Guests were being drawn from your hotel because bob-sledding was increasing in popularity," said Penny quietly.
It was hard sledding up there without the grub and with only one leg.
Finally, one important factor was to dominate all the sledding arrangements, for although the Discovery was mainly at the mercy of natural causes, Scott made up his mind that everything man could do to free her from the ice should be done.
The accumulation was almost beyond belief and showed the whole trouble of sledding in cold weather.
Like Bowers he has taken to sledding like a duck to water, and although he hasn't had such severe testing, I believe he would stand it pretty nearly as well.
At first the skua had been regarded as unfit for human food, but Skelton on a sledding trip had caught one in a noose and promptly put it into the pot.
In a very short time Scott discovered that the sledding resources of the ship had been used to their fullest extent during his absence, and that parties had been going and coming and ever adding to the collection of knowledge.
We shall be away sledding late this year and off again [Page 237] early next season, but even for us it will be pleasant to feel that such comfort awaits our return.
In England twenty-five years had passed since any important sledding expedition had been accomplished, and during that time not a single sledge, and very few portions of a sledge equipment, had been made in the country.
It was not, however, until Armitage agreed to serve as second in [Page 90] command of the expedition that Scott had anyone on whom he could rely to provide the sledding outfit.
During the later months of the dark season all thoughts had been turned to the prospects of the spring journeys, and many times the advantages and disadvantages of dogs for sledding were discussed.
Both of them were severely frostbitten about the face and legs, but bitter as their experience was it served as yet another warning to those who were to go sledding in the spring that no risks could be taken in such a capricious climate.
Evans and Crean are repairing sleeping-bags, covering felt boots, and generally working on sledding kit.
That plank ought to make it easy sledding for fellows like us.
After that first heavy snowfall when we said something about an all-girls' sledding party, they didn't seem awfully anxious about it.
The load is heavy and sleddingover sand and gravel difficult.
Hard sleddingin America produced the man who said: "With malice toward none; with charity for all.
The man who says that hard sledding in America made a yellow cur out of him fools no one.
His sledding over, he returned to his camp in the barrens to get his traps and take one last hunt, for the lean weeks of the winter had made him over-cautious and he wished to make the trip back with a loaded sled.
Once the big thaw was on, all sledding would be over.
The boys agreed that after this trip they would be very careful not to go on another mud-sledding expedition.
Hubert had either lost his grip on it as they were sledding down the hill or it was now somewhere under the deep snow in the bottom of the pit.
The long descent toward the distant farm-house was gradual enough to render sledding safe yet steep enough at points to make dragging burdensome.
The warm weather was the nicest, though there was great funsledding and snowballing when the boys were not too rough.
And when winter set in fairly there was sledding and skating and no end of jest and laughter.
And eight young men," laughing--"boys that we know and have gone sledding with.
Even the children had a good time sleddingand snowballing and building snow forts and fighting battles.
They were out sledding and sliding and skating, and playing tag in summer.
If Ned Castleton should back up Martinez with a bagful or two of his loose cash it would make mighty hard sledding for us," observed Bancroft.
It was hard sledding sometimes, but we pulled through.
The surface of the lake proved more unfavorable for sledding than was anticipated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sledding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; flow; game; glide; sailing; slide; sliding; slither; slithering; sport; sweep; sweeping