereupon M. Martin-Roget had become most affable and promised that he would come round immediately. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z With a yell of rage he picked up the torch, then blazing on the ground, dashed into the rick-yard as one possessed, and thrust the torch into the nearest rick. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Half-time 45+2 min: England have lost all their momentum in the wake of Green's rick. England v USA ? live! 2010-06-12T17:27:00Z But the hay season did not last for ever; and one morning, when fast asleep in the middle of the rick, he was roused by a sudden exclamation of mingled horror and astonishment. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 It’s little I care who lit the old rick, and its little I care what any people’s troubling theirselves to think about it. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z A large barn and a group of small circular straw ricks loomed like solid masses out of the darkness—black, silhouetted against the black of the stormy sky. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Mr. Chattaway turned impatiently away; he had no time to waste on sentiment when his ricks were burning. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z She was tottering on the edge of a rick, half-way up, and all the other help he had was a small boy grandson, whom he was making sorry that he had ever been born. Deep Moat Grange Looking all round and seeing no one to whom it might belong, he climbed the rick and attempted to remove the treasure. Bill the Minder It’s only making a show of yourself you’d be, running out that way raging about nothing What foolish talk have you about the man moving his rick, that he’s just after building? Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Fr�d�rick came in half an hour later to ask if M. le duc would have his luncheon. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z You didn't see him fire the rick; you only heard Jim Sanders say that he fired it; and you are not called upon to repeat that hearsay evidence. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Here, if you can't rake hay, get up on the rick with James. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Again, houses fall into bad repair; ricks of corn may be burnt down; ships may founder. Political economy The thought of going home, she said to herself, she couldn’t abide, by reason of their old rick. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Half an hour had gone by since Fr�d�rick went to seek Martin-Roget, and the latter had not yet appeared. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Hatch was found with the men-servants and labourers, who were tumbling over each other in their endeavours to carry water to the rick under the frantic directions of their master. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z While Mr. Royden and James were transferring the load from the rick to the growing stack in the midst of the meadow, the old man lay upon the grass in the shade to rest. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Will you look where the moon and its following star Rise silvery over yon meadow ricks? One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue A soaking rain fell, and all the sahibs hailed 'rickshaws,—they call them 'ricks here,—and the wind was chillier than the rain. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel I’d defy sorrowful Job himself to lament or scratch while he’s routing rats from a rick. Rewards and Fairies Sam Atkins, thinking possibly the Hold might be on fire, as the ricks had been not so long ago, flew to open it, though it was not his place to do so. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z He and Mark took hold, and threw on enough hay to bind what was left on the rick; and James drove on, just as a sharp shower was commencing. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation Then Autumn came,—a liar, A fair-faced heretic;— In gypsy garb of fire, Throned on a harvest rick.— One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue Heaven help the poor wayfarer if any one has been robbed, any house broken into, any rick set fire to, while he passed through that locality. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance On a spare hour, when the day is clear, behind a rick, or on the green howm, draw the treasure frae your pooch and enjoy the pleasant companion. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series Setting fire to the rick was your fault, not his; the crime was occasioned by you; and I, the actual owner of those ricks, shall hold you responsible for it. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The great bulk of hay, thrown on in such haste, and trampled down without much regard to shape or order by the boys, was reeling over the side of the rick. Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation The man who plaits straw crowns upon a rick Is happier in his crown than I the King. King Cole Fire breaks out in a rick near a farmer’s house and at the same time in a barn half a mile away. Waterloo Mr. Godfrey never forgave his sister; and at his death, the mysterious' circumstances of which were never cleared up, his estate passed to a distant relative, the rick Sir Gilbert Stafford. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Jim pulled the torch out of the rick, and all the hay that had caught, as he thought; he told me all this when he was showing me the puppy. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z There were the huge ricks and ample outbuildings. Leonore Stubbs By that time, the guards at the hay ricks, a quarter of a mile off, had seen the commotion, and were on hand. Francezka The farmer sends ten men with water-buckets and an engine to put out the fire at the barn, while he himself, with another ten men, but without an engine, attends to the rick. Waterloo A shrill, short scream rushes forth and echoes back from an adjacent rick—puff! the fly-wheel revolves, and the drum underneath tightens its hold upon the wire rope. The Hills and the Vale Miss Diana had arrived unwillingly at the conclusion that Jim Sanders had set the rick on fire by accident; and in his fright had accused Rupert, to screen himself. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z As the ricks grew in height, strong wire screens were hooked to the dividing posts which marked the boundaries of the ricks. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century When the English peasant is gay, at ease, well-fed and clothed, what cares he how many pheasants are in a wood, or ricks in a farmer’s yard? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Hardly has the farmer given all these instructions when he finds that the fire in the rick has spread to his house. Waterloo Each puff and pant echoing from the ricks, each shrill whistle rolling along from hill to hill, proclaims as loudly as iron and steel can shout, 'Progress! The Hills and the Vale He broke from her; she staggered against the rick, and but for Maude might have fallen. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z These screens kept the bundles in place, and the ricks securely upright. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century How the man who so recently held up his head and laughed aloud, now sneaks, a villainous fiend, with the dark lantern and the match, to his neighbor’s rick! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 He lets the barn go hang, and sends a messenger to the foreman with an urgent note to send back the engine at once to the house and rick. Waterloo Now it is June, and the mower goes to work; then the haymakers, and in a fortnight if the weather be good, a month if it be bad, the hay is ricked. The Hills and the Vale They moved to a safe spot at some distance from the ricks. