They arrived at the Bar W bunkhouse at nightfall, spent with hunger and want of sleep.
Both were hurried inside by Mrs. Horne and I was sent down to the bunkhouse to carry word to Lafe and his captive.
Whenever strangers appeared, I always had a moment of uncertainty as to whether they were to be sent to the bunkhouse with the men, or invited to our own table.
When he knew in advance he was going with me, he went up to the bunkhouse "to slick up.
The bunkhouse was occupied by the family of a hard-working farmer who had married the daughter of our caretaker, Parker; tractors, ploughs and harrows filled the space about the blacksmith shop.
I dashed frantically between the bunkhouseand our kitchen to be certain that nothing was forgotten.
I'm goin' down to the bunkhouse first," Loudon whispered.
And over at the bunkhouse a man with self-revilement was fumbling with a spray of heart's-ease and looking into vacancy.
He went over to thebunkhouse to interrogate McVey, but could get no enlightenment from that taciturn individual, who really knew nothing of Douglass's motives.
Then he went back to the bunkhouse and in ten minutes was fast asleep.
Declining all offers of assistance, Douglass carried him to the bunkhouse and laid him on the rough bed.
Over at the bunkhouse Douglass stood glaring at the imperturbable Red.
And yet, as he walked into the bunkhouse a few minutes later, no one looking at the outward impassiveness of that calm face would have even the remotest suspicion of the hell of resentful anger and outraged vanity burning in his heart.
As he entered thebunkhouse the measured breaths from each bed were those of placidly sleeping men and he undressed in the dark so as not to disturb them.
Turning uneasily in the hammock, she discovered for the first time that the entrance to the bunkhousewas visible through the interstices of the wistaria.
Harlan had ridden directly to the bunkhouse door and dismounted.
He knew Haydon was an outlaw; that the men who had been grouped in front of the bunkhouse were members of Haydon's band; he knew the man who had escorted him to the Star had been deliberately stationed in the timber to watch for him.
He had sat for a long time on the threshold of the bunkhouse door, and after a time he noted that the moon was swimming high, almost overhead.
He had felt the antagonism of Harlan that day when he had talked with him at the bunkhouse door; Harlan's manner that day had convinced him that Harlan was jealous of his attentions to Barbara Morgan.
Red Linton said nothing until Harlan seated himself on a bench just outside the bunkhouse door.
In front of a bunkhouse were several men who, when they saw Harlan and the other man coming, faced toward them and stood, motionless, watching.
And into his eyes came a glitter of that cold contempt which Haydon had seen in them on the day he had faced Harlan near the bunkhouse at the Rancho Seco.
Harlan had raised his voice until he was sure the men in front of the bunkhouse heard him; then he grinned genially at them all and followed the black-bearded man into the ranchhouse.
Instead, he waited until after breakfast--when the men were congregated outside the bunkhouse door--when he was certain they would all hear him.
One day, seated on a bench in front of the long bunkhouse near the Star ranchhouse, Harlan was watching some of the men who were playing cards near him.
The rider Harlan had seen had come in with that news--and Haydon had been standing with the group at the bunkhousewhen the man arrived.
Malcolm agreed and they stepped to the bunkhouse door.
He saw Malcolm Clayton come out of the bunkhouse door, and noticed Betty running toward him from the ranchhouse.
Let's go down to the bunkhouse and play a little pitch.
Then she took a turn around the ranchhouse yard, stopping at the bunkhouse and looking over the corral fence.
He often watched Dade while they were working together on the bunkhouse in the days following the incident of the ambush by Taggart.
We were very much excited, and when we reached ourbunkhouse we told some of the other boys.
It was against the rules to smoke in the bunkhouse and half the time we were not allowed in the yard, so of course we broke the rule and smoked, only some one always stayed on guard and gave warning if they saw a "square-head" coming.
Finally we got back to the bunkhouse and I told Snipe and two or three other Canadians what I had heard.
