He was in league with many ardent Whigs in his vicinity, who had sworn eternal hostility to the Cow-boys and Skinners who infested the region, and the Roost was their head-quarters.
He took an active part against the Cow-boys and Skinners on the Neutral Ground.
The Skinners generally professed attachment to the American cause, and lived chiefly within the patriot lines; but they were of easy virtue, and were really more detested by the Americans than their avowed enemies, the Cow-boys.
The Skinners represented the trade that dealt with furs.
A conflict had taken place in the streets of the city between the skinners and the fishmongers, which the Mayor attempted to stop.
I told him that nothing would please me more than to go into partnership with him, and that I could easily kill enough buffaloes to keep twenty skinners hard at work every day.
One of my skinners was a Mexican and the other a man named Perkins.
He said he had been having trouble in getting a man who could hunt fast enough to keep his skinners busy.
But I was so in love with my location on Dixon Creek, southwest of the Walls, that I resolved to take the risk and establish myself at that point, and went there with three skinners I had hired.
Where buffaloes were as plentiful as they were here I could easily kill enough in a day to keep ten skinners busily at work.
Even mule skinners would drive blocks out of their way just to hear little Shelley's words when someone called him sissy or girl-boy.
No merchant may dress black rabbit skins, nor export them, unless dressed by skinners and bought from them because the skinnershave been thus deprived of their livelihoods to their impoverishment throughout the realm.
Much blood was shed in the street battle between the skinners and the fishmongers in 1340.
The Smiths arrived there to find that the Skinners had preceded them on the same errand, and they recognized through the windows, in the leader of the band, a noted brigand on whose head a price was laid.
It may also be mentioned that the Skinners had a chance to revenge themselves on the Cowboys for their defeat at the Crosby house.
The Skinners were camp-followers of the American troops and the Cowboys a band of Tories and renegade British.
The history of the Cowboys and Skinnersalways interested me.
Before the Skinners could recover from the momentary surprise into which this curious incident had thrown them, a volley of powder and shot had been fired into their midst.
The result was, that over twenty of the Skinners were taken prisoners.
Well, as I was saying, he told me a story about those Cowboys and Skinners which will bear telling again.
This company of Skinners in London were incorporate by Edward III.
Where buffalo were very plentiful the number ofskinners was increased.
The skinners and curers knew so little of the proper mode of curing hides, that at least half of those actually taken were lost.
In 1882 there were, so it is estimated by men who were in the country, no fewer than five thousand white hunters and skinners on the northern range.
Thither went scores of "outfits" and hundreds of hunters and skinners from the Northern Pacific Railway towns from Miles City to Glendive.
Why, what a shame to set you with a noisy, galloping herd of helmets, chasing skinners and cowboys with a brace of gad-a-mercy pistols in your belt!
Of those chapmen and others he asked much concerning Elfhild; and they could tell him many tales of the Red Skinners and their misdeeds, but nought that seemed to have aught to do with his love.
Now further, although the Red Skinners be worse than any man else, they are not so bad as the Black.
They Deliver the Thorp-Dwellers from the Black Skinners Chapter XLIII.
Mornin'," he drawled as the following teams came to a stop, and skinners cupped hands behind their ears to listen.
It read: Employment office notifies two jerkline skinners applied re advertisement in paper and have been forwarded Palada.
She continued to wonder at the unwonted speed of the skinners ahead of Hiram.
Hat removed, bowing like a Japanese, he approached the astonished skinners and offered his hand to Jerkline Jo.
We skinners get ninety dollars a month and board now.
Jo shouted through the rain, just as Hiram's teams began negotiating the system of hairpin curves upon which Jo's skinners had rolled the boulder in retaliation for the drained water tank.
The wagons and teams of Jerkline Jo's freight outfit were covered with flags, and Jo's proud skinners paraded the streets, the wagons loaded with cheering townspeople.
Every trip she's got those five husky skinners with her, and I guess every one of them is fool enough to put up a scrap for her if he knew he'd get croaked in the deal.
With the exception of Hiram Hooker, Jo's skinners shouted with laughter.
She had small hopes of obtaining goodskinners by this method, but no other course presented itself.
Ahead of them she could hear her skinners shouting back and forth from wagon to wagon above the jingling of the bells, their tones high-pitched and angry.
But she had not the heart to refuse Tweet's offer, and she wanted her skinners to rest for the remainder of the night, in view of the hard work that lay before them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skinners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
