Inman's eyes and the long wound at his neck drew them, and the sound of their wings and the touch of their feet were soon more potent than a yardful of roosters in rousing a man to wake. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)
Appraising the yardful of retired fixtures, he asked, "What made you decide to be a plumber, Joanna?" ❋ Braun, Lilian Jackson (1989)
Gazing on that yardful of imbecile-looking canines, my admiration for Noah's wisdom increased; he certainly needed no more than a pair to restock the earth. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
And there was the fox with a whole farm-yardful of cocks and hens, and ducks and geese. ❋ Valery Carrick (1906)
What a yardful of curious comment, what satirical note on the preposterousness of human existence! what life there is in every line; and the painter has made meaning with every blot of colour! ❋ Unknown (1892)
The landward environment was as commonplace and mean as it could be: a yardful of dismal sheds for coal and lumber, and shanties for offices, with each office its safe and its desk, its whittled arm-chair and its spittoon, its fly that shooed not, but buzzed desperately against the grimy pane, which, if it had really had that boasted microscopic eye, it never would have mistaken for the unblemished daylight. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
He was quite in earnest, now, about producing a totally new effect of his own; and believing in his work, as a good workman ought to do, he wrought at it indefatigably and well in the retirement of a second-pair back, overlooking a yardful of fluttering clothes, and ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
Productions, a year-old company that churns out four cable shows without a yardful of ❋ Unknown (2010)
Oklahoma!, fantasizing a yardful of dancers leaping and singing my praises, just waiting for me to fling open the shutters and begin what would go down in history as Amazon. com's busiest day. ❋ Unknown (2009)
On presenting the letter, everything Don Julian possessed was instantly thrown at my feet; but out of the magnificent gift, I only selected an armful of wood, from a large yardful, for our fire, and for which he charged me three rials, as well as three more for the use of an empty corral for the animals; we ourselves encamping outside his gate on the damp thawing snow, without receiving the ghost of an invitation to enter his house. ❋ Unknown (1916)
When we come back, we’ll take whatever it was and we’ll leave a yardful of dead Irishmen, payback for Carl and Denny. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2009)
Inman’s eyes and the long wound at his neck drew them, and the sound of their wings and the touch of their feet were soon more potent than a yardful of roosters in rousing a man to wake. ❋ Unknown (2006)
