stableyard

His legs were long, his hands were bony, and 'stableyard' was written in capital letters on his face.

Muslin 1892

There followed some private thoughts using the untranslatable language of the Spanish stableyard where she had spent so many of her formative years.

Dearly Beloved 2010

A game – cock in the stableyard, deprived of every spark of his accustomed animation, balanced himself dismally on one leg in a corner; a donkey, moping with drooping head under the narrow roof of an outhouse, appeared from his meditative and miserable countenance to be contemplating suicide.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

So, at five the next morning up he got, and into his bath, and into his shooting-jacket and gaiters, and into the stableyard, like

The Water Babies 2007

The guest then wrapped his garments about him so as to shelter himself as effectually as he could from the rough weather, and without any word or sign of farewell betook himself to the stableyard.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

Pen came home, clattering over the bridge and up the stableyard, with half a score of the Clavering voters yelling after him the

The History of Pendennis 2006

"Martingale" is also a nautical term, for an item of rigging - though perhaps borrowed from the horsey usage, and if the scene is in a stableyard, I'd likely figure it wasn't referring to a ship.

Archaic terminology in historical fiction Carla 2006

Inside lay a stableyard, dirt raked in neat lines.

Spirit Gate 2006

There were guards on the walls and a score of soldiers lounging in the stableyard, all armed.

Spirit Gate 2006

"Well, nobody wants to chance death," Perrin said as they started out of the stableyard into the town with everyone strung out behind them.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005