The sun had set, but the western slope of the hill was still brilliant with light as Bidwell's messenger with his sumpter horse piled high with bales of ore-sacks came round the clump of firs at the corner of Bidwell's claim.
The widow meanwhile got breakfast for the men, and as soon as they were off up the trail she set the awed and wondering Chinaman to hauling the sacks of ore out from beneath the shanty and piling them conveniently near the roadway.
On her advice he sent a man for ore-sacks and tools, while other willing hands set to work to build a cabin to shelter them.
All the carpets and furniture are covered with temporary coverings during the transfer from the barges of these huge sacks filled with coal.
The baggage was piled up in walls of provision sacks and boxes, and Manuel got hold at length of his kitchen utensils and unpacked his enamelled ware.
Six sacks of tsamba, a sack of rice, and twelve cubes of brick tea were brought to my courtyard, and exact information was asked for as to the points I intended to touch on beyond the mouth of the Raga-tsangpo.
After some sacks of maize had fallen overboard, each of the animals was led by two men.
Every man had a warm sheepskin, and they made themselves bedding of the skins of the slaughtered sheep or the wild animals that were shot; as the winter cold abated they used empty provision sacks as blankets.
The sacks of provender were to form round the inside a protection against the wind, and at the same time be themselves sheltered from rain.
They erected a shelter from the wind with the sledge and three sacks of fuel, and sat behind it by their fire, the flickering flames almost singeing their faces.
The hired Ladakis and the Provision Sacksin North-West Chang-tang 98 63.
Empty provision sacks and pack-saddles serve as cloths to protect the animals from the cold at night.
It would be better if we filled some goatskin sacks with water, in case we lose sight of the stream," he suggests to me.
At the sides lay sacks of rice and tsamba, and several whole slaughtered sheep; everything showed that the old man was prepared for a long stay.
We made mattresses for the dogs by stuffing sacks with straw and rubbish, and most of the animals were glad to receive this furnishing in their kennels.
Everybody was working at high pressure, packing and repacking sledges and stowing what provisions we were going to take with us in the various sacks and boxes.
On our way home, I so conciliated Peepy's affections by buying him a windmill and two flour-sacks that he would suffer nobody else to take off his hat and gloves and would sit nowhere at dinner but at my side.
I have got three sacks of ladies' hair below, but none so beautiful and fine as this.
In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill at which a cart was unloading a quantity of sacks of old rags.
Krook replies, "You might as well ask me to describe the ladies whose heads of hair I have got in sacks downstairs.
Round the pistil he put the orange-coloured stamens with their long narrow sacks on their heads, ready to be filled with pollen.
So he made his pollen, and filled the long sacks with it.
The squirrels filled their little sacks with nuts.
The squirrels filled their little sacks with nuts, and sailed away home in the evening.
The travelers removed the sacks from their shoulders, and one of the men, a tall, lank fellow, rose from the table to help them.
On the fourth day, early in the morning, she and Sofya appeared before Nikolay as burgher women, poorly clad in worn chintz skirts and blouses, with birchbark sacks on their shoulders, and canes in their hands.
Men were walking through the streets with pigskin sacks of pulque on their backs and a gourd cup in hand, crying "only a centavo for a drink!
The ore, after it is pulverized in this way by hand, is put into a wooden trough into which water is poured which has been carried up in bull hide sacks from the stream below, and the ore is thus washed and concentrated.
Now those four knights, under the command of the esquire Cressingham, covering their armour completely with peasants' clothes and cloaks, should go up to that gate in the quiet of the morning with sacks on their backs.
In these sacks they should have a good store of last year's walnuts and apples--though it was difficult enough to find these in June, yet some they had found that had ripened very late the year before.
He went to his rooms across the quadrangle; and he perceived how certain peasants in hoods of black cloth with belts of yellow leather were bringing in sacks and baskets.
The Midē´ priests then lay their sacks upon his back, when the candidate begins to recover and spit out the mī´gis shell which he had previously hidden within his mouth.
The eight priests then place their sacks to the respective joints at which they previously directed them, which fully infuses the body with the magic influence as desired.
The priests then touch his joints and forehead with the upper end of their Midē´ sacks whereupon he recovers and rises to a standing posture.
From the light of the blazing stacks, shining in the barn windows, Jack and George saw where a pile of grain sacks were lying.
In France also, men in the fifteenth century were drowned in sacks of leather; hence the term “gens de sac et de corde” for evilly-disposed persons at the present day.
