Dooryard

Yes | No | Report from ray wrote 1 year 21 weeks ago ya might be a redneck if yer dooryard is paved with empty, .22 hulls (and you emptied them there, true), also if you can make an ole SShot shotgun bark fast as others shoot their ole 97's (and it doesn't bother ya the least that it's a wire twist barrel, after all thats whut lite loads were made for .. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her little face was like the pansies that used to grow in mother's dooryard; and a dooryard is the place for pansies, not a stage. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

The lawn or "dooryard," should be the best kept ground on the place. ❋ Lewis Falley Allen (1845)

His dooryard is a picture, while the weeds sometimes choke his garden. " ❋ Margaret Hill McCarter (1899)

I sat on a bench at the edge of the erstwhile dooryard and listened to warblers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A man in a filthy Carhart jacket stood framed in a large barn door when we pulled into the dooryard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

    He can hear his mother telling him once, as she pulled weeds in the dooryard: You mind you be careful what you wish for, boy, cause you might get it ... but more likely you'll get something else. ❋ Unknown (2010)

William led Rose out of the woods into the dooryard, and saw Sarah sitting on the steps of the porch, her chin in her hands, looking quite glum. ❋ Janet Chapman (2010)

Squinting against the array of floodlights lighting up the dooryard like high noon, Maddy swung the truck in a wide circle, stopped it right beside the porch steps, and shut off the engine. ❋ Janet Chapman (2010)

Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They were married in the dooryard, "he added, as an afterthought," so he could carry her over the threshold for the first time as a wife. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We put out the wharf every summer, we park our cars in the dooryard and we drink pop. ❋ Unknown (2009)