Intensely pacified by this knowledge, he lumbered toward the bunkhouse door and flung it open, determined to crush the pestersome youth who thus unfeelingly disturbed the quietude of Camp Bannister at such an unearthly hour!
As big, good-natured Butch Brewster stood in the bunkhouse doorway, his wrath at the pestiferous Hicks forgotten, in his rapture at the glorious dawn, he saw something that showed why his dreams had been of the wild West!
The bunkhouse fairly erupted angry collegians, boiling out like bees swarming from a disturbed hive; Hefty Hollingsworth, the Herculean center-rush.
There being nothing that could be done further, the manager and Dick returned to the office, while Garry went to the bunkhouse to see if he could render any aid to the man who had been cut by the flying particles of the saw.
Half of the men can stay near the bunkhouse drawing fire with their rifles while the truck is being fixed.
Most of the men in the camp are in my pay, and just to be sure that we clean up tonight and tomorrow night as we had planned, we have seized all the men we are not sure of and have them herded in the bunkhouse and under heavy guard.
I am sorry that I can't offer you quarters in the bunkhouse here, but they are just built to accommodate the officers of the camp; that is myself, the sealer, the timekeeper and the bookkeeper.
Of course you would not want to live in the bunkhouse with the men, for they are a rough lot.
He was housed with thirty other men in a bunkhouse of hand-split cedar; he labored every day felling and trimming tall slender poles for piling that would ultimately hold up bridges and wharves.
Mrs. Norton was somewhere in the house and Norton had gone down to the bunkhouse for a talk with the men--Hollis and Nellie could see him, sitting on a bench in the shade of the eaves, the other men gathered about him.
They're about three miles from the Circle Bar ranchhouse, directly north through that cottonwood back of the bunkhouse where you tried your gun the day after you come out here.
But conscience pricked him at length to leave those fascinating adventurers in the bunkhouse and to condescend for an interval to mere brotherhood.
That reminds me, I'm going to bed down with the boys in the bunkhouse to-night.
From the corral Sorry and Jim came walking up the path to meet the wagon which was making straight for the bunkhouse instead of going first to the stable.
Swan and Hawkins came up and waited with him, and Jim opened the door of the bunkhouse and looked out at them without showing enough interest to come forward and speak to them.
While the others were running hither and yon near the bunkhouse and the corral, Shorty raced his horse to the ranchhouse, slid off and crossed the wide porch in two or three leaps.
He had plunged out of the bunkhouse with the other men in time to catch a glimpse of the outlaws as they went by with the herd, and he had roughly estimated their number at fifty.
From their bunkhouse they watched, day and night, for the end; their horses ready, heavy clothing at hand for a plunge into the white waste that stretched on all sides of them.
There was confusion in the bunkhouse where men collided with their fellows as they plunged about for discarded garments, gun-belts, and boots.
The lithe giant had rushed out of the bunkhouse as the herd thundered past.
She raised her eyebrows questioningly, and Sam explained they would build a small, separate bunkhouse for himself and Lt.
The men finished the cabin in a hurry after that, and they put up their own bunkhouse in less than a week.
When that young man reached thebunkhouse Frisco was indulging in a reminiscence.
If it ain't Reddy, AND the lady with the flying machine," murmured a freckled youth named McWilliams, emerging from the bunkhouse with a pan of water which had been used to bathe the wound of one of the punctured combatants.
It was scarce more than two weeks since Bannister had filled thebunkhouse with wounded men, and already two of them were back at work and the third almost fit for service.
Conversation at thebunkhouse and the chucktent sometimes circled around the young women at the house, but its personality rarely grew pronounced.
I observe that both of you are carefully blocking me from the bunkhouse in order to prevent another practice-shot.
Gabby Pete would be up and busy at his early morning tasks, and the oil drillers housed in the bunkhouse also would be stirring about.
He tuk them two drillers from the bunkhouse with him.
The talkative camp cook slept in the bunkhouse some distance away, in the opposite direction from the radio plant.
