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Example sentences for "lumberman"

Lexicographically close words:
lumberer; lumberers; lumbering; lumberjack; lumberjacks; lumbermen; lumbers; lumberyard; lume; lumen
  1. I remember on one occasion my partner, Mr. Musser, a well known lumberman of Muscatine, and wife were making a trip with us.

  2. He is housed in comfortable cabins, warmed with large stoves and heaters, whereas the cabin of the lumberman of 1845 had a fire built on the ground in the centre of the room.

  3. He had a well trained mind; was skilled as a lumberman and explorer, and was of a genial disposition, honest in heart and true in his friendships.

  4. Mr. Tuttle came to St. Croix Falls in 1849, and was engaged many years as a lumberman and as keeper of a boardinghouse.

  5. Mr. Purinton was an experienced lumberman and an active, energetic man.

  6. The lumberman is not conscious that he himself is a trespasser on the domain of Uncle Sam.

  7. Mr. Gilbert left four sons, Oliver, lumberman in Dunn county, Wisconsin, John and I.

  8. In some of the forests a new growth has succeeded the old, and should the land be not otherwise used, the lumberman may yet reap successive harvests in periods ranging from eight to fifteen years.

  9. The table is spread with a variety of food, and delicacies that would have astounded the lumberman of 1845.

  10. It is a heavily timbered region, upon which the lumberman has drawn for hundreds of millions of feet of lumber, with but little apparent diminution in the quantity of the supply.

  11. These pacified and out of the way, the lumberman may say with Alexander Selkirk-- "I am monarch of all I survey; My right there is none to dispute.

  12. His eldest, a daughter, wife of Samuel McClure, a lumberman of Sunrise, died February, 1885.

  13. Most of the logging has been done on privately owned land or on shamelessly stolen public land, and the lumberman had no further interest in the forest than to lumber it expeditiously.

  14. Acting on the information thus gained by the cruiser, the lumberman purchases his sections at the proper land office, or if he is less scrupulous, buys only enough to serve as a basis for operations.

  15. The lumberman cleared his throat and waited while the man looked out upon the whirling snow, for well he knew that the half-breed must be allowed to take his own time--he could not be "pumped.

  16. The lumberman plunged again into the storm and made his way to the office.

  17. The lumberman glanced at his wife in surprise.

  18. The lumberman pushed open the door of the office and glanced within.

  19. The lumberman had risen to his feet, staring incredulously into the other's face while he repeated over and over again: "My boy!

  20. When the door closed behind them the lumberman spoke.

  21. There was no doorway connecting the office with the other two rooms, and the lumberman watched the snowflakes melt on his wife's hair as she seated herself directly in front of him.

  22. Your lumberman then went in and took his windfall and his burn free.

  23. Your homesteading lumberman then set up a sawmill.

  24. Good; but your homesteading lumberman now watched his chance for a high wind away from his claim.

  25. You see it where the wasteful lumberman has come cutting half-growns and leaving stumps of full-growns three or four feet high with piles of dry slash to carry the first chance spark.

  26. To be sure, the lumberman cannot have the lumber for nothing; and it was for nothing that the Forests were seized and cut under the old regime.

  27. Forgetful of their situation, Dick and the lumberman bent over Larry and helped him to get off his shoe and sock.

  28. Aleck, and the lumberman who was on the raft with you.

  29. Both boys knelt over the prostrate form of the lumberman and did what they could to restore him to his senses.

  30. The lumberman was right; the freighter Tom and Sam had hailed was approaching, the castaways having been discovered by the aid of a marine glass.

  31. And having spoken thus, the lumberman sank again into semi-unconsciousness.

  32. The lumberman was right, the water had been running in a tiny stream not larger than a child's wrist; now it was pouring in steadily like a cataract.

  33. A few minutes later the elder Rover had joined Luke Peterson and was telling the lumberman what he had heard.

  34. He gazed about for Luke Peterson, but the lumberman was not in sight.

  35. The lumberman was now able to sit up, although very weak.

  36. The lumberman listened to Dick's tale with interest.

  37. Encouraged somewhat by Peterson's words Dick continued to hold on, and a few minutes later the lumberman gave a cheering cry: "A steamer!

  38. The lumberman had drifted up on another log, and as the two sticks bumped together he caught hold of the youth and assisted him to his former resting place.

  39. The lumberman was willing, and lighting a fresh torch, they moved around the circular chamber.

  40. He was a burly lumberman of forty, with a heavy black beard and an equally heavy voice.

  41. Parsons knew Luke Peterson, and said he would be glad to have the lumberman along on the hunt.

  42. I'll see what I can find out about them and you'd better get busy along the same line and pump every lumberman and dealer you know.

  43. The suspicion that Crooks was stringing him crossed his mind, but the old lumberman was evidently in deadly earnest.

  44. III William Crooks, the old lumberman who had been the friend of the elder Kent, was big and broad and burly, and before the years had silvered his mane it was as red as any danger flag that ever wagged athwart steel rails.

  45. You don't know a thing about it," growled the lumberman bluntly.

  46. I'll bet a thousand you're right," said the old lumberman thoughtfully.

  47. I got twenty boys off my drive on the way to give you a boost," the old lumberman continued.

  48. Now about timber," the old lumberman went on.

  49. An expert lumberman in ten minutes' time will cut down a hardwood tree one foot in diameter, and it will not take him over four minutes to cut down a softwood tree of the same size.

