Which preposition to use with haystacks
Creeping into this from the base of the haystack in flames, little pathways of fire darted out like vicious serpents.
Quite probably he had never seen a trench; I should be neither surprised nor pained to learn that he could only hit a haystack with a revolver by throwing the revolver at the haystack.
I had walked every step of the way, sleeping under haystacks at night.
Poor Enfield, that has been so peaceable hitherto, that has caught an inflammatory fever, the tokens are upon her; and a great fire was blazing last night in the barns and haystacks of a fanner about half a mile from us.
"No more of that; if you want to knock the brains out of that haystack on the back of your head, why, knock away; but spare my bones, if you please.
What with the insects and the chance of being aroused at dawn by an attack of the raiding Albanians, I did not sleep again, and was up at dawn preparing to continue the journey to Shawnik, where alone we could count on being safe from the swarms of bashi-bazouks, whose movements we could already follow in the air by the smoke ascending from house and haystack over the plains we had traversed the day before.
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.