Haying

The haying is over and harvest isn't on, and Alec needs a change. ❋ Lucy Maud (1911)

[Page 60] ago, have been so arranged and protected as to make it a very pleasant summer residence, but, instead, it was now used only for a week or two in haying-time, when the haymakers slept and ate in its basement, – for this quaint little house had a basement, with a kitchen, dining-room, and storeroom. ❋ Unknown (1904)

This convocation, occurring in the leisure spell between the end of planting and the commencement of haying, is consequently no hindrance to the agricultural part of the community; and old and young "off they come" from Miramichi, from Acadia, and the ❋ Frederick (1845)

But Sheralyn Goyncke, 17, spent the day "haying" - or, in layman's terms, managing bails of hay for cows. ❋ By Jakob Rodgers (2009)

The scanty garments were faded and worn, for harvesting is terribly hard work, and they cannot use their good clothes, as at the haying, which is mere sport in comparison. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)

Eminence in the profession of "haying" was not precisely what Hilda had meant; but she said nothing. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

It was the custom at the Old Squire's to begin "haying" on Monday after the Fourth of July. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The buttercups and the daisies would be blooming when we were working the road, and the timothy grass about ready to do so -- pointing to the near approach of the great event of the season, the one major task toward which so many other things pointed -- "haying;" the gathering of our hundred or more tons of meadow hay. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

"Very good!" she says, "but just the same, I am very happy we are doing the haying since this always distracts you a little." ❋ Gretchen Rubin (2011)

The small, secretive bird is planning a family on 100 acres slated for haying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They have a pretty large farm which requires a lot of haying and tobacco, but I also love to work outdoors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sedge wren puts haying on hold in Town of Montgomery ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have not met very many people that really Know about haying. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am going to have to try that one after haying season is over! ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when a novel’s sinews are bound up in the most fearful intimations of language, when setting down a phrase feels tantamount to ingesting the blood of demons ... just there is the difference between the safety of prose and the lusts of art: think of the haying scene in Anna Karenina, or the Marabar caves in A Passage to ❋ Unknown (2010)