Those on the seaward side are built right on to the water so that many of them have ladders hanging from their backyards by which the men can climb down into their boats.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton
Was it any wonder that some of these young men who had laughed on the way to Waterloo Station, and held their heads high in the admiring gaze of London crowds, sure of their own heroism, slunk now in the backyards of French farmhouses, hid behind hedges when men in khaki passed, and told wild, incoherent tales, when cornered at last by some cold-eyed officer in some town of France to which they had blundered?
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
I was still groping towards the heart of the business and wandering in its backyards.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs