Bert had heard that moonshiners are deadly men, indeed, and that they make little of shooting down the government officers who are sent to ferret out their hiding places and arrest them.
With the prospect of a running fight between United States' marshals and desperate moonshiners about to take place, these woods seemed likely to be anything but a safe place.
Besides, if we had left him here these moonshiners would have been sure to have killed him.
He blew hard in it and the figure gave out a clear, penetrating note that evidently traveled a long distance, for the two moonshiners stood up in their now distant canoe and gazed back in astonishment at the sound.
The moonshiners turned to the adventurers with sardonic looks as he disappeared.
So completely had Ben's determined manner cowed the more ruffianly moonshiners that even they did not demur.
As they ate themoonshiners shyly watched them with their wild, hunted eyes.
Rugged, wild-eyed moonshiners stood all about him and the women even had come out of the huts, with their timid children peeping from behind their skirts, to be onlookers at the unwonted scene.
Black Bart," too, had a little fallen off in the estimation of the moonshiners because he also refused to touch their product.
The moonshiners seemed even disposed to be friendly, in an offish sort of way, after Ben's endorsement of the boys.
Perhaps you know something about the moonshiners and the feudists?
The devoutness of these queer mountain folk, moonshiners and feudists included, interested them deeply.
He means there are moonshiners on this ridge of Lieutenant Wingate's," answered Miss Briggs.
My friend, Colonel Spotsworth, of Louisville, strongly advised against you folks crossing the eastern end of the range, which would take you through mountains where moonshiners and feudists hold forth.
To-night he expects to accomplish what he has been working towards for many months, a round-up of the leading moonshiners of this district.
Most of theMoonshiners belonged to the Golf Club, and they had gotten permission to have their fire in a secluded little grove behind the course.
The Moonshiners had spent so much time admiring Babbie's brownies that they had to hurry through the supper and even so it bid fair to be after ten before they reached the campus.
Now, when four men are picked up at random in our township, it is safe to assume that at least three of them have been moonshiners themselves, and know how this sort of thing should be done.
I have not seen recent revenue reports, but I do not need to; for the war between officers and moonshiners is so close to us that we almost live within gun-crack of it.
In an easy, unassuming way he told me many stories of his own adventures among moonshiners and counterfeiters in the old days when these southern Appalachians fairly swarmed with desperate characters.
We have come to the time when our Government began in dead earnest to fight the moonshiners and endeavor to suppress their traffic.
The moonshiners of our own day know nothing of the story that has here been written.
When the story was finished, I asked Mr. Harkins if it was true, as the reading public generally believes, that moonshiners prefer death to capture.
Moonshiners and man-slayers were as affable as common folks.
That saved themmoonshiners and raiders from killin' each other.
Every perceptible lapse of the moonshiners into anxiety, every recurrent intimation of their most pertinent reason for this anxiety, set Nehemiah a-shaking in his shoes.
For at any moment, he reflected, in despair, the laggard raiders might swoop down upon them, and the choice of roles offered to him was to seem to them a moonshiner, or to the moonshiners an informer.
The figures and faces of the moonshiners showed against the deepening gloom.
And within were doubtless further recesses, where perchance the moonshiners had worked their still.
For the flare from the furnace showed that this leading spirit amongst the moonshiners had gone softly out.
He could go away after the cowardly caution of the moonshiners should have expended itself in dallying and delay, with his negotiation for the "wild-cat" ended, and his accomplished young relative in charge.
No vague, faint suggestion of the well-hidden lair of the moonshiners did the wild covert show forth.
Even the society of the moonshiners as their guest was a reproach to one who had always piously, and in such involuted and redundant verbiage, spurned the ways and haunts of the evil-doer.
The moonshiners were doubtless all gone long ago, betrayed into captivity, and Leander with them.
None of his capacity to make himself understood had the boy lost by the craft of the moonshiners in placing him where he would never hear an English word and was likely to forget the language.
The moonshiners had suddenly before their eyes the menace of croup or pneumonia, and, to do them justice, the destruction of the child had not been part of their project.
The moonshiners had represented the little boy as the son of one of their party, recently a widower.
Thus it was that the moonshiners laid hold on the boy's simple possessions, and thus it was that Archie fought and contended for his own.
It reminds me of an experience I had with moonshiners once," said Mr. Parker.
Before long I saw a glow on the sky behind me, and knew that flames were devouring the vile stuff that moonshiners make.
Seeing neither of the lads was going to speak, Muriel went on: "Yes, moonshiners have laws and regulations.
The words came from Muriel, and the boy chief of the moonshiners made a spring and a grab, snatching the card from Miller's hand.
One still was raided, but not one of the moonshiners was captured, as they had received ample warning of their danger.
The othermoonshiners had disappeared, and the boys were alone in that room with the chief of the mountain desperadoes.
