As I had already learned that any of Ike's estimates of time had to be multiplied by at least two to approximate accuracy, I realized at once that our rafting voyage was at an end.
The line was again advanced, the enemy continuing their fire as they steadily retreated for about a mile where they again posted themselves in a swamp which bordered a stream called Big Rafting Creek.
At Rafting Creek the advance found the enemy posted behind rude works.
The flood will take that time to go down to a goodrafting stage.
The rafting crew now returned from the supper-room and gathered around the flaming open fireplace.
Rafting stories followed each other in rapid succession, Hugh Lark seeming to have the greatest fund.
Coming up the river was a big boat used forrafting purposes containing one man.
It took Lois and Margaret but a few seconds to step on board of the rafting boat, and then their own craft was taken in tow.
I came in to Engineer Lassen, Inspector of rafting sections, and he took me on as he had promised, though it was late in the season now.
I'm in charge of some timber-rafting on the rivers," he said.
Rafting was continued in a heavy rain down to the Mininipi Rapids over which the raft was nearly carried against the will of the occupants.
A raft was made that would not float the men and baggage, and being somewhat discouraged on the subject of rafting by the failure, another was not then attempted, and the men continued tramping.
The pressure was cracking the floe rapidly, rafting it close to the slip and forcing masses of ice beneath the keel.
We could see from the mast-head that the pack was piling and rafting against the mass of ice, and it was easy to imagine what would be the fate of the ship if she entered the area of disturbance.
We could imagine what it would mean to get fifty dogs aboard without lights while the floe was breaking and rafting under our feet.
A new feature in the trade of the valley this year was the rafting and running of logs to St. Louis.
It suggested the idea of booming and rafting their logs for points down the river, and led to the building of the first saw mill at Stillwater.
While residing in Marine he has been engaged chiefly in farming, rafting and lumbering.
He came to Stillwater in 1856 and engaged in lumbering, working by the month for five years, and afterward independently or in partnership with his brother Albert, and in the firm of Sauntry & Tozer, cutting and rafting lumber.
While raftingon the Mississippi he met, and after a brief courtship married, a woman who returned with him to his home on Willow river and who survives him.
These Indiana boys had for years followed the business of rafting saw-logs down the Wabash river and proved to be the right men in the right place on this occasion.
About the first of May we got through rafting and started westward.
About the first of April I came to Morgan’s trading post to get a stock of provisions to use on the rafting trips.
This affair, together with my rafting experiment, had rendered me somewhat notorious.
Old watermen and rafting lumbermen know that while a river is rising it is hard to keep the channel, even the driftwood created by the rise clinging to the shores of the stream.
Also inrafting there is a slight tendency to over-estimate the length of the stream, although the map may be perfectly accurate.
They were finally made out to be the logs used by the Indians in rafting down the stream, and well-trimmed by constant attrition on the rough rocky beaches while held there by the storms.
Then he told of the difficulties he and others had overcome in rafting the goods from their great cache and Pennock's Post down to the Landing.
How in the world came Dolce to undertake the rafting business?
Why," said Kitty, laughing a little, "Dolly took a fancy for rafting down the river on a log that she somehow managed to push off from the bank.
You know a heap more about getting out bridge timber than I do, while I expect I know more about river rafting than you do.
We lost everything we had, which greatly discouraged us, and we thereupon abandoned the idea of rafting it any farther.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rafting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
