While I was hanging round I picked up an odd score of Oregon choppers that blew in here las' week.
Growling and grumbling, the camp distributed itself--teamsters to feed and rebuild smudges, choppers and sawyers to the grindstone and filing-benches.
While choppers and sawyers cached tools under brush away from rusting dews, teamsters dropped bows and yokes, and all followed the patient ox-teams down the right of way.
Grumblers from the cradle, kickers born, teamsters and choppers had looked forward to this last day in camp, swearing all that ten dollars a day would not hire them for an hour longer.
Wood-choppers to work all winter," continued the raftsman, walking along farther from his daughter, and speaking with apparent carelessness.
There are three acres chopped and a shanty up; but the shanty is not a habitable dwelling, being merely an open shed that was put up by the choppers as a temporary shelter; so we shall have to build a house.
He has let out ten acres to some Irish choppers who have established themselves in the shanty for the winter.
The choppers expressed themselves as disappointed that they could not just then show me the fall of a tree ten or twelve feet in diameter, and over two hundred feet high.
I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at that time, but I could drive, and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload.
In the fall of the year choppers were employed to cut enough wood to last a twelve-month.
Though teamsters and choppers to the manner born are busy here and there, the Canadian prairie is to a large extent broken and the forest driven back by young men from the Eastern cities and by exiled Englishmen.
Nasmyth had his back to the door, and he did not see the grizzled Mattawa, who was supposed to be one of the strongest choppers about the settlement, standing a little behind him, and watching him and Jake attentively.
However, comrade, choppers are all we have got, so we must make the most of 'em.
They found the choppers busy with beetles and wedges upon the lengths of easily-cloven pine, and the heap of long, wide slabs or shingles for the roof was growing rapidly.
He went from that work to the place where the choppers were swinging their axes.
Wood-choppers have been interrupted by the apparition of a huge, palmated head through a thicket.
The words brought all the wood-choppers to their feet and sent all except two of them--Nels and the man who had taken his seat near the door--out into the darkness.
Although the wood-choppers didn't quite understand this, it was plain enough to the Barrington boy that they were impressed by his words.
Suddenly the sound of an axe came faintly to his ears from straight ahead, where he knew no choppers were at work.
The sound of the distant choppers soon died away, and he was alone in the unearthly silence.
After a few days we were joined by four Norwegian wood choppers for whom we put up a new cabin to sleep in; but my sister cooked for us all, and the others paid for their board to Mr. Willard and myself, who had all things in common.
When the choppers and drivers came trooping in for dinner, they were somewhat taken aback to find a huge bear sleeping beside the stove.
And here one of hischoppers came tactfully to his aid.
Some of those in that first bunch are really choppers by rights," Paul diagnosed them with a practised eye, "but of course nobody does much chopping come warmer weather.
You will please give your choppers definite orders on this point, and understand that logs under the specified size will not be accepted at the mill.
You'd ought to hear him light into the choppers when they forget to leave the seed-pines or when they cut under six inches butt diameter.
Mrs. Ruggles intercepted the returning tie-choppers in the lane.
Two fugitive tie-choppers from the woods turned back to find the colonel's body.
He stored away the firewood and put up the stoves; and when the wood-choppers went to the great forest, he was ready to go with them.
Every one of them had grown from a baby tree to a giant; and when the choppers came, there stood the giant trees, so bare and still in the wintry weather that the sound of the axes rang from one end of the woods to the other.
The two choppers were kept busy from morning dawn to sunset.
He told about the race on the river the day before, and of Tim Fraser's accident and sudden death, to which the choppers listened with almost breathless interest, at times giving vent to ejaculations of surprise.
One of the choppers cries warningly to the other, who hastens to get out of the way.
The choppers have the most important and interesting part of the work.
The choppers pay a dollar a month toward the hospital, and that covers medical attendance for them and their families.
He caught sight of the advance-guard of returning choppers up the road, and whirled on the cookee.
The boss of the choppers moved along to give Wade the end of the "deacon seat," and grinned amiably.
He directs the labor of hundreds of wood-choppers and raftsmen.
We glide through belts of timber where choppers are felling the trees for railroad ties, past fields where the industrious husbandman has turned the natural grasses of the prairie into blooming clover.
We judged from the sounds that the wood choppers were east of us and the ridge last described.
A squad of cavalry-men was the first thing of which we thought, but on uncovering our heads and raising up on our elbows, we found it, was the noise of wood choppers that had disturbed us.
And over the graves of the hunters and choppers The tramp of troops is heard!
He offered good wages, but the choppers held out for more.
But she had learned through a letter from Betty that the choppers had not yet crossed the line, and for this Lois was thankful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choppers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