  50. THE MAN OF THE NORTH, who attends to the Northern Lights, is garbed in the blanket clothes of a northern lumberman and carries an axe.

  51. Broffin, conveying the impression that he was a Louisiana lumberman on a vacation, approved himself as a good listener, and little more was needed.

  52. He's a new-comer--comparatively; somebody at the club said he gave himself out for a lumberman from Louisiana.

  53. When the man looked up, Raymer recognized him as the stranger from the South who was stopping at the Winnebago House and who gave himself out as a Louisiana lumberman open to conviction on the subject of Minnesota pine lands as an investment.

  54. Bobby's going to have the best education possible; he's going to learn to be a lumberman by practical experience, and that practical experience he'll get with other people.

  55. I want a dredge," he yelled, as soon as the lumberman was within distance.

  56. The hardy lumberman who has penetrated to the remotest wilds of the Northwest, to drag from their recesses the materials for building up towns and cities in the great valley of the Mississippi, has been particularly marked out as a victim.

  57. Praise be, my regular customers knew I wasn't the kind of lumberman who tries to crawl out of filling low-priced orders after the market has gone up.

  58. Deep forest covered all the land save where the lumberman or settler had cut a narrow clearing or fire had left a {14} blackened waste.

  59. No fire had consumed and no lumberman plundered.

  60. On their sides beech and maple abound; while mantling their lower slopes, and darkening the valleys, hemlock formerly enticed the lumberman and tanner.

  61. In the evening the lumberman gave him Brændevin, and the spirit loosened his tongue.

  62. And if fate will have it ill, some unlucky lumberman may be carried down as well, down the rapids to his death.

  63. Travis, the black-eyed young lumberman from the upper Columbia, had been sent down with a special word from the manager commending him as a tried hand, equal to any post or service.

  64. There was little sickness in the Bay, and after patching up a lumberman at Grampus River, and providing some medicine for old Molly Budd's rheumatics, Andy and Jamie turned homeward with Doctor Joe.

  65. Eli harnessed his dogs when it was light, and with the lumberman who had been stabbed, but whose injuries were not after all serious, he and Doctor Joe set out for Grampus River.

  66. In the month of September the Canadian lumberman joins the gang of sturdy, active men who are bound for the "shanties," where a winter of hard work awaits them.

  67. The lumberman has been asleep ten good hours, but he feels as if he had just lain down!

  68. The lumberman banged his gun barrel on the table hard enough to make a dent.

  69. At dark the lumberman left the camp on foot, heading for the mountains.

  70. The two were in the den once more, the lumberman smoking an excellent cigar as if it had been a stick of candy.

  71. McCoppet, startled by the accusation, watched the savage manner in which the lumberman ate up the smoke of his weed.

  72. Indeed, to-day he had the money, but was far too much engrossed with Lawrence to give the lumberman a thought.

  73. Some exploring lumberman or some pioneer trapper might cross this vast swamp and find this lake during his absence.

  74. No guide or lumberman dare betray him, and so it's a fruitless task to try to catch either.

  75. It is a sort of evolution in law-evasion and opportunity, encouraged and aided by the animosity which is sure to arise between the lumberman and us, whose duty it is to enforce the fish and game laws.

  76. Well, as I am the only lumberman in Canada that can supply this heavy lumber, if they do not give it to me they will have to go to the States for it.

  77. Mason listening to the great voice of the lumberman chuckled inaudibly.

  78. For some reason the lumberman became cautious.

  79. Then, leaning forward and lowering his tone, he detailed carefully all that the lumberman would have to do to earn the money.

  80. The lumberman looked him straight in the eye and smiled.

  81. He saw at a glance there was nothing of the lumberman about him.

  82. The lumberman reverently laid the head back upon the rugs, and for some minutes remained where he was kneeling.

  83. Suddenly the lumberman rose from his seat as though about to terminate the interview, and his movement promptly had the effect he desired.

  84. George Truscott, the lumberman with whom he made the transaction, worked the old mills with qualified success for two years.

  85. The lumberman flung the empty bottle on the bed.

  86. Suddenly the lumberman sprang to his feet "We'll start right away," he said, in his usual voice.

  87. At that moment the lumberman would have promised her the world.

  88. The lumberman stirred uneasily, and Mary Chepstow let her work lie idle in her lap.

  89. The lumberman had outlined a plan by which the years would automatically restore me to my own, but I am unable still to see how these things are done.

  90. If the lumberman didn't move in, we would.

  91. The next day I met the contractor, who said he was sorry to hear of my decision, since the lumberman had come with the idea of financing the stone house, but was a bit delicate about it, the way I spoke.

  92. In the forest the lumberman is glad to find wild black cherry trees of large size.

  93. The stage driver told me that a lumberman could cut $5,000 worth of lumber from one of these sugar pine trees.

  94. Before the tent stood the lumberman and the insurance agent, their bags in their hands.

  95. The lumberman waved his farewell as he ran.

  96. During the drive the lumberman is almost always wet to the skin, day in and day out.

  97. The lumberman admires a tree in his way quite as much as you or I.


  98. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumberman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    forester; ranger; woodsman