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z When the barns were filled in this way, the ricks were separated by four feet of open space, with a ventilator in the roof for each pair of ricks and spaces. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Some considerable time after the singing had ceased, there was a slow, heavy step heard approaching the rick; an exclamation in Gaelic followed; and then a rough hard hand grasped Walter by the naked heel. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Three cows and a small horse picking at a broken rick of straw that seemed to be half afloat, were also grouped with the family. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World The beautiful rick of hay too, which had not yet ceased to give out the fresh scent that a new rick yields, were being cut and bound into trusses. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit To stand there a prisoner, the consciousness of guilt upon him—for he knew he had set fire to the rick—was as the keenest agony. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The loosely packed hay in the tall, thin ricks, was soon dry enough to bale, and then be transferred to the storing barns; leaving room for the corn crop which was to follow. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Here, sheltered by the rick and half buried in dry hay and straw, Finn courted the sleep he needed, so that it came to him swiftly. Finn The Wolfhound Once she went out of doors very late, leaving the front door wide open, and Amaryllis found her at midnight wandering in an aimless way among the ricks. Amaryllis at the Fair He had a sow of rare brave breed, And nine good pigs had he; A cow and calf, a rick of hay, And horses he had three. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Jim Sanders told me he watched Mr. Rupert thrust the lighted torch into the rick. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z In curing corn, more time and wider ricks are necessary. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century It was a large farmhouse, with a square court before it, and behind it a quantity of buildings and many ricks. The Fairchild Family The corrals and long hay ricks of Granados were now in sight, backed by the avenue of palms and streaks of green where the irrigation ditches led water to the outlying fields and orchards. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine “Why,” said Mr. Bumpkin, looking at the stackyard, “another rick be gone!” The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit The fire had not spread beyond a rick or two. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z We were alone, save for the stubble and the ricks and the wooden crosses and the little flags. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 As Lawrence and Rodney approached a plantation near the road, they saw flames leap up from the hay ricks, and the next instant two mounted men rode out on the main highway. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Well, Hanks said he saw you there, and that you set some one's rick afire. Soldiers of the Queen One night, while camping near an Indian settlement on the Platte, I crawled well into the middle of a small rick of hay. A Gold Hunter's Experience "After he got the horsewhipping, he caught up the torch and pushed it into one o' the ricks; and that's as true as I be living." Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z And then I walked to the battlefield a few hundred yards away, and only too distinguishable as such by the little cheap tricolors on the hastily-dug graves among the stubble and the ricks. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 Besides he has a big rick o’ hay right nigh that pig pen an’ it looked like a good place to sleep. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield You told Hanks that Val and I had set that rick on fire, and so got us into a row through the man's speaking to us at Melchester. Soldiers of the Queen Cooking utensils were lying about, and a number of fishing lines coiled neatly in baskets, and split fish spread out to dry on the top of little corn ricks on one side of the court. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Yes, James Chattaway, those ricks were mine; you need not dispute what I say; the ricks were mine then, as they are now. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Crown Ovender is a little farmhouse, and a barn opposite, and a great rick-yard, and two of the ricks were alight. Oswald Bastable and Others His companions threw themselves down on the hay at the foot of the rick and soon, by their regular breathing, he knew they slept. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield "The rick!" he cried—"the one we were sitting under—it's all in a blaze!" Soldiers of the Queen All that day we rumbled and rattled into a strange country, feeding our little engine with logs of wood, which we stopped occasionally to secure from long ricks which lined the banks of the river. A Son of the Middle Border The unkindness and oppression dealt out to Rupert throughout his unhappy life, the burning of the rick, the strange disappearance of Rupert. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The flames were now reaching out the other way, and two more ricks were on fire. Oswald Bastable and Others Ah, ye little brat! and what made ye tell the gentleman when he met ye, ye rogue, that ye were going to the rick? Practical Education, Volume I Raymond was ready enough now for hard work, and pulled away with all his might, evidently wishing to escape as fast as possible from the neighbourhood of the burning rick. Soldiers of the Queen Our farm-yard would have been uninhabitable during this winter had it not been for the long ricks of straw which we had piled up as a shield against the prairie winds. A Son of the Middle Border You may tell your people at the station that I put up with the loss of the ricks. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z And all the time the ricks were blazing. Oswald Bastable and Others No straw lay scattered about the ricks; no barrack roofs were tumbling down; no gate-posts stood sideways; no barnyards shewed rickety outhouses or desolate mangers. Say and Seal, Volume I "We mustn't stay very long," Helen remarked as they seated themselves with their backs against the rick. Soldiers of the Queen What prodigious ricks of hay we observe at the French cavalry barracks, as we ride along! Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. I know what shame the neighbours have cast on you for years on the score of Rupert; the double shame cast on you since these ricks were burnt. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The foremost of them set his torch to the rick within a yard of me, the smoke concealing me from him. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Sure, I saw a rough, scraggly man with a beard on him like a rick of hay, come along this very afternoon, and I up the road talking with Mrs Maguire! The Irish Twins The whole house was reduced to ashes; nearly all the outbuildings had been burned down; the barns and ricks with all the year's harvest had been devoured by the flames. An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story She consented silently, and I crushed a path for her through the ripe grain until we reached the rick. The Love Story of Abner Stone In point of fact, if any one prosecuted it must be myself, since the ricks were mine. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Here Moncrieff bought quite a quantity of ordinary ponchos, belts, and linen trousers of great width with hats enough of the sombrero type to thatch a rick. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure I was just after churning my butter when what should I see looking in the door but that thief of a Tinker with the beard like a rick of hay! The Irish Twins Then the white ricks in the foreground loom larger, and the huddled roofs and gables age into another century; the blue smoke of wood fires drifts in the wind across the hill. Highways and Byways in Surrey He had climbed on a hay rick and fallen off it, and had not broken his neck, which, as cook told him, he richly deserved to do. The Magic World You went off to see what there was to be seen, and for nothing else, leaving the rick half made. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here, But once I knew each field, each flower, each stick; And with the country-folk acquaintance made By barn in threshing-time, by new-built rick. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold A lofty ambition, truly, to stand behind a screen and pull the strings of a puppet, who in turn lords it over a handful of rick burners and cattle reivers. The Doomsman A hay rick, half ashes, stood near the centre of the gorge. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin It was most unlike a trim English rick, besides being bigger, and Agatha wondered what it could be. Hawtrey's Deputy In the margin outside these hours—starting at five or earlier and keeping on until dark—he was helping the two small-holders, one after the other, to make their hay and get the ricks built. Change in the Village There is a poster in Swindon now offering £20 reward for the discovery of the person who maliciously set fire to a rick of hay in Lord Bolingbroke's park at Lydiard. The Toilers of the Field Now and then some well-to-do proprietor may suffer loss from cattle thieving and rick burning, but as often as not the marauders pay full price for all they get. The Doomsman The back yards were fenced from the fields, on which hay had been cut and stood in high ricks, now casting long, mauve shadows over the close, brilliant green. Mountain Blood A Novel Almost at the outset they ran the offwheel over a rick of logs, nearly throwing me headlong from the load. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Then the ricks required thatching, and Turner thatched them. Change in the Village Icicles hang from the eaves of the rick, and its thatch is covered with snow. The Toilers of the Field 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 Then we went into "The Haunted House" where a board gave way beneath my feet and ricked my ankle, the "Giant Dipper" was comparatively tame as I only bruised my side and cut my cheek. Terribly Intimate Portraits "I've just been seeing somebody at Salisbury," began the Vicar, abruptly, as soon as they had crossed from the yard behind the house into the enclosure around the ricks. The Vicar of Bullhampton He let the team go their own gait, and took it easy in the rick on a couple of horse blankets. The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview On a spare hour, when the day is clear, behind a rick, or on the green howm, draw the treasure frae your pouch and enjoy the pleasant companion. The Proverbs of Scotland A splendid rick of hay in a field close to the road had been cut. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls It was most unlike a trim English rick, and Agatha wondered what it could be. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Unfortunately discontent led also to sporadic riotings, to breaking of machinery and burning of ricks. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In addition, several large ricks of cordwood standing at the edge of the clearing gave sign that the men had not been idle during the spring. On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland The plan of the farm-buildings is a large square, like some noble cloister, and in the park outside are barns and ricks of hay and other produce. Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 The haymakers built up the hay in ricks. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Near an isolated farm house he found a hay rick, went up to it, and lay down. The Goose Man Then he took another stick and hunted the hens round and round the ricks to make them lay their eggs faster, as it is well known that is the best way. Wood Magic A Fable Ole was a timid young Norwegian giant, with a rick of white hair and a reënforced concrete physique. At Good Old Siwash She saw the wet ricks in the corn-yard, and the little pools left in the footmarks of the beasts about the door. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Great ricks of this precious produce, in every way resembling oats, were stacked on each plantation, and from ten to twenty thousand bushels in a single stackyard. History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service Distressful she had been, a land Of kine curtailed and burning ricks, Until we others oped our purses To rectify her feudal curses And freed the soil with generous hand— Prior to nineteen-six. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 Bevis looked all round again, and did not recognise any of the trees, nor the hedges, nor could he see the house nor the ricks, nor anything that he knew. Wood Magic A Fable He lit a fresh cigarette—his eighth—before putting up for sale a rick of hay. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 The hand that would burn a valuable manuscript would fire a rick of hay.” St. Winifred's, or The World of School Gallinomero sometimes have two or three cords of wood neatly stacked in ricks about the wigwam. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Sixty miles away, thirteen Guernsey cows munched at a rick of fresh hay and chewed contentedly in the moonlight. Make Mine Homogenized Both the men were tired enough to be glad of the respite and they sank down in the shadow of a rick with little talk. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Public interest, roused to boiling point by the sale of a whole rick of hay, cooled down a little when Mr. Robinson went on to the next lot on his list. Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 As they drew close to it he caught her arm and pulled her aside, pointing to her shadow, which the level sun had all but thrown beyond the rick. Shining Ferry “It’s like hunting for a needle in a rick of hay, I’m thinking,” said one of the men. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Thus hay, straw, or oats obtained in wet seasons and heating in the rick or stack is especially injurious. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse He let them down at last at an end of grass where a few of last year's straw ricks afforded lodging for the night. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories And when these two were in the stackyard at Scaurdale and well hidden behind the ricks on the next night, she yoked on him. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Nuncey eluded her embrace, having caught the sound of ribald laughter on the other side of the rick. Shining Ferry The day before yesterday evening I saw them in a punt on the moat, starting for the morass, and I saw them when they returned again—the rick was then already burning. Debts of Honor Favoring his ricked ankle as best he could, Jack climbed the wall ladder to the ledge upon which he had found himself lying the previous night. The Highgrader Many a sheaf did the Moujik gather, many a heap of sheaves did he set up; and now he was beginning to carry the crop, and to gather it together into ricks. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Oh, don't be minding Hamish, my lass; he canna pass a rick o' barley but his eyes and mouth water. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Keeping close alongside the lower hedge, he led the way towards the great rick at the far corner of the field. Shining Ferry That evening, guided by moonlight, they poled their way to the centre of the marsh: Lorand himself directed the shots, and was lucky enough to lodge his first shell in the side of the rick. Debts of Honor Each step of the journey down sent a throb of pain from the ricked ankle, even though he rested his weight on his hands while he lowered himself. The Highgrader And the poor little coward had skiddered away, and slept in a furze rick, till famine drove him home. Slain By The Doones Our first work was to fell the great ash-trees and cut them up so that the wood could be burned in ricks. