Jess and Ebie pursued their flirtation steadily and harmlessly, as she shifted down the byre as cow after cow was relieved of her richly perfumed load, rumbling and clinking neck chains, and munching in their head-stalls all the while.
So he stole on tiptoe to the byre door, circumnavigating the "wicket," which poured across the yard its tell-tale plank of light.
No man is his brother's keeper when he goes to the byre to plait cows' tails.
She went out to find Saunders Mowdiewort; she got him standing at the byre door, looking wistfully about for Meg.
The sound grew fainter and fainter as Jess proceeded to the top of the byre where Marly stood soberly sedate and chewed her evening cud.
Opening the envelope carefully, he let the light of the byre lantern rest on the missive.
Moreover, it was quite in accordance with her character that, in her byre flirtations with Ebie Farrish, she should take pleasure in his rough compliments, smacking of the field and the stable.
The kennel and a byre stood there together, and four dogs whined a welcome to their new mistress.
A few fowls pecked about the threshold, and adjoining the dwelling stood a cow-byre under the same roof with it.
She hated herself, held the thought a sin of her own commission, and sped onward until she stood upon the northern side of the byre in a shadow cast from it by the sun.
There was no cottage where he might house his picture and materials within half a mile of Gorse Point, but a granite cow-byre rose considerably nearer, at a corner of an upland field.
She rose from her seat upon the cliff, turned her face to the cow-byre and made a few quick steps in that direction.
Now he looked round the cow-byre before locking it for the last time and returning the key to Farmer Ford's boy, who waited outside to receive it.
Then John Barren opened the byre door and Joan Tregenza passed in before him; whereupon he followed and shut the door.
The concerns which he had ordered from London would be with him by Saturday night if all went well, and he decided that they should be conveyed to the byre at an early hour on Monday morning.
You must see my little cow-byre some day or other, Joan.
Getting a key to the padlock, and a big birch broom, he returned with Barron, and soon had the doors of the disused byre thrown open to the air.
He went into the byre and came out with a great vessel of milk.
Then, when the Giant had driven out his cattle to the pasture Flann cleaned the byre and made the mortar, mixing lime and sand with bullock's blood and new milk.
Take it and open the byre door at such a place, and you'll find in that byre your goat, your sheep and your bullock.
With a piece of glass she made on the wall of the byre the shadows of flying birds.
The cattle that were in the courtyard went into the byreone by one as they were called by the voice of the byre-maid.
This is thought to eradicate the germs of disease from the byreor stable.
A moment sooner and he would have met Janet; but she had just entered the byre again to milk poor Crummie.
He supposed that as she could not well speak to him in the presence of a man like Angus, she had gone out to the byre to have her talk with him there.
There she laid him on his side in her bed, covered him gently over, and hastened to the little byre at the end of the cottage, to get him some warm milk.
In the pitch blackness of the night Hogg groped his way to an opening in the byre over which he and Borthwick slept, and thrust out a hand and arm.
Presently he roused Borthwick, who had slept soundly through the hubbub, and at once his fellow-shepherd dressed and tried to make his way from the byre to the kitchen, a distance of no more than fourteen yards.
In a cold sweat, Tam and the boy fled from the waterside and cast themselves shivering into their beds over the byre at home.
It is unholy to expect all that is good and best from the young girls who lodge with the beasts of the byre and swine of the sty.
In the byrethere was no screen between the women and the men.
He had just come into thebyre where the girls and I were milking.
Old Mary Sorley won't be hounded out of her house and home if all the cattle in me byre was without tails," she said in rambling tones, which now and again rose to a shriek almost.
A cow moaned in the byre as I passed, while the stray dog kept howling miserably away on the middle of the moor.
Micky's Jim chased the two men away from the byre in which we were living at the time.
It gave me pleasure to meet Jim again, and, the pleasure being mutual, he took me into the byre and gave me food and drink.
While working there was byre or pig-sty for shelter; when idle I was not worth the shelter of the meanest roof in the whole country.
A byre was being prepared for our use, and a farm servant was busily engaged in cleaning it out when we came in from the fields.
I got turned out of the byre by the farmer when the rest went off, and I found myself in a strange country, houseless, friendless, and alone.
The byre was built on the shoulder of a hillock and the midden was situated in a grotto hollowed underneath; its floor was on a level with the cart-road outside, and in the corner of this vault we had to build a fire for cooking our food.
How long we remained there I do not know, but when we returned to the byre all the rest of the party were in bed.
One day my master came into the byre and asked me if I could milk.
The farmer's son kept gaddin' about with her all last year," broke in Jim, and I noticed the eyes of everybody in the byre turned on me.
Well, your honours, the byre was a trifle too near the edge of the bog hole, so that when one end fell out, there wasn't much of the mud walls that stood.
