He moved slowly toward the packs that were thrown down just where they had been taken from the horses, and began nosing tentatively about.
Keep their packs just as we started out, then you'll be ready to strike out by yourselves whenever it seems best.
Commercial travellers, then called "riders," travelled with their packs of samples on each side of their horses.
Fine strapping broad-chested Lincolnshire animals were these Pack-horses, bearing on either side their bursting packs of merchandise to the weight of half-a-ton.
You can have the stock, the packs and traps in the second corral.
They landed, and drew up their canoes in a line up the bank, took out their packs of beaver skins, set up their wigwams, slung their kettles and encamped for the night.
They were cinching up the packs after the noon rest when he rode up on a burro.
From all sides she heard the night howls of the coyote packs circling nearer and nearer.
As Bluff again yawned at a fearful rate their kind host realized that the boys were more or less played out after their long journey, and the task of "toting" their heavy packs into the Big Woods.
It did not take them long to begin to make things seem homelike, once they had their packs open.
Frank asked, as the others dropped their packsto the ground, and sought any kind of seats nearby.
Being fresh after a good night's sleep, they did not mind the weight of their packs so much now.
Even the horses, so soon as theirpacks and saddles were removed, showed their pleasure by rolling on the ground before hastening off to a meadow near by.
The packs were then placed on old Chiniquy, the faithful beast hitherto used by Peyto as a saddle-horse.
In these frantic rushes many of us were several times trampled on by the horse, and the packs were smashed against the branches and trunks of trees, or torn off altogether.
Then came one of our party who led the horse with a long head rope, while behind the horse were two men whose duty it was to pick up whatever articles fell out of the packs from time to time, and fasten them on again.
In the centre were the remains of a bonfire, and all around were broken bottles and packs of cheap cards in confusion.
One does not waste time when one packs under shell fire, and at the end of three-quarters of an hour there was not a patient and very little of value in the hospital.
Then we went to the cabin, flung our lean packs in a corner, built a fire, and sat by it smoking till a voluble Frenchman brought the warm food.
The three men had laid down the shoulder-packs with which they were burdened.
Then we hitched our leanpacks anew, and went down the hill.
We were not kept waiting long; the shrill of a whistle from somewhere in the darkness put an end to all talking, and we hastily slung our packs on our shoulders again and started on our long tramp south to La Bassée.
As he talked, two of the canoemen made up light packs from the outfit of the wrecked canoe.
And in his wake men, whose eyes fairly bulged with the greed of gold, jammed their outfits into packs and headed into the North.
Vermilion was waiting for her as he watched the scowmen breaking open the freight pieces and making up hurried trail-packs of provisions.
On the eve of departure the three missionaries brought their packs to the strand, and lodged for the night in the traders' storehouse, hard by the Indian encampment.
This necessitated dividing up the Indians' packs and each man sufficiently able-bodied taking a part of these abandoned loads in addition to his own pack; and thus we continued the journey.
It cost one of the party several pairs of boot-packs before he could learn to keep sufficiently far away from the open fire, on returning to camp from his work.
Filling our packs with things the cook had ordered, we started on our return journey, arriving at the Indian camp at nightfall.
About the middle of the afternoon, the Indians threw down their packs and left our party altogether, having become tired of their jobs.
Either boot-packs or buckskin moccasins, inside of which were several pairs of woolen socks, composed the footwear.
Boot-packs or larigans, as they are commonly called by the lumber-jack, are tanned in a manner that makes them very susceptible to heat, and the leather will shrivel quickly if near an open fire.
Packs grow heavier and heavier, never lighter on the trail.
Provisions and cooking utensils should be divided into as many packs as there are campers, and every camper carry a pack.
As each question and answer card are produced they are laid aside; and thus the game proceeds until both packs are finished.
This counting will, of course, be done with many apparently intricate calculations, founded upon the pips of the cards in the performer's hand combined with the packs on the table.
The number of packs of cards corresponding with the number of players, shuffled together, and ready to be dealt.
Any number may play, and a full pack of cards is required: indeed, it is not at all an unusual occurrence for two or three packs to be mixed together when the company is more than ordinarily large.
One was a huge white wolf whose body, gleaming in the moon, was continually hurling itself against the Indians in the thickest of the fight and goading the packs on.
In our study area we sometimes saw evidence of long moves by large packs along strings of lakes and waterways.
Packs varied in the concern shown the aircraft, but only one or two ran from it.
This differs markedly from the situation on Isle Royale, where lone wolves usually feed only on moose remains left by packs (Mech 1966a, Jordan et al.
Packs on Isle Royale depended a great deal on such a system of trails (Mech 1966a), and so did Pack No.
However, the packsstudied there could not be identified with certainty, and little information was obtained about nonbreeding population units.
There, over the past eight years, dozens of packs have been observed from the air.
Young Timothy Lean was a second lieutenant in the first company of the third battalion, and just at this time he was pattering along at the flank of the men, keeping a fatherly lookout for boots that hurt and packs that sagged.
He used up almost two packs of playing cards by means of putting four cards at a time inside his shoe as a sort of temporary sole, which usually lasted about half a day.
He thought it wasn't a very extraordinary performance for a young man of ability, and he was not sorry that night to find his packswere entirely out of aces.
The men spread their blankets on the floors of the bare rooms, and putting their packs under their heads and lighting their pipes, they lived in easy peace.
The mules gave out one by one and dropped down in the trail, and their packs were placed upon the saddle-mules.
He packs his lodge upon ponies, and starts with his family for some camas prairie, where he is sure to meet a numerous company bent on having a good time.
The floor of the vault was buried some five or six feet deep in coined gold and silver that had burst from the sacks it had been originally stored in, and, in the long years, the metal had packed and settled as sand packs at low tide.
The packs of dogs wandering over the plain showed that the dead bodies lay somewhere near, either in the ravines or along the banks of the river.
The camels with theirpacks already filled the yamen court-yard and the men only awaited the arrival of their horses from the plains.
We immediately went out to look over our saddles and packs and then took the horses and hid them in the bushes not far off.
The Mongols prayed for some time, whispered among themselves and, after tightening up the packs on the camels, moved on.
Packs of dogs that had become wild fought with the wolves over the prey.
As we did not know which way to turn we threw off the packs and stopped where we were.
A great many papers, magazines, and letters for everybody were in the packs supplying us with reading matter enough for weeks.
There we threw off our packs and made camp for the night.
The cabins of the boats were packed as one packs a trunk.
The next day our course was laid up Kanab Canyon through thick willows that pulled the packs loose.
Our next care was to successfully manoeuvre the pack-animals down the difficult trail across the face of the cliff, which had not seen a horse for many a year and probably never had been traversed by animals with packs on their backs.
They were cold, tired, famished, for the way had been long, the packs heavy.
Breakfast over and the camp cleared up, De Launay took from his packs a second automatic, hanging the holster, a left-hand one, to the bunk.
His second was to throw off several packsand drag them to the room.
So, at the earliest moment, he got his packs on and started out of town, intending to cross the range from the south and come down into the cañon.
The packswere dragged off and flung to the ground, where saddle and rifle followed them.
I was up bright and early making up the packs when Vail went down to the water hole for a supply with which to cook the breakfast.
Packs were made up the following morning, a cache was built, in which to store the provisions, and in twenty-four hours a start was made.
I had no answer to this and grumbling I untied the packs and ate my breakfast in moody silence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
