The lawn or "dooryard," should be the best kept ground on the place. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings] Reference
His dooryard is a picture, while the weeds sometimes choke his garden. ". From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
About the dooryard are the usual signs of life. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
And forever now when America leans in the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Then on a stile, which spanned the dooryard fence. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
Sweet Grass Mountains will be as safe as one's own dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
"Oh, Kitty," came a sudden wail of alarm from the dooryard where. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Oh, it seemed as if she were always cleaning because of that dooryard!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
The fourth walnut, the Chase, is growing in a dooryard at Oberlin, Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
'Twas a shrewd trick of Simon's to seize her as she sat in her dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
The scene is outside her dooryard at Plymouth, Mass., in the Spring of 1621. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
And the crocus was up in the dooryard, and the drift by the fence was thinned. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
BENTON originated with us, the original tree growing in Mr. Benton's dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Crows are especially tamable and may be allowed full liberty around the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
A group of towering cottonwood trees, standing in the dooryard, is so conspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
As the party came in sight of one of these farms, a great cry arose from the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
"W.en lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd" -- W.W. Lilacs shall bloom for W.lt W.itman. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
His local interest, however, will naturally be around his own dooryard and neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914] Reference
A varied collection of old-fashioned plants and flowers crowd the neatly swept dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The trailing arbutus trailed everywhere; the lady slippers grew even in the front dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens] Reference
The dooryard was covered with a heavy sod and the ancient flower beds had run wild with weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
Sometimes she was even able to walk about the dooryard a little and gather flowers for herself. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
In our latitude grafted hickories, first of all trees, rightly should be in everyone's dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
Mrs. Boyd had seen them coming, and she came out to meet them, as they turned into the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [The S. W. F. Club] Reference
Springer wearing the big catching mitt and coaching Rodney Grant to pitch in Springer's dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
The following morning, shortly after breakfast, Phil saw Rod turning into the dooryard of his home. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
"As well as I know that dooryard in front of you," replied the old man, pointing through the window. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
The old posts he collected on the wagon and drew into the dooryard, piling them beside the woodshed. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Aunt Nancy's dooryard was famous for its flowers, being a riot of pied bloom from March till December. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
In front of the house there was no fence, but a dooryard that seemed to embrace the rest of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The two men parted and later Hinkson rode into his own dooryard, where he found an anxious little wife. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Meanwhile, that mob, which the Scheimer boys seemed always to have at hand, was gathering in the dooryard. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
But a basin, however bright, is not enough to keep a crow in the dooryard; for a crow is a bird of adventure. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories] Reference
A cat may look at a king; and we have a perfect right to stand here in our own dooryard, and gape at the show. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
In the moyen-age the garden was a thing quite apart from the dwelling, and was but a diminutive dooryard sort of. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
They stopped for the night in the first clearing they found, which had once been the dooryard of a small cottage. From Wordnik.com. [With a Single Spell]
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