The plainsman looked searchingly into the face of the older man.
The storm screamed louder than the plainsman and began heaping the snow over three obstructions in its path, two that groped slowly and one that lay still.
Then, too, his fame as a plainsman was well known, and it reached military headquarters long before he himself arrived.
This is a good example of the nerve and courage which have made him as a grown man the bestplainsman in our history.
This plainsman knew all that the Southwest had to offer of danger and was equal to any of it.
But "Tex" Roberts was not an old plainsman for nothing.
A span of oxen could not have held the plainsman in the quarters which he had believed to be the most delightful place in the world, when he arrived there in the fall.
The noted plainsman and Indian trader, John Smith, told George Bent that together with five or six companions he made his escape from old Adobe Walls, after it had been attacked by Comanches and Kiowas.
So between the two, Emett and I had trouble in keeping our Navajo from illustrating the plainsman idea of a really good Indian--a dead one.
The old plainsman struck a big fist into the palm of his hand, a rare action with him.
He was uneasy lest the old plainsman should have been concerned in the shooting.
I'm not tired," she declared, trying to smile into the keen eyes of the doctor, who had heard the facts from the old plainsman as they rode out from town.
The old plainsman slid from his horse, which could hardly keep its feet, but was scarcely more spent in body than its rider was in nerve.
The face which the lean and grizzled plainsmanturned toward his friend was seamed by a thousand tiny wrinkles in the leathery skin, the result of years of exposure to all kinds of weather.
The old plainsman carefully emptied the dust back into the pan before he said anything.
That boy's got the sense of a plainsman any day, I tell you, and he'll make it all right.
He had often been at the fort to sell peltries or buy provisions, and was a mountaineer and plainsman who knew every nook and cranny in Wyoming.
The exchange was effected, and Mr. Pardriff glanced over the Plainsman regularly once a week, though I doubt whether the Western editor ever read the Record after the first copy.
Although he has never been a citizen of the State, the Plainsman trusts that he may soon be back and become one of us.
How he dealt will be seen presently, but when he finally reached this conclusion, the clipping from the Pepper County Plainsman had not yet come before his eyes.
But to me everything was alluring, wrapt as it was in the mystery of a civilization old here when Plymouth Rock felt the first Pilgrim's foot, or Pawnee Rock stared at the first bold plainsman of the pale face and the conquering soul.
On the second night he asked for a triple guard and nobody grumbled, for everybody really liked the big plainsman and they could afford to be good-natured with him, now that he was unquestioningly in the wrong.
I wonder if we have done wrong by the children, Clarenden," the big plainsman said, slowly.
Both men looked doubtingly at the young man; but without further words, Jondo took command, and we knew that the big plainsman would put through whatever Esmond Clarenden had planned.
The big plainsmandid not cry out, nor drop his hold, but his face turned gray, and only the dying man saw the look in the blue eyes gazing into his.
You know your uncle's life, leading merchant of Kansas City and the Southwest; and mine, plainsman and freighter on the Santa Fé Trail.
He experienced no fear, no premonition of coming disaster, yet the reawakened plainsman in him kept him sufficiently wary and cautious.
Undoubtedly it was some distant Indian signal, and the wary old plainsman watched it as if fascinated.
With the noiseless step of a plainsman he pushed in through the labyrinths of bush, only to halt petrified upon the very edge of that inner barrier.
It must be found as he had found it and, besides, he was plainsman enough to realize how serious it might be for Hopalong if he believed the weapon was loaded and found it empty in a crisis.
They went ahead with that unerring instinct of the plainsman whose sense of direction seems positively uncanny to a tenderfoot, especially if the tenderfoot has ever been lost.
I never yet have been able to have a direct question answered by a true mountaineer or plainsman by a simple yes or no.
He claims to be from a 'high up' Southern family, but has been a plainsmansince 1851.
But this was all fancy, the trick of the dark and of nerves--if a plainsman has nerves.
It was the last place an experienced plainsman would have chosen for a camp; and every time Wade circled the herd, and came in between the cattle and the rim, he felt the nearness of the precipice.
Parry was a splendid type of the plainsman of the great West.
If you're going to be a plainsman you'll have to depend on your sense of sight.
