But on coming nearer and seeing the dress of the people, he found that having taken the contrary direction he had got to the raftsmen instead of the glass-makers.
The raftsmen also on the other side of the wood were an object of envy to him.
When the Gordon expedition was being fitted out for Egypt in 1884, an urgent invitation was extended to the Caughnawaga raftsmen to join it.
But on coming nearer and seeing the dress of the people, he found that having taken the contrary direction, he had got to the raftsmen instead of the glass-makers.
I had just come from the river shore, where I had been to help the raftsmen bind up the wood; I had lighted my fire and sat down to say my prayers, when I heard all at once something moaning under the oaks.
The two raftsmen rubbed the canoe all over with their hands, and expressed delight at its beautiful finish in their own peculiar vernacular.
At Piraway Ferry no two of the raftsmen and lumbermen, ignorant or educated, would give the same distance, either upon the lengths of surveyed roads or unmeasured rivers.
The reaches referred to by Mr. Gore were so long and straight as to afford open passages for wind to blow up them, and these fierce gusts of head winds give the raftsmen much trouble while poling their rafts against them.
The raftsmen had all been arrested, and were examined carefully, one by one; and now it only remained to obtain from the traveller himself whatever information he could contribute to throw light on the affair.
Tell them to go back, Beppo," said the chief of the raftsmen to one of his party.
He could make those dialect-speaking raftsmen understand him, sometimes, when even young Z had failed with them; and young Z was a pretty good German scholar.
Rafts torn up in the rough water, raftsmen drowned though expert swimmers, deeds of rescue, and things of a similar nature followed in rapid succession.
There were murmurs of admiration from the assembled raftsmen and then more tales followed.
The raftsmen and school-master were eager for tales of adventure and strange countries, when the supper bell rang, and the two gentlemen disappeared into the long dining-room.
With an exclamation Hugh Lark leaped into the roadway followed by the other raftsmen and Ande and Dick.
Some years ago there was a great flood and we raftsmen went down to get the rafts in safer positions.
White Cockade, Devil's Dream and others followed, theraftsmen keeping time with their heavy boots and sometimes by dancing.
There was a crashing in the underbrush of the shore, and two or three of the raftsmen leaped on the raft.
One of the raftsmen leaned over to Hugh and whispered in his ear that to be cross-eyed was a wonderful talent for the tavern keeper; he could read the names on his book and size up the people at one and the same time.
The raftsmen touch at every town along the river, proudly awaiting offers for their baulks and beams; but the strongest and the longest of the former they sell for gold to the Mynheers, who build ships of them.
The raftsmen on the other side of the forest were also objects of his envy.
On this day of March there had been a considerable gathering of raftsmen at Nemausus, who had utilized the swollen waters in the lagoons for the conveyance of merchandise.
When these raftsmen found themselves the possessors of so much money, they could hardly contain themselves for joy.
From that time forth Holland was the paradise of the raftsmen of the Black Forest, and Dutch Michel was their king.
The raftsmen on the other side of the forest also aroused his envy.
These raftsmen were accustomed to a rough, wandering life.
They felled and trimmed their pine trees, rafted the logs down the Nagold into the Neckar, and from the Upper-Neckar to the Rhine, and thence far down into Holland, and even at the sea coast these raftsmenof the Black Forest were known.
Where gangs of raftsmen congregate, their 'captains' may be known by superior stature.
McGawley, my partner at the time, was along; and as we took a survey of the passengers, we noticed that most of them were raftsmen who had just been paid off.
At one time I was going down the river below Baton Rouge, and there were a lot of raftsmen on board.
Above this is the noted "Foul Rift," where the river channel is filled with boulders and rocks of all sizes and shapes, the dread of the raftsmen who gave it the name, for many a raft has been wrecked there.
The ripple of the water, the intermittent splash of the oars, the crooning songs of the raftsmen all added to the sense of drowsy contemplation already established by the surrounding view.
For a few wretched bananas the people of the villages on the lower Ogowe exact from the hungry raftsmen a franc, or a franc and a half; or they may refuse to supply anything at all.
This time of leisure I will employ in writing something about the life of the lumbermen and the raftsmen on the Ogowe.
Billy Brackett was desirous of establishing friendly relations with the raftsmen when he should overtake them, and feared that would be impossible in case they should recognize him.
If he had, he might have learned that the raftsmen had just picked it up, floating, empty and ownerless, down the river.
The raftsmen had never heard of Major Caspar, nor of Winn Caspar, his son.
By eight o'clock the exhibition hall of the Whatnot was packed with an audience that contained a number of raftsmen and steamboat hands from the water-front.
The rescuing raftsmen were well rewarded for their timely service, and Master Lon learned a lesson in caution that he is not likely soon to forget.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raftsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