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Hester, ashamed of her life to have been trapped into eavesdropping, and yet doubting her ears, strode past the edge of the rick and into full view. Shining Ferry The two besiegers had reached home long before the blazing rick had time to light up the district far. Debts of Honor They're as thick on the ground as rats in an old rick, sir. In Direst Peril The winter came and went, and the ricks were untouched, and Captain Ripon forgot all about the gypsy's threats. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes Sometimes we burned eight or ten cords in a single rick, which made from seven to ten barrels of ashes. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Above the round glass or iron coverings of coal-cellars the foot-passengers slipped, "ricked" their backs, and swore as they stumbled, if they did not actually fall down, in the filth. The Mark Of Cain As they watched, all at once the flame scattered, exploding millions of sparks up to heaven, and the fragments of the burning rick were strewed on the water's surface by the wind. Debts of Honor I’ve often to run over every letter in the alphabet to get hold of a rhyme—click, thick, pick, rick, chick, brick—that sort of thing, you know. In the Track of the Troops Two men who had gone to sleep on a rick of hay found themselves next morning drifting with the current some three miles below the spot where they had lain down. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Her eyes fall upon a distant bank of cloud overhanging a pretty farmstead, and throwing into bold relief the ricks of hay that stand at the western side of it. April's Lady A Novel Through the archway, a bright view of farm lands, ricks, etc., etc. The Squire An Original Comedy in Three Acts The mother-wolf hissed with agonized fury on the roof of the rick. Debts of Honor “Something like looking for a needle in a rick of hay,” he answered; “or, rather, far more hopeless, for it is very unlikely that the case should have escaped being burnt or carried off.” Hurricane Hurry Without stopping, therefore, in the neighbourhood of the burning rick, I hurried away towards the spot at which I had heard Ned Burden and his companions propose to run the cargo. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures On their right was the astonishing farm, with barns and ricks and cornfields complete, seemingly quite unaware of its forlorn oddness in that foul arena of manufacture. Clayhanger They mean to come on Greenhow, ask for money and arms, break up the machine, and burn the ricks if they don’t get what they want. The Carbonels Here was the reason why the steed had not approached the rick in a straight line. Debts of Honor He had ricked his knee, and hobbled about like an old man. The Heart of Una Sackville I guess I ricked it, hanging on to those reins. Flaming June “Hullo!” said he as he took and deftly proceeded to unroll the bundle of bandages, “what’s that you’ve got on your shoulders—a rick?” The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea They never enter into houses; are carried into ricks and barns with the sheaves, abound in harvest; and build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the ground, and sometimes in thistles. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 After a while the man enters the hollow interior of the rick, and draws from the hay a large, sooty copper vessel, partly moldy with the mold of money. Debts of Honor West Dean, which is three miles to the west, by a bleak and lonely road amid hills and valleys, is just a farm yard, with remains of very ancient architecture among the barns and ricks. Highways and Byways in Sussex In 1857 Major Powlett records that in Alwar they assembled and burnt the State ricks and carried off cattle, though they did not succeed in plundering any towns or villages there. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala If one walked about a rick nine times with a rake, saying, "I rake this rick in the devil's name," a vision would come and take away the rake. The Book of Hallowe'en The blue, marsh, and great titmice will, in very severe weather, carry away barley and oat-straws from the sides of ricks. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Someone must be living in that rick; often of an evening have I seen smoke coming from it. Debts of Honor They went into the cow-house and the pens and into the granary, and they made very free with the corn ricks. Marie Claire Barn barley was best for malting—i.e. that which had been stored in a barn and therefore kept perfectly dry, for ricks sometimes get wet before they can be thatched. Round About a Great Estate He told me he thought he had ricked his arm at first, as it felt numb and useless. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Yes," said Adine, "you are to have all the stacks and ricks in the south field. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story He buries his treasure once more in the depths of the rick; he himself knows not how much there might be. Debts of Honor Great Heaven! she sees the rick on fire, and a furious mob howling outside. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre In the country rooks never perch on houses, and but seldom on sheds, unless fresh thatched, when they come to examine the straw, as also on the ricks. Round About a Great Estate And he dug, and dug, and dug, and made such a deep hole that a rick of straw might have stood up in it; but the money was no longer there. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 But there was no chance of earning more that day, and they had to sleep in the loose hay at the foot of a hay rick, belonging to a distant farm. Dick Lionheart "Which our dangerous neighbors have covered with wolf traps, so that one cannot approach the rick within rifle-shot." Debts of Honor She could hear the flames crackling at the hay ricks on beyond. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West It was one vast expanse of cereals, without a sign of human life; for the reaper had not yet commenced, and the bailiffs' cottages were hidden among the ricks. Round About a Great Estate At any moment his animals may be driven into the sea or his ricks fired. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Here there is little tillage, the country is poor; and who would care to break up the land and to raise crops, when any night your ricks might be in flames, and your granaries plundered? Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower Terrified, with broken teeth and feet, it hobbled off from the scene of the encounter, and soon appeared on the roof of the rick. Debts of Honor She could not know that he was firing into the dumb, gaunt cattle which hung about the ricks. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West First she went into the barn, and then through the barn into the stack-yard, and then round the ricks one after another, and then into the corn-loft; but all without avail. Alec Forbes of Howglen But, father," said Ann, "there is the 80 pounds you got for the two ricks? Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead The trodden earth round where the ricks stood seems favourable to their early appearance; the first poppy blooms here, though its colour is paler than those which come afterwards in the fields. Nature Near London The steed galloped round the rick: she wished to deceive her enemy, who merely sat on the roof licking its broken leg, its bruised side, and bloody jaws. Debts of Honor So they had to go and hunt through the surrounding fields for old refuse straw, in rotting ricks and compost heaps. Hebrew Life and Times And through the opposite door shone the last year's ricks of corn, golden in the sun. Alec Forbes of Howglen We were now about 100 yards off, so I left Wattrelot and my spare horse hidden behind a shattered hovel and went alone towards the rick. