In the first place, he killed the most popular man in Forked Deer County--the county clerk, a man named Abner J.
He forked two fingers and darted them like a snake's tongue at Jack, and Jack, still asleep, obeyed them, as if he had been steel and they the two horns of a magnetic horseshoe.
But this ceremonial by the sheriff was for form rather than effect, since the witnesses and the talesmen all sat in the circuit-court chamber along with as many of the population of Forked Deer County as could squeeze in there.
At a proper distance from the oarsman's seat we bored two holes for a couple of forked sticks, which answered admirably for rowlocks; across the stern we fastened another piece of log similar to that used for the oarsman's seat (Fig.
The bird, in leaping down, is almost sure to perch on the forked twig, or, at least, to strike it.
I'll fix that all right," Tug said, showing some small forked and notched sticks he had cut out of oaken chips.
You paid me well; you have allowed yourself to be fooled, but, after all, you have forked out.
To his surprise, Kiddie removed his right foot, drew away the forked stick, and stepped back a couple of paces.
Kiddie ran to the tree, still with his knife and the forked stick in his hands.
Kiddie, while waiting for his shaving water to heat, was making a toasting fork of a stick with a forked end for cooking the bacon.
The two Pil select each its own horn or forked stick; the horns or sticks are then entwined--one is tied to a stake or tree, and the other is tied to a rope, which is pulled by the two parties till one or other of the horns or sticks breaks.
They are said to have emulated each other in picking flowers with the forked sticks the husband standing at the top and the wife at the foot of a tree.
He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would fetch me to Goshen.
They told me in town that I was to take the left hand trail where it forked at the first creek beyond the canyon.
She felled a small cotton-wood tree, from which she cut two large forked sticks.
As I go below to my berth again, striving with the door as with a strong man, there crackles and hisses a forked glare of lightning, an enormous whip driving the great white horses of the sea to madness.
George the Fourth was pitch-forked into a marine engineering shop at the ripe age of thirteen.
He laid me a box of gloves to a pair of slippers about "Forked Lightning" for the Regimental Cup, and "Forked Lightning" went tender at the heel.
In an instant the night was astir, the air forked with wings.
The caterpillars of the swallowtail butterflies are provided with a bifurcate or forked organ, generally yellow in color, which is protruded from an opening in the skin back of the head, and which emits a powerful odor (Fig.
The submedian vein of the fore wings is forkedat the base.
From the appearance of the timber captain Lewis supposed that the river forked above him, and therefore encamped with an intention of examining it more particularly in the morning.
Our game this day consisted chiefly of deer, of these four were black tails, one a buck with two main prongs of horns on each side and forked equally.
One end may be fastened to a tree or to the waggon wheel, and the rope attached to the other may pass over forked sticks set up as shears, and lead to a tent peg driven firmly into the ground.
Small pellets of the paste are broken off and thrown to the fish, who soon become intoxicated, and swim round in a circle at the surface, when they are taken up with a small hand net, or a piece of cloth stretched on a forked stick.
Each decoy bird should have an anchor weight and cable string attached to it, so that it may remain in its proper place until picked up from the canoe by the aid of a long forked pole.
A forked tree of suitable size is chosen, and sometimes, but not always, the fork or fluke of the anchor is strengthened by a cross lashing to the shank.
The boat-shaped box resting on the forked sticks is made of bark, pinned at the ends with wooden pins.
The soft, sparse, forked beard which closely followed the line of the lower jaw and pointed chin.
It was a forked twig, one end of which was grasped firmly in each hand, while the center, forming the stem, pointed perpendicularly upward.
For he saw distinctly the glistening of burnished scales, and a serpent's head at the end of an undulating neck, and directly after a forked flickering tongue touched and played about his face.
The next afternoon found us afloat on Forked Lake, weary and glad to be in the sunlight on blue water again.
It is true that those which were furnished us were not of the kind and pattern which experience has prescribed as most fitting for military use, but they were capital substitutes for flat stones and forked twigs.
Jerry forked the last piece of homemade apple pie from his plate.
The big Indian reined in the dogs when they reached a spot where three separate narrower paths forked off the main trail.
They cross all these terrible rapids into which they cast a net like a sack, a little more than half an ell in width by one in depth attached to a forked stick about 15 feet long.
This is composed of four large forked poles of oak wood planted in the earth, with others placed across; this is covered with canes bound and interlaced so as to resemble greatly the bed used by the natives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
