In the pulpit the war-scarred moonshinerdrew gently, deliberately backward, leaving the rifle untouched.
Burton had surprised him time and again, but inventory of these encounters always told the same trite story--the moonshiner had simply melted into absence.
At his worst, the native moonshinerwas a better man than the imported miner at his best.
He had grabbed the excited and suspicious moonshiner by the arm.
Of course, Harran and the other moonshiner were by us immediately.
But beauty in any sense was not what the observer was prepared to expect in Nehemiah, and the moonshiner seemed to accept the smile at its face value, and to respect its intention.
Others commented on the strength and great momentum of the flow, and for this reason it was thought that in some dark underground channel of Hide-and-Seek Creek the moonshiner had found his sepulchre.
He presently saw figures drawing back to the doorway out of the mêlée, for moonshiner and raider were alike indistinguishable, and he became aware that both parties were equally desirous to gain the outer air.
Some flying rumor had doubtless come to his ears, how credible, how unimpugnable, the moonshiner could not tell.
With scant proof, he argued, a moonshinermight be suspected of highway robbery and murder.
Needless to say, the conversation resulted in Whitley's engaging the moonshiner for seventy-five cents a day, to hunt with him; and for the next two weeks they were always together.
Too astonished to do anything else, Jim obeyed, and hastily thrusting the rifle under a pile of leaves by a log near by, the moonshiner forced his companion before him through the underbrush to a big rock some distance from the road.
The little moonshiner is a more interesting character, if for no other reason than that he fights fair, according to his code, and single-handed against tremendous odds.
When Jack came in sight of the farmhouse, humped under his bulky burden, the enraged moonshiner seized a shotgun and ran toward him, breathing death and destruction.
There is no exaggeration in the answer a moonshiner once made to me when I asked him how old the best blockade liquor ever got to be: "If it 'd git to be a month old, it 'd fool me!
Just as the smugglers of old Britain called themselves free-traders, thereby proclaiming that they risked and fought for a principle, so the moonshiner considers himself simply a blockade-runner dealing in contraband.
One was the moonshiner who had been so anxious to despatch the unfortunate Nego, the other was a younger man whom the boys recollected to have seen in the camp the day before.
Here you get along home and tell 'em to send us some grub," he ordered the lanky young moonshiner who had escorted them.
Frank explained where and when the squaw had told him the moonshiner discovered the bottle.
Declining their invitation to stay and share the meal the young moonshiner plunged off hurriedly into the home trail.
It was dusk when the youngmoonshiner returned loaded with provisions for which the boys against his protest insisted on paying.
Frank had entirely forgotten the squatting Buddha, which he had placed in his pocket the day the moonshiner had sold it to him, and had not given it a thought since.
There was a moonshiner a couple of miles from camp and a man was going there to get whiskey, so I gave him $5.
We both then went to the moonshiner and I gave him the counter-sign.
Well, I for one, prophesied that the moonshiner would get away that night.
Of course the moonshiner lost nothing, but some fellow bought water in his whiskey after that.
One day, while here, a moonshinercame into camp and was arrested.
Our uniforms might give this old moonshiner the idea that in some way we must be connected with the army; perhaps a detachment of scouts sent in here to get him in a corner, and knock his old moonshine Still, to flinders.
I've thought of that, but made up my mind that so far the moonshiner can have no suspicion who Bob is.
This was considered best, lest some suspicious moonshiner think it his duty to take a pot shot or two at those figures far down the valley, wearing the khaki uniform he hated.
He knew that they must have shrunk back, appalled, when the moonshiner made such a threatening move, accompanying his fierce words.
He must soon have had the enmity of Old Phin, and every other moonshiner about the Big Smokies," Thad remarked, the other having paused, as though to give him a chance to express an opinion.
For answer the moonshiner stepped forward, and with a key he produced, released the iron that had been fastened about the ankle of the one-time revenue marshal.
Possibly some of those moonshiner videttes must have started up, wondering what on earth could be occurring in the camp of the Boy Scouts.
The moonshiner videttes are having another talk," Bob remarked, as they sat and watched several lights carrying on in this weird fashion.
This would be looked upon by any of Old Phin's followers, should they see the boys, as in keeping with what the patrol leader had told the moonshiner about the doings and ambitions of Boy Scouts.
Perhaps that old moonshiner never spent a more interesting hour or so than by the camp-fire of the Boy Scouts; at any rate he certainly could not look back to one that must have been more profitable to him in every way.
His air was so candid, and his face so free from guile that the moonshiner could find no further cause for suspicion.
It was evident that the moonshiner was mellow from draughts of his own potent product.