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry There are the ricks just the same, here is the barn, and the horses are in good case; the wheat is coming on well. Nature Near London At last, proudly whinnying, she galloped in frisky triumph around the rick, and then quickly swam back to the place where she had left her master. Debts of Honor But one fellow standing on the rick says: "Napoleon dead! psha! it's plain those people don't know him!" Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air I had motored thither through undulating country dotted with round beehive ricks and past meadows on which a flock of gulls, looking in the distance like a bed of white crocuses, were settled in platoons. Leaves from a Field Note-Book I galloped off again towards the big rick by which stood General T.'s Staff. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry Some distance up the road, and in the corner of an arable field, there was a wheat rick which was threshed and most of the straw carted away. Nature Near London Hide-and-seek about the stack-yard ricks at the Mains is over in the gloamings. The Black Douglas For Bru, it appeared, knew spells which would blight the corn, give the sheep foot rot, the cattle the rinder pest, make cows die in calving, and set fire to the ricks and stacks. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 There weren't a man in the parish as could beat I at mowing or putting a hackle on a rick, though I do say it. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The thatched roofs, the ricks of corn, the haystacks, and the barns fell in, and crackled like rockets, while the sky looked as if they were illuminated by an aurora borealis. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 They attacked the rick and soon nothing was left. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia For other multitudes the earth has become only a huge stable; its fruit fodder; its granaries ricks, out of which men-cattle feed. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Through the dingy glass she could see the cow-lot, the sagging roof of the wagon-shed, the barn, the ricks of hay, and the bare branches of the apple-trees still holding a few late apples. Westerfelt I saw 'em afar off, by the ricks yonder. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 And yet, it is said, before the week was out, he was pulling straws from a rick, and betting upon which should prove the longest. Strange Pages from Family Papers As they staggered back, each hidden beneath an enormous load of hay—looking themselves like walking ricks—a Turk in black and white clothes ran down from above furiously brandishing a three-pronged fork. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia I daresay there's a rick or a hedge we can lay down under. Dick and Brownie Blue wreaths of smoke ascend through the trees, and betray the half-hidden cottage: the eye contemplates well-thatched ricks, and barns bursting with plenty: the peasant laughs at the approach of winter. Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C. Emilia came round the rick, talking to herself, holding a wooden bowl from which she had been feeding the chickens. Hetty Wesley And he dug, and dug, and dug, and made such a deep hole that a rick of straw might have stood upright in it, but the money was no longer there. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet They built right skillfully, too; they ricked it and they anchored the cribs; they piled in the rocks and braced the supports. "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues A blending of breeding with puff and with plume; A strange sort of mixture of rick and mushroom. Fifth Avenue Everyone stood a while longer, staring; the glow had gone from the smouldering ricks, and the excitement of the event began to die in the minds of the onlookers. Secret Bread He had a rooted belief that machinery was injuring him, the threshing machine especially; and he avenged himself by burning the ricks of obnoxious farmers. A Short History of English Agriculture Here an immense hay rick was being driven slowly along while two men pitched off the hay to right and left. The Killer Formerly turf could be picked up free, and even now it is very cheap, the chief expense to the consumer being the cost of transport from the bog to the turf rick behind the cabin. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent They hinted to the decent poor farmers round about that there'd be ricks fired and cows ripped if they allowed me to hunt their lands, so I got stopped everywhere. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Seven ricks had blazed that night, and still smouldered sullenly. Secret Bread See! there he runs; and as I'm a sinner, it's that black rascal who was loitering round, the day my ricks were fired, and you lads let him slip. Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men They drove the wagons and hay ricks into the spacious enclosure, and set leisurely about the task of caring for their animals. The Killer The horses were now going at such a pace that it would be rash to attempt to jump from the rick. Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Got a ladder from the rick yard, lad. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Now the ricks burnt less and less fiercely; Ishmael gave a hand with the other helpers, but there was really nothing to be done. Secret Bread It happened at the end of the hay-harvest, and the two were leaning over a gate discussing the yet unthatched rick. The Ship of Stars Half-ashamed she went back to stolen meetings—in a barn—behind a rick—in the elvish shadow of some skew-blown thorn. Joanna Godden By a single impulse Dorothy and Tavia grasped one of the rungs of the rick, and they threw their full weight on it until it snapped—then broke! Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Smith crawled to the edge of the rick and dropped to the ground. Round the World in Seven Days Was it when a score of burning ricks might be seen in a night by one observer? Side Lights I hope some in the rick may be better, since it was earlier sown, as well as I can recollect. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) "Go home to your pigs and your ricks, My hands of the matter I've rinsed." Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs But never aught of the Elders' Hay To rick or barn was borne away. Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough That which fell upon the ricks of the other labourers soon dried up, but what Thorgunna had wrought upon remained wet with gore. Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian When I was last on this journey the time was spring, and the sliding, pointed roofs of the ricks were at their lowest, with their four poles high and naked above them, like scaffolding. A Wanderer in Holland Except for two pale ricks in their midst, they exactly matched their surroundings, they were plastered dark red, and thatched with very old green and brown thatch. Living Alone "Uncle George rebuilt Greenfields from the ground," remarked Doll, as they crossed the high road and took to the harvesting fields, where "the ricks stood gray to the sun." Red Pottage Beneath the branches of a spreading tree, Or by the shad'wy side of the tall rick, They spread their homely fare, and seated round, Taste all the pleasure that a feast can give. Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters He instantly commanded the hay-workers to pile up in ricks the quantity which each had been engaged in turning to the wind. Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian "Fine enough, sir; the wheat rick will be up before the Goodwood races, the first time for the last thirty years." Sister Teresa The stone house, the barns, the straw ricks, and the fruit trees all seeming to have clustered close together, to form a compact little kingdom of hope and joy. The Devil's Garden Rock: The first thing I will meddle with is my own rick of turf. Three Wonder Plays From the cow-houses she conducted him through the mowhay, where the number and amplitude of the ricks fairly took his breath away. Hocken and Hunken Two days later a rick began to rise majestically at the corner of Blanchard’s largest field, while round about it was gathered the human life of the farm. Children of the Mist When we had a mind to reap it, the wheat was found in the haggard, all in one thatched rick. Gods and Fighting Men How pretty—see the sunlight on the roofs and on the ricks. The Devil's Garden Judith was sitting on the edge of the rick. Judith of the Godless Valley Their cattle were killed and their ricks set on fire; and so in a short time he had the whole neighborhood under his thumb. One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo Presently the greater of Will’s two ricks approached completion, and all the business of thatch and spar gads and rush ropes began. Children of the Mist Had some of the peep-o'-day boys been burning down farmer Magrath's ricks again? or was there a private still to be routed out and demolished? Willis the Pilot "If," she said to herself, "we get there before it has dipped and I catch the sunshine on the ricks, I shall know we are going to be happy." The Devil's Garden There was silence for a moment on the hay rick while the two young questioners gazed at the incomparable grandeur about them. Judith of the Godless Valley Some of Farmer Appleby's hay ricks are on fire, or maybe a barn. Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Nouns ending in wick, rick, and dom, denote dominion, jurisdiction, or condition; as, "Bailiwick, bishopric, kingdom, dukedom, freedom," &c. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Long he had slept under hedges and in ricks, carried his Lares in a bandana kerchief, been forcibly bathed at free lodging-houses in icy winters. V. V.'s Eyes Since its enrollment he and his men had often been useful at minor conflagrations, of ricks, cottage thatch, and kitchen flues; but they had never been given a chance of really distinguishing themselves. The Devil's Garden Within the enclosures the corn crops were green and flourishing; horses and cattle, ricks and various buildings, were scattered about it. After London Or, Wild England Because," answered Tom slowly, "he is the man who poisoned your horses, Mr. Appleby, and, unless I'm much mistaken, he also set fire to your hay ricks. Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck Now my hypothesis is that at that time Miss Grant was standing with her head out of the off-side window, watching the burning rick. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman For a time when the harvest was done, when the ricks were thatched ready for threshing, there had been a moment of ease. Harvest The busy yet peaceful life of home and fields was going on; the hay had been carried; the rick was made, and the rick-sheet covered a handsome pile. The Devil's Garden Nothing remained in these ricks but straw, pierced with tunnels and runs, the home and breeding-place of mice, which thence poured forth into the fields. After London Or, Wild England Among the ricks and outhouses we catch sight of the grey stone gables of the manor house, with the perpendicular church tower so familiar in the district, close beside it. Evesham So you may pass from village to village; now crossing green meads, now cornfields, over brooks, past woods, through farmyard and rick 'barken.' The Amateur Poacher Far away, outlined like a sail against an island rick, the night tent of these nomads was already pitched. The Rim of the Desert It seemed to her that the rick was as high as Mont Blanc, and that even on a placid summer day no one but a lunatic would want to scale it. The Devil's Garden August 18.—We drove in the afternoon to the coast, and sat in the shade of the little ricks of sea-weed, gazing on an open sea as blue as the Mediterranean. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Tall, long-skirted elms standing up in a row before the sallow ricks and long grey barns. The Romantic There, no doubt, the horse and cart were kept out of sight behind the ricks, while the men, who were believed to have worn smock-frocks, entered the wood. The Amateur Poacher He was certainly successful, and effectually cleared the ricks and buildings at one of my outlying places previously badly infested; no dead rats were ever found, but all disappeared very soon after I engaged him. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor This gulf may easily be known by a great island resembling a cape, stretching somewhat farther out than the other islands, and about two leagues inland there is a hill which resembles a corn rick. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time There are no ricks, everything is stored in large barns, where it is safe from weather, but terribly exposed to vermin. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Associated words: accipitral, raptorial. haystack, n. rick. hazard, n. chance, contingency, casualty; risk, random, jeopardy, danger, peril, venture. Putnam's Word Book The band came in a cart of some kind; the marks of the wheels were found on the snow where it had been driven off the highway and across a field to some ricks. The Amateur Poacher As the shoots grow stronger more can be taken—with ultimate benefit to the development of the full-grown poles—for use as rick pegs and "buckles" in thatching. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor She climbed the wire fence into the Rector's glebe just behind, and from his tenant's rick pulled two large armfuls of good hay, which she spread neatly on the fire-bars. A Diversity of Creatures Then at last we came to a hut some two miles off in the marshes from Combwich, and in that we left our horses, giving them hay from the little rick that stood thereby. A Thane of Wessex In order to draw off the revenue cutter men from the spot, they proposed also to set afire two small hay ricks which stood near. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty Before the summer ricks are all carted the nuts are full of sweet milky matter, and the shell begins to harden. The Amateur Poacher In building wheat ricks the most important point is to arrange the sheaves with the butts sloping outwards, so that should rain fall before thatching, the water will run away from the centre. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Grass pulled and piled in ricks by the natives. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Then he climbed down from the rick and put on his coat. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales The balloon, it appeared, had in its descent fallen upon a rick, which it consumed, and the owner, having ascertained by whom the combustible material had been dispatched, arrested the doctor for the damage. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831 Burning at first like a rick on fire, his enthusiasm for the digester as quickly died out. Against the Grain A man going to the rick-yard quite early had seen the roof of the rick black with them; they were apparently drinking the dew hanging in drops on the straws of the thatch. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor Grass pulled and piled in ricks by the natives. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 If all the bodies of the things you have consumed in your bloated life were piled together, it would make a thing as big as a whole row of ricks!' Father Payne Another way was to take a rake, go to a rick and walk round it nine times, saying, "I rake this rick in the devil's name." 