Take some of the other boys' canteens with you an' hurry back now.
The Knights of Columbus and the Salvation Army both did magnificent service, in canteens and trenches.
George, old as he was, had the steadiest hands, and he filled the canteens one by one, closing their mouths on the cedar spigot.
He accepted the offer, and the whole party walked off with canteens full.
They hang their canteens on it, lay their haversacks and spread their blankets at the foot of it, and sit down and lean their weary backs against it, and feel that they are at home.
As he walked they heard also the jingle-jangle of a pile of canteenshung around his neck.
He soon had an interest in thirty or fortycanteens and their contents, and could always get a drink of water if it was to be found in any of them.
Canteens were very useful at times, but they were as a general thing discarded.
Their enterprise in installing rooms and canteens in thirty-eight scattered locations compensated for many of the deprivations incidental to such lone camps.
Twelve theaters and fifteen canteens were provided for one division alone.
In running itscanteens it conducted an immense retail business under all the disadvantages of instability.
Yet the service was so successful and appreciated that the cavalry canteenswere handed over to "Y" management.
And when I told him I had stopped at the well just passed to fill the company's canteens he said, "Well, hurry and catch up; they will need you by daylight.
On moving from Fort Gilmore to Fort Harrison, about three o'clock, before day, I took the company's canteens and went to a well we were passing and filled up.
Our men got some canteens from the dead, some with a little water and some with brandy.
But closing the canteens drew the cordon round our stomachs immeasurably tighter.
One of Major Bach's most diabolical acts of savagery was the closing of the canteens in the camp to prisoners.
The youth sat in a forlorn heap until his friend the loud young soldier came, swinging two canteens by their light strings.
A Federal soldier came along with a bucket of soup, and proceeded to fill the canteens and plates.
Such are the hardening results of war, that some soldiers, who were unhurt, actually refused to give a trifle of river water from their canteens to their expiring comrades.
A feature in thesecanteens dependent upon all this brings us nearer to an understanding of the question under discussion.
One of these was the home of Robert Raikes, known to the world as the founder of the Sunday School.
On coming into London, we found the streets in a condition of chaos, owing to repairs in the pavement.
Canteens were filled, a small bag of food was packed, and blankets made into a bundle.
Cool night spurred them on with canteens full and renewed strength.
Their rifles, blankets and canteens completed their loads, with ammunition, of course, sufficient to enable them to "live on the country.
Accordingly, the blankets were rolled up, some meat cut from the deer, canteens filled at a nearby spring, and the march back to the river begun.
Arizora's streets were jammed with cars--fantastic desert coursers stripped to the nines and with canteens strapped to the running board.
Two big canteens on the running board were filled.
To many persons, the price was quite enough: old Louis Robidoux had long refused to list his portion for taxes, and some one had described much of the acreage as so dry that even coyotes, in crossing, took along their canteens for safety!
It is a prominent or generic feature of most canteens that the kettle should look as little like a kettle as possible, and that everything should pack into a frying-pan.
Many had experience, too, of the inventive art of the shopkeeper, as shown in the evolution of canteens and pocket table knives.
Dane, at the stream with the canteens to fill, chanced upon a small pool where there was a spread of smooth yellow sand.
Unless the flitter was deliberately sabotaged, he was planning for us to use our canteens in the preserve.
When the party halted slightly before midday, canteens were still half full.
Then, with the filledcanteens knotted together by their straps, he put on his boots and climbed to the cave where Tau waited with water tablets.
Round the native shops andcanteens bronzed Kafirs squat and jabber, or, jumping on their weedy, undersized nags, dash off at a gallop down the street.
They would be all right, though, once away from the canteens and under proper discipline--and under proper discipline he intended they should be.
But there were no canteens in these rugged strongholds, and the very limited supply of liquor that could be smuggled in was but as a drop in the bucket to this habitual old toper.
He was traveling with a light spring wagon and he kindly consented to carry my canteens and lighten my load as the gold alone weighed over forty pounds.
I carried it in canteens on the horn of my saddle.
He himself had seen the fifty law-breaking canteens in Camp Thomas at Chickamauga, with their daily sales amounting to hundreds of dollars.
It is a recognized fact that in regiments where canteens are established drinking is not restrained, rather encouraged, and numerous sprees are started that are finished in the saloons just outside.
Perhaps Yaqui Juan was creeping back to them now, the canteens of precious water hung about his neck,--and perhaps he was dead.
It did not seem humanly possible for any one to go into the very midst of their besiegers encamped about the well, fill the canteens and return alive, but it was a gallant and splendid try, and she would have liked a memory of his grave face.
With three canteens apiece, we will be able to catch up to them after four days, and our horses will still be in prime condition.
Kent, I'll take the canteens and hunt up water, if you and Abe will break some cedar boughs for the bed, and get the wood to cook supper with.
As we could only muster six teaspoons between our two canteens to supply the whole company, we had to pass the spoons from guest to guest allowing each man just long enough for a good stir and then on to the next.
Because of the constant shelling all the Y women workers had been withdrawn from the canteens and sent back to safety at Souilly where they have nothing to do but sit and possess their souls in patience.
Besides running the dry canteen, we serve hot chocolate free every night for all comers here, filling up their canteens so the boys can take it away with them, and run a free lodging-house.
We accept all this local money in the canteens and send it to Paris to be redeemed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canteens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