They went to the main building, that is, the largest, evidently what had been the bunkhouse for the lumberjacks, but every window was tightly boarded up.
Let's take a look at the big bunkhouse and see if that is being used also," suggested Phil.
The bunkhouse idea is great, really it's the only feasible way.
Both parties--the one in the bunkhouse and the boys in the main building--decided to keep watch all night.
A look in the bunkhouse showed it to be clean and in good shape.
The men of the outfit were already at the table, and after washing their faces from the tin wash basin on the bench outside the door, Leviatt and Tucson entered the bunkhouse and took their places.
When he reached the bunkhouse he passed several more of the men without a word, going directly to a corner of the room where sat Tucson and conversing earnestly with his friend.
He went back into the bunkhouseand walked casually about, taking swift glances at the bunks where the men still slept.
Ferguson returned to the bunkhouse and ate breakfast.
When they had joined the group in front of the bunkhouse and had placed themselves in positions where thirty or forty feet of space yawned between them, they had been making the first preparatory movement.
When Ferguson and Rope entered the bunkhouse many of the men were already seated.
He was directly in front of the open door and looking up he could see the men down at the bunkhouse congregated around the bodies of Leviatt and Tucson.
Stafford had come up rapidly, and he now stood near a corner of the bunkhouse in an attitude of intense attention.
The presence of the boys at the bunkhouse meant that the wagon outfit had come in--meant that Leviatt would have to come in--if he had not already done so.
Then, still carefully, he made his way inside the bunkhouseand sought his bunk.
Grouped around the door of the bunkhouse were several of the Two Diamond men; in a strip of shade from the blacksmith shop were others.
About noon Leviatt and Tucson rode in to the Two Diamond corral gate, dismounted from their ponies, and proceeded to the bunkhouse for dinner.
During the week that had elapsed between the clash at the bunkhouse and the departure of the wagon the range boss had given no sign that he knew of the existence of Ferguson.
Ruth went with Mr. Hooley to the bunkhouse to hear him instruct the timbermen hired from the Benbow Company and who were much interested in this "movie stuff.
I wish to Gawd you'd stayed there," said Jimmie, the Bar S cook, pausing in his march past to poke his head in at the bunkhouse doorway.
Say, Rod, I'd take it as a favour if you and Tile and Bill would sort of freeze round the bunkhouse till after I'm through with Lanpher.
No," said Bill Allen, decidedly, and picked up his cracker-box and retreated backward to thebunkhouse door.
When he rode in among the buildings of the 88 ranch his eyes were gratified by the sight of freckle-faced Bill Allen straddling a cracker-box in front of the bunkhouse and having his hair cut by Rod Rockwell.
But if you'll step inside the bunkhouse a minute, I'll show you what I mean.
He leaned hipshot against the doorjamb, and spat accurately through a knothole in the bunkhouse floor.
Loo Wong, the grin of a delighted child on his face, hands hidden in voluptuous sleeves, bowed low and went out to the bunkhouse to start supper.
Cautiously they crossed the ranch yard and peered in the bunkhouse window.
When they rode into the ranch yard it was dark and the windows of the bunkhouse and the ranch house were gleaming yellow.
The three stepped from thebunkhouse and started across the yard.
Let's go to thebunkhouse and see if we can find Loo Wong.
To the girls it seemed as though there were a great many men gathered about the bunkhouse and the corral.
The girls stood perfectly still until they saw the bunkhouse door opened and closed again behind the two.
After Gale's first-aid treatment was over, Tom and Loo Wong locked the two desperadoes with their partner in the bunkhouse and there they stayed until the Sheriff returned.
Crossing from the mine to the bunkhouse men have been known to take a pain in the back between the shoulder-blades, bend forward, and remark on the acuteness of it and be dead in three hours--of pneumonia.
Just behind stood the rough shanty, which was the bunkhouse for the cowhands employed in this region.
She pushed the bunkhouse mail aside, and regarded reflectively the outer covering of Jeff's letter to her father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bunkhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