The moonshiner received with complacence this evidence of yielding on the girl's part.
The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair of moonshiner and feudsman.
There was no telling how audacious the moonshiner might become in his rage over the ignominy to which the girl had subjected him.
The thought of any intercourse with the moonshiner was unspeakably repugnant, yet she dared not risk needless offense.
It was an enormous stone weighing over three hundred pounds; but with his strong lever and knotted muscles the ex-moonshiner managed to slide it slowly to the right, disclosing a black hole about two feet square in the ragged stone.
No one spoke after this outburst for several minutes, though the glances cast in his direction showed the embarrassed ex-moonshiner that one and all had sanctioned Abner Daniel's opinion.
You know what a old moonshiner cayn't pick up in these mountains from old pards ain't wuth lookin' fer.
He seemed unable to speak, and, leaning forward in his chair, the ex-moonshiner recounted in careful detail all that had passed between him and the man he had visited.
The process of capturing the moonshiner has changed considerably from that of other days.
He presently saw figures drawing back to the doorway out of the melee, for moonshiner and raider were alike indistinguishable, and he became aware that both parties were equally desirous to gain the outer air.
The speaker and the ex-moonshiner were standing at the threshold of the log shack.
He had chanced on a path, he realized, which some moonshiner preferred keeping closed and the girl had been stationed there as a human declaration, "no thoroughfare.
With a nod of comprehension the moonshiner and his helper slipped out of sight in the shadows, and kneeling at Jerry's side, Bear Cat again raised a cup of white whiskey to his lips.
Do you 'spose I'm going to let any damn Cracker moonshiner get a drop on me with a long John, when I got a gun down here that shoots a dozen times while he's loadin'.
The moonshiner believed that I would protect him as my prisoner.
No kick in it especially, but just as good, and I want to tell you how near I came to being a moonshiner myself right where you found your gang.
Do you suppose they thought I was a moonshiner just finished a long term, and was gunnin' for the man who put me in?
That damn sheriff is about half-moonshiner himself, and the old jail would fall down if ye looked at it," he added excitedly.
I moved my manacled moonshinerto the highest part near their lookout stump, chained the two together, and began a watch that would end with a flood tide, eight or ten hours later.
And say, perhaps now, when this old moonshinerhears the hounds, maybe he won't sit up and take notice!
Giraffe took occasion to remark, after noticing how careful the swamp hunter seemed to be, that according to his notion Tom Smith was half expecting to hear that rifle of the moonshiner bark again.
I reckon Gid is about the only moonshinerthat has escaped jail up to date.
At first it was father's drinking; then he quit that, and became a moonshiner in constant danger of arrest; and now he has left home to try his fortune among total strangers.
If the moonshiners have caught little Tom and done any harm to him, I am going to drive every moonshiner out of these mountains and into a penitentiary or better still to a gibbet, if I have to give my whole life to it.
If carried as you have them, there wouldn't be one of them that wouldn't lie like a moonshiner by the time we 'git out'n the mountings.
I was curious to find out how far the moonshiner who 'negotiated' with me at the muzzle of your magazine rifle, Doctor, was telling the truth, and how far he was lying.
But if I send a man down the mountain," answered the revenue agent, "some moonshiner might shoot him on the way.
Nan has had a falling-out with the old scamp of a moonshiner who calls himself her father.
He had no wish to be mixed up in the tragic matter, and he knew, instinctively, that if Joe Lorey gave his word, moonshiner and lawbreaker as he was, it would be kept to the grim end.
There was that about the face, the attitude, the very way the lithe moonshinerheld his gun, which made him seem, to the astonished man whom he had halted, like a grim vision from the past.
Strolling there beneath the stars he gave no thought to poor Joe Lorey, until, like a night-shadow, the moonshiner stalked along the trail and passed him.
Layson liked the spirit of her warm defense of her old friend, and, himself, knew enough about the moonshiner to make it seem quite reasonable.
Teague's thoughts ran with grim directness to a reward that had been offered for a certain grey old Moonshiner who had made his headquarters on Hog Mountain.
The boys gazed at the moonshiner chief in amazement, for Muriel looked no more than a boy as he sat there on his black horse, and his voice seemed the voice of a boy instead of that of a man.
I am still inclined to believe the moonshineris the girl in disguise.
Frank fell to speculating over the providential appearance of the moonshiner chief.
Instead of that, the moonshiner was a living interrogation point, everything about him seeming to speak the question that fell from his lips.
These orders were attended to with great swiftness, and then the moonshiner chief said: "Follow!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonshiner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: barmaid; bartender; bootlegger; dealer; moonshiner; publican; pusher; vintner
