Dolly's mammy and Nester simpering with pride on the landing.
The nester was uncoiling a rope from his saddle horn, and at this sight Masten shrieked and went to his knees.
The nester was still silent; he had spoken no word.
He had talked with Catherson; the nester had told him the story, but it had been agreed between them the real story was not to be told.
Then Lafe threw back his head and laughed with such unaffected heartiness that the nester seemed puzzled.
The nester lolled in camp, having advanced a plea of sickness to avoid work that morning.
The nester mentioned a stretch of chaparral, and Johnson assigned him to that strip.
What's this nester got to do with Steve Moffatt or his kin?
Once, too, while they were working the herd, he caught a criticism of his methods that the nester was voicing to a cowboy.
Late in the afternoon they came to a little mountain ranch owned by a nester who had punched cattle for Dave in the old days.
The suspicious eyes of the nester passed over Beaudry and came back to Dingwell.
There was the burning of hay, the breaking of ditches; there was the shooting down of Two-Bits, the destruction of Cathedral Tank, there was the presence in the Hole of the nester and his daughter.
Curtis parlayed with the nester who made whining threats of a suit for damages.
The nester looked up slowly and laboriously gained his feet.
The fiddle was won by a nester from over in Surprise Valley, who had always believed he could play one if he only had a fair chance.
His fairest spot was a half section of bad land a hopeful nesterhad took up back in the hills.
The one thing I like," he continued, "about thisnester layout is those red-headed boys.
What's this I hear about you laying off, and trying to eat some poor nester out of house and home?
They seemed to have plenty of money--and it was eminently fitting that the Happy Family's fence should be built with nester money.
Till we do we've got to hang and rattle, and keep that nester stock from getting past us.
What had the boys been thinking of, to let that nester stock get past them in the night?
I--don't hardly think any nester stock will get by us, J.
A claim-shack meant a nester, and a nester was a nuisance, with his plowed fields and his few head of cattle that must be painstakingly weeded out of a herd to prevent a howl going up to high heaven.
The Happy Family complained to one another that you couldn't pry a nester loose from his claim with a crowbar.
Every rancher an' nester in forty mile around has drove in.
Amongst which I seen T U brands, and I X, an' D bar C, an' quite a few nester brands.
But he knew the man was a nester with a wife an' two kids, so he took a chance--an' the nester got him.
Well, that there dose of tarford fever that the nester gal died of cost ol' Lazy Y jest a even thousan' bucks.
The nester managed to draw the loop taut about Irwin's neck and insert his knuckles so that he could use them as a tourniquet if necessary.
The nester followed her into the night and walked beside her toward the house of the foreman.
The nester located, with his index finger, the town of that name, and traced the road from it to Seven Mile.
His gaze shifted to the nester and carried with it implacable hostility.
The nester took from his pocket a little pearl-handled knife, picked up a potato from a basket beside him, and began to whittle on it absently.
A sudden memory had come to her of one thing at least that she could not tell even to him--the story of that moment when she had lain in the arms of the nester with his heart beating against her breast.
They carried the nesterto the bedroom of Phyllis and laid him down gently on the bed.
The nester smiled, but there was no gayety in his eyes.
When Phyllis arrived with Aunt Becky she found the nester sitting on the lounge, Healy opposite him with a revolver close to his hand.
Plunged downward, the nester clung viselike to the man above, dragged him after, and by the very fury of Irwin's assault flung him far out into the gulf head-first.
The nester pushed her gently into the arms of her guest.
Rastus and the nester were the only men about the place, the deputy sheriff having been recalled to Noches on the collapse of Healy's story.
Now would be a good time to blow off the top of my cocoanut," the nester suggested more than once to the infuriated cave man.
The nester knew a surge of triumph in his blood, but it did not show in the impassive face which he turned upon his host.
There was always the chance that some smart nester would come, file on a half-section and start boring artesian wells.
It takes a nester a long time to wake up to the fact that he's licked, and until they woke up, the nesters would be liable to block the water wheels of a private reclamation scheme.
It was the posse, or perhaps the nester whose cabin he had plundered--and he hoped it was the posse.
At daylight he entered the cabin of a nester who had not yet returned from the celebration, and according to the custom of the country cooked himself a meal and ate it.
The next friction between them came one evening when Grimshaw announced that there was a new nester over on Red Sand Creek.
The nester would not reach his cabin till evening.
Well, these hyer nester kids and Mormons went to sleep on guard and let my top hawses pull--now I got nothin' but bronks to ride!
Ever since he begin settin' up with that nester girl!
He paused and looked around for appreciation, but only the nester kids smiled.
It was too early yet for the nester girls to appear, and while they were waiting for the dance to begin the twenty or more punchers wedged into the big front room and settled down to hear the phonograph.
The eyes of the nester were a barometer of his temper.
I've come to demand an inspection of yore herd," broke out the nester harshly.
He was still busy at this when thenester returned with half a dozen cattle cut out from the herd.
There was an open stretch of grass land between the crossing and Doubler's cabin, and when Langford urged his pony up the sloping bank of the river he saw the nester standing near the door of the cabin, watching.
Doubler stood in the open doorway, looking after Dakota, and when the latter finally disappeared around a bend in the river the nester turned and saw Duncan.
He had expected a burst of anger from the new owner when he should discover that the value of his property was impaired by the presence of a nester near it, but the new owner apparently harbored no resentment over this unforeseen obstacle.
He had determined to see Doubler this morning, for he had noticed that the nester had appeared ill at ease in the presence of Duncan, and he anticipated that alone he could force him to accept terms.
The possibility of disposing of the nester in this manner had been before him ever since he had learned of his presence on the Two Forks.
Perhaps, she speculated, with a flash of dull anger, he had followed her near to Doubler's cabin, perhaps had been near when she had dragged the wounded nester into it.
The prospect of becoming involved with the nester gave Langford a throb of joy.
And yet the Nester must in time win through, must eventually find the little piece of land which he was seeking.
The Homesteader His name was usually Nester or Little Fellow.
For the Nester who wanted a way through these fences out into the open public lands, he cherished a bitter resentment.
But the birds'-nester who is a naturalist born soon wakens, not only to the beauty, but to the significance, of his fragile treasures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nester" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: homesteader; immigrant; pioneer; planter; precursor; settler; sooner; squatter
