On the Russian 6th of January (the 18th by our reckoning) there takes place the annual Daubsfest, and from over the bleak snows of the fjeld come in the reindeer sledges of Lapps who hold to the Orthodox faith.
One wrinkled old crone of a woman, long past walking, was dragged up by her grandchildren in one of the boat-like reindeer sledges that she might not miss the spectacle.
Beside each house was a pile of sledges with the runners new-tarred, ready for the winter.
This trifling fact is usually overlooked by those artists who at Christmas-time draw such pleasing pictures of impossible Lapps careering in toy-shop sledges towards a genuinely London-made aurora borealis.
A tiny hay barn on stilts perched gingerly on a promontory, and farther on was a hut with a man building wood sledges before his door.
There is a pole to guide with, and the pole is a thing of use; for riding at speed in these sledges over an uneven snow-field is distinctly a matter of balance.
Meanwhile the sledges had come together, and at the same time six horsemen appeared before them.
Frozen fish were carried on sledges from the lakes.
The snow, he remarked, was still too deep for sledges to the northward, and the moss too wet to make fires.
In this state they were hardly of any use among the steep ascents of the portages, when we were obliged to drag the sledges ourselves.
He acknowledged the justice of the statement, and promised to remove as soon as his party had prepared snow-shoes and sledges for themselves.
With it the snow-shoe and canoe-timbers are fashioned, the deals of their sledges reduced to the requisite thinness and polish, and their wooden bowls and spoons hollowed out.
I remained at Fort Chipewyan five weeks, during which time some laden sledges did arrive, but I could not obtain any addition to the few articles I had procured at first.
At{9} an early hour we quitted the huts, lashed on sledges as before, with some little addition to our party; and at three hours thirty minutes P.
Two men with sledges arrived soon afterwards, sent by Mr. McVicar, who expected us about this time.
The crust soon bore, and it was found that the sledges furnished even better means of transportation than the wheels.
The town and its neighbourhood are infested with an immense number of the dogs used for sledges in winter.
The communication in the winter season is by sledges drawn by dogs over the snow; in summer the intercourse is carried on by the river Awatska, which being in some places extremely shallow, boats of a particular construction are made use of.
We had been told of sledges and rein-deer to carry us over the snow in the winter season, the snow being frozen so hard, that the sledges can run upon the surface without any danger of going down.
They never suspect that the prince is watching over us; that every day there come to us by ways well guarded sledgesof corn and gunpowder; the corn for us, the powder for them.
When winter travel is necessary dog teams and sledges are generally made use of, except on the stage route south to White Horse, where horses are used.
The preparation of carts, sledges and other wooden goods is an important domestic industry.
Lieutenant Peary hopes to start the sledges northward early in March, thus gaining two months on the start made in '92.
Parry in his splendid voyage of 1827 spent months in sledging northward on a vast ice-floe which all the while was drifting south faster than the dogs could drag the sledges northward.
Many smaller boats are carried, and light sledges with dog teams, in case it becomes necessary to travel over the ice.
The invaluable "ski" would of course be used in such an emergency, and plenty of tarred canvas would be carried, by means of which the sledgescould be converted into boats.
After establishing winter quarters, he will make some preliminary trips to test his sledges and complete the survey of the southern part of the land, reserving the great northward march for the spring of 1894.
Our little bird soared away over the high road, and in the ruts of the sledges he found here and there a grain of corn, and at the halting-places some crumbs.
The men drew the sledges on which their provisions were loaded and went in advance, clearing the way for the women.
When the snow fell and ice closed the river, they would tie their 'husky' dogs to sledges and travel over the desolate wastes, carrying furs and provisions.
The sledgesof the former, the canoes of the latter, fitly take the place of the carriage.
While a portion of the camp were occupied in bringing up the baggage to this point, the remainder were busied in making sledges and snow shoes.
I had determined to explore the mountain ahead, and the sledges were to be used in transporting the baggage.
With sledges and portable boats they labored on, through snow, and over hummocks; launching their boats over the larger holes of water.
A long train of sledges took the direction of the Isle of the Neva, and presented as strange a spectacle as one could well imagine.
Every one looked with a curious eye at the cottage, and the numerous sledges that were gathering for the escort at hand.
The victor now returned with his small body of troops to the sledges they had left behind, and he then entirely surrounded the 3000 rebels.
The sledges started in procession, the horses stumbling over the ledges in the snow, from which we bounded up and down.
The land in autumn becomes too swampy for wheeled carriages, and travelling in sledges has not yet commenced.
The surface of the Oka was furrowed with the passage of sledges coming from Irkutsk, from Nicolaefsk, from the world’s end, in fact, and bringing to the railway all kinds of Asiatic provisions.
Our departure from Camechlof, with the bells of our caravan of four sledges in movement, was rather a noisy one.
A few sledgeswere following this caravan, and when I inquired why they thus accompanied it, I was briefly informed: “For the invalids and princes.
The sledges thus guarded whisk rapidly along one against the other, sometimes striking one another with a shock in which horses and sledge are thrown down and shot off at a tangent across the road.
The carrying sledges bringing tea and other merchandise from China and the products of the Trans-Baikal to Nijni-Novgorod avoid passing by Omsk; it would be going out of the way to no purpose.
After a marriage ceremony the guests mount into eight or ten sledgesand then make an excursion, following one after the other in line, singing all the time.
Several ladies of the party remained at Upsala in tolerable comfort, while their husbands and brothers, expecting to find the gulf a smooth and glassy expanse, hastened to cross it in sledges in pursuit of a new sensation.
Very shortly, the other sledgescame in sight, and the party made the best of its way back to Grisselhamn.
With great difficulty they procured sledges and horses with their drivers, from the country about Grisselhamn, a little town whence they proposed to set out on the expedition.
Is there, then, no hope that one of the other sledges will come to our rescue?
The waggons are loaded To laughter and singing; The sledges in silence, 60 With thoughts sad and bitter; The waggons convey the corn Home to the peasants, The sledges will bear it Away to the market.
Perhaps in the sledges With merry young friends Flying down from the mountain?
But now to the cities The sledges are starting, Piled high with the hay Of the peasants.
In winter, when the lake is frozen over, the people bring their hay from the farther Lake of Cadagno in sledges across the Lake Ritom.
So all the available space on the sledges was loaded with dog-food--namely, salmon heads and backs.
In their sledges they would take me on long drives up the water-courses to look for gold, and in countless other ways showed their good will.
As the snow was now very soft the wooden runners of our sledges were useless.
Then we took a tarpaulin from one of the sledges and with walrus-hide rope improvised a sort of roof over our dug-out.
They went so fast that the sledges were continually slewing about on the smooth ice in imminent danger of capsizing; but they were steadied by a clever use of the polka.
Two reindeer sledges were engaged to show us the way across the mountains, and to break the track wherever necessary.
Placing the three sledges around the edge of the hole, we banked them in with snow.
The loaded sledges were placed on the banks about the sides, while the dogs lay, as usual, in the snow.
The following day I unloaded the sledges and sent them into the woods under the direction of Chrisoffsky to haul in fuel for the fires.
I asked Chrisoffsky how it would do to slide down, but he shook his head and replied that it would be dangerous for dogs and sledges alike.
I passed through our empty little street and came to the main thoroughfare, where I met pedestrians and sledges laden with wood, the runners grating the road.
They certainly had not harnessed it; all the sledges stood still outside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sledges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
