With a strange cry Jan lifted the bow of the canoe to his shoulder and led Jackpine in a run.
For an instant Jan paused to get his bearing, and behind him Jackpine shouted a warning.
Jan heard the coming together ofJackpine and the Chippewayan.
In this instant, so quick that he could scarcely have taken a breath in the time, his eyes took in the other struggle between Jackpine and the Chippewayan.
He looked at Jackpine and saw that he was swinging his body more and more with the motion of his arms.
It was Jackpinewho recalled him at last to what was happening.
Jackpine came to his side, with his hunting knife in his hand, measuring with glittering eyes the oncoming foe of his race--the Chippewayan.
Jackpine was stripped to the waist, like O'Grady and his Chippewayan.
They ran through the jackpine openings where the strawberries and blue violets grew, and he always ran behind Nada, so he could see her brown curls flying about her.
He unloaded his pack and drew from it a jackpine torch, dried in his cabin and heavy with pitch.
Most of that night he walked in the coolness of the moonlit plain, and for a long time he sat amid the flower-scented shadows of the trysting-place in the heart of the jackpine clump, where Nada had a hidden place all her own.
That afternoon, in the hidden jackpine open, with its sweet-scented jasmines, its violets and its crimson strawberries under their feet, the soul of a woman had taken possession of her body.
No, that was quite impossible, for thejackpine grew at least ten feet from the rim of the cliff.
A branch of a little jackpineon the edge of the opening showed a fresh break and hanging from that branch was a torn scrap of deerskin.
Doctor Bell, at one of his examinations before the Senate committee of 1887, produced as an exhibit a branch of the Banksian pine (Pinus Banksiana), often called the jackpine and scrub pine.
Occasionally one meets a half-breed who has travelled through it, and the rumour current amongst the fur-traders is that the country contains nothing but small lakes, jackpine and rock outcrop.
The different kinds of trees that we have in Mackenzie basin include white spruce, black spruce, the larch or tamarack, which is found as far north as the spruce, the jackpine and the balsam.
I saw no jackpine stand where the trees would average even six inches in diameter.
This is the condition in which the jackpine also occurs.
On Methye lake Mr. McLaggan found the timber to be mainly jackpine and tamarack of small size, a limited portion of which would be fit for railway ties.
The different kinds of trees that grow in Mackenzie basin include white spruce, black spruce, the larch or tamarack, which is found as far north as the spruce, the jackpine and the balsam.
Mr. McConnell (Senate Committee Report, 1888) says thatjackpine occurs in places as far north as Fort Good Hope.
There came the rattle of a pan from the stove, and Howland turned his head in time to see Jackpine staring at him as though he had exploded a mine under his feet.
If they reached the trail of Meleese and Jackpine before the crossing of the second sledge he would lay in wait for his old enemies; if they had preceded them he would pursue and surprise them in camp.
Jackpine drew a key from his pocket and without a word unlocked and swung open the heavy door.
Why had he not taken advantage of Jean, as Jackpine and the Frenchman had taken advantage of him?
Twenty times he had joined Jackpine in running beside the sledge.
Jackpine had half opened the door, and for a moment the engineer caught a glimpse of his dark, grinning face looking back over his shoulder.
When they went out to the sledge after their breakfast he gave Jackpine a hearty grip of the hand and the Cree's dark face lighted up with something like pleasure when he saw the enthusiasm in the young engineer's eyes.
With Jackpine in their employ it was easy to work on them, and it was not long before they sent down asking for another man to replace them.
In spite of his old habit of rising with the breaking of dawn it was Jackpine who awakened him a few hours later.
With Jackpine and Croisset in his power-- He went no further.
Somewhere, not very far back, the sledge carrying Meleese and Jackpine had turned into the unknown.
And if there's any mercy in your corpus tell me if Jackpine brought me the cigarettes from Le Pas.
For a moment Jackpine was silent, half bending over the fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jackpine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
