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Example sentences for "lumberjack"

Lexicographically close words:
lumber; lumbered; lumberer; lumberers; lumbering; lumberjacks; lumberman; lumbermen; lumbers; lumberyard
  1. You just keep right on with the outfit, and if a lumberjack so much as looks at you, set the bear on him.

  2. Alternately prodding the bear with her club, and cracking a lumberjack head wherever possible, the forest woman fought her way ahead, backed by Tom and Hippy.

  3. Khaki trousers, and a cap of the same material as the coat, completed the typical lumberjack outfit, though Tom Gray was the only member of the Overland party who recognized it as such.

  4. A lumberjack dance is no place for a refined woman, or man either, for that matter.

  5. The red-headed lumberjack returned slowly, picked up the gold-piece and opened his mouth to speak, but no words came.

  6. The table was long enough for a lumberjack boarding house, constructed of boards nailed together with cleats and placed on two boxes.

  7. The Overlanders long since had turned in and the lumberjacks were in their bunks, comfortable, and as happy as a lumberjack permits himself to be, when suddenly their bunk-house seemed to be lifted free of the ground.

  8. Henry had made several cautious visits to the scene of operations, which he viewed from the high branches of a tall pine, and, upon descending, soundly boxed the ears of a lumberjack who attempted to make friends with him.

  9. The lumberjacks having discovered that a fight was in progress were running towards the river to see if they too could not get into the fray, for a lumberjack loves nothing in the world so violently as he loves a fight.

  10. Anne Nesbit cry, and as they looked they saw her bring down her riding crop across the face of a lumberjack who had grasped her pony's bridle and was trying to separate the animal from the others of the party.

  11. The bronc' is threatening to bolt, and Hindenburg has declared war on the lumberjack tribe because one of them poked a stick in his ribs just now.

  12. I'm going up in the woods and be a lumberjack for a month.

  13. These stories, never heard outside the haunts of the lumberjack until recent years, are now being collected by learned educators and literary authorities who declare that Paul Bunyan is "the only American myth.

  14. In these conversations the lumberjack often took on the mannerisms of the French Canadian.

  15. Professor Fenska points out that Paul was a "Northerner" for when the virgin forests of the Lake States began to wane and the lumberjack shifted to the Southern Yellow Pine region, little was heard of him for nearly a decade.

  16. Distrust had enveloped him completely; even to the last lumberjack must the camp be cleaned, and the start made anew with a crew upon whom he could depend for honesty, at least.

  17. If you should say to a lumberjack to fell a tree at the spring of the root, would you know whether he did it or not?

  18. Hours he spent in watching Old Bill, a lumberjack who, in his few moments of leisure between the supper table and bed, whittled laboriously upon a wooden chain, which with dogged persistence he had lugged with him for months.

  19. A tall and swarthy lumberjack squatted on his haunches, gabbling in the Chinook jargon to a klootchman and a wizen-featured old Siwash.

  20. This is the man with the paper mill Who bought the pulp that paid the bill Of the husky lumberjack who chopped The lofty spruce and its branches lopped That grew in the forest primeval.

  21. There was a day when a lumberjack come out of the woods after the drive with his pockets burnin' with money.

  22. Fire up the iron donkey, Till each rivet feels the strain, Lumberjack has had his outing And returns to camp again!

  23. I used to be a lumberjack a long time ago,” explained Casey.

  24. If the tramp, who confessed that he had once been a lumberjack himself, could be caught in such a trap, it was evident that greenhorns like the three boys were taking desperate chances indeed.

  25. The lumberjack songs are mostly about camp events, the fight for the river at the spring flood, some great battle that took place between two rival lumber camps, for your true lumberjack is as ready to fight as to eat.

  26. Barrows and his lieutenants were not strong enough to cope with the lumberjacks, and it was finally agreed that one lumberjack and the red headed cookee go and inspect the blasting apparatus.

  27. Soon one of the Americans, seizing on a lull in the conversation and singing, struck up an old-time lumberjack song, and in a moment the whole camp had joined in.

