The town was always full of rough lumberjacks at these early elections and for the day they run the town.
They passed several moments in chatting with those of the lumberjacks with whom they thought they might make friends that would perhaps stand them in good stead later on.
Lumberjacks are just like so many children," Barrows said.
As they neared the cook tent, they saw the lumberjacks piling towards the place to eat.
The squatters knew what this meant, since they had planted their corn for the summer, and moving meant that the lumberjacks would burn down the cabins and start them away.
After the greetings were over, the traitorous lumberjacks were ordered to get their packs and leave within fifteen minutes under the guidance of the posse, while the prisoners were put on the trucks to be taken to the county jail.
But they have been on their guard most of the time, and this camp is full of lumberjacks that worked for old man Boone.
This they decided was the bunk house, where the lumberjacks lived.
Also many of the lumberjacks are kept captive in one of the shacks, and a heavy guard has been set over them.
His words being corroborated, the lumberjacks insisted on an immediate surrender.
The lumberjacks are experts in the use of the peavy stick, and it is a pretty sight to see them load a great trunk onto a flat car to be drawn away.
Barrows was for disregarding the message as a trick, but King clinched the argument by offering immunity to all the lumberjacks except the bosses and camp officers.
Lumberjacks always took care never to pick a quarrel with him, and this went the same for the manager and the camp officers.
One of the French Canadian lumberjacks produced a mouth organ, and another a battered guitar, and those who spoke the French joined in an old "chanson" or song.
The day passed quickly, for there were many things about the camp to attract their attention, and they asked numerous questions of such of the lumberjacks as seemed inclined to spend a moment or two to answer them.
Think of the lumberjacks who used to sleep in this place, and hear the roar of the wintry blizzard, being shut up for a week at a time by the drifts around them.
What is being done to counteract the influence that is thrown around the lumberjacksin the towns?
Into these camps with the coming of winter the lumberjacks crowd.
A sober woodsman who saw the fight of the drunken lumberjacks said, 'Pilot, why do you continue to work among such men?
The contractors find it a task to obtain suitable men for their crews, for the saloon and its concomitant evils have made many of the lumberjacks irresponsible and incapable.
The lumberjacks listened and their interest turned to astonishment when the convert drew out a Bible and began to read a chapter to the crowd.
The spring after his decision, he was surprised on entering his home to find it filled with a crew of lumberjacks who were returning from the camps.
But he thought, if I should do this physical duty the lumberjacks who are my friends will refuse to work for the foreman and the proprietor's kindness will be repaid with loss.
Before the missionary left the camp the proprietor came and thanked him for not only fearlessly preaching to the lumberjacks but for being equally ready to preach to the lumber kings.
I do not wonder that you lumberjacks live shameless lives, for the leaders of the work often set you the worst examples.
He does not look the preacher, but ask the lumberjacks about it and they will tell you "there is no other.
Courtesy and attention await the victims, for an army of men is ready to respond to any desire the lumberjacks may express, no matter how low.
California is the home of the redwood, and all the world reads of its mammoths of the forest; but in the northern part of the State pine, oak and fir lure the lumber companies, and there the lumberjacks are calling for services.
There the lumberjacks found him and assisted him to the shelter of the camp, where they tenderly worked to warm and comfort the man who had so often stood between them and death.
A few days after one of his visits to the camps, two lumberjacks came to his door.
In the ward the other lumberjacks heard the prayer, and while the tears fell over faces unaccustomed to them, the boys uttered in silence a sympathetic prayer that Will McDonald might reach the hill-top.
Barnum was a lumber town, but although accustomed to the lumberjacks and drivers, it had never seen them in church.
Ever happen to think what would happen in the woods if your lumberjacks run short of grub?
Then, I figure, he'll have some trouble with his men, and most likely men he don't have trouble with will get into a row with lumberjacks going out of camp.
Far greater in strength, in fact, for Houston had taken his place in the woods side by side with the few lumberjacks whom he could afford to carry on his pay roll.
A couple of drunken lumberjacks potted me from cover.
De Stoney nichies an' de lumberjacks is raise hell; by gar!
The men who were in his immediate vicinity, lumberjacks who were strangers in the Noda region, were plainly of his appanage and had obeyed his advice to keep out of the mêlée that had been provoked by Flagg's methods of selection.
Bob recognized the two lumberjacks from his own camp.
The lumberjacks produced the implements they had that noon so carefully ground to an edge.
This city is famous for its paper mills and as a center for the gathering of lumberjacks for the woods work.
