I vote we reply to say that we do not know that we have done anything for him, unless he means that by helping Farmer Trebarwith complete his haymaking we have rendered Sir Silas a service in a roundabout way.
Look, they're haymaking over there," exclaimed little Reggie Scott.
He stacked his hay beneath the edge of this outreaching slab and upon the slab he spent hours each day, except in busy haymaking time.
Rocky placed his haystack between boulders, beneath the edge of the big flat rock on which he sat for hours daily, except during haymaking time.
They had been bathing, and were light clad and bare-footed, and were bound for the meadows on the Berkshire side, where the haymaking had begun, and were passing the time merrily enough till the Berkshire folk came in their punt to fetch them.
Yes," said Dick, "and I am rather surprised at this time of the year; why are they not haymaking with you?
We passed by several fields where haymaking was going on, but Dick, and especially Clara, were so jealous of our up-river festival that they would not allow me to have much to say to them.
There were not many people in it, as some of the dwellers there were away at the haymaking in the neighbourhood, and some, as Walter told us, were wandering about the meadow enjoying the beautiful moonlit night.
However, our week's haymaking will do all that for you.
The haymaking at Wandsworth-hill(627) did not succeed from the excessive cold of the night; I proposed to bring one of the cocks into the great room, and make a bonfire.
After a month or two of haymaking and harvesting, they jogged homeward with their earnings, whereunto were often added some small pilferings, for their fingers were as light as their hearts.
Hay, therefore, was the main staple, and haymaking the great end and aim of an Icelandic farmer.
Women labourers in haymaking or gripping of lent corn shall not take by the day with meat and drink of wages above iiid.
Men labourers in haymaking or gripping of lent corn shall not take by the day with meat and drink of wages above iiiid.
For not only the farm hands but all the servants on the place were at table, this haymaking supper being the annual order of the household.
Then I put in a spell of field-work with Nils and was haymakingfor some days.
Haymaking took up all my time now till it was done, but Nils lent me a hand in return, painting at the summer-house in the evening.
And now the haymaking began in earnest: the maids were out, spreading in the wake of the machine, and Grindhusen was set to work with a scythe in the corners and awkward parts where the machine could not go.
One of the haymaking girls was very proud because she had not lost a single wooden tooth out of her rake, for it is easy to break or pull them out.
The 1st of August is Lammas Day; and in the old time if a farmer had neglected his work and his haymaking was still unfinished on August 13 (i.
With the first June rose in the hedge the haymaking commenced--the two usually coincide--and then Cicely fluctuated between the haymakers and the mowers, now watching one and now the other.
A stranger was taking the duty in a church, and after service made a few remarks about the weather, asserting that it promised to be a fine day for the haymaking to-morrow.
In summer she goes out in the afternoon haymaking as an extra hand, but only works a few hours, and it is really only a relaxation.
The hot sun is burning on--better weather for haymaking could not be--but there is not a rood of grass cut for them to work on.
There is not so much rough joking in the corn-field; they do not work so close together, and the husband or father is near at hand; neither is there time nor inclination in the midst of such severe labour, to which haymaking is play.
At ordinary seasons the other men leave at six, but in haymaking or harvest time they are expected to remain till the job in hand that day is finished, often till eight or half-past.
Do you remember thehaymaking and what the hay was carted away for?
Haymaking is better fun than sheep-washing and lasts longer.
He had begun his mowing and haymaking all alone again; Barbro could judge for herself how awkward it was for him now.
And now with spring coming again, and all the season's work to do alone; haymaking to come, and what was he to do?
But in the little time the haymaking lasted there came a stranger or so, folk wanting to see the mowing-machine.
No, 'twas all awry with thehaymaking the year before.
Haymaking still; Isak bringing in loads and masses of hay, for woodland grass is not the same as meadow grass, more's the pity, but poorer by far.
Axel was in the midst of his haymaking, and had to do his mowing by day and haymaking by night, and all by himself--and then came Barbro!
The haymakingis nearly over now, and they have got in a grand lot of hay; almost more than they can find room for.
Now, in the haymaking season, he had tried his hand with the scythe--but he was no master hand at that, no.
The dairy superintendence shall be done by a man--I can afford it well--you shall never have so much as to look out of doors at haymaking time, or to think of weather in the harvest.
It was the gallant sergeant, who had come haymaking for pleasure; and nobody could deny that he was doing the mistress of the farm real knight-service by this voluntary contribution of his labour at a busy time.
The essential point in haymaking is that the hay should be dried sufficiently to ensure the sweating process in the stack reaching no further than the stage of the formation of sugar.
In the last quarter of the 19th century the methods of haymaking were completely changed, and even some of the principles underlying its practice were revised.
One of the earlier mechanical inventions in connexion with haymaking was that of the horse rake (fig.
The introduction of haymaking gave unlimited scope for the production of winter food, and improved treatment of live stock became possible.
At haymaking I ached all over from the unaccustomed labour; in the evening, sitting on the verandah and talking with the others, I suddenly dropped asleep, and they laughed aloud at me.
It was the custom in our province at haymaking and harvest time for the labourers to come to the manor house in the evening and be regaled with vodka; even young girls drank a glass.
Haymaking is, therefore, a great business, and the amount of grass which the Norwegians contrive to scrape off their land is marvellous.
As the mountains are always so close at hand, the fields are generally strewn with rocks and boulders, and are very uneven, so haymaking is not easy, and such a thing as a mowing-machine would be quite useless.
There had been a succession of battles royal between the Misses Sleek and their papa over the haymaking party.
Haggard and Lucy evidently looked forward to the haymaking as a relief to the monotony of their existence; as for Georgie, hers was the simple religion of Ruth, "Whither thou goest I will go, thy people shall be my people.
He was naturally anxious, then, that his haymaking and the subsequent dance should be an important affair.
Yet she liked him, she had always liked him since, as a little girl, she had been taken by her stepsisters to a haymaking party at Sales Hall.
It was a big, square house with honest, square windows, and the drive, shadowed by the elms, ran through the fields where the haymaking was in progress.
Nevertheless, in the Seraphic creature with the haymaking rake, were clearly to be discerned the rudiments of the Patriarch with the list shoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haymaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
