On the wire-fence that circled the haystack sat a row of red-winged blackbirds like a string of jet beads, patiently waiting for the oats to ripen and indulging in low-spoken but pleasant gossip about all the other birds in the valley.

Fred hurried forward, and found a man, almost covered with snow, huddled beside a haystack, his clothing securely held by the barbs of the wire with which the stack was fenced.

Well, we took her up in a jiffy as soon as we heard the glorious news about school being closed for two weeks; and as she foots all the bills, we're bound to have a jolly time of it, even if we don't run across Roland; and I think that is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

On the fifth day McMillan got through to the country watered by the Buchan River, and, from the summit of an elevation which he called Mount Haystack, he obtained a most satisfactory view over the surrounding region.

"It's from that haystack!

The boys dived out of the car and set off running at top speed for the scene of the blaze, which was in a haystack back of the main barn of the farmhouse.

"It's like looking for a needle in that proverbial haystack," struck in Peggy.

Heavy rains had caused the valleys and marshes to become flooded, and a haystack which had been carried off its bed by the water had lodged against the temporary sleeper buttress and swept the bridge away.

I crawled into a haystack to sleep one night, because it was warmer, and along comes a village constable and arrests me for being a tramp.

As Jumbo said: "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack after dark; and it wouldn't do you any good to sit down in this haystack, either.

As Jumbo said: "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack after dark; and it wouldn't do you any good to sit down in this haystack, either.

It had occurred to me to go on as fast as I could towards Salem House, and spend the night behind the wall at the back of my old school, where there used to be a haystack.

I had a hard day's walk, and with great trouble found Salem House, and the haystack, and lay down outside the dark and silent house.

I slept under another haystack, after washing my blistered feet in a stream, and went on in rather better spirits, coming at last to the bare wide downs near Dover.

Could the sharpest eyes find more needles in this enormous haystack?

Mother says the kiddies would starve if I leave; but Stanley is coming on like a haystack, I tell him, and he does kick up, and he ought to be able to plough next time.

The fugitive, assuming correctly that it was slowing down for search, was seen by a brakeman fleeing across a pasture between the tracks and the eastern edge of Haystack Mountain.

Intuitively she felt that if Ruggam was on Haystack Mountain making his way toward Lost Nation, he would strike for the shacks of the Green Mountain Club or the deserted logging-camps along the trail, secreting himself in them during his pauses for rest, for he had no food, and provisions were often left in these structures by hunters and mountain hikers.

She had the advantage of starting on the northwest side of Haystack.

Besides, if Ruggam had left the freight at Norwall on the eastern side of Haystack at noon, he had thirty miles to travel before reaching the territory from which she was starting.

The needle In the haystack.

Needle in a haystack.

Here and there was a haystack with one grave beside it, and again there would be one, usually partly burned, almost encircled with the tiny flags which said: "Here sleep the heroes.

At nightfall I crept up nearer to the village and found a comfortable resting-place in an old haystack, east of the place.

"All the way from that bewt therethe one that looks most like a haystack.