Here, sheltered from the wind and rain, the two chums discovered that a small window had been left unsecured.
Octavius Smith, as the two chumsentered the companion-way of the Diomeda.
But his chums wanted to go so far away that they never got anywhere to camp in the end," said Betty.
He promised to drive up on Sunday to see how we were faring, and bring a few of his chums with him, if they could get off from the farm-work.
John gasped, for he had already boasted to his boy-chums who were going to camp with him that he could have cakes and lots of goodies sent to him every week!
And it was in this way that the eight chums had actually dared to start into one of the least known places in the whole State of Louisiana.
But then, try as he would he could not reduce his bulk any more than had already been done; and so he must continue to play the part of "martyr," serving as a shield to his three more fortunate chums back in the boat.
Bumpus had a very good voice, and often did entertain his chums while in camp by singing certain songs they were particularly fond of.
She, as well as all their mutual friends, knew that Nat and Tavia were the sort of chums who grow up together and cement their friendship with the test of time.
But little did Dorothy and her chums think how important the message to the teacher would prove to be to themselves, before the close of the Christmas holidays.
The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake or The Hermit of Fern Island How Cora and her chums went camping on the lake shore, how they took trips in their motor boat, are told with a vim and vigor all girls will enjoy.
Dawn was breaking as the two chums trudged wearily into the little Jutland town of Esbjerg.
With hurried thanks the two chums hastened to purchase their tickets.
A tremendous outburst of shell from the light quick-firers brought the chums to the barred window.
Glancing cautiously right and left, the two chums made the discovery that the coast was clear.
Together the chums entered the house, and rebolted the door.
Five minutes later the chumswere rigged out in worn but serviceable garb.
Carrying the midshipman, the two chumsgained the main keel-plates.
Thad and hischums have a wonderful experience when they are employed by the State of Maine to act as Fire Wardens, since every year terrible conflagrations sweep through the pine forests, doing great damage.
The story of the boy chums hunting the blue herons and the pink and white egrets for their plumes in the forests of Florida is full of danger and excitement.
How the chums encountered the Indians; their battles with the escaped convicts; their fight with the wild boars and alligators are fully told.
This man Howell and his chums were so stuck on my sweet society that they kept me here all night!
The dangers of gathering sponges are fully described; the chums meet with sharks and alligators; and they are cast away on a desert island.
Ben stooped over the still figure for a moment and then turned to his chums with a queer look on his face.
Bart Keene was the first of the four chums to make up his mind.
He emptied part of the batter into a refuse pail, and his face wore such a worried expression as he came back to his task, that Bart and his two chums could not hold back their laughter any longer.
So it was with a feeling of no little satisfaction that Bart and hischums found themselves able to leave the gloomy place sooner than they had expected.
Jed suddenly, as the chums were about to go and purchase their tickets, and he held out a black object to Bart.
By this time the four chums were out of their car, and they were followed by a number of men passengers.
Then Bart and his two chums put back into the bags the snakes, lizards, turtles, toads and alligators belonging to the professor, and hurried back with them to the school.
As the chums strolled on, they saw, on every side, more evidences of the carnival spirit.
Then as Sandy's chums declared that the manner in which they had been outwitted by the four chums was perfectly fair, it was agreed to call the incident closed, and consider the initiation finished.
With their guns in readiness for any game, the four chums set out after breakfast on the trail of the unknown, midnight visitor.
The chums said nothing to their folks of their experience at the gallery, though Bart's fame as a shot spread among his school companions, and there was some speculation as to who the stranger might have been.
There was much yawning and stretching, but finally the chums were up and dressed, and breakfast was served.
There was little use lingering longer in the woods, the chums decided, so, after a last look about, hoping for a sight of the mysterious stranger, they once more started for home.
There seemed no way out of it, and the threechums crouched in the shadows, waiting.
And then, realising that the game was up, the two chums quietly slid down the trunk into the arms of their captors, and were triumphantly marched off to the lock-up.
Why, the major and I are the greatest chums in the world.
The boy and Throckmorton were such chums that there was no hope of getting Beverley off under a half-hour.
We're both without our chums now," answered the old man, sorrowfully.
Our chums are gone, an' we both want to settle with them Comanche varmints; so, let's stick together.
Agathemer and I had been playmates almost from our cradles; comrades, cronies, chums all our lives.