  28. I don't suppose you will remember a cold spring day nearly twenty-five years ago on the Umculcos, when you risked your own life to save a lumberjack that was trying to ride a log and fell into the river with the logs crushing down about him?

  29. The necessity of shipping from a central point in going from one job to another usually forces a migratory existence upon the lumberjack in spite of his best intentions to live otherwise.

  30. He is militantly a lumberjack and is inclined to be a trifle "patriotic" and disputatious as to the relative importance of his own particular branch of the industry.

  31. Industrial Workers of the World, the basic lumber industry being the largest in the Northwest and the growing power of the organized lumberjack being therefore more to be feared.

  32. The Block House and the Union Hall In the Northwest today the rebel lumberjack is a pioneer.

  33. This soldier-lumberjack had done most of the shooting in the hall.

  34. And so the struggle waxed fiercer just as the lumberjack learned to contend successfully for living conditions and adequate remuneration.

  35. The big lumberjack stood quiet for several minutes, listening to the sounds of retreat beaten by the hoofs of Blodgett's horse.

  36. The lumberjack shook his head and went close to Blodgett, emphasizing his words, "Who I work for bane my business!

  37. The lumberjack stood for a moment, nodding his red head; then he turned slowly and went out.

  38. You been a lumberjack long, Mr. Driscoll?

  39. A kibitzing lumberjack at the end of the table held up his hands, thick with calluses.

  40. In his plaid shirt and dungarees, Russell Steele looked more like a lumberjack than a corporation executive.

  41. He looked up as a short, squat, bald-headed lumberjack appeared in the doorway.

  42. If I was the owner of an outfit an' any doggone lumberjack woke me up 'fore I was good an' ready I'd fire him.

  43. And so it happened that just as the four were turning in that night, a lumberjack pushed open the door.

  44. He lives in Brainard, an' many's the lumberjack that's the worse off fer knowin' him.

  45. The ones that wiggles on yer tongue is flies, an' the ones that don't is apt to be blueberries," explained a big lumberjack to Connie as he bit hugely into a wedge of purplish pie.

  46. A visit to a big department store had transformed him from a lumberjack into a youth whose clothing differed in no marked particular from the clothing of those he passed upon the street.

  47. Since the missionaries are generously accorded the privileges of the office by almost all of the proprietors, the invitation of the lumberjack is one that holds in itself no allurement.

  48. May the day soon come when the half jesting prophecy of the lumberjack will be fulfilled.

  49. Taking the missionary with him, the lumberjack went to the hotel and drew off his shoes.

  50. Later in the day the missionary was in the village of Island Lake and while talking to a friend, the lumberjack he had ejected from the camp came staggering up.

  51. The typical lumberjack is large-hearted, touched with generous impulse and responsive in his desire to ameliorate suffering.

  52. The old lumberjack will not tolerate the least word of slander against a good woman.

  53. He is said to be a poor lumberjack who can keep his wages over night.

  54. The Lumberjacks and the Lumberjack Sky Pilot.

  55. We visited other resorts of the lumberjack and returned at midnight, but the traveling man was still at the wheel.

  56. When a lumberjack is in trouble with the police he is quite sure to send for Mr. Higgins if the Sky Pilot happens to be in the village.

  57. Out under the tall sentinels they went, and there on the frozen snow they knelt while the prayers of the minister and the lumberjack ascended to the ever-approachable throne.

  58. The lumberjack is not apt to complain when things go wrong, but rather to walk into the office and demand his wages, after which he will proceed to another camp.

  59. Mr. Higgins was in a hotel in Tenstrike, Minnesota, when a lumberjack who had finished his winter's work came into the house to wait for the train going south.

  60. That part of it is settled; and weak, anemic, tenderly nurtured little Bryce Cardigan must put his turkey on his back and go into the woods looking for a job as lumberjack .

  61. And I don't intend to marry a lumberjack and continue to live in these woods," she went on earnestly, as if she found pleasure in this opportunity to announce her rebellion.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumberjack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.