Then, dismounting, he swiftly crept back through the long grass into the thicket again, mounted the mare, and drove her at laboured gallop also around the curve, so that it seemed to the plainsmen following that both men had gone that way.
Then, with the pole of the waterpail, I threw the dead dog across the entrance upon the paving stones, for these vermin of plainsmenwill not pass where a dead dog lies, as my father knows well.
When the plainsmen came to the cape of green, they paused not by the secret place, for it seemed to them that two had ridden past and not one.
Bathing in the ocean was great sport to some of the plainsmen who had never seen anything larger than a river or creek, and they frolicked around like children, and got up races, with prizes for the best swimmers.
He never grew tired of listening to the stories these old trappers, hunters, scouts, and plainsmen had to tell, and some of these stories he afterward put into print, and they have made excellent reading.
By this time all the cattle, both of the plainsmen and the mountaineers, had gone back.
These rough plainsmen asked themselves this question as they approached the conflagration; then they shut their teeth hard and meted out a terrible chastisement before pushing their inquiries further.
Plainsmen had a knack of quitting his execrable drink when there was fighting to be done--and Louis Roiheim was an Israelite.
The men, watching these two plainsmen scrambling from the vehicle, knew that life and death alone could have sent them into town at a pace sufficient to kill one of their horses.
The plainsmen held them at their mercy, and it was only their vast numbers that gave them headway.
Footnote: Even experienced woodsmen or plainsmen sometimes thus become lost or "turned round," if in a country of few landmarks, where they have rarely been before.
For a mere boy to hold those seasoned old voyageurs and plainsmen spellbound was something of a feat, you may be sure.
Without axe or windlass, or any of the other things regarded as indispensable by farmers and by professional butchers, the old-time plainsmenmade a quick and neat job of this work with only a common butcher-knife.
A glance here and there, a testing of the blackened embers, a few steps along the broad trail, and theseplainsmen knew the story.
But twenty hours after the trouble at Barker Hills--just before supper time of the following day--a party of plainsmen came galloping into camp.
Canvas and blankets were stretched across the space between; hereon one wounded man was laid, and what the Indians and plainsmen call a travois was complete.
Public opinion was now beginning to swing towards him; he had Páez and his plainsmen on his side and he counted on the great resources of Guayana.
To all of this the plainsmen were accustomed; and to this, Bolívar, born among the greatest comforts and reared amid all the refinements of life, showed no apparent repugnance.
He left Páez to hold the attention of the royalists, and, besides that depletion, had to suffer the loss of many of his plainsmen who refused to accompany him across the Andes.
Meanwhile he lived the same life as the llaneros, for he could do whatever the semi-barbarous plainsmen did.
The mountains of the Atlas chain have always been their home and refuge, where the plainsmen find it difficult and dangerous to follow them.
They content themselves with hiding behind crags which seem to the plainsmen inaccessible, whence they can in safety harass the troops on the march.
But on, on, they came, while the cool-headed plainsmen took careful and deliberate aim.
Three of the plainsmen saw the flash of one of the rifles from the centre of a little bush, and, taking accurate aim, sent a bullet crashing into the skull of the Indian brave.
These Plainsmen all had "dug-outs" as places of retreat in case of fire.
The General pressed the retreating Indians so closely, the very night of their departure, that they were obliged to divide into smaller detachments, and even the experienced Plainsmen could no longer trace a trail.
The romantic and picturesque plainsmen and the wild and rollicking cowboys have followed the herds of buffalo and the long lines of prairie schooners are a thing of the past, but the pit-fires of the hunters are still in use.
Beverly and I were typical plainsmen in that we never spoke of these things to each other--that is not the way of the plainsman.
Plainsmen were always the truest of comrades in the hour of danger.
Barbers were not plentiful on the plains, and, besides, the plainsmen wear long hair as a protection.
The old plainsmen had a way of setting tires upon a loose wheel that was novel.
The line of march was now taken up for Sweetwater Bridge, and here, four days later, the plainsmenbrought up, with their own horses and about a hundred Indian ponies.
The boys had seen no Indians on their trip out, and were not concerned in that quarter, though they were too good plainsmen to relax their vigilance.
The plainsmen were now in the heart of the Indian country, the utmost caution was required, and a sharp lookout was maintained.
Of course, the Indians of the remote plains, which included all the vast region west of the Missouri River, never had the benefits of the government trading establishments, but were left to the tender mercies of the old plainsmen and trappers.
The old trappers and plainsmen themselves, even as early as the beginning of the Santa Fe trade, noticed the gradual disappearance of the buffalo, while they still existed in countless numbers.
Old plainsmen and the Indians aver that the buffalo never return south; that each year's herd was composed of animals which had never made the journey before, and would never make it again.
It is but a few weeks since I met one of our most noted pioneer plainsmen and freighters across the prairies of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the earliest of the days I have been speaking of.
Landsmen and plainsmen with a seaman's burial--a watery grave!
Most of the plainsmen are very superstitious, and we were no exception to the general rule.
The employees of the Pony Express were different in character from the ordinary plainsmen of those days.
When the freighters and plainsmen left the village and climbed to the top of the slope and set their faces to the west there lay before them only the wilderness wastes.
But the Plainsmen were accustomed to this kind of thing, and the Civil War soldiers had learned their lesson at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and Malvern Hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plainsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
