The seats had all been removed, and around the walls were palliasses stacked, filled with old straw.

It was a very old straw one, with a ribbon round it - a ribbon that Pam recognized only too well!

He had lain with an aristocrat and now he lay in old, filthy straw.

The next day we moved to the shelter of another stable, where we dug deep down into some old straw piled at one end.

On the headland, soaked from the sea, it had been the colour of old straw.

The floor beneath her was thick with old straw and sawdust, and it was all she could do not to sneeze.

Farrell laughed, feeling as though his throat were full of old straw.

They were in a prison cell, its floor strewn th dry rushes and old straw.

Once a year, the old straw was removed by a front-end loader or similar machinery.

Slowly he moved toward the corner and began poking at the old straw.