Stepping briskly forward, the plainsman made quick work of empty moccasin tracks and burst through the brush.
To the wild plainsman the land was not new; hunting had its old everyday look, and the stuffed heads of game had no significance.
Slowly and patiently his eyes again went over the semi-circle before him, for where death may lurk behind every foot of vegetation, every bump or hillock, the plainsman leaves as little as may be to chance.
A less experienced plainsman would have blazed away and exposed his own position.
The keen–eyed Oriental had pierced Baldy’s mask of carelessness, and saw readily enough that the old plainsman was badly worried.
Even Captain Atkinson, old plainsman as he was, was completely taken in by the seeming resignation of Alvarez to his fate.
It was noon; a time when the plainsmanknew he would find the wood-cutter at leisure, taking his midday meal, or lazing over a pipe.
In a measure he was mystified, for the plainsman had never given him his full confidence with regard to Nevil.
And with this vague remark theplainsman rode slowly away.
Even theplainsman is wary at this time of the year, for the perils of snow-blindness are as real to him as to the "tenderfoot.
So down again, ankle deep in the long dew-sodden grass, did our young plainsman go, painfully searching, but to no effect.
A moment of straining and heaving, then down, down they came upon the turf, the plainsman atop.
And, suiting actions to words, the venerable old plainsmanwas picked up bodily by strong men and carried to the wagon.
The plainsman and mountaineer, the bullwhacker and the stage-driver, when chilled, drank water.
There was a considerable break in the rocky barrier here, leading back for perhaps a hundred yards, and the plainsman turned his horse that way, dismounting when out of sight among the bowlders.
The plainsman drew back, facing his enemy, until he reached the outer door.
Reaching Carson City, and perfectly reckless as to his own safety there from arrest, the plainsman lost no time in perfecting arrangements for pushing forward.
The Plainsman The man was riding just below the summit of the ridge, occasionally uplifting his head so as to gaze across the crest, shading his eyes with one hand to thus better concentrate his vision.
The plainsman struck his horse with the quirt in his left hand, and sprang swiftly aside so as to clear the flank of the animal, his shooting arm flung out.
Crouching close behind the door, through a crack of which the light streamed, yielding slight view of the interior, the plainsman anxiously awaited developments.
Yet there must be some previous association between the two, and what this was the plainsman proposed to discover.
The wind was rising, hurling clouds of sand into their eyes, and the plainsman held one hand before his face.
With a towering cottonwood as guide, oddly misshapen and standing out gauntly against the slightly lighter sky, the plainsman led on unhesitatingly, until they began to climb the rather sharp uplift of the north bank.
Finally he spoke of it to the old plainsmanbeside him.
Yet it was now or never for all of them, and the plainsman felt no mercy, experienced no reluctance.
To Neb alone did the plainsman candidly confide his belief in the guilt of these two, and when other duties called him elsewhere, he left the negro scouring the town for any possible reappearance of either.
In spite of the vague suspicion of evil which the plainsman had implanted within the woman's mind, the other possessed the advantage, and would certainly improve it.
But he could hope to accomplish nothing more here, and the plainsman swung himself into the saddle.
Texas Joe, watching these clouds, said nothing; but when Pat threw on the ground the water left in his cup after drinking, the plainsman opened upon him with language that startled them all.
From the saddle the old plainsman looked down into their eager solemn faces and that slow smile broke over his sun-blackened features.
When they had reached the privacy of Mr. Worth's room, the old plainsman and the Irishman stood as if each waited for the other to begin.
Pat turned to follow the gaze of his companion just as the plainsman drawled softly: "And you've brought us that.
Again they stopped for the plainsman to take an observation, and this time the four in the wagon, watching the figure of the driver against the sky, saw him turn abruptly and come down to them with long plunging strides.
The plainsman did not answer and she urged again: "Please, Uncle Tex, tell me.
The plainsman and the Irishman she regarded gravely, as she had looked at the banker, but without fear.
Behind the plainsman stood the heavy form of the Irishman, a look of pleased anticipation on his battle-scarred features.
Without a question the old plainsman left the group and walked swiftly away.
The exact, formal politeness of the old plainsman was delightful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plainsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
