Not being inclined to starve his family we set out for another Indian tent ten miles to the southward, but we found only the frame or tent poles standing when we reached the spot.
In the course of the day we crossed the Upper Portage, surmounted the Devil's Landing Place, and urged the boat with poles through Groundwater Creek.
Almost instantly afterwards the ship struck violently on a point of rocks projecting from the island; and the ship's side was brought so near to the shore that poles were prepared to push her off.
The herd is led into the labyrinth by two converging rows of poles and one is generally caught at each of the openings by the noose placed there.
Their tents were rudely constructed by tying twenty or thirty poles together at the top, and spreading them out at the base so as to form a cone; these were covered with dressed moose-skins.
From this place to the Mud Portage, a distance of a mile and three-quarters, the boats were pushed on with poles against a very rapid stream.
The use of two canoes, joined by a platform or by poles was common in colonial times; in Maryland and Virginia, dugouts so joined were used to transport tobacco down the tidal creeks to vessels' loading.
To this day Poles are seldom free from the nightmare of the Russian spy.
The direction of the upper currents flowing back to the poles is from southwest to northeast; but in our middle zones this becomes almost from west to east, is constant and is known to the profession as the prevailing westerlies.
With the Poles gone and Alaska in harness we are inclined to think that it is all over.
During the carboniferous times the poles were as warm as the tropics and when the Ice Age came on it was very chilly everywhere.
When a bear in his den shows fight and threatens danger, the hunter may wedge two crossed poles against the opening of the wash, leaving only enough space for the brute to squeeze through and thus prevent it from making a sudden rush.
It is composed mostly of barkless sticks and poles from one to four inches in diameter, although at times much heavier material is used; and it is tightly chinked with stones and mud and matted vegetation.
When the sleighing grew heavy, the drivers used long pushing-poles against the ends of the sleds to help the dogs.
The thin ends of three of the stoutest were lashed together; on being erected, they formed a tripod against which the other poles were leant, while their butts, placed in a circle, were spread an equal distance apart.
Going bow-on straight for the mid-stream current, we plied ourpoles to good advantage.
The animal had a pole attached to either side, the other end of which dragged out behind; across the two poles, just behind the horse's tail, was fastened a rack of cross poles upon which was placed some straw and a buffalo robe.
So from green wood we cut suitable poles of about two inches in diameter and from seven to nine feet in length and knifed them carefully to rid them of bark and knots.
The cocoanut trees looked like telephone poles as one sees them while riding on the Twentieth Century Limited.
He unwound about two yards of cloth from around his waist and fastened it to two bamboo poles that were about three feet apart.
After tying this calico wrapping at the top and bottom of the poles he had a square sail.
It was with great difficulty that Captain Kane reached a small shack made of bamboo polesand palm leaves.
The legs hung from the hips like trouser-legs, and seemed to fit into the feet like poles into their sockets.
Drunken polesstagger down the streets, waving their cobwebs of electric wires.
He is conducted in procession to an open place opposite the Temple of the Brahmans, where there are a number of poles dressed like May-poles, upon which the Brahmans swing.
They had built high places in all their cities, and set up pillars and sacred poles (asherim) upon every high hill and under every green tree; and there they burnt incense after the manner of the heathen.
Turkeys like best to roost on trees, and in their place artificial roots may be made by planting long forked locust poles and laying others across the forks.
The Sun-dance lodge was a circular wooden structure of poles with rafters coming together to a point above.
For years the explorers who have searched for the Poles have been the heroes of many a story of thrilling influence on the minds of readers.
The natives showed me the liana which they described, still lying on the poles of the broken corral.
Children and lads carried torches, brooms daubed with tar, and poles swathed in straw.
Faggots of heath, broom, and the dressings of flax were kindled and carried on poles by men, who ran with them round the villages, attended by a crowd.
Brushwood was then heaped about the trees, and on the evening of Easter Saturday the boys, after rushing about with blazing bean-poles in their hands, set fire to the whole.
It is fixed on two poles to be carried on men's shoulders, and long heavily-plaited petticoats hang from it nearly to the ground.