And so, presently, when the forlorn hope of the little pot had been restored to the ledge, master and dog were in tune with the open country, and began a romp such as they often had indulged in behind the byre on a quiet, Sabbath afternoon.
He might have been carried to the distant farm, and shut safely in the byre with the cows for the night, but for an incautious remark of the farmer.
Rats and mice around byre and dairy were legitimate prey; but he learned that he must not annoy sheep and sheep-dogs, nor cattle, horses and chickens.
The byre was no sooner locked than Bobby began, in the pitch darkness, to explore the walls.
But as they were leaving the byre fresh doubts assailed her.
In a moment there flashed upon him the recollection of Màm-Gorm, on the white mare Raoilt, in the byre there.
Were it not for the flames at Ardoch-beag, where both house and byre were now caught in a swirling blaze, he would have believed the other to be no more than a vision.
Did ye not hear some one in the shadow ayont the byre crying, Cian!
Well, he would search everywhere, both but and ben, out-houses and byre and stable.
The dog had indeed followed, having but an hour ago escaped from the byre where Ian Maclean had risen from his sleep to let him out because of his ceaseless whining.
With a sigh he turned, and, having entered the byre and gone to the part of it shut off for his use, lay down upon his bed of fragrant fern.
Late in the night Ian Maclean had come back from the western side of the isle, and was standing in the shadow of the byre when, hand in hand, Lora and Alastair approached.
As they stopped at the ring-stone, between the byre and the cottage, he went up to the shepherd.
They made for a byreon the property of Mr. Nicholson of Scorobeck.
In the byre they lighted a fire, dried their clothes, and slept for some hours.
At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge, Or naething else to trouble thee; But stray amang the heather-bells, And tent the waving corn wi' me.
I muckle doubt, my sire, Ye've trusted ministration To chaps wha in barn or byre Wad better fill'd their station Than courts yon day.
On looking up, the woman saw the cow standing and lowing at the byre door.
He thought he would go back to the house, and he sees the byrethatched with feathers.
When he awoke, the giant's daughter was not to be seen, but the byre was so well cleaned that a golden apple would run from end to end of it and raise no stain.
Paddy brought the horse home with him, and put him into the cow's byre and fell asleep.
When he got to the door he saw the weasel coming out of the byre and she covered with blood.
At the byre end the old rowan-trees were creaking and groaning to the violence of the gale, the bourtree bushes were flattened near to the ground, and everywhere was white.
The byre we built was not very big, and very dark, but it was cosy, too, under the crooked joists, and covered with heather scraws and thatch.
I ran, I ran all the long road, for I kent it all from the first o' it," and in the dimness of the byre I could see these two clinging to each other.
Grettir said, "I saw within doors there a young man who pulled on his mittens, and another going betwixt byre and midden, and of neither of them should I be afeared.
Now after midwinter one morning the housewife fared to the byre to milk the cows after the wonted time; by then was it broad daylight, for none other than the neatherd would trust themselves out before day; but he went out at dawn.
The 'ill be nane o' Jean's byre missin' the morn, Hillocks.
Two cows came round the corner, and made for their byre with the air of persons glad to find themselves in familiar surroundings after discomposing adventures in foreign parts.
Through the door he could see that Jean's byre was nearly full, and outside two calves had settled down to supper upon a guano bag with much relish.
How he found to his amazement that the byre was under the same roof with the farmer's kitchen, and only separated therefrom by a wooden partition with a door in it.
Dan was a man of action and few words: he vouchsafed no reply, but turned immediately and left the room, leaving a powerful odour of the byre behind him.
His position would not be exactly a pleasant one, if, for instance, Mirren should suddenly come out of their little byre with a full luggie of milk.
Whereupon Cleg went and got a pail of whitewash to brighten up the byre and stables of Sandyknowes, a job which he had been promising himself as a treat for a long time.
And Mary Bell, who, though a byre lass and daughter of toil, was born with the gentle heart of courtesy within her, refrained from asking why this wandering girl should be so greatly afraid of her own mother.
It was not till Mary Bell, byre lass, came to get an armful of fodder from the stack that they were found.
And she took the byre lass's shilling out of her pocket and gave it to the man.
The first of these was to clean out a byre or cattle place, where there was the dung of a hundred cattle, and it had not been cleaned for seven years.
He sat down on a shearing-stool, facing the door, half open, between the byre he was in and the kitchen where Aoirig was at the dying.
In the byre the wright was preeing the drink and paying little heed to food.
The sister took him round to the corner of the house and in at the byre door, and told him to wait.
As she turned to go, her eyes fell on a grey patch on the byre floor--his coat!
Then, robbing the widow of her rent money, he picked the lock of the byre and drove off the cow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "byre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