It was coming on toward twilight, and there were still seven sacks to be carried in.
Buckrow took away the belt and pistols, which had been unfastened from me after my capture, and he and Petrak set to work carrying the sacks of gold into the cleft in the cliff.
I was in an agony from my cramped position, and tugging at the sacks served to increase my torture.
Thirkle had finished burying Buckrow, and set to dragging the sacks close to the entrance of the crevice, so we would not have to carry them so far.
We went in with the second lot of sacks in the same order, but I saw another exchange of signals between Thirkle and Petrak before we stooped for our burdens.
Petrak kept before me, with the sacks between us, and his bloody knife pulled to the front of his belt.
It'll be dark before we get back to the boats," suggested Petrak, as we stood over the five sacks which were left.
Then, lay on again, ye fool," growled Buckrow, turning to the sacks once more.
He studied the sailor for a minute, and then drew back and whispered: "Sewing sacks to carry the gold away.
One of the sacks had evidently burst, for we picked up several gold coins in the mud, and found a sail-needle in a loop of twine where they had repaired the sack.
Now, I want to take a little rest for a few minutes, and if I was to have a word to say I'd suggest that you two get thesacks stowed in the hole there.
The grass and bamboo thicket were well trampled, and we could see the marks in the moist ground where the sacks of gold had been piled.
They cut these poles to pack the sacks away," said Riggs.
Buckrow, and he went over to the pile of sacks and began kicking the brown canvas nervously.
A space six feet square was left inside the door, but for the rest the room was filled nearly to the ceiling with sacks of Indian meal.
And anyway Rad said there was no use in searching it; it was already full to the brim with sacks of corn meal.
Terry was examining the three walls of sacksbefore us.
The ore sacks were tied on one frosty morning and the men mounted.
They sewed the ore in strong rawhide sacks and then prospected, without success, until it was time for the last unicorn band to pass by on its way south.
In March they are taken out and shelled, and the corn is put in home-made sacks and replaced in the store-houses.
They gather the fibre of the maguey and other plants, and make sacks and ropes of excellent quality, for their own use as well as for sale in Durango, to which market they also take any fruit not required for home consumption.
Uncle David was again the thresher with a fine new separator, and I would have enjoyed the season with almost perfect contentment had it not been for the fact that I was detailed to hold sacks for Daddy Fairbanks who was the measurer.
The hired man turned the mill, I dipped the wheat into the hopper, Franklin held sacks and father scooped the grain in.
Fortunately, however, they discovered in the hollow of a rock two sacks of flour, some fruit, and two large vessels filled with wine.
The only things which had not been burned or carried off were some large sacks of hides, which were to these freebooters objects of avidity, and which had almost occasioned a bloody dispute.
With only one down, they pushed a runner across in the eighth, and there were two men on the sacks when a double play blighted their prospect of tying up, perhaps of taking the lead, at once.
I was doing the hurling and in the very first inning the old swatter came up with the sacks charged and two out.
Oh, perchance you may be able to get on the sacks with me pushing 'em over; but if Jones unlimbered his artillery on you, he'd mow you down as fast as you toddled up to the pentagon.
Round the market house is drawn up a rectangular laager of waggons, built up with sacks full of earth to form a bullet-proof wall.
Our lodging was next door to the club buildings, now used as a barrack for Grey's Scouts, and defended with a small bastion of tin biscuit-cases and sacks filled with earth.
He is so wrapped up in his love troubles, that he picks up the sacks in an absent-minded way and carries them off to the smithy.
The sacks of gold, which look just like sacks of corn in a granary, are kept in clean, tidy rooms lit by electric light.
He was reticent as to his luck but he had several small sacks filled with ore and in his haste to catch the stage, dropped a piece of quartz from a loosely tied sack.
He threw aside a half-rotted tarpaulin in the wagon bed and discovered fifteen sacks of ore.
Certain difficulties arose in making these hybrids, mainly due to the curiosity of the squirrels who liked to rip open the sacks covering the blossoms which were being treated.
Trees will stay in good condition for several days, if the burlapsacks are kept moistened.
The machine in the lower view is self-propelling, cuts and threshes the grain, throwing out the straw, and places the grain in sacksready for loading on the wagon.
The fronds are wrought into baskets, brooms, mats, sacks and many other useful articles; and the trunks are made into boats, and furnish timber for the construction of houses.
After it has been properly mixed and thoroughly taken care of, it is put into automatic machinery, run by air pressure, which stuffs it into the ham sacks and casings, in which we see the sausage in the markets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
