The riverman was at once begged to kill the infected sheep and throw their bodies into the current of the river.
The old riverman will, by his smile, make you conscious that you speak in unfamiliar terms, though his manner may be politeness itself.
Or, suppose the riverman very conveniently dropped the piece into the water where he could recover it again?
You are a good enough rivermanwhen you mind your business, but there are plenty as good--and some better.
Then if the riverman afterward recovered it, instead of finding himself possessed of dollars which he could spend anywhere, he would only have a hundred pounds or so of brass tokens whose value had been cancelled.
With the steady, swinging motion of the rivermanhe began bailing.
Neither could she be a riverman's daughter, for it was inconceivable that either a riverman or a trapper would have sent this girl down into civilization, where this girl had undoubtedly been.
As I approached, the riverman turned to me a face from which the reckless, contained self-reliance of the woods-worker had faded.
The larger and stronger of the two, one Xavier, a sullen riverman of evil countenance, paused at the top of a ridge and pointed across a snow-swept beaver meadow.
On the firing ledge's narrow rim a riverman snapped together the breech of his shotgun, and looked up--his face close to the face of MacNair.
The little riverman tested the action, filled the magazine, and shouldered his pack.
Once more they plunged into the forest, but it was more open and, as the riverman had foretold, the going was easier.
The rivermanhad discarded his spiked boots and taken to moccasins.
Suddenly half a dozen pairs of arms heaved the bigriverman upon the long table.
In the completed bunk-house a huge, bearded, riverman leaped high, cracked his heels together and whooped.
In the end the big riverman had kicked his enemy into unconsciousness with his spiked boots, according to ancient custom.
She rose and ran to meet the latter, but the doctor who knew how many such situations the pudgy riverman had weathered, summoned him immediately, and Barbara had to wait an hour before Joe came back downstairs.
Then suddenly with two quick strong stamps of his caulked feet the young riverman brought the whirling timber to a standstill.
The supporting log rolled and dipped under the burden of the man pushing mightily against his implement; but always the riverman trod it, first one way, then the other, in entire unconsciousness of the fact that he was doing so.
There is Jack Laplow in his sloop," cried Dave, mentioning a riverman they knew.
The riverman had not, but said he would help to watch out for the lads.
He had brought with him a small statue of a riverman with flannel shirt, scarf about the waist, thick defiant trousers and well-weaponed boots.
He noticed that the tight grip of the hand on the little statue of the riverman had made the fingers pale.
The rivermanpointed and the girl's eyes followed his finger.
The absurd suggestion of the riverman irritated the doctor to redoubled energy.
The dire prophecy of the riverman caused each mother to seize her offspring and press it to her breast.
The riverman explained gloomily, "I hain't got no use for this old river after dark.
Ike having agreed to the suggestion, he and the riverman clambered down the bank and across a plank to the deck of the Nancy Jane.
Virginia found the riverman seated before his house, in a chair shaped out of a barrel, and prevented from being mislaid by its permanent attachment to a post in the ground.
The chief anxiety under which the riverman laboured, however, was the imminent prospect of losing under the mortgage all the Northern Peninsula timber.
When one of these appeared the riverman nearest raised a long falsetto cry.
Even should the riverman succeed in stopping the jam, the extraordinary expenses incidental to the defence and to the subsequent salvaging, untangling and sorting would more than eat up the profits of the drive.
A good riverman understands the correlation of forces represented by saw-logs and water-pressure.
His progress was jerky and on an uneven zigzag, according as the logs lay, by leaps, short runs, brief pauses, as a riverman goes.
Ordinarily from very early in the morning until very late at night the riverman is busy every instant at his dangerous and absorbing work.
They were all burdened with debt, it is true, but the riverman felt surging within him the reawakened and powerful energy for which optimism is another name.
But the riverman who squatted next nudged him with his elbow.
He was a riverman himself once before he was sheriff.
From this basement theriverman and the shanty boy generally graduated penniless, and perhaps unconscious, to the street.