The sockets are stuffed with linen, and the cross-piece is rammed in as tight as possible, while the poles are bound together at the top by ropes.
While some of the bystanders kept tossing the blazing mass, others hoisted portions of it on pitchforks or polesand ran hither and thither, holding them as high as they could.
When the straw was burnt out, the poles were collected and a great bonfire made of them.
The young folk also provided themselves with poles to which old brooms or faggots of shavings were attached.
He took two posts of oak wood, bored a hole about three inches deep and broad in each, and set the two poles up facing each other at a distance of about two feet.
Two oaken poles are driven into the ground about a foot and a half from each other.
And who would have thought that these poor Polesshould have lived to convince me of the folly!
Poles were at the mercy of Mr. Pericles: Wilfrid had struck him: Mr. Pericles was angry and full of mischief.
Poles always, by the most extraordinary inadvertence, managed to get, you never heard of!
I expect no confidences, but a whisper warns me that you have not been to Stornley twice without experiencing the truth of our old discovery, that the Poles are magnetic?
Poles without anyone to lean on in that awful moment, and no one to bear witness how kind I've spoken of 'em.
Apollonius had taken down the "flying" scaffold and the poles on which it rested; he stood alone on the narrow board which formed the path from the cross-beam to the roof-door.
Innocence and crime are at the extreme poles of human nature.
In the same fashion, the Poles in Prussia were "not even allowed to think in Polish," as one Polish patriot bitterly put it.
Russia, said they, oppressed thePoles and Lithuanians, the Letts, the Esthonians, the Finns.
The Poles fought violently against this last partition, but they were not united and were greatly outnumbered by the troops of the three powers.
There have been revolts and bloody wars, caused by Polish uprisings, time and time again, and the Poles will never be satisfied until their unhappy country is once more united.
Illustration: Catharine II] Instead of crushing out the love of the Poles for their country, this wrongful tearing apart has made their national spirit all the stronger.
In the same way, there is a large German island in the midst of the Roumanians in Transylvania and another between the Slovaks and Poles at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains.
To the northeast of the Poles live the Lithuanians, whose country had been annexed to the Polish kingdom when their duke, who had married the daughter of the king of Poland, followed his father-in-law on the Polish throne.
They are a distinct nation, however, possessing a language and literature of their own, and having no desire to be ruled by either Poles or Russians.
As a result of this jealousy between factions, the Poles could not be induced to obey any one leader, and thus, divided, were easy to conquer.
If any stands she runs among the poles And barks and snaps and drives them in the holes.
Trolley wires, telephone poles and trees lay in every direction, with here and there a rolled-up tin roof.
The steel flag-pole before the main building bent perilously and, as Bill watched, a row of telephone poles went toppling over.
He left the house, followed by the jubilant Tad, who had two poles with lines, floats, and hooks attached to them slung over his shoulder and a hollow branch containing worms in his hand.
I've got the worms all dug and the poles all ready.
When the walls were as high as they must be, the roof was made of poles overlaid and braced with more poles.
Near at hand the wires between the telegraph poles vibrated with a faint humming under the multitudinous fingering of the myriad of falling drops, striking among them and dripping off steadily from one to another.
They climbed into the wagon and jolted over the uneven ground through the bare forest of hop-poles to the house.
The poles themselves were dark and swollen and glistening with wet, while the little cones of glass on the transverse bars reflected the dull grey light of the end of the afternoon.
The indicator of the steam gauge rose; his speed increased; a glance at the telegraph poles told him he was doing his fifty miles an hour.
In his bell-like, rumbling voice, he was calling to his foreman and a boy at work in stringing the poles together.
A consignment of his hop poles from the north had arrived at the freight office of the P.
These are the two poles of that instinctive intention to get out of life all there is in it--which is ever the unconscious philosophy guiding mankind.
Every time she rolled and her sheer poles went under, Jim would holler out that he'd touched again.
The ends of the Earth's axis are called the poles of the Earth; one is the north, the other the south pole.
The figure of the Earth is that of an oblate spheroid; it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
