Time and again he strayed from the skidway and brought up sharply against a tree, but each time he altered his course and floundered ahead until he found himself suddenly upon the steep slope where the bank inclined to the river.
She remembered the look upon his face as he strode toward her that morning on the skidwayin search of Leduc.
At the banking grounds, which lie in and about the bed of the river, the logs are piled in a gigantic skidwayto await the spring freshets, which will carry them down stream to the "boom.
Thorpe happened by the skidway just as Long Pine arrived with a log.
Signaling from the upper end of the skidwayto the engineer is done by a wire connected to the donkey's whistle, by an electric bell, or by telephone.
The skidway runs to the railway siding or water's edge.
By theskidway in the Puget Sound region is meant a corduroy road.
Some distance above the river the slope was gradual, and it was necessary to haul the logs to the skidway he had built.
There were, however, a few logs he meant to haul to theskidway before he stopped, and he had some misgivings when he started with the last.
Straightening to his full height after uttering the three terrible words, Martin Skidway snatched a heavy iron bolt from the ground, that had lain long beside the track, and raised it above the head of helpless Dyke Darrel.
Martin Skidway was an old offender, and through the efforts of Dyke Darrel he and his uncle had been detected in crime and sent to the Missouri State prison for a term of years.
It was from the St. Louis prison that I escaped," explained Martin Skidway a little later.
The man explained how young Skidway had been seized and taken on board the train by Dyke Darrel.
I have met her; she is the aunt of the Martin Skidway who is now serving out the remainder of his term for counterfeiting.
He tried his powers on the man at his side, and found him yielding to the pressure, when Skidway suddenly turned his face to the window, and refused to encounter the gaze of his captor.
It would be safer to have Skidway in prison than at large in any event.
Mebbe you'll understand when I tell you, that Martin Skidway was one of the best friends an old man like me had in the bastile.
Nevertheless, after finishing conscientiously skidway number one, he moved on to skidway number two.
The following day he culled a log in another and distantskidway whose butt showed a slant of a good six inches.
The first skidway he scaled with care, laying his rule flat across the face of each log, entering the figures on his many-leaved tablets of beech, marking the timbers swiftly with his blue crayon.
Finally in looking over a skidway he noticed that one log had not been blue-pencilled across the end.
It is useless, Jimmy Bourke," said he, "to be hauling of the same poor log from skidwayto skidway.
He knew that at the next skidway the men were gathered, waiting to see what he would do; gathered openly at last in that final hostility which had been maturing all winter.
And bear in mind what I told you before: suspect anybody that circumstances point to, no matter who he is.
We've got a long trail ahead of us, but we have at last got a clue.
The storm loosened the supports of the skidway and let the logs down.
Tom, in the meantime, climbed the bank to look at a huge pile of logs that lay on a skidway above their camping place.
The ground too, I discovered, had been dug out under the lower side of the skidway and the supports knocked out.
The blocks will then be knocked from under the skidway and those hundreds of thousands of feet of timber will go thundering down into the river.
While she was doing this, the light now being strong enough to permit, Tom climbed the bank to examine the skidway from which the logs had swept down over their camp.
In the meantime I shall have another look at the skidway while you people are packing up," he said, rising.
What makes you think that the skidway was tampered with?
When Tom returned from the skidway he smiled and shook his head in answer to the question in Grace's eyes.
Then Bob unlocked the big double doors and rolled them back, and the three trundled the plane out to the skidway where Jack spun the propeller while Bob manipulated the controls.
Not until the doors were closed and locked did they sit down on the skidway outside the hangar to discuss what they had seen.
He cut a grade for the skidway up the hill, slashing tangled bush and blasting rocks, worked in the snow by moonlight long after his men stopped, and afterwards learned that Lawrence often went without a meal when pay-day got near.
This meant that a skidway must be made over a very rough hill and a gasolene winding engine bought or hired to haul the logs out of the next valley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skidway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
