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Example sentences for "haymakers"

Lexicographically close words:
hayfields; hayfork; haying; hayloft; haymaker; haymaking; haymow; hayrack; hayre; hayrick
  1. She had deposited her eggs, when the haymakers began pitching hay into the space beneath her; sweating, hurrying haymakers do not see or regard the rights or wants of little birds.

  2. The drops of sweat stood upon his brow; but he gave himself not a moment's rest, and kept crying out to the haymakers to make hay while the sun shone.

  3. They had not gone far, when the road passed by a field where some haymakers were at work, mowing down the tall grass and spreading it out in the sun to dry.

  4. There would not have been a garden of ships and a garden of turnips side by side; haymakers and shipbuilders in adjoining fields; milch-cows and iron steamers seeking the water within sight of each other.

  5. The prettiest little showers march across the country in summer, scarcely bigger than a street watering-cart; sometimes by getting over the fence one can avoid them, but they keep the haymakers in a perpetual flurry.

  6. Sir Charles was extremely satisfied with this account; and giving the haymakers some money for the good office they did in parting the two combatants, rode up to meet Lady Bella, and informed her that his son was safe.

  7. It was a scene that should have made Pauline dream with joy of her England: yet, with Guy's discontent brooding over it, she did not care for these jocund haymakers who were working through the lustred afternoon.

  8. It's the fact that haymakers are at this moment preventing us being alone which makes me cry out against them.

  9. Haymaking was in full swing on the farm, and the haymakers worked far into the night--I could hear them laughing and talking at intervals through the open door of the church, for they were in the fields all around.

  10. Haymaking was in full swing just then, and we saw the haymakers at work on all the farms as we passed by.

  11. Next morning I got a very good picture of the haymakers at Hjartharholt just before we set out for Statharhraun.

  12. I came to the hurdles and stood looking over into the hay-field, and was close to the end of the long line of haymakers who were spreading the low ridges to dry off the night dew.

  13. My feet turned that way instinctively, as I wanted to see how haymakers looked in these new and better times, and also I rather expected to see Ellen there.

  14. It was a scene that should have made Pauline dream with joy of her England; yet, with Guy's discontent brooding over it, she did not care for these jocund haymakers who were working through the lustered afternoon.

  15. These southern marshes, bordering Bound Brook and stretching away to Bassing Beach, were visited by haymakers as were those to the north.

  16. But these haymakers did not come from the same township, nor were they under the same local government.

  17. The haymakers kill them without mercy, and numbers thus meet with their fate.

  18. The haymakers sometimes talk of mysterious noises heard in the very finest weather, when it is still and calm, resembling extremely distant thunder.

  19. There is also a superstition among the haymakers of snakes having been bred in the stomachs of human beings, from drinking out of ponds or streams frequented by water snakes.

  20. The sweet scent of clover and of mown grass comes upon the light breeze--mayhap the laughter of haymakers passing through the churchyard underneath to their work, and idling by the way as haymakers can idle.

  21. The household breakfasts at half-past six or thereabouts, and while breakfast is going on the heavy tramp of feet may be heard passing along the roadway through the rickyard--the haymakers marching to the fields.

  22. Said the cow, “If you will go over yonder to where the haymakers are working and fetch me a wisp of hay to eat, then I will give you the milk.

  23. The haymakers drank deep of it and then they gave the little old woman all the hay she wanted.

  24. So the little old woman emptied out her blackberries on the ground very carefully and then she hurried down to the stream and brought back to the haymakers a pailful of fresh cool water.

  25. So the little old woman went over to the haymakers and said, “Please, good kind haymakers, give me a wisp of hay to give to the cow so that she may give me some milk to give to the cat.

  26. The haymakers were very hot and thirsty and they said, “Very well; if you will go down to the stream and fetch us a pailful of water we will give you the hay.

  27. The haymakers were now in trouble, and said that they could not go on putting up their hay with the corpses lying around.

  28. And the haymakers drink insatiably, and wipe the thirsty mouth upon the convenient sleeve as artless Nature bids.

  29. He charmed the Japanese cook with his praise of the cooking, he flattered the haymakers with his interest in their opinions.

  30. The six rough-appearing haymakers used their knives with a freedom to which Ashton was unaccustomed, but their faces were clean, their behavior quiet, and their occasional remarks by no means inapt.

  31. The haymakers are at work; and half their work is hammering the soft edges of their very miserable scythes, which they then dip in the water.

  32. Amelia had been constantly in the hayfield, and the haymakers had constantly wished that she had been anywhere else.

  33. So she was taken indoors, and the haymakers worked hard and cleared the field, all but a few cocks which were left till the morning.

  34. He sent haymakers crashing to Joe's lantern jaw, heart, and solar plexus.

  35. Bud's haymakers seldom connected, but when they did they carried the weight of a pile driver behind them.

  36. By this time "my lards" thoroughly understood why haymakers like their ale, and plenty of it.

  37. This was one word for the haymakers and two for himself.

  38. He had just stopped some people, who pursued the haymakers with the carriage and accused them of being accomplices in the robbery.

  39. He was nearly detected on one occasion, when some haymakers discovered his empty phaeton and drove it off with his best clothes.

  40. Persius complains that the haymakers were grown so luxurious as to spoil it by mixing thick unguents with it: vi.

  41. Ornans we reach after a drive of three hours, amid hills luxuriantly draped with vines and craggy peaks clothed with verdure, here and there wide sketches of velvety green pasture with cattle feeding, haymakers turning over the autumn hay.

  42. Everywhere we find haymakers at work, and picturesque figures they are.

  43. Everywhere the haymakers are at work, and with merry hearts, for the wind blows lustily and makes the whole dale vocal.

  44. Roland Lansdell to that lonely glade in which the little rustic inn was hidden,--a resting-place for haymakers and gipsy-hawkers?

  45. He was found by some haymakers early the next morning, lying helpless, some miles from the Priory, and was carried home.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haymakers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.