It amounted to something being a raftsmanon such a craft as that.
Thank you," said theraftsman after the door was shut "Well, how I know of your trouble?
So I stayed, and so as not to be separated from her even for a week, I gave up being a raftsman and became a workman at a foundry.
I thought a raftsman ought to know that the proper time to raft is when the flood is falling, not rising.
The first flood had come, and so violent was its nature that many a hardy raftsman had added additional bulyokes and hawsers to his rafts, fearing the loss of his winter's labour.
Haven't I piloted here for years, and before I came to this region I run as many rafts down the Susquehanna as any raftsman in the State.
Why, I met a man out in 'Frisco last month whom I knew, two years ago, as a raftsmanon this very river at twenty a month and found.
He knew him to be the raftsman who had kicked Bim, and whom he had rescued from the dog's teeth at Mandrake, more than a week before.
The raftsman looked pityingly in the haggard face of the speaker--the face which a year ago was so bright and boyish.
Every one of the missing party, except poor old Saturn, whose own case was hopeless, and the raftsman himself, were coming up in a group.
She's the sister of my own dead wife, and she shall share equally with my little Alice in all that the rough old raftsman has.
They stood together, on the outside, consulting about it, so interested in the detail that they neither of them noticed the boat upon the river, until it was moored to the bank, and the voice of the raftsman was heard calling to them.
It had been the object of the raftsmanto bring up his daughter in strict seclusion from the world he despised; he had not thought of further consequences than to keep her innocent, unselfish, unsuspicious, and free from guile.
Upon hearing her account of Ben's looks and words, the raftsman resolved more firmly than ever to take him into custody if possible.
As the raftsman looked in the quiet face of his child which repelled sympathy with a woman's pride--that pride so terrible because it covers such tortured sensibilities--his blood boiled up with ungovernable rage.
Paul told the negro to pull alongside and have the raftsman open the keg.
Both of the men were inexperienced, one being a raftsman who came down the river, and the other a man from Vicksburg.
As he got them on the right feet, and hired a raftsman to tie them up for him, he said he would get even with the doctor if he had to catch the small pox.
The crowd filled the street, and as he passed a raftsman with red breeches on, said he wouldn't have such a nose as that on him for a hundred dollars.
During the week he thought frequently of telephoning up to Darrow and asking if they still had the same raftsman on the pay-roll, but his pride forbade this.
Bert Darrow says their raftsman used to work for us; he's a new man with them and Bert says you know who he is.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raftsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
