...How are you going to find him?It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...You shall take it home with you to-night and practise thrusting at a haystack or at a bobbin, as you please...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
... Systematic search seems as foolish as in the case of the proverbial needle in the haystack...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...We had just gone on the bridgefor breakfast when we saw him walking slowly from us along an islandof white sand as flat as your hand, and on which he loomed large asa haystack...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...It was like seeking a needle in a haystack...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...We dried our steaming clothesinside the warm ranch house and had a goodsupper, and that night we rolled up in ourblankets and tarpaulins, and slept soundly inthe lee of a big haystack...
Various 「Hunting in Many Lands」
...I hopedthe birds might return another season,as the nest looked as if it might havebeen used for two or three years, andwas as lop-sided as a poorly made haystack...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897]」
...The woods were extensive,and full of deep, dark tangles, and looking forany particular nest seemed about as hopeless atask as searching for a needle in a haystack, asthe old saying is...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...‘Look dar! dar’s de tree—trunk thick as a haystack...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
... don’t you remember when the haystack was on fire at the farm at home how we went to see it...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...Although pea-fowl seek their food onthe ground, they invariably roost on some elevated situation,such as a high branch, or the roof of a barn or haystack...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...But to hunt on a dark night for a boy in a sea of mud would be likehunting for a needle in a haystack, and he did not attempt it...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...t was like finding a needle in a haystack, and for a time Stoddarddespaired of success...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
... all of you! I suppose you couldn't hit a haystack at twenty yards? Why...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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