The pigs now began to direct their course towards thesties in which they had been so well fed the night before.
When driven home to sties somewhat more comfortable than the cabins of unfortunate Irishmen, they were well supplied with food which would have been very often considered a luxury by poor Paddy himself, much less by his pigs.
Hog-sties were erected in the streets, sometimes even under the windows.
Again, the labour attending the feeding of a large herd housed in isolated sties must be very considerable.
It matters not whether the building be placed north or south, or east or west, one half of the sties have a wrong aspect; even if the sties facing the west can be said to possess one.
These houses are most suitable for a number of fattening pigs, whereas for sows and for young sows smaller sties or houses are more convenient.
This was divided off into sties by partitions some 4 ft.
The disease is highly infectious, pigs coming in contact with or even being housed in sties where pigs affected have been recently kept are very likely to become infected.
How very draughty and uncomfortable these sties are which have an open yard attached, and an inlet at all times usable, can be readily discovered in cold and windy weather by noticing the position in which the occupant has made its bed.
But he thus calls attention to the fact that Christianity was spawned in the sties of paganism, as the Jews took the four beasts of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians.
The larger dwelling is the hall, the common hall, and the pig-sties the sleeping-places.
They are suffered to remain in so neglected and filthy a condition, that, were it not for the statues, they might be taken rather for hog-sties than places of worship.
Those of the poor were mere hovels, which resembled the sties and kennels of pigs and dogs rather than the abodes of men.
The smell of refuse, of uncleaned stables and sties and outhouses hung in the darkness.
The garden had been cleared away and the pig-sties were finished, but there was still the most arduous portion of the work to commence, which was the felling of the trees to clear the land for the growing of corn.
This surprised him, as generally speaking, the animals prowled round the palisade which encircled the sheep-fold, or else close to the pig-sties which were at the opposite side from the entrance door.
In truth, it cannot be charged to the account of these helots of modern society if their dwellings are not more cleanly than the pig-sties which are here and there to be seen among them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