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 In the open fields, under the shadow of high ricks, he would lie, listening to the hollow splashing of the mills and inhaling the fresh breeze from Voulzie. Against the Grain The village thatcher, Obadiah B., was an ancient, but efficient workman when engaged upon cottages or farm buildings, for ricks require only a comparatively temporary treatment. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor "Get up, grandfather, get up at wanst! the big rick is on fire, and will be burnt to a cinder if you don't make haste." North, South and over the Sea The sun stared brazenly down on a gray farmhouse, on ranges of whitewashed outbuildings, and on a goodly array of dark-thatched ricks. Composition-Rhetoric Ignorant, slouching, dogged, they might have fired a rick, or killed a keeper, or even—sacrilegious but unthinking boors—have shot a great man's pheasant. Bred in the Bone Two or three men were stationed at the rick to unload the carts, two in the fields to load them, and several boys to lead them back and forth to the two parties. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The old Teutonic word rick is still preserved in the termination of our English bishoprick. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 "Sure it's all wan sheet of flame, none of us could get near it," cried one, pointing to the rick. North, South and over the Sea No man sees his house afire but looks to his rick. Three Plays Left to himself, it is certain that of choice he would have crawled under a rick, or into a hedge, if he could not have reached his cottage. Hodge and His Masters I was struck with the economy adopted by my host in loading, carting and stacking or ricking his grain. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's He continued all night under arms, wrapt up in his cloak, and generally sheltered under a rick of barley which happened to be in the field. The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 "That was the very night the rick was burnt down," he observed; "ye didn't see any one go near it, did ye?" North, South and over the Sea "No man sees his house afire but watches his rick," he was saying. Three Plays Now the threshing-machine arrives, and the ricks are threshed in a few days. Hodge and His Masters The boat was kept on the other side; so I hallooed to a man engaged in thatching a rick of oats to come and ferry me over. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Even should you rick your back in the process, it is better to be crippled for life than eternally oppressed by a ruthless rider and an intolerable weight. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." "Didn't I tell ye," cried Mrs. Clancy triumphantly, "that Mike never went next or nigh that rick?" North, South and over the Sea They set fire to the rick outside and then proceeded to fire the thatch of the cottage. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist As you come upon him suddenly he draws up to the rick as if the hay was his natural protector, and looks up at you with half-frightened, half-curious gaze, and mouth open. Hodge and His Masters A vast quantity of grain, especially of oats, was cut and ready for carting; but little of it had been ricked in consequence of frequent showers. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Others had to tell of country people, coming in from neighbouring villages, who had seen great trees lying torn out of the earth, and whole ricks scattered about the roads and fields. David Copperfield His heart was still sore at the recollection of his bitter disappointment on the fateful evening when the rick was burnt. North, South and over the Sea I'd defy sorrowful job himself to lament or scratch while he's routing rats from a rick. Rewards and Fairies Now and then comes a day's employment with the threshing-machine when the farmer wants a rick of corn threshed out. Hodge and His Masters I reasoned that, since a big stick of wood burns slower and longer than a small stick, a large rick of powder would burn more slowly and thereby afford more pleasure and excitement. The Life of Me; an autobiography "Then," says he, "all his creditors crowd to him as pigs do through a hole to a bean and pease rick." Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Suddenly he bethought him how Mike had threatened him before setting fire to his rick; his hard-heartedness would bring a curse upon him, the boy had said. North, South and over the Sea "Will you tell him, then." said Gabriel, "that I only stepped ath'art to say that a heavy rain is sure to fall soon, and that something should be done to protect the ricks?" Far from the Madding Crowd They looked at his ricks; they were badly built, and still worse thatched. Hodge and His Masters I had plenty of powder so I piled it up into a rick about two inches high and as long as from here to yonder. The Life of Me; an autobiography High-backed chairs stood around the room, rich curtains of crimson damask hung in folds on either side of the window, and a beautiful, rick, Turkey carpet covered the floor. Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter It was certainly a piece of bad luck to lose his splendid rick, but he had paid the villains well out for it. North, South and over the Sea Bathsheba then rode off into the darkness, and the men straggled on to the village in twos and threes — Oak and the bailiff being left by the rick alone. Far from the Madding Crowd Upon the rick the labourers have stopped work, and are eagerly watching the chase, for from that height they can see the whole field. Hodge and His Masters Then I reopened my eyes just in time to see my fireball fizzle out at the far end of the rick of powder. The Life of Me; an autobiography The corn was commonly housed; but if there be a want of room, he advises that the ricks be built on a scaffold and not upon the ground. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 If ye burnt the rick itself, there's nobody hereabouts but 'ud say ye done right. North, South and over the Sea This before Gabriel's eyes was a- rick of straw, loosely put together, and the flames darted into it with lightning swiftness. Far from the Madding Crowd A boy gets off the rick and runs to earn sixpence by showing a way out. Hodge and His Masters Here he pawned his waistcoat, and having gone out of the town a mile or two, slept under a rick that night. Jude the Obscure It brought only a small profit to me; while the farmers kept theirs, expecting higher figures—yes, though the rats were gnawing the ricks hollow. The Mayor of Casterbridge The rick was unhaled by full daylight; the men then took their places, the women mounted, and the work began. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thought I knowed the man's face as I seed him on the rick! — thought I did! Far from the Madding Crowd So from the rick Hodge has his share of the sport, and at that elevation can see over a wide stretch of what he—changing the 'd' into a 'j'—calls 'the juke's country.' Hodge and His Masters The boy stood under the rick before mentioned, and every few seconds used his clacker or rattle briskly. Jude the Obscure But nothing was visible there save the ricks, and the humpbacked barn cushioned with moss, and the granary rising against the church-tower behind, where the smacking of the rope against the flag-staff still went on. The Mayor of Casterbridge The other workfolk were by this time all gathered under the rick, where the loose straw formed a comfortable retreat. Tess of the d'Urbervilles At her third ascent the rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica — every knot in every straw was visible. Far from the Madding Crowd The haycocks are put up, and the rick-cloth unfolded over the partly made rick. Hodge and His Masters Bathsheba then rode off into the darkness, and the men straggled on to the village in twos and threes—Oak and the bailiff being left by the rick alone. Far from the