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Example sentences for "tanyard"

Lexicographically close words:
tantrum; tantrums; tantum; tantummodo; tantus; tanzen; taobh; taown; tap; tapa
  1. However, method in the upper-leather tanyard has often been conspicuously absent.

  2. She was as familiar an object at the tanyard as the bark-mill itself.

  3. Rufus happened to come to the tanyard today.

  4. Day was hardly astir when Nate Griggs, wild-eyed and haggard, appeared at the tanyard in search of Birt.

  5. Ye see," Birt presently continued, "I dunno when I kin git shet o' the tanyard this year.

  6. The tanyard lay in the midst of a forest so dense that, except at the verge of the clearing, it showed hardly a trace of its gradual despoliation by the industry that nestled in its heart like a worm in the bud.

  7. But when Andy Byers reached the tanyard and went to work, he said nothing to Birt.

  8. When he entered the tanyard no one was there except Jube Perkins and Andy Byers the tanner, lounging as usual on the wood-pile, and the workman, with scarcely less the aspect of idleness, dawdlingly scraping a hide on the wooden horse.

  9. Ye kin bide with the tanyard an' finish this job yerse'f, of so minded.

  10. An' ef ye air, whyn't ye go ter the tanyard arter me?

  11. Tennie follered me ter the tanyard 'fore I fund her out," Birt explained.

  12. I wud sho lak ter go back dar ter de old place whar de tanyard wuz, but I neber wud hab dat much money ter pay my way on de train, en den, I don't rekkin dat I cud fine de way nohow.

  13. They went to my master's tanyard in broad open day and took leather.

  14. My mother was the weaver and they had a tanyard on the place.

  15. He afterwards returned to Horncastle and worked in the tanyard of the late Mr. Hawling; but went back to Leeds and commenced tanning on his own account, at Meanwood near Leeds, and afterwards on a still larger scale at Buslingthorpe.

  16. At Leeds he found employment in the tanyard of a Mr. Robert Barker, where he presently became foreman.

  17. A Mr. Richburg owned and operated a tanyard and boot shop near the Ayres place.

  18. While I was there he mounted his horse and rode several miles through the neighborhood, to the tanyard and the shoe shop, to procure leather and have a pair of boots made for his grandson, who was in the army.

  19. The tanyard often made the water in the little river stink; the refuse contaminated the meadows, the peasants' cattle suffered from Siberian plague, and orders were given that the factory should be closed.

  20. The three cotton factories and the tanyard were not in the village itself, but a little way off.

  21. Old Fresh Water Bridge, so well known in former times, crossed the stream from Smith's Tanyard nearly in the same place as the present abutment.

  22. Promise me that thou wilt not take any strong drink for a year, and I will employ thee myself in the tanyard at good wages.

  23. Those matter-of-fact tones sounded as if it were the most natural thing in the world to go out to the tanyard at 10 o'clock at night instead of going upstairs to bed.

  24. Ever since the hides had mysteriously disappeared from his tanyard a few days before, he had felt sure that this quarrelsome neighbour of his must have taken them.


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