A cow's head looking over its biss, and it struck me that the byre was the handy place to get at in Loch Ranza. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
A good fat sow, a sleeky cow was standing in the byre. From Wordnik.com. [Merry May the Maid Be] Reference
I tied them in a byre where infected cattle had stood. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
The cleaning out of the manure from the byre is easier. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
Down by the byre; and, trust me, loving enough were they. From Wordnik.com. [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference
She is good in the byre with Hermes to increase the stock. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Bring a Cow to the Hall, and she will run to the byre again. From Wordnik.com. [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference
In winter when the wind an rain blaws o'er the house and byre. From Wordnik.com. [Merry May the Maid Be] Reference
If it get into a byre of weighty fat cattle the loss will be heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
"I have one or two other friends out-bye there in the byre," put in. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
At that I went to the old byre where the heathen had sat that day, and. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
'Then he happened to pas a byre where they were cleaning out the dung. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - Hovis set-up in London's psoriasis] Reference
The first night ah wis pit in the byre, ah lay in the beggar's bed, man. From Wordnik.com. [Seton's Lassie] Reference
I had a bullock showing some symptoms of the disease in a byre amongst ten. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
When I took his meaning, I could have run like a horse from a burning byre. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
M'Iver whistled softly to himself, and looked at me where I stood in the byre-door. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The application of fixers is best made to the manure when still in the stall or byre. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
And -- except the minister -- the other occupants of the byre were in an equal terror. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Cualnge, the lowing he made at even as he came to his haggard, his shed, and his byre. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
Beyond the passage was a much larger, windowless room, this one a byre for the animals. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
The murderers were ransacking the house when Betty and the child were escaping through the byre. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The hut lay some yards aside, among the trees, with a low wooden fence round it, and a byre beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Brother Cadfael's Penance]
From the byre I could hear the moving and slow champing of the cows, but the evening milking was over. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
From the byre-lasses and the Bailie, Edward could obtain no satisfactory explanation of the disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
True, the byre lay just within the trees at the edge of the clearing, but there were no well-grown oaks there. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
He looks at his watch -- it is near six o'clock, and he had seen a man walk sleepily to the byre from a distant house. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
He'll gae awa 'an' leave the shop stanin 'open to the street, as gin it were a byre, an' never think naething aboot it!. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
At that very moment their enemies might be prowling from barn to byre, from cart-shed to stable in pursuit of their prey. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
Its byre was almost intact, and we ran to it up the burn as fast as we could, and concealed ourselves in the dark interior. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Mr Collie, Ardgay, Morayshire, had a byre of cattle slaughtered under the same circumstances, and with the very same result. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
In a cold sweat, Tam and the boy fled from the waterside and cast themselves shivering into their beds over the byre at home. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
We looked at each other a little ashamed, for it seemed as if she had guessed of our divided company and the four men in the byre. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
A big, tow-headed, shaggy fellow in a frayed leather coat came ducking out of the low byre as Hugh and his officers halted at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
There was an enormous byre partitioned off into several pig styes, and this was allotted to the officers, one pig stye for each officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
The case was this -- the gable of the byre had been blown down, which, as it was of his own building, was not of the most durable nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831] Reference
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