Madding Crowd They watched individual drops of rain creeping down the thatch of the opposite rick—straw after straw—till they reached the bottom; but nobody came, and the granary roof began to drip. The Mayor of Casterbridge And a moment after she said, quickly, "I shall eat my dinner here—right on the rick." Tess of the d'Urbervilles The rick lost its sheen — the shapes vanished. Far from the Madding Crowd Just beneath him stood a row of wheat ricks—his own. Hodge and His Masters This before Gabriel's eyes was a rick of straw, loosely put together, and the flames darted into it with lightning swiftness. Far from the Madding Crowd Much of the corn he had never seen; it had not even been moved from the ricks in which it lay stacked miles away. The Mayor of Casterbridge Whip me, crush me; you need not mind those people under the rick! Tess of the d'Urbervilles Oak gazed with misgiving at eight naked and un- protected ricks, massive and heavy with the rich produce of one-half the farm for that year. Far from the Madding Crowd The yells of the raiders were mingled with the shrieks of the victims, and almost instantly the scene of horror was lighted up by the flames of the burning ricks. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage "Will you tell him, then," said Gabriel, "that I only stepped ath'art to say that a heavy rain is sure to fall soon, and that something should be done to protect the ricks?" Far from the Madding Crowd "Come, none of thee tricks upon travellers, Master Bill; I zee thee beside the rick yon!" and quitting the door for half a minute, he again hastily entered the cot. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 The voices and laughs of the workfolk eating and drinking under the rick came to her as if they were a quarter of a mile off. Tess of the d'Urbervilles It is a rick that burns; And a strange thing I'll count it if the rick Be not old Huff's. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 If a dog draws the fleck from the hare, and causes her to wrench or rick only, it is equal to a turn of the hare when leading homewards. The Dog Oak gazed with misgiving at eight naked and unprotected ricks, massive and heavy with the rich produce of one-half the farm for that year. Far from the Madding Crowd I thought I was a hen, strutting about amongst ricks of corn, picking here and scratching there, followed by a whole brood of chickens, toward which I felt exceedingly benevolent and attentive. The Vicar's Daughter The long strap which ran from the driving-wheel of his engine to the red thresher under the rick was the sole tie-line between agriculture and him. Tess of the d'Urbervilles I stepped out into the night with the grass of the corn-yard under my feet, the awful vault of heaven over my head, and those shadowy ricks around me. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood When a dog wrenches or ricks a hare twice following, without losing the lead, it is equal to a turn. The Dog At her third ascent the rick suddenly brightened with the brazen glare of shining majolica—every knot in every straw was visible. Far from the Madding Crowd But as she took her way between two ricks, where was just room for her to pass, she felt—felt, however, without the slightest sense of material opposition, that she could not go through. Heather and Snow The sheaf-pitchers and feeders had now worked the rick so low that people on the ground could talk to them. Tess of the d'Urbervilles "She ate about half a rick of green corn," answered Turkey, coolly. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood This was no accident, and now that they are setting fire to the ricks all round us, it is no time for carelessness.' Lord Kilgobbin The rick lost its sheen—the shapes vanished. Far from the Madding Crowd But as the house was still her goal, she tried another space between two of the ricks. Heather and Snow His mother consented; the farmer did let the pigs out; and Clare and they had a right good game together among the ricks in the yard. A Rough Shaking It was silent as one of the ricks. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood They are floored with the cobble-stones rolled down by the diluvium, and torture the feet that walk over them and rick the ankles. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The rick came down and the ridge-pole caught him across the back. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales To his great surprise, Mr. Hill saw his rick of bark rebuilt. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 It was very fine weather, and they were carried in and made into a rick by themselves, without taking any rain. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 As we left the keeper's farm, Turkey had pointed out to me, across the yard, where a small rick or two were standing, the loft in which Jamie would have to sleep. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood There was a man in the shadow of one of the ricks! Mary Marston The rick lay, a shapeless mound upon the earth, with a long thick pole protruding from it, which had formerly supported the tarpaulin drawn across it in case of rain. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales George, who had made up the hay-stack, was most inclined to think that the hay had not been sufficiently dried, and that the rick had heated from this cause. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 For many years had I now made all my father's ricks of hay and corn, and the wheat-ricks were the admiration of the whole country. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Before me was the cornyard, as we called it, full of ricks. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The window looked on an open, grassy yard, where were a few large ricks of wheat, shining yellow in the cold, far-off moon. Mary Marston They came upon a rick, and the shadow's head would rise up and then return to its place when they had passed. Jean-Christophe, Volume I If you can tell me any thing about my dog," said the tanner, "I will freely forgive you for pulling down the rick: especially as you have built it up again. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 I always made the wheat-ricks, and I have many times made two ricks, containing thirty loads in each rick, in one day. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 The great rick thus stood almost insulated, and much further uprising of the flood would place it in a position not to be approached by man without danger. Lying Prophets In a moment more she had stolen on tiptoe round the corner, and was creeping like a ghost among the ricks. Mary Marston But sometimes a spark will be carried away by the wind to set fire to the dried forests and the fat ricks of the upper-classes…. Jean-Christophe Journey's End He had reason to be somewhat surprised at hearing Bampfylde assert it was O'Neill who had pulled down the rick of bark. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 If it proved a false alarm, and the weather was fine, we got a second rick finished by night, and thereby had secured two hundred instead of one hundred sacks of wheat in one day. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 Much hay stood in danger and some ricks had been already ruined. Lying Prophets The servants' rooms were in another part, but Letty forgot a tiny window in one of them, which looked also upon the ricks. Mary Marston When fools make hay, wise men can build ricks. Hereward, the Last of the English How on earth could a man puzzle himself about ricks and tinkers when all his cares and energies were devoted to a dejeune dansant? My Novel — Complete I also thatched many of them; that is, I made the ricks by day, and I frequently thatched them by night, or at least before the common labourers came to work in the morning. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 |
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