He stopped a moment with eyes fixed on the glowing logs that crackled on the hearth.
Jokes, stories and good-humored banter passed back and forth until with one accord everybody rose from the table and sauntered into the library where a great blaze of logs glowed and crackled.
Marshy places and chuck-holes were filled up with saplings and logs from the crowded forests, and whole roads were made of logs which were cut in lengths about ten or twelve feet long, and laid close to each other across the road.
It was not long before they reached a place where there was a kind of granary, or some other farm building of that sort, near the road, with a little yard where some logs were lying.
The bark was all off, and the ends of the logslooked rounded and worn, as if they had been washed in the water.
The other two were at the logs where the fire had been; the burning hide had stuck to the logsin places like glue.
Her father was poking round some logswhere they had been "burning-off".
When the great logs and the faggots were piled together Saint Patrick kindled the pile with his own hands and the flames shot high in the air, throwing strange shadows on the trees and causing the Irish to cry out in fear and astonishment.
From the logs on the shore he ordered his men to build a raft, and with their hatchets they hewed out oars.
They were wooden vessels, such as were used in former wars, but which would be of no more use than floating logs against the sea-monsters of to-day.
The only plan they could think of was to build a raft out of logs and try to push it through the ice with long poles.
They had no stoves, and were heated by great stone fireplaces, where biglogs of wood were burned.
If there was a party of six or eight, the logs would be twice as heavy as when we were three or four.
The size of the logs was proportioned to the muscular force in camp.
On the upper sides the logs are carefully hewed and leveled until pots, pans and kettles will sit firmly and evenly on them.
The foot and head logs define the limits of your forest dwelling; within which you may pile fragrant hemlock browse as thick as you please and renew it from day to day.
Three hemlock logs and two sharpened stakes are toted to camp; the stakes driven firmly, and the logs laid against them, one above the other.
This insures browse and back logs for some time ahead.
They find it made as follows: Two logs six feet long and eight inches thick are laid parallel, but seven inches apart at one end and only four at the other.
They made it a point to always have a heavy sharp axe in camp, and toward night some sturdy chopper would cut eight or ten logs as heavy as the whole party could lug to camp with hand-spikes.
Strong hands and hand-spikes pry a couple of glowing logs from the front and replace them with two cold, green logs; the camp cools off and the party takes to blankets once more--to turn out again at 5 A.
Our third expedition completed the number of logs we required for the log cabin.
We found, after a fewlogs had been set in place, that our cabin was growing faster at one end than at the other.
We had some trouble in making the floor perfectly even, because the floor beams were rather irregular, and a great deal of time was spent in smoothing the logs off to a common level.
When the side logs were in position notches were cut in their upper surface to receive a pair of 12-foot logs which were rolled onto them, notched and dropped into place.
The logs for the house were cut from a tract of wooded land about five miles up the river, belonging to Mr. Schreiner.
A number of logswere now laid on the ground to serve as floor beams.
The trouble was that our logs were not of uniform diameter throughout and we had been laying the butt ends, which were larger, all at one end of the building.
Leaving Bill to recuperate I rushed down the bank, shouting to the others to paddle the logs over toward shore.
This done the building was continued as before, but as the walls grew we found it more and more difficult to raise the logs to position.
A pair of 14-foot logswere now laid across the foundation logs and rolled along them until another half-turn would have dropped them into the notches (shown in Fig.
We had no apparatus for handling any logs more than 6 or 8 inches in diameter, and Bill reckoned it out that we would have to have about fifty logs of this size for the sides of the building alone.
But we did not want to cut the opening until the wall was built up to its full height lest it might buckle while the remainder of the logswere being placed in position.
A pair of 12-foot logs were then laid in position.
When the logs were laid in place no space intervened between them, as will be clearly understood by reference to Fig.
These they burned upon the split logs of firewood, but they spitted the inward meats, and held them in the flames to cook.
This had already been surveyed and there remained nothing to do except to pierce it with a wide main trail and erect a few patrol camps of palmetto logs within convenient reach of the duck-haunted lagoons.
The crushers of pulp and the sawyers of logs had done their dirty work thoroughly; their acids and their sawdust poisoned and choked; their devastation turned the tree-clothed hill flanks to arid lumps of sand and rock.
That’s right,” agreed Jerry, gazing at a rude structure of logs built under a sheltering bluff, about a quarter of a mile from the shore.
Ned bent over the carburetor, and adjusted it, while Jerry watched his own steering to see that he did not run the boat into the many floating logs and boards that had been carried into the river by the flood.
The river is still rising, and more logsare coming down!
The fool had scarcely uttered these words, when the axe began to cut wood, the logs to lay themselves in the sledge, and the rope to tie them down.
The axe instantly jumped up, ran into the yard, and began to cut up the wood, and the logs came of themselves into the house, and went and laid themselves in the stove.
But Roland Sefton sat silent, with his shapely hands resting on his knees, and his handsome face turned toward the hearth, where the logs had burned down and emitted only a low and fitful flame.
She threw a few logs on the fire, and drew up Canon Pascal's chair to the hearth for him.
The bridge was broken, as a matter of course; and the logs which composed it, lying concealed beneath the water, were toed successively by the leading men, that those who followed should not be tripped up by them.
As he spoke, a thin grayish feather curled out between two of the upper logs and floated away, another came below it, then another, each widening and strengthening as it came.
He would guard her while life and strength remained, and he wondered idly, as he braced the overhead logs against the iron door, how many more minutes of life this shelter would give them.
