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Example sentences for "peelers"

Lexicographically close words:
peek; peeked; peeking; peel; peeled; peeling; peelings; peels; peen; peep
  1. Hast thou seen that lordly castle, The home of Mr. PYNE; How round its patriot portals The Peelers prowl and whine?

  2. I'll put a crew in the hills getting out new logs and there'll be enough out-of-job peelers riding grub-line to rebuild the whole place.

  3. They're proving that they're bronc-peelers that can ride 'em before they're broke.

  4. It was a good thing he did, for early that morning 'Original' John Smith and four of his peelers rode in from the west, their horses all covered with frost.

  5. Not only that, but my peelers and I are riding Circle Dot horses, as well as reaching the wagon in time for breakfast and lining our flues with Lovell's good chuck.

  6. About two o'clock Doc Langford and two of his peelers were seen riding up.

  7. At last, as a necessary matter of protection, two or three Peelers were quartered in almost every respectable country house in certain disturbed baronies.

  8. Baldy will be telling the peelers to-morrow all he knows about the sheep you stole, and then they'll fetch you, sure.

  9. That old fool inside has found out something or other about the sheep, and the peelers will have you, if you don't look out, and they'll give you another seven years and maybe ten.

  10. But you see, there are no peelers here, no beaks, and no blooming courts, so I intend to make hay while the sun shines, which means tallow in these times.

  11. A sickly weed, that was lank and thin, embellished my lot, at the edge of town, and the peelers nabbed me and ran me in, because I neglected to cut it down.

  12. What do the peelers say to a gal as tries to sell anythin' in the streets?

  13. They're taking me to the peelers to have me hanged for slaying you.

  14. You never hanged him, the way Jimmy Farrell hanged his dog from the license, and had it screeching and wriggling three hours at the butt of a string, and himself swearing it was a dead dog, and the peelers swearing it had life?

  15. And the peelers never followed after you the eleven days that you're out?

  16. The peelers is fearing him, and if you'd that lad in the house there isn't one of them would come smelling around if the dogs itself were lapping poteen from the dungpit of the yard.

  17. If they're not fearing you, itself, the peelers in this place is decent droughty poor fellows, wouldn't touch a cur dog and not give warning in the dead of night.

  18. The peelers will have you again if you don't look sharp; there's a lot of them coming down the street.

  19. They're always taking walks, them peelers are.

  20. And then, if I get a 'orse to mind, the peelers take it from me and tell me to cut off.

  21. Then he gave two leps or three, and the peelers heard him give a great shriek down in the flood.

  22. It was at that time the wool was taken with the other man above, under the hill, and no peelers in the island at all.

  23. Tanbark peelers in Florida have cut much of the large mangrove forest.

  24. A tanbark slashing, when the peelers are ready to abandon it, is a sorry spectacle.

  25. The peelers worked in early summer, cutting trees and removing the bark in four-foot lengths, which was measured by the cord, though often sold by weight.

  26. Small quantities are made into flooring; a little goes to the furniture makers; lathes turn some of it for novelties and souvenirs; fuel cutters sell it as cordwood; and tanbark peelers cut the trees for the thin, papery bark.

  27. The tracts on which bark peelers worked were called "slashings," and they were fire traps of the worst kind with their tangled masses of tops and branches.

  28. The peelers often do not take the trouble to cut them down, but strip off the bark as high as a man can reach, and leave them standing.

  29. The bark peelers do their principal work in the California redwood region, because there the oak is at its best.

  30. The peelers commence their operation about May, when the dry season sets in.

  31. The peelers take off the two barks together, and separating the rough outer one, which is of no value, they lay the inner bark to dry, which rolls up and becomes the Cassia lignea of commerce.

  32. The mode adopted by the bark-peelers of obtaining cinchona varies somewhat in different districts.

  33. In the operation of peeling cinnamon, the tops and lateral branches are cut off, and left by the peelers on the ground close to the bushes.

  34. Tie the bag around his head, and if the peelers come, we'll put him head- first in the boghole is beyond the ditch.

  35. We're fixed now; and I have a mind to run him in a boghole the way he'll not be tattling to the peelers of our games to-day.

  36. There are the peelers passing by the grace of God -- hey, below!

  37. Gather up your gold now, and begone from my sight, for if ever I set an eye on you again you'll hear me telling the peelers who it was stole the black ass belonging to Philly O'Cullen, and whose hay it is the grey ass does be eating.

  38. The peelers aren't coming this way, and maybe we'll get off from them now.

  39. I had scarcely set my fut on deck, as the peelers came rowing up the side.

  40. As I was pelting along, I heard the fire-bell sounding from the police barracks, but I got to the place before the sogers or peelers had a chance of reaching it.

  41. The heads of the Peelers were hardly ever out of their helmets.

  42. It is not for the Peelers to put the honest man on one side and the thief on the other.

  43. The Peelers will say to you, 'We know you to be a man of great worth, and the law will uphold you.

  44. For this reason many of the finest trees yield only tan bark, because the peelers take the bark, and leave the log to fall a prey to forest fires.

  45. The hemlock trees that grow on the hills were stripped of their bark by peelers in early spring.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peelers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.