Not every man has Europe or Asia in his backyard, nor a lifetime of leisure for research, for special learning, on the moot questions of church-scholarship.

Flushes of sweetpeas ripple along its picket fences and off toward the backyards are long grape-arbors, in autumn their great fruit-clusters ripening to purple frost.

I also set up the earthworm vermicompost pit in our backyard.

An' how wuz I ever on earth to tell 'At the pretty flower which I stooped to smell In our backyard wuz the very one Which a bee wuz busily working on? An' jus' as I got my nose down there, He lifted his foot an' kicked for fair, An' he planted his stinger right into me,

Not only can the preacher eye instantaneously every member of his congregation, but he can get serene glimpses through the windows of eight chimney pots, five house roofs, and portions of two backyards.

After carefully examining the house, peeping through the chinks in the lower shutters, and discovering the grocer seated by the bedside of his son, though he could not make out the object of his solicitude, Wyvil decided upon attempting an entrance by the backyard.

The German guns had beaten upon it until it was like a rubbish heap in the backyard of hell.

These are the backyards of the floating city.

Standing there in that commonplace backyard, staring up at a house like any one of forty near her, she felt her heart grow larger.

He called on us daily, tied his horse to the paling fence beneath the shade of a sallie-tree in the backyard, and when mother was unable to see him he was content to yarn for an hour or two with Jane Haizelip, our servant-girl.

Was it any wonder that some of these young men who had laughed on the way to Waterloo Station, and held their heads high in the admiring gaze of London crowds, sure of their own heroism, slunk now in the backyards of French farmhouses, hid behind hedges when men in khaki passed, and told wild, incoherent tales, when cornered at last by some cold-eyed officer in some town of France to which they had blundered?

I was still groping towards the heart of the business and wandering in its backyards.

TAYLOR, JOHN C. Backyard poultry keeping.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511851. Selections from American guerrilla: raiders push into Rommel's backyard, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carnes.

Birds in your backyard.

Backyard exploration; illustrated with photos, and drawings by the author.

Betty Carnes (W); 15Sep71; R511851. Selections from American guerrilla: raiders push into Rommel's backyard, by Douglas M. Smith & Cecil Carnes.

CHAPTER II All the morning she had been busy in the Craig's backyard garden, clipping, training, loosening the earth around lilac, honeysuckle, and Rose of Sharon.

she said, leaning a little sideways so that she could see over the fence and down into the Craig's backyard garden.

Strange spicy odours, too, sometimes floated inland from the sugar wharves, miles away under the Heights, to mingle with the scent of lilac and iris in quiet, sunny backyards where whitewashed fences reflected the mid-day glare, and cats dozed in strategical positions on grape trellis and tin roofs of extensions, prepared for war or peace, as are all cats always, at all times.

Ailsa was in the backyard garden, a trowel in her hand, industriously loosening the earth around the prairie roses.

Outside her windows in the backyard, early sunshine slanted across shrub and grass and white-washed fence; the Sunday quiet was absolute, save for the church bells.

In fact, at that moment, Burgess, in the boarding-house backyard, was promenading up and down, leering at the Swedish scullion, and enjoying the last expensive cigar that his master was likely to purchase in many a day.

The club women got a photographer and went the rounds of streets and alleys and private backyards.

It is impossible to go for a hundred yards in a straight line, in any direction, without either bringing up against the side of a house or trespassing upon somebody's backyard; and in the night one falls over a slumbering cow, upon a fair average, once every fifty feet.