"Hayloft" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... family retired to the hayloft, and Essper George would have followed his master's example, had not the kind mistress of the house tempted him to stay behind by the production of a new platter of rashers: indeed, he never remembered meeting with such hospitable people ...
— Vivian Grey • The Earl of Beaconsfield
... and hot during that harvest season. The harvesters slept in the hayloft because it was cooler there than in the house. I used to lie in my bed by the open window, watching the heat lightning play softly along the horizon, or looking up at the gaunt frame of the windmill against the blue night sky. One night there ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather
... back against the knoll so that from the house the hayloft window seemed like a part of a low shed. Certainly our forbears knew the ways of the New England wind very thoroughly, judging by the way they huddled their houses and outbuildings in hollows or under hillsides to avoid its stress. And when they couldn't do that, ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... but he peeped in from the hayloft when a chance came, and saw a beautiful horse. Next day the "little barn" was ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton
... log stables were also picturesque, especially when a lean-to for the cow-stable was added, and the roof carried down with a long sweep over it; or when the barn was flanked by an open shed with a hayloft above it, where the hens cackled and hid their nests, and from the open window of which the hay was ...
— In the Catskills • John Burroughs
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