As the wagon was heard rumbling up, the dismounted men reported to the Captain that the bushwhacker had made good his escape and was no longer behind the rock.
It would puzzle the sharpest Rebel bushwhacker to get the drop on them.
Supposing, of course, that no one but a bushwhacker would be caught in such a suspicious place, I pulled down on him with my Spencer-rifle and took a careful aim right on the center of his hat.
I asked them if they had not heard of me as being a bushwhackerand withal a very bad man, and that I was in the habit of killing all my prisoners.
But a Bushwhacker will slip up and shoot a man in the night!
He was killed by private, afterward Captain Thomas Franks, who made an excellent shot, hitting the bushwhacker in the head while he was running at top speed, and Franks himself was going at a rapid gallop.
Riding up to the gate, I jumped off the horse with alacrity, and seeing the old bushwhacker in the door, I rushed up to him as if I had found a long-lost father, and began to tell him how glad I was to be safely back there again.
It was quite a relief to me to say good-by to the old bushwhacker and his crowd of Rebs from my seat on the rear end of the horse.
To the surprise of everyone Mr. Bushwhackerhad taken another lease of life and with a revolver in each hand was firing at anyone his disturbed brain suggested.
In some mysterious manner we had lost one of our cups, and at each meal for a week it fell to the lot of this particular bushwhacker to get left.
As soon as the call for grub was heard the next morning, all rushed simultaneously for a cup, and Mr. Bushwhacker got left again.
The scout could identify a far worse threat now--bushwhacker .
He dared not erupt into the bushwhacker campsite, or could he?
He turned his horse, whose bridle Almia had now released, and, casting another look of sadness upon the erect form of the bushwhacker nurse, he sped away.
I am, it is true, a nurse; but I am a bushwhacker nurse, perfectly independent, and free to act according to the dictates of my judgment.
She could not help wondering what he would think of the difference between her and the girl he had known as a bushwhacker nurse.
John Gayther nodded his head as if he thought she was quite right, and she went on: "The first thing Almia did was to fit herself out after the fashion she thought best adapted to a bushwhacker nurse.
A bushwhacker nurse was exactly what she wanted to be, and as soon as this was settled she made all her preparations to go to the war.
I am a nurse, but not a common one; I am a bushwhacker nurse, and that means I am entirely independent.
She did not fancy being anything like a guerilla, and then it suddenly struck her that if she did just as she wanted to do she would resemble a bushwhacker more than anything else.
Then thebushwhacker began calling to his men to fall in line.
When Hill and the bushwhacker came back to us we all had a jolly laugh.
The Sayings of Doctor Bushwhacker and other Learned Men.
It will be remembered how the bushwhacker sat in ambush; how, just as he was about to fire at his proposed victim, his horse whinnied; and how this whinny caused Thurstane's mule to rear suddenly and violently.
The bushwhackerresponded with a grunt which expressed neither pleasure nor sorrow, but merely assent.
At the sound of his voice the bushwhacker turned around upon him an ugly, brutal face, full of savage hatred.
Si and Nate ran across the open space to the laurels, and found a little ways in a bushwhacker staggering from pain and loss of blood from a wound in his hip, and making labored efforts to escape.
Si pushed forward and caught the bushwhacker by the shoulder and tore the gun from his hand.
And ain’t Hallibut and his agents tryin’ to get every other Bushwhacker under their thumbs same as they’re tryin’ to get us?
The Bushwhacker struck them from behind with a heavy club.
Listen,” he said, sitting down beside the old man, “you must understand that the portrait you see on the wall is not of a Bushwhackergirl or of anyone else you know.
One morning a Bushwhacker surprised two of them, a buck and a doe, ravenously devouring the dry cornstalks that had been cast from the cattle-stalls into the yard.
Then he leaned over the counter and gazed at the Bushwhackerthrough the twilight gloom.
You and me know where he is, because we see that leaf movin’ after a time; but nobody who ain’t a Bushwhacker could find him, Bill.
Then he said: “‘Bushwhacker no shoot, no kill big man.
If your village of Bridgetown had some of the Bushwhacker manhood you’d have a city there some day, Smythe.
If I hadn’t been half drunk the other day, you can gamble we wouldn’t have made a mess of things and got half killed by that big Bushwhacker the way we did.
Bushwhacker know big man would steal bush,” he said at length.
He was clad in Bushwhacker buckskins from head to foot.
The little Bushwhacker did not so much as blink at the report.
Slim was still feeling the fatigue of his two arduous days on the trail of the bushwhacker and he rolled into his blankets early, followed shortly by the other riders of the Box B.
There had been a similar nick on the same shoe of the horse which had carried the bushwhacker safely away from the vengeance of the Box B.
Here's where our bushwhacker made himself comfortable," said Slim, pointing behind a rock where a half dozen cigarette butts were strewn.
Was she not a heroine when Mrs. McNary picked up her dead husband's gun that day and killed a bushwhacker at Baxter Springs?
My brother, stooping over him, asked the dyingbushwhacker if he remembered him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bushwhacker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