Roars of laughter filled the room as the lumberjacks looked on with shouts of encouragement and approval.
We're rough guys, us lumberjacks is, an' we don't like greeners.
The boy answered all the chafing with a smiling good humour that won the regard of the rough lumberjacks as his tramping mile after mile through the sand and mud without any apparent fatigue won their secret admiration.
When he left the office it was with the idea of heading a posse of lumberjacks in the capture of the three I.
Toward the middle of the afternoon a boy, whom Connie had noticed talking and laughing with the three lumberjacks Hurley suspected of being I.
Everybody in town, from lumberjacks to bankers, has told me what a fine fellow Bryce Cardigan is.
It's quite an inspiring sight to see a couple of lumberjacks going to it on a flat-car travelling thirty miles an hour.
Jules Rondeau and his crew of lumberjacks were there, and with two policemen guarded the crossing.
The word was uttered in a roar, a mighty roar that was heard in the cook-house and by the lumberjacks at their Christmas dinner in the old bunk-house.
The lumberjacks with one accord rushed at the Overland Riders, uttering yells and jeers.
Tom was bossing the gang and doing it like a man who had handled lumberjacks before.
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.
The lumberjacks stood about awkwardly, and the Indian hovered near, his stolid face reflecting no emotion.
The lumberjacks shook hands awkwardly with their guests, except that Spike merely made a move to do so, then quickly withdrew his hand and shoved it into the pocket of his Mackinaw.
The Overland Riders walked their horses after making the turn, there being no need for haste, as no one believed that the lumberjacks would follow, and further, the Overlanders were looking for a suitable camping place for the night.
The lumberjacks were now giving ground rapidly, though Peg, wounded and, judging from his expression, suffering, was not further punished.
The lumberjacks reached him at this juncture and, together, Spike and his companions brought the unconscious man towards the shore.
Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to introduce to you Chief Willy Horse, and believe me he is some horse to stand the punishment those lumberjacks gave him and still be able to talk horse sense.
When they got to "Big Dick," as the lumberjacks called Dakota, hills and rocks were so hard to find that Paul rigged up the revolving rock.
To overawe the greenhorn in the bunkshanty, or the paper-collar stiffs and home guards in the saloons, a group of lumberjacks would remember meeting each other in the camps of Paul Bunyan.
The lumberjacks accused him of using a split pencil to charge up the tobacco and socks they bought at the wanagan but this was just bunkshanty talk (is this the origin of the classic term "the bunk"?
A distinct Paul Bunyan legend has grown up in the oil fields, evidently originating with lumberjacks from the northern and eastern white pine camps who came to work with the drillers.
In the early days, whenever Paul Bunyan was broke between logging seasons, he traveled around like other lumberjacks doing any kind of pioneering work he could find.
The lumberjacks will understand me, I am sure, and will appreciate my humble efforts to entertain them.
Then she went back to the house to converse upon domestic matters with Mrs. Howe until the shrilling of the donkey whistle brought forty-odd lumberjacks swinging down the trail.
So did the man at the top of the slip and the lumberjacks clustered on the boat.
So far as her first impressions went, Roaring Lake appeared to be mostly frequented by lumberjacks addicted to rude speech and strong drink.
Pretty soon the big lumberjacksstarted off to their daily work of chopping down trees.
And let me say right now, that if there's any suspicious business attempted while you're up here in this section of the Big Woods, you're apt to get a pack of my lumberjackshot on your trail.
My readers, however, are not lumberjacks but campers, and a double-bitted axe is a nuisance around camps.
To over awe the greenhorn in the bunkshanty, or the paper-collar stiffs and home guards in the saloons, a group of lumberjackswould remember meeting each other in the camps of Paul Bunyan.
For hours at a time, lumberjacks will pile up the achievements of their hero.
Illustration] IN the early days, whenever Paul Bunyan was broke between logging seasons, he travelled around like other lumberjacks doing any kind of pioneering work he could find.
Whooping and laughing, the lumberjacks vaulted the tail gates of the trucks and piled over the side-boards.
Do lumberjacks really ride on top of the logs the way you see it in the movies?
The husky lumberjacks were amazingly thorough and efficient.
Across the clearing, a convoy of trucks jammed with lumberjacks pulled out of a dirt road and drew up in front of one building where a long line was forming.
There's a logging camp up there, Quiz, so you'll get a chance to see lumberjacksat work.
The boys eyed the lumberjacks admiringly as they walked by the mess hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumberjacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
