The causes are, in the majority of instances, the bad styes in which the pigs are lodged, and the noisome food which they often contain.
They are likewise peculiarly sensitive of approaching changes in the weather, and may often be observed suddenly leaving the places in which they had been quietly feeding, and running off to their styes at full speed, making loud outcries.
As he spoke he bound his girdle round him and went to the styes where the young sucking pigs were penned.
Outside the yard he had run a strong fence of oaken posts, split, and set pretty close together, while inside he had built twelve styes near one another for the sows to lie in.
Styes usually run their course in a few days or a week; another frequently follows.
She shut them in her styes and supplied them with acorns and such other things as swine love.
Now when she had given them the cup and they had drunk it off, presently she smote them with a wand, and in the styes of the swine she penned them.
Here manure-heap, granary and pig styes open on the highway, the dwellings being at the back.
Sometimes this flower garden is aerial, a bower of roses on the roof sometimes amid the incongruous surroundings of pigstyes or manure heaps.
When a child is suffering from eyestrain, the eyes themselves may show indications of trouble; they may be blood-shot, the lids may itch or be crusted or inflamed, or styes may appear.
He told me the story during an after-dinner walk, in which he took me the round of his pig-styes and cattle-sheds for the last time, as if he would fain have had them leave their impress on my heart.
He had been working all day, cleaning out pig-styes and carting the manure to the ditch which ran north of the village, and which served as a slight defence, and also as a storing place for fertilizing material to spread upon the fields.
He cleaned the filth from the styes with never a thought that he might be better or more profitably employed.
Then Hermes departed, and Ulysses went to the house of Circe, and she asked him to enter, and seated him on a chair, and gave him the enchanted cup to drink, and then smote him with her wand and bade him go to the styes of the swine.
But he sat silent, neither eating nor drinking, in sorrow for his company, till Circe called them out from the styes and disenchanted them.
Perhaps they don't give them clean styesin Shoreditch, she said.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "styes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
