The farm buildings were safe enough, as they were surrounded by a considerable area of bare land, but the fire would lick up the stooks and even burn the standing grain, which was now dead ripe.
The stookers had reached the scene by this time, and ran ahead of the horses, throwing the stooks out of the way.
From the earliest moment that the dew would permit operations until the stooks stood eerie and indistinct in the thickening dusk the boys broadsided their two binders into the ranks of the standing grain.
Hurried counsel was taken; fifty men sought cover behind the stooks of corn, the rest lined the skirting woods.
As Morris and Bancroft climbed over the fence and led the way towards the homestead, some of the armed farmers strolled from behind the stooks into the open, and others showed themselves carelessly among the trees on the bank of the creek.
When the stooks had been laid low we made a very poor attempt to disguise the newly thrown-up earth by covering the top of the trenches with straw, which only seemed to make our position more conspicuous than ever.
Our trench was dug in a stubble field where the corn had just been stooked, and it was now our business to push all the stooks over.
When Annie vanished among the stooks after the rejection of her offered shadow, a throbbing pain at her heart kept her from returning to the reapers.
So, after a few stooks had been set up, Alec crawled out with the help of his mother and Kate, and lay down on some sheaves, sheltered from the sun by a stook, and watched.
Cæsar was striding through the stooks past Philip and Kate.
The corn boos doon afore ye like the stooks to Joseph.
From my bed I could see the stooks standing in rows upon the field, and it seemed like the judgment day.
Harvest ruled the world, and the fields in the valley and on the hillside were dotted with stooks and stacks.
In her brown holland dress and red poppy hat she made such a sweet picture against the yellow of the corn stooks that, in spite of his disapproval, Keith could not help looking after her with a certain amount of admiration.
The stubble field needs a tone of richer and warmer yellow, while a fewstooks here in the foreground would be the utmost improvement.
Keith, in the shelter of the stooks close by, was deep in his book; and there was no sound except the chirping of birds, or the lowing of cattle, to disturb her.
On the 27th we penetrated into this position at two points.
To avoid suspicion, I made the now depleted stooks up to their usual strength by again borrowing the same number of sheaves from each of the heaps in the row still further beyond.
Removing my pack and coat, I set to work transporting two oat sheaves from each of the stooks in the next row for a length of about fifty yards, and adding them to the row in which my nest was planned to be.
It is reasonable to suppose that, should a general enlargement be effected embracing a number of stooks in one area, the result would be hardly noticeable.
The enemy were now seen some 2,000 yards away, the intervening ground being mainly stubble fields in which the corn stooks were still standing.
In anticipation of this movement a squadron of the 18th Hussars had already been posted dismounted among the corn stooks on that side.
The corn harvester has dissolved the partnership between corn and pumpkin and fells the stalks by the acre, doing away with the old-time stooks or shocks.
And before the stooks of corn are in stacks he'll be taken from you, but I'll save him if I can.
The squares get less and the yellowstooks rise, as it were, out of the very ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