Moonshiners have laws an' regulations, an' even ther leader must stan' by them.
And there were moonshiners among the Scottish hills in those days, as perhaps there are to-day.
The moonshiners found I was all right, and offered to help me start, and several times I was just going to do it, but somehow I couldn't.
You know Cracker moonshiners as well as I do, maybe.
You know moonshiners ain't always bad when you know 'em.
I think I'll try and beat the moonshinersto it and have things ready for them.
I have a nice little plant that's making money, and the moonshiners have gone to prison.
I want you to know that the business with the moonshinersis all off.
Why, he's in with the moonshiners about here hand and glove, and they're powerful offish.
Comparatively few of them were actual moonshiners but at other times many of them had been--and their spirit was defense of their institutions.
And moonshiners no longer boasted defiance, but dug in and became infinitely secretive.
However, her mood soon changed, and with a serious look coming into her blue eyes she said: "I am sure those moonshiners are a menace to our community.
All felt that the best way to begin the attack was to take the moonshiners by surprise, and it was thought that early morning was the most favorable hour, when the outlaws would probably be asleep.
Let's drink to de health of all moonshiners and to de defeat an' death of all revenue spies.
The sheriff and chief revenue officers, knowing that the moonshiners were so formidable in arms, numbers, and location, were anxious to have as large an attacking party as possible.
Several moonshiners were convicted of the iniquity of their business, and gave up illicit distilling and their other bad practices.
During the first part of the discourse he followed the preacher closely and calmly; but when Jasper Very entered upon his philippic against the moonshiners in particular, an awful struggle began in Wiles' heart.
It was known that the attempt to capture the moonshiners would be dangerous.
Behold this leader of the moonshiners as he stirs the fire of logs under the still and speaks to his pals: "That war a mighty fine trick I played on Dick Granger, the revenue deputy t'other night.
It threatens us with a much more serious danger than any that the moonshiners can bring upon us.
On his return, he reported that "everything is frozen as hard as a brick, and if the moonshiners ever intend to attack us, now is their time.
There may be no still and only a small company of boys in that cabin, but who knows how many stills there may be hidden around here, or how many moonshiners may be hiding about us, ready to massacre us?
If he has fallen into the hands of the moonshiners we must rescue him, and to that end we must have guns and ammunition.
I haven't the smallest respect for you moonshinersor for your business.
An hour after supper all lay down to sleep, after replenishing the fire under the slate rock bank, for there was no danger from moonshiners down here so near the foot of the mountain.
But why should moonshiners object to our camping in the wood lands up here and cutting railroad ties?
But I've entered into an honorable agreement with the moonshiners and I mean to keep it.
It will be a wholesome reminder to the rest of these moonshiners that they had better not shoot at us fellows.
Then the moonshiners took the offensive, while you were pottering around here trying to find a still where a mere glance would have convinced an intelligent man that there was none.
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.
Ben pressed on to the still-house at the best speed he could make, and such of the moonshiners as were half sober came out with ropes and a barrel, which they lowered into the cavity.
It was a face of subtle influences, and the very sight of it roused in Nehemiah a more heedful fear than the "shootin'-iron" in the bluff moonshiners hand had induced.
If the furnace door were opened they would be targets in the glare for the lurking moonshiners in the glooms beyond.
Two of the moonshiners were arranging to decant some liquor into a keg, and were lighting a tallow dip for the purpose.
You see, they say, the hills around about here are all full of moonshiners and they believe the coming of the railroad will bring with it law and order and that when that comes, of course, their living will be gone.
He knew that she knew quite as well what moonshiners were as any person in the group, but her affected ignorance of rough things and rough men amused him.
Moonshiners have no welcome for strangers for fear of informing on them.
On the approach of strangersmoonshiners hide the still, extinguish their campfires and hide themselves in the forests very quickly.
You gain what I lose--and the close season for moonshiners is coming on, now that the corn is ripe.
The two moonshiners exchanged quick glances and sullenly muttered something to each other.
Well, Toot soon loaded the whiskey again and drove off up the mountain, but he's laughed about that a hundred times and told the moonshiners about it.
I was a witness in Atlanta once, an' I know what moonshiners go through.
I know themoonshiners are breaking the law, but they don't realize it.
They are notmoonshiners or smugglers or bootleggers; they are the people upon whose patronage or connivance the moonshiners and smugglers and bootleggers depend for their business.
These men then, were themoonshiners of whom Dale had spoken that afternoon.
If what Jim Dale and Peter had said was correct, a gang of moonshiners still made the mountains thereabouts their habitat.
I guess the moonshiners set it on fire to destroy the evidence.
The officials were delighted to learn of the clever manner in which the moonshiners had been apprehended.
The recess was the hiding place formerly used by the moonshiners to conceal their product.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonshiners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
