"You mean we'll be in some horrible boardinghouse, in a still more horrible hall bedroom, looking out on a dingy
back yard."
That seemed a good idea; so the Historian rigged up a high tower in his
back yard, and took lessons in wireless telegraphy until he understood it, and then began to call "Princess Dorothy of Oz" by sending messages into the air.
"She is in the chicken house, in the
back yard," said the Princess.
At nine old Parvenzano lets me through to his
back yard, where there's a board off Riddle's fence, next door.
And as soon as the officer let go of the gate handle she turned and, hurrying away on her old legs, went through the
back yard to the servants' quarters.
I was glad, when I came home from school at noon, to see a farm-wagon standing in the
back yard, and I was always ready to run downtown to get beefsteak or baker's bread for unexpected company.
After looking round the parlor, Levin went out in the
back yard. The good-looking young woman in clogs, swinging the empty pails on the yoke, ran on before him to the well for water.
"Yes," said Button-Bright; "there's a well in our
back yard."
Like a burglar the man came, with infinite caution of silence, to the outhouse in Doctor Emory's
back yard where Michael was a prisoner.
I told him I wasn't in the habit of fertilising my
back yard with cream."
He had left Betteredge, an hour since, sunning himself in the customary corner of the
back yard. I knew it well; and I said I would go and seek him myself.
Anne sighed and betook herself to the
back yard, over which a young new moon was shining through the leafless poplar boughs from an apple-green western sky, and where Matthew was splitting wood.