Very picturesque and sequestered the old Manor-house looks as we draw near, with its barns and outbuildings, and goodly array of haystacks in the barton.
On this the Indians and their Acadian allies set the houses and barns on fire, and laid waste the whole district, leaving the inhabitants no choice but to seek food and shelter with the French.
They burnt 12 houses and barns without the fortification, and drove away the cattle and sheep.
Several houses and barns were burnt, and a small party who had hastened from Concord to their relief were intercepted and cut off.
They attacked this place in all quarters, but were so warmly received at all points, that after burning a few barns and outhouses, they hastened away as fast as they had come on.
Why, I remember the time when we put up barns with wooden pegs and durn good barns they were and are, for there's some of them still standing as strong as the day they were built.
It contained some dilapidated tenements, a few old barnsformerly belonging to the Priory, and small garden plots, conspicuous objects in the early maps.
The accompanying map of the property[37] will make clear the position of this "void ground" and of the barns and tenements about it.
Sheridan, whose forces had been savagely attacked by some Confederate guerilla bands, now retaliated by destroying houses, barns and foodstuffs and by capturing or killing livestock.
When the afternoon came, by the help of the old wheelwright and a couple of intelligent old laborers, the wagons and the barns were so far ready that the harvesting could begin; and it began accordingly.
Indeed, they looked like a green ocean, with the small houses, the big red barns and silos, the little groves of trees behind the barns for a windbreak, rising like islands every mile or so.
All that day, mile after mile, they traveled through the wheat, with never a break in the vast monotony of the level land, the endless procession of houses and barns far off, like islands in the green sea.
I'd tear down them old corrals an' barns an' bunk-houses to build new ones.
Green slopes led all the way down to where new adobe barns and sheds had been erected, and wide corrals stretched high-barred fences down to the great squares of alfalfa gently inclining to the gray of the valley.
He stores much of the harvest in the barns to feed the "live stock" and raise them for market.
Big machines and engines are brought out from the barns to be cleaned and oiled, for the wheat is about to be harvested.
We could look down from the plateau on which the little house and the barns stood, upon the white and clay-colored, desolate spaces of the salty valley below.
Some day, I suppose, those wide, far-stretching acres will be dotted with houses and barns and stacks of alfalfa.
Mills and barns and hundreds of dwellings were consigned to the flames.
The strong, young African tiger has been found lurking, not in American jungles, but in American homes, highways, barns and fields.
Having advised our families where we would be at various times, and having collected our outfit at the barns of the Southern California Edison Company, we were ready to start Saturday morning, May the fourteenth.
I turned into a farm yard and got behind a barn to keep from being turned over, and from this shelter I managed to get the sheet down, don my rubber coat and boots, and help the farmer get his barnsclosed up.
Honour the Lord with thy substance, And with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty And thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
The seeds rot under their clods: The garners are laid desolate, The barns are broken down; For the corn is withered.
Here the children remained until the barns were smouldering ashes, and the Indians had fled.
Its barns and outbuildings were the cleanest in France according to individuals who had slept in so many barns that they feel qualified to judge.
Still standing, silent sentinels over some of our front line positions were trees, church steeples, dwellings and barnsthat as yet had not been levelled to the ground.
On every side were the sparse grain-fields long stripped of their produce, the barns empty, the abundant pastures bare of the small black cattle and mountain sheep with which in times of peace and safety they were so liberally sprinkled.
We had fourteen pairs of house Wrens nesting on one acre adjoining the house andbarns in 1915.
They come around the barns at night, and I suspect them also of attempts at chicken-thieving, but they are too handsome and rare a bird in these parts to shoot.
The poet who might dare to commit it, would be immediately hooted out of society, and sent to roost in barns among the owls.
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