But before the horses had taken three steps, a huge riverman had planted himself squarely in the way.
Newmark, over the end of his cigar, poised a foot from his lips, watched the riverman with a cool calculation.
The dull sound of blows, the gurgle and trickle of the water, the occasional grunt or brief comment of a riverman alone broke the calm of evening.
The owner was a white-haired riverman and when Tim introduced himself, he found the boatman willing to talk.
He drank deeply from a jug of cool water the riverman had placed in the boat and felt greatly refreshed.
The riverman had a sixteen foot flat-bottomed boat ready for Tim.
Jim thought the voice familiar, and he turned sharply to see the sun-burnt features of Jeff Lynn, the old rivermanwho had taken Mr. Wells' party to Fort Henry.
The bluff riverman nodded a qualified approval, but a loquacious little gentleman across the table felt called upon to protest.
Charlotte, turning suddenly upon the silent old riverman at her side.
In this trade theriverman was the fundamental factor.
For a little while the quaint and original riverman held on in the new age, only to disappear entirely when the colored roustabout became the deckhand of post-bellum days.
The author of such a novel will find a rich fund of material in the perpetual rivalries of pack-horseman and wagoner, of riverman and canal boatman, of steamboat promoter and railway capitalist.
Like longshoremen of all ages, the American riverman was as rough as the work which calloused his hands and transformed his muscles into bands of tempered steel.
The riverman as a type was unknown except on the larger rivers in the earlier years of water traffic.
Carrigan picked up his shirt, and the riverman who had brought him from the bateau returned with him to the canoe.
It was the riverman who had brought to Marie-Anne the news of St. Pierre's arrival.
XV It was easy for Carrigan to guess why the rivermanhad turned back for him.
It seemed odd to David they should remain so quiet, when he knew the natural instinct of the riverman was to voice his emotion at the top of his lungs.
A deadly light glittered in the half-breed's eyes, and for the first time David realized that in the grotesque head of the riverman was a brain quick to grip at the significance of things.
Twice the huge riverman followed him about the ring of sand, and the steely glitter in his eyes changed to laughter, and the tense faces of the men about them relaxed.
Not a riverman but heard it, and as St. Pierre staggered back, flung almost from his feet by its force, a subdued cry of amazement broke from the waiting men.
For a moment the riverman stared at the back of David's head, and in that moment he was fighting to keep back what wanted to come from his lips in words.
They watched for him to leap upon his fallen enemy, kicking and gouging and choking in the riverman way.
At the top was a bald knob of sandstone, over which the riverman had already passed.
Near the docks where the ship came in was a sailors' boarding-house owned by a riverman of bad reputation named "Rogue" Riderhood.
A few days later, a riverman named Hexam found a body floating in the River Thames, which flows through the middle of London.
Tis all abowit young Latis-an, a riverman so free.
And some sort of instinct, trickling in the blood from that riverman forebear, prompted her strike a pose, which brought a yelp of admiration from the old man.
And the groom was a French Canadian, a strapping chap, a riverman of repute.
The riverman evidently did not recognize having seen the young stranger the day before; but Bob was again conscious of the quick impact of the man's personality, quite out of proportion to his diminutive height and slender build.
All right, bub," said the riverman good-humouredly.
The riverman intent on his work, was swept from view.
Now that's a good kid," he said, waving a pipe toward the other fire where the would-be rivermanwas helping wash the dishes.
The riverman rolled over and examined him dispassionately for a few moments.
Immediately theriverman made a flying leap to the nearest.
Why, Bob could not imagine, for the alert, self-contained little riverman trudged along in almost entire silence, his keen chipmunk eyes spying restlessly on all there was to be seen.
The sixth sealer was much older and of the riverman type.
The old rivermanand the astonishingly thawed and rejuvenated Mr. Fox disappeared in the private office.
The riverman whirled on him, and Bob became conscious of something as distinct as a physical shock as he met the impact of an electrical nervous energy.
Beneath his loose, soft clothing the riverman seemed to be made of steel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "riverman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