The wall underneath the shelf was half covered with piled-up logs and these must be removed; which meant that he must work there for several minutes with the fierce breath of the fire hissing over him.
There were no more points in the barricade that showed a glow beyond and to Coquenil, searching along the logs in the darkness by the sense of smell, there was no sign of smoke coming through.
Coquenil crawled in behind the shelter of logs and crouched down beside the girl.
Now then," directed Coquenil, "you carry the logs to me and I'll make a barricade in the passageway.
The logs were in two-foot lengths, and as the archway was about four feet wide, the passage between the two rooms was half blocked with wood.
Suddenly there was a crumbling of logs at the passageway and the chamber became light as day while a blast of heat swept over them.
They worked with all speed, Alice carrying the logs bravely, in spite of splintered hands and weary back, and soon the passageway was solidly walled with closely fitted logs to the height of six feet.
Around the four walls were logs piled evenly to the height of nearly six feet, and at the archway the pile ran straight through into the smaller room.
The “Skid” is two or more logs laid on the ground, upon and across which the other logs are piled up for use.
Here we left the railway and entered a cool belt of woods in which the dainty maidenhair-ferns grew on the damp rotten logs and the gray squirrels scolded us from the branches overhead.
If you have New Lumber, use it; if not, use old lumber, and if you are building in the woods the house may be built of logs and roofed with poles, covered with bark and boughs.
When the walls are so high that it is a difficult task to lift the logs in position, put up a couple of skids and roll the logs up the incline, which is better than wasting your strength in trying to lift such burdens.
Build these walls as you did the cabin walls, and fit the ends of the logs neatly against the cabin logs, and put “chunks” in between the logs at the cabin end, to level them.
Common-sense will direct you to select only the timber which comes nearest being straight, and also to cut the logs considerably longer than the length marked on the plan.
To facilitate rolling the logs as you need them, arrange some skids close by the site of the house, and allow them to slant toward the proposed cabin.
The two end-logs may first be rolled down from the skids, notched and fitted in place across the ends of sill-logs (Fig.
Logs of the same diameter as the sill-logs can be laid between them on the bare ground and used for joists, but the best plan is a stone foundation, and a plank floor at least a foot or two above the earth.
This fish, I may add, rose in the fiercest of sunshine in the forenoon, and some logs were coming down, but only one here and there.
The testimony of the local men is that the pools, from the piscatorial point of view, are always unsettled while the logs are descending in quantities, and that it is a rare thing at such times to induce a salmon to take a fly.
The whole expanse was full like a lake, only a single spit cumbered with logs showing above water.
The logs are of no great size, mere sticks of pine, averaging a foot diameter and in lengths varying between twelve and forty feet.
Nothing was hewed except the poles that made the floor, which were flatted on the upper side; and the openings between the logs filled with clay and mortar.
Next to nothing, because we can build them of logs that are fit for nothing else.
I supposed log houses were stuffed between the logs with clay and moss; mother said so; but I couldn’t put the point of my scissors between these logs.
The next morning, as the daylight shone in between the logs of the hovel, he raised his cry of defiance to all things in general, and everybody in particular.
The boards on a house are only an inch thick, but you can have the logs three feet thick, if you like.
The logs were lashed with withes, as also the canoe, water, and other things.
The logs being hewn on two sides, then smoothed with an adze, the window frames fitted close, the walls two feet or more in thickness, and very few windows, the house was almost as tight as though it grew there.
Then began a most exciting race, the men rolling the logs here and there, and striking at him between them, till finally he broke cover, and ran for the woods, with the whole scout at his heels.
He cut the trees around it into mill-logs that were not fit for spars, rolled them down the chasm into the water, towed them to the mill, bringing back the boards, and sticking them up on the shore to season.
There were two courses of logs above the floor beams, so that the house was a story and a half in height.
When he passed out of sight under some logs I waited quietly for other Wood Folk to show themselves.
I crept near on all fours to the edge of an old bridge, when the logs creaked under my weight and he looked up from his washing and saw me.
And once, when trout fishing on a wild river just opposite a great jam of logs and driftwood, I had stopped casting suddenly with an uncanny feeling of being watched by unseen eyes at my solitary sport.
It was quite a trick, twenty-five years ago, to take thelogs over the rapids; but he was skilful with a raft, and always kept her straight in the channel.
The durability of wood pipe is rather astonishing when the short life of logs exposed on the surface of the earth is considered.
Later, however, pipes made of bored-out logs were used and continued in service up to the year 1819.
When dug up, the logs were entirely sound and good for many years' service.
The wolves did not hesitate to step up from one to another of the inslanting logs and jump down upon the quantities of meat I placed inside, and there I had them.
The wall was at least two logs in thickness, and this would make it difficult to batter it down with the field-pieces.
Each managed so to do and by holding to the logs tightly, they were born along with the rushing flood.
Some of them were struck by the logs and knocked senseless, and two or three were drowned.
Yes, but they were overtaken by the flood, while they were sitting on the ground, about halfway between here and the mouth of the gulch, and three of them were struck by logs and knocked senseless, and were drowned.
The youths now saw that there were logs in the advancing waters, swirling and pounding, and grinding against one another.
Under the logs were bundles of twigs resting upon the dark-brown or black soil of a previous swamp.
Evidently some ancient seekers after health had found the spring in the swamp, and to make it more convenient to secure the water had piled brush around it, and then laid down the logs as a curb.
How many centuries may have elapsed since even the logs were placed in their position?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "logs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
