Schoolmaster Crawford introduced a new feature in his school, and we can imagine its effect on his pupils, whose training had been limited to the social requirements of the backwoods settlement.
No feature of his backwoods life pleased Abe so well as going to mill.
Some writers would probably omit these songs and backwoods recitals as savoring too strongly of the Bacchanalian nature, but that would be a narrow view to take of history.
Yet every fresh reading of the story fills the reader anew with wonder and admiration at what was accomplished by the poor backwoods boy.
Nevertheless we left ourbackwoods friends reluctantly; and at the top of the hill we stopped our two horses to look back on the valley.
The latter were the father and five sons of a backwoods family from the northwest--Pine, by name.
Now a person wouldn't ever believe that a backwoods Missouri boy that hadn't ever been in that town before could go and hunt that place over and find that brick, but Tom Sawyer done it.
But by and by there arose sectarian quarrels with other backwoods folk who also wished to worship God in Kentucky, and hot personal disputes among the members--as is the eternal law.
This place turned out to be the frontierbackwoods town of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Those hardy backwoodsmen were quick enough to retaliate, and they generally proceeded on the simple backwoods principle that tribal distinctions were futile, and that every Indian was an enemy.
It was not the education of universities or of courts, but that of hard-earned personal independence, won in the backwoods and by frontier fighting.
Washington, born to a life of adventure and backwoods conquest, had a good deal of real sympathy with these men, for he knew them to be in the main right, and his ultimate purposes were the same as theirs.
Such was the training of Ned Preston; and at the age of sixteen, when we introduce him to the reader, there were none of his years who was his superior in backwoods "lore" and woodcraft.
To describe all these actions, to tell of the gallant doings of our soldiers and the daring enterprises of Rogers and many another backwoods hero would be to occupy more space than is available.
It was not the backwoods fashion to take long in preparing for a journey, and so it happened that Tom Mainwaring set out for the Alleghany within half an hour of his conversation with Steve.
Besides, I want to hear all about the backwoodsand the troubles you have had with the French and the Indians.
The thousands of unhappy settlers who had been driven from the forests and the backwoods were full of tales of brutality, of cruelty on the part of French pioneers and Indians alike.
He spoke seldom, and then always to the point, and in a manner which proved that he had at one time been very different from these rough, honest fellows of the backwoods with whom he now spent his days.
The charm of the backwoods held him a prisoner, while he could never forsake Jim and Mac and Pete and many another trapper, now grown old and feeble and dependent upon him.
But these men of the backwoods were as yet strangers to the majority of the attacking party, who had but lately arrived from England.
They say as all the backwoods huts air fired and men scalped, and that the bigger settlements just near the Alleghany range have also been fired.
Some of 'em who air new to the backwoods and to the trail, reckon they're mighty 'cute theirselves when they've been a month only in the country.
During that period hundreds of peaceful settlers and backwoods people had been butchered by the Red Indians, hounded on by the French, and in many cases French colonists and regular soldiers had been with them.
It was one of those silent and desperate contests which the backwoods had often seen, and nothing but the gasping breaths of the combatants told what was happening.
They make shoes a sight cheaper in the big works up North than you possibly could down here in the backwoods with untrained help.
Nothing better on backwoods life in the Mississippi Valley.
It was not true of the colonial days in Texas, of ranch life in the southern part of Texas, of homesteading all over the West, of emigrant trails to California and Oregon, of backwoods life.
Uncertain wheel tracks indicated that the backwoods farmers, whose cabins were never less than a mile apart, took various routes, according to their fancy or the exigencies of the season.
The mischief already perpetrated in coarse fun--the horseplay of backwoods big boys cut loose from restraint, though rude and destructive, was harmless compared with the orgies to which it was a prelude.
There was much of the grotesque and somewhat of the pitiful in the spectacle presented by the straggling ranks of boatmen and backwoods farmers.
They were threshing over the campaigns of the war between the States and measuring the calibre of commanders as a backwoods man might estimate the girth and footage of timber.
Behind him lay a boyhood that belonged to the little sectionalism of the backwoods settlement.
Like many grandmothers in backwoods life, they delight in recounting the extraordinary apparitions, transmigrations, sorceries, etc.
There I enjoyed a backwoods hospitality at the cost of two dollars a week for board and lodging, and passed the whole summer, finding a subject near the cabin, at which I painted assiduously for nearly three months.
He had learned much of the spirit of Christianity in his backwoods home, but he knew nothing of churches except that which the school had taught him.
Harry returning from a case in the backwoods country beyond Hebron.
I suppose even these backwoods beggars have to eat once in a while, Clint?
The mountain preacher's daughter had escaped those slovenly habits ofbackwoods life that inevitably coarsen.
Before I was elected to the bench I was a backwoods lawyer that sometimes knew the pinch of hunger.
Brent thought of the turkey-gobbler's strut as, with amused eyes, he watched the backwoods lady-killer.
The backwoods dandy scowled and gave back the churl's response, "Thet's my business.
So far as that backwoods Machiavelli divined, there was no link establishing himself with the conspiracy to rob, and when the time came he thought he could clear his skirts by a simple means.
It is not at the best a cultured place, this backwoods town.
She was a thorough woman of society, this girl who sat in her backwoods cottage selling beer.
Its public buildings and its villas have risen, as by the sweep of an enchanter's wand, in these backwoods to the south of the Ottawa valley.
The Boy lived on one of the farther farms, one of the largest and most prosperous, one equipped with all that a backwoods farm should have except, as it chanced, a dog.
Having yielded the main point, that Red Fox must be captured, the Boy took what backwoods ethics would count fair revenge by casting doubts upon the backwoodsman's ability to carry out the enterprise.
The hens, and ducks, and geese, and turkeys of the scattered backwoods farms were now, with the sweet fever of spring in their veins, vagrant and careless.
There are few objects to be met with in the backwoods of the West more unique and picturesque than the dwelling of the emigrant.
But why, in the name of all propriety, this everlasting plagiarizing of the Greek, Gothic, Gallic patronymics of the Old World, so utterly incongruous as applied to the backwoods settlements of the New!
His backwoods experience told him what a chum's sympathy had already gathered, that no freak of sporting opportunities would cause these shots to be fired at such regular intervals.
It is the glorious sense of freedom that everybody feels if they have the "backwoods spirit.
As we are already aware, their fathers were men who had had many a backwoods adventure in their youth.
Do you think that Skipper Mackintosh is going to allow twa laddies like you to go wandering aboot thebackwoods when he can guide you?
He gripped the forward paddle, while his companion at the stern added cheerfully-- "The backwoods is not the City of London.
It is not always safe in the backwoods to announce your presence too suddenly where strangers are concerned--especially strangers who are not of the white skin.
The proceedings of this backwoods legislature--the democratic leader ship of the principal proprietor; the prudence exhibited in the laws for protecting game, breeding horses, etc.
As the result of Henderson's tactfulness, the proprietary form of government, thoroughly democratized in tone, was complacently accepted by the backwoods men.
So rapacious and extortionate were these vultures of the courts who preyed upon the vitals of the common people, that they were savagely lampooned by Rednap Howell, the backwoods poet-laureate of the Regulation.
In describing the condition of the English settlers in the backwoods of Virginia, one of their number, Doddridge, says: "Most of the articles were of domestic manufacture.
The most remarkable feature of this backwoods constitution marks Judge Henderson as a pioneer in the use of the political device so prominent to-day, one hundred and forty years later--the "recall of judges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backwoods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
