Word: dooryard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Within a 300-mile radius of the new bridge, a comfortable day's drive, live 35,000,000 people, a fourth of the U. S. population, a third of Canada's. To many of these the link meant an international short cut to a neighbor's dooryard; to others, weekends in the bass and muskellunge waters, easier access to a prime vacation land. But to a "whimsical few the route had still another charm. Nearer the U. S. than ever were Ontario's Dionne quintuplets...
...American scheme of education at a moment when it was threatened with absorption into the professional schools or with dissolution into a junior college or a vocational hodge-podge. The work of both men examplifies the little-understood principle that if you do well the work in your own dooryard you have done it well for all dooryards...
...Dooryard Ornithology." John N. Clark...
...veritable descendant of King Philip. For a year it lay before the front door of the old farm-house; but it was destined to be wiped by more ambitious feet than those of country callers, and now, for the last time, it had seen the lilacs bloom in the dooryard, and it was no longer to serve the old house-dog for a comfortable lounge. It was to know the feet that frequent a college entry. The sights and sounds of its new experience had little in common with those of its first fair year, although, perhaps, the unsteady steps...