Do we say hay or straw

hay 2456 occurrences

Friday, we dine at Judge Budge's; Saturday I am going down to Marblehead to look after the hay.

Send him to dine with the children on Sunday, if you like, and come along down with me to Marblehead, and I'll show you such a crop of hay as will make your eyes open.

"We were hardly two kilometres out of Lindau when we were stopped by a barricade of hay-wagons.

And underneath the hay-stack warm, And on the greenwood stone, She talked and sung the woods among, And it was in the English tongue.

"Uncle, did he leave those animals to starve?" "Didn't you notice," said Mr. Wood, grimly, "that there wasn't a wisp of hay inside that shanty, and that where the poor beasts were tied up the wood was knawed and bitten by them in their torture for food?

Then he would give them an open shed to run under, and throw down their hay outside.

"Oh, up to his eyes in hay.

A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly.

I gave you a wisp of hay, But didn't take your nest away.

There was a little boy went into a barn, And lay down on some hay; An owl came out and flew about, And the little boy ran away.

By John Hay Address delivered December 8, 1897, at the Dinner of the Omar Khayyám Club, London.

The cows would suffer, too, unless father had thrown down hay enough for them; and the fires would go out, and what would father and mother think when they came home to-morrow?

He has thrown down more hay for the cows, and put corn where the hens may find it for to-morrow, in case he cannot get out to them.

"That it was not a judicial confession, is evident: the paper itself does not bear any such mark; nor does it mention, that it was taken in presence of any person, or by any authority whatsoever; and, by comparing it with the judicial examinations of Dalgleish, Hay, and Hepburn, it is apparent, that it is destitute of every formality, requisite in a judicial evidence.

What about preserves, recalling old memories, and making one think of bees and butterflies and apples on the trees and pumpkins in the cornrows, and robins and angle-worms and brown-armed men in the hay-fields?

He had sought his friends among the leaders of the party, behind a stack of hay, at a respectful distance from the house, and to which there was a safe approach by means of the rivulet and its fringe of bushes.

This is perhaps one of the most affecting plays of Shakespear: it was not long since acted fourteen nights together at both houses, at the same time, and it was a few years before revived and acted twelve nights with applause at the little theatre in the Hay market.

But Sandford gave me a jolt by bringing in business; he thinks there is to be a smash, and advises me to make hay while the sun shines.

SEE HAY, ELLA H. The life of Davy Crockett in picture and story.

Robert L. Thorndike & Edward M. Thorndike (C); 28Nov62; R305476. HAY, ELLA H. Friendly tales for children.

SEE HAY, ELLA H. KING, REGINA P. Heaha kou makemake.

By Julie Hay & Charles E. Wingo.

By Julie Hay & Charles E. Wingo.

And His softest bed was hay.'

The Rev. David Hay came in, and prayed with him; also Mr. Thompson, a little after.

straw 2670 occurrences

The pepsin in the presence of the acid digests the casein, gradually dissolving it, forming a straw-colored fluid containing peptones.

They are poor fellows, I must needs say, and have bestowed great labour in sewing leaves, and grass, and straw, and moss upon cast suits.

Will Summer, after Harvest goes out, calls him, on this account, "a bundle of straw," and speaks of his "thatched suit.

In allusion to the ears of corn, straw, &c., with which he was dressed.

Alluding to the attraction of straw by jet.

Beyond that I don't care a straw what happens to Mr. Van Torp, or to any one else.

'I do not care a straw what becomes of any living creature but you.'

In his miserable cottage he had no other furniture than a straw pallet and an iron lamp, which last somebody stole.

Epictetus lived in a miserable cottage with only a straw pallet and a single lamp.

The students sat around on benches, or on the straw.

Hold thy doubt friend, never feare any woman, unlesse thyselfe be made of straw, or some such drie matter, and she of lightning.

But the main interest of Fiesole to most people is not the cypress-covered hill of S. Francesco; not the view from the summit; not the straw mementoes; not the Mino relief in the church; but the Roman arena.

Beauty is the common object of all love, "as jet draws a straw, so doth beauty love:" virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form, and an incorrupt judgment; those two Venus' twins, Eros and Anteros, are then most firm and fast.

He can tell what lands grow the best tobacco, what lands are free from inundation, what free from drought; the temper of the inhabitants of each village, and the history of each farm; where are the best ploughs, the best bullocks, and the best farming; in what villages you get most coolies for weeding; where you can get the best carts, the best straw, and the best of everything at the most favourable rates.

It was the last straw.

The floor is covered with straw, and then a carpet is stretched over it, which makes a particularly bulgy, uneven surface to stand dressing-tables and things on.

The straw, too, is apt to stick out where it is least expected, and gives one rather the feeling of being a tinker sleeping in a barn.

The forage ration for a horse is 14 pounds of hay and 12 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a Field Artillery horse of the heavy-draft type, weighing 1,300 pounds or over, 17 pounds of hay and 14 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a mule, 14 pounds of hay and 9 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding.

The forage ration for a horse is 14 pounds of hay and 12 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a Field Artillery horse of the heavy-draft type, weighing 1,300 pounds or over, 17 pounds of hay and 14 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a mule, 14 pounds of hay and 9 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding.

The forage ration for a horse is 14 pounds of hay and 12 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a Field Artillery horse of the heavy-draft type, weighing 1,300 pounds or over, 17 pounds of hay and 14 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding; for a mule, 14 pounds of hay and 9 pounds of oats, corn, or barley, and 3-1/3 pounds of straw (or hay) for bedding.

"The commanding officer may, in his discretion, vary the proportions of the components of the ration (1 pound of grain, 1-1/2 pounds of hay, and 2 pounds of straw being taken as equivalents), and in the field may substitute other recognized articles of forage obtained locally, the variation or the substitution not to exceed the money value of the components of the ration at the contract rates in effect at the time of change.

Get some straw or dry grass if possible.

Some of these hordes had large closely-covered tents; others again had merely a straw mat, a cloth, or some skins stretched on a pair of poles, scarcely protecting the heads of those lying under them from the burning rays of the sun.

In one instance, I was led far into the underwood in pursuit of some beautiful insects, when I found myself on a sudden surrounded by a swarm of women and children, so that I thought it advisable to hasten back again to the ship's peoplenot that any one offered me any violence; but they crowded round me, handled my dress, wanted to put on my straw bonnet; and this familiarity was far from pleasant on account of their extreme dirtiness.

So he bought a truss of straw and one of hay (for Clarissa and the shaggy phantom) and brought them to the roulotte upon his back.

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