Towards his chums and cronies he is open-hearted and as unreserved as a friend could be about everything else, but especially close with them about such matters.
The little band of Liberty Girls included all of Alora's accepted chums, for they were the chums of Mary Louise, whom Alora adored.
Well, say now, why should not you and I be chums--chums for life, I mean.
Cecil and Molly had been chums for many years now.
Aloud she replied: "I have not thought whether we are to bechums or not.
And Bentley," added Julia, not to deprive herchums of their usual joke that she never forgot Bentley.
Teased into compliance Cleo led her chums to the out-of-door laundry, which was built as a part of the bathing houses just off the kitchen.
The dentist," explained Isabel, making room for her chums in the car.
Margaret, who with Julia had joined her chums at Sea Crest.
Louise, jumping up and dragging her chums with her.
On the big swing made of interlaced white birchwood, the twochums perched, and Grace promptly undertook to unburden her mind.
On this the three chums took refuge from the ocean water and sea of sand, while they attempted to wring out their soaking socks and hang them on some brush to dry.
A spill of the coins brought an ill-concealed titter from Cleo and Grace, and this the girl so sharply resented that Louise edged her chums to the other side of the room for safety.
They must have jumped to the conclusion that Thad and his chums were out for a lark; a trio of curious English lads who wanted to bother everybody by trying to see some of the fighting.
Still Bumpus was very loyal, and so long as these chums of his thought best to see the great battle through he was determined not to show the white feather.
It may have been half an hour after the four chums located on the crown of that low hill when a sudden increase in the near-by thunder told them a new phase of the operations must have broken out.
Of course Giraffe had the advantage of his three chums in such a rivalry.
Somehow this apparent fact seemed to give Thad and hischums a feeling as of relief.
Somehow it seemed as though they looked on Thad and his three chums as allies.
So he began by telling his name, and how it happened that he and three chums were over in Europe at the time the mad war so suddenly broke out.
There were no other vehicles in sight; the four chums had the thoroughfare to themselves, to all appearances.
For aught he knew his chums might be a mile or two away from him by that time.
Next Thad booked himself and three chumsfor the journey.
On that account he wished he might communicate with her; but since his three chums had decided to remain there and see the end of the great battle he really had no other choice.
Nat and hischums bade good-bye to the consul, and then took their places.
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Neither Joe's name, nor those of any of his intimatechums were called off for a class team.
Oly and I had been chums since we could walk, and we'd had a few fights in our days but this time it was different.
All my chums were waiting there to see us off, and I'd promised my best pal Oly Sweynsdatter that I'd give him my coonskin cap to wear until we came back.
I knew that if my chumsordered their fathers around like that, they'd get a whipping, but my Pa almost never whipped me.
Rob had a very persuasive way about him, as hischums knew from past experiences.
It must have been fully an hour after they left the stable of the village inn when Rob imparted some information to his chums that caused Tubby, at least, more or less apprehension.
Perhaps the crowing of a rooster nearby may have told Rob that it was in the neighborhood of three o'clock, for he aroused his chums close to that time.
Possibly Rob may have been explaining just who he and his chums were, and also how they had come all the way from Antwerp with the one hope of finding a certain person in this little suburb.
With this discreet plan of action rapidly forming in his mind, Rob was even in the act of hastily drawing both his chums back behind a wall until all the excitement had subsided, when he made a discovery that brought his scheme to a halt.
Tubby, hurrying after his two chums as fast as his fat legs would carry him.
The paper had informed him that Rob and his chums were members of the Boy Scout organization in America, so that the fact of their wearing khaki uniforms was easily understood.
Huge billows of smoke covered sections of the country, some of it not more than a mile away from the village where Rob and his chums had stopped.
I dreamed about that grand paper hunt you told us about, Merritt," Tubby announced, as with his chums he sauntered over to the inn to see what chance there was for getting something to eat.
The three chums did not make very rapid progress, and for many reasons.
The lantern once more hung on its accustomed hook, and by its friendly gleam Rob and his two chums were enabled to find the place where on the preceding night they had slept so well.
Tubby cautiously; though, no doubt, if his chums decided on the venture, he would be found remaining at their side.
Only once had there threatened to be any trouble between thechums on account of rivalry over the cars.
As for her, she suddenly had a startlingly clear mental picture of what her father would think were some one to tell him that his daughter and her chums had been seen at the "Point" with Percy Falconer and a friend of his.
Then she turned the Gem around and started for home, conscious that herchums were gazing at her in speechless amazement.
The Hostess House at Camp Liberty having burnt down, the chums found themselves forced to take a much-needed, although not entirely welcome, vacation and had decided to spend it at a romantic spot near the ocean called Bluff Point.
But in the heart of the Little Captain, hard as she tried to fight against it, was a little sense of injury to think that her chums had got their boys back and she had been denied hers.
Fearfully thechums obeyed and Betty and Mollie pulled out their electric pocket torches, filling the place with a weird light.
The cottage on the bluff had been loaned to the girls by Grace's patriotic Aunt Mary, who declared that she owed something to the chums for having worked so hard for the good old Stars and Stripes.
Percy Falconer had called at Betty's house the day after the incident on the river as had been arranged, and Betty had conceived the plan of having all her chumsthere to meet him.
Must have been a drop of water in the gasoline," hazarded Mollie, and then she throttled the engine once more while she and her chums turned to say good-bye to Professor Dempsey.
He sympathized with the chums so fully in their desire for letters with the red triangle in one corner that he actually confessed to a guilty feeling when he had no missive of the sort for them.
Paul, taking a deep interest in the narration, since he and his chumshad been accused of doing the deed in the presence of many of Stanhope's good people.
And as there was nothing more to be done, the two chums returned to the creek, shouldered their heavy packs after resuming their skates, and went on their way.
To allow them to accompany him and his chums back to Deer Head Lodge would make the remainder of their outing a very disagreeable affair.
When they had talked for some little time longer, Paul decided that it was time for him and his chums to start back to the cabin.
Day after day the two old chums met and cut one another dead, and the spectacle of the "split" became a part of every-day life at Templeton.
If the line cut a snug little set of chumsin half, if it turned one or two settled school customs out of house and home, if it sent one or two waverers hopelessly over to the wrong side--well, so be it.
You'd cut a nobler figure, wouldn't you, dragging down your chums from one row to another, than by anything so paltry as doing right because it is right?
In due time they reached the rocks, and both Bluff and Jerry must creep under the friendly ledge, to see for themselves what sort of shelter their chums had found from the storm.
Since when have the honorable Outdoor Chums taken to cracksmen's ways, I'd like to know?
I can safely speak for my chums as well as myself.
It was this habit of looking ahead possessed by Frank Langdon that so often made things much easier for himself and hischums than they might otherwise have been.
Think of our great trip up into the Maine wilderness and the many strange things we saw there," he went on, referring to matters already related in "The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods.
Therefore the two chums started to make themselves as comfortable as the hard conditions of their shelter allowed, thankful that they had been spared being caught in the open by that fearful summer storm.
None of the four chums as they joked in this fashion dreamed of what Fate had in store for them before the sun went down behind the western horizon.
If the chums had felt tired before that thrilling moment they quite forgot the circumstance in their wild anxiety to learn what had happened to the strange boy.
Of course this news caused Will to lose the anxious expression that hischums had noticed on his face at times.
The chums had many experiences on their motor cycles, and in a race they won a fine touring automobile.
Sam made the boat fast to the dock and hurried to the cottage where the chums had gone.
Ned observed his chums at the same instant and came over.
The three chums were much interested in the mechanism that revolved the lenses of the light, at the top of the tower.
Happy in the anticipation that he and his chums would be able to spend the summer together, Jerry whistled a gleeful mixture of all the sea songs he had ever heard, as he hurried over to Ned's house.
His chums said they would, and then the three separated, their minds filled with a strange combination; the pleasures that might be in store for them mingling with the sad memories of the wreck.
His chums got up in a hurry at the hail and, while they were dressing, Jerry told them what Sam had said.
Jerry, as, followed by his chums he dashed toward the winding stairs that led to where the big lantern lenses revolved.
The boys did not stay long, however, as Jerry was anxious to show his mother the cup he and his chums had won.
But the looks he cast at the sailor and the three chums were anything but kind.
His chums and the sailor were still hauling on the line, their hands and arms aching from the strain.
Suddenly a small boy rushed up to where the chums were standing.
And hungry," put in Bob, whereat his chums laughed.
If worst came to worst he knew he and his chums would sleep on the floor in one room.
Dick Penryn and Murray Frobisher, the friend to whom he had been alluding, were chums of many years' standing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
