Jimmie Dale scowled at it for a moment, noted its proximity to the backyard and the front of the building.
It was more an open backyard common to the row of tenements, and rather narrow and confined in space at that.
He paused now, his lips set hard, crouched by the fence that separated the Mole's backyard from the alleyway.
The long shadows of the afternoon's sun lay in the backyard of the Terriberry House when Essie sat down in the doorway to rest before her evening's work began.
Every number carries stories of men who have in part-time or whole-time farming, in small shops, in backyard industries tried out Distributism and can tell us how it has worked and how to work it.
Naturally they were surprised to see Agnes talking in the backyard with a strange man, and both stopped, curiously eyeing Mr. Sorber.
She flew across the backyard to the big pear-tree.
The Vellalans make an old woman cry aloud in the backyard that a sacrifice will be made to the cobra next day, and that they pray it will accept the offering.
Well, I don't know as I ever saw a backyard that took my fancy more.
These household cares involve much pattening and counter-pattening in the backyard and considerable use of a pail, which is finally so happy as to assist in the ablutions of Mrs. Bagnet herself.
If you want something to do, why don't you plant a garden in the backyardand grow something.
You'd better build a shed in the backyard and sleep there if you're so dumb you can't tell night from day.
The girl in the backyard pondered upon the same thing as she dried her hair in the hot sun.
She stopped beside Elizabeth's coops in the backyard and examined the little groups of begging, downy balls with the animation of a true farmer's wife.
My dear seagoing secretary, there is wash enough in that backyard not only for you and me, but for the whole crew of the Sunshine, if they had happened to be cast away with us.
As for a hame, I will get ane for mysel, and a Yankee wife will think of my comfort.
I ken by the look o' him that he has dune it, but he will fare better if I hae the truth frae his own mou'.
She had watched the budding trees with unusual interest, for the new life in nature seemed to harmonize with her own fresh hopes.
Meanwhile he had to water his garden, and went to the backyard for the purpose.
In a certain village there lived with his wife a poor gardener who cultivated greens in a small patch in the backyard of his house.
That very night our hero had a sudden and unforeseen calamity, and just as he was dragging the latch of his backyard door a serpent stung him in his finger.
In that backyard I was put to a sort of mild ordeal by question.
I resolved in an instant, and he and I adjourned to a backyard somewhere in the neighbourhood, for which I have long since sought in vain.
Inside the backyard was a dead moujik which he is got run over by a train.
Optimizing Space: Planning the Water-Wise Backyard Garden Intensive gardening is a strategy holding that yield per square foot is the supreme goal; it succeeds by optimizing as many growth factors as possible.
A related problem many backyard gardeners have with establishing the winter and overwintered garden is finding enough space for both the summer and winter crops.
Perhaps you're a backyard gardener and the municipality temporarily restricts usage.
The backyard water-wise gardener, then, must logically ask which vegetable species will give him enough food or more economic value with limited space and water.
I was a suburban backyardgardener for five years before deciding to homestead.
Chapter 7 The Backyard Water-Wise Gardener I am an unusually fortunate gardener.
In the center of the backyard loomed the high, round dome of his amateur observatory.
He went out to the backyard again, where all the other members of the club were still lounging on the grass, watching the sky.
His eldest son, arriving over the backyard fence in a state of heat, was just in time to hear him.
The Murchisons at one time kept a cow in the barn, till a succession of "girls" left on account of the milking, and the lane was useful as an approach to the backyard by the teams that brought the cordwood in the winter.
A man's naked body was tied up to a ring in the wall in the backyard of a house.
As for me, that penniless spendthrift reminds me of the pig that mistook the nobleman's backyard for the interior of his mansion.
The backyard was all the pig had seen of the place, and money-lenders are the only kind of Jews that lame drone has ever had an occasion to know.
A few bats had also flown over the old woman's backyard on warm nights hunting insects, and Bumper was more or less acquainted with them.
They were in the midst of their breakfast when the old woman came in the backyard with her basket.
He disliked Mr. Sewer Rat and all his tribe, for they had often made their way into the old woman's backyard to annoy the young bunnies.
Bumper was a city-bred rabbit, born in the backyard of a tenement house, and how could you expect him to know much of the things that ordinary wild rabbits learn by heart before their whiskers begin to sprout?
You can get through thebackyard without Toby seeing you.
They all lived under one big roof in the backyard of the good old woman who kept them, and they had such jolly times together that it seemed a shame to separate them.
From their own experience in backyard and garden, eager men and women wrote in urging this common mineral be used to end the menace of the grass.
But I do hope you will marshal those dreadful girls into the backyard without frightening my hens or Brownie.
I have got a piece of plumcake waiting for you; and if you are a really good boy, and will shoo the fowls into my backyard and shut the gate on them, you may look into my microscope.
I am to go again to-night to hear what Mr. Sefton has to propose, but already this dingy little bedroom smiles upon me, and even the broken tiles in the backyard might be the pavement of paradise!
Leaving school at fourteen, he had been apprenticed to his father for seven years, and had worked at the forge down the backyard before coming into the front shop.
He saw nothing but a small backyard in which some miserable, scraggy fowls were crouching under a cart to protect themselves from the rain, which was falling heavily through the dim, smoky air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backyard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
