You are squandering your dooryard by plowing out there in front of the house.
His dooryard is a picture, while the weeds sometimes choke his garden.
A horse snorted, and the sound of hoofs on the frozen dooryard brought Teeters to attention.
They rode up over the ridge shouting and urging the reluctant cattle ahead, and came plump into the very dooryard of a brand new shack.
Gouverneur Morris Memories of Whitman and Lincoln "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd" --W.
And forever now when America leans in the dooryard And over the hills Spring dances, Smell of lilacs and sight of lilacs shall bring to her heart these brothers.
But as for the neighbor's dooryard it was as bare and ugly as ever.
The house stood a little back from the badly paved sidewalk; its meager dooryard was inclosed by an iron fence--a row of black and rusted spears, spotted under their tines with innumerable gray cocoons.
When he and Mona, loitering behind the rest, reached her little dooryard where the scent of many blooming flowers saluted him, they paused a moment.
XXII Comedies of Field and Dooryard Trove was three days in Brier Dale after he came out of the woods.
In a moment he came striding over the dooryard fence on a pair of snowshoes.
They have not even shrunk from the coarser labors of dooryard and field, the care of the cattle, the planting and harvesting.
Bill stood in hisdooryard and greeted us with a loud "Hello, there!
Mr. Wright hung his sickle on a small tree in the dooryardand answered.
I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house.
Then we split some wood and filled the boxes by the fireplace and the kitchen stove and raked up the leaves in the dooryard and wheeled them away.
About twenty rods ahead I saw three riders in strange costumes come out of a dooryard and take the road at a wild gallop in pursuit of Latour and Purvis.
I went at once to call upon the Dunkelbergs and learned from a man at work in the dooryard that they had gone away for the summer.
When we drove into the dooryard Aunt Deel came and helped me out of the buggy and kissed my cheek and said she had been "terrible lonesome.
I felt sorry for the house and the dooryard and the cows and the grindstone and Aunt Deel.
The dooryard was covered with shadows and very still.
He called me a pious, cantin' young one, and said he'd chase me out o' the dooryard if I ever came again!
About him was a dooryard gone to a weed-jungle and a farm that must be reclaimed from utter wildness.
Then while old Aaron paced the dooryard with a grim face of pessimism bowed low over his chest, she turned into the house and, beside the bed where her lover had so long lain, dropped to her knees and clasped her hands in prayer.
The man outside had by this time gained thedooryard and stood beside the tree trunk where the shadow was deepest.
Informal and seemingly loose of organization was that meeting of the next afternoon when three Harpers and three Doanes met where the shade of the walnut tree fell across dooryard and roadway.
In all the numbers of the crowd that stood about the dooryard that day waiting for the wedding party to come through the door one absence was recognized and felt.
But the rumour of night meetings and oath-bound secrecy persisted, and some of these shreds of gossip came to Dorothy Thornton over the dooryard fence as passersby drew rein in the shadow of the black walnut.
Then old Mr. Bayne drove into the dooryard with a pair of knitted bedroom slippers, wrapped carefully in a newspaper.
Perhaps he would ride into his dooryard to find Ann Lytton cooking breakfast for her husband, smiling and happy, refusing to meet his gaze, ashamed of what had been between them.
He pulled off the saddle, dropped it, drew the bridle over the sleek, finely proportioned ears and let the big beast shake himself mightily, roll in the dooryard dust and drink again.
There on that grassy plot that might have been a familiar dooryard of his early days, he was playing alone, gone back to childhood.
She knew that now the cabin which fronted that dooryard was desolate.
All the flowers in the dooryard were gathered and laid round the corpse.
The two horses after snorting and pulling back at first sight of the unaccustomed lights and the noisy voices, put down their noses toward the long, lush dooryard grass.
We are antagonistic, although we live side by side, both Anglican and Catholic missions, almost in the dooryard of the Hudson's Bay Company and Revillons and all the smaller fry of independents which are pushing in now.
The immediate dooryard was shut from this noble lawn by a low picket fence along the length of which grew lilac bushes and inside which, nearer the house, were simple beds of roses, calycanthus and golden glow.
They went out into the dooryard after a time and then Marietta appeared again, and with her Mrs. Blue, a comfortable, round bodied mother of sixty, who greeted Eugene cordially.
Benjamin remarked when he came upon Freddie in Farmer Green's dooryard one fine evening.
And doesn't he let you come here in his dooryard whenever you please?
When Lilacs Last in theDooryard Bloom'd; O Captain!
The Pollocks had been recommended to Hiram, and by leaving the road within half a mile of the Atterson farm, and cutting across the fields, he came into the dooryard of the Pollock place.
Scarcely a house along the road was not shut up and the dooryard deserted--for everybody was going to the barbecue.
Not only that, but when Hiram drove into the Dickerson dooryard an hour later he had no trouble about recovering the tools which the neighbor had borrowed and failed to return.
Sister, with the help of Old Lem Camp, had long since raked the dooryard clean and burned the rubbish which is bound to gather during the winter.
Belle was now deep in breakfast dishes, and the two girls had gone out into the foggy dooryardwith the chickens' breakfast.
But a week or two ago, walking home from church with her mother and herself on Sunday night, Joe had detained her for a moment under the dooryard trees--had kissed her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dooryard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
