So the sleighs returned, but the vile sorceress was no longer on the ice, neither did any one know whither she had gone; whereupon the sleighs hastened back again after the others.
The adornments of the other sleighswere less costly.
Still he commanded the seven sleighs to return and bring the witch bound to Wolgast, that he might question her as to wherefore she had spat out.
When their Graces mounted the sleighs amidst the ringing of bells and roaring of cannon, great was their astonishment to see their own initials stamped into the hard ice by Dinnies Kleist, as thus: F.
Sleighs are also subdivided into two - horse and one-horse sleighs.
His face was protruding from beneath a woollen night cap; and, when he turned to the vehicle of Marmaduke as the sleighs approached each other, it seemed formed by nature to cut the atmosphere with the least possible resistance.
It was so usual for men of the first rank to take into their sleighs any one they found toiling through the snow, that Richard was perfectly satisfied with this explanation.
The bushes which lined the highway interrupted the view, and the twosleighs were close upon each other before either was seen.
A few dark and moving spots were, however, visible on the even surface, which the eye of Elizabeth knew to be so many sleighs going their several ways to or from the village.
Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is much lessened with the melioration of the climate consequent to the clearing of the forests.
The width of the street, for so it was called, might have been one hundred feet; but the track for the sleighs was much more limited.
It was between seasons, when the ice was either forming or breaking and sleighs as utter an impossibility as steamboats that the real problem arose.
In midwinter mail and freight and passengers alike crossed in speed and a real degree of fine comfort in great four-horse sleighs upon a hard roadway of thick, thick ice.
From every respectable direction in the city, sleighs are speeding merrily along with their dainty bundles of woollen wraps and tucked-up skirts.
See that the phaeton and sleighs be in good order, and, in fact, I think you will each do your duties well, without my enumerating them.
Having eaten so many suppers we had no appetite for breakfast, and instead of taking any we cut up the carcasses ready for the sleighs which Trevor was to send Swiftfoot to fetch.
Our horse-sleighs soon after appeared, followed by theirs, dragged by dogs, and guided by their squaws.
As we had now our sleighs loaded to the utmost, and three buffaloes besides en cache, or hidden, that is from the wolves, we turned our faces homewards.
We first constructed four horse-sleighs to carry the flesh of the buffaloes we intended to kill, each dragged by a single horse.
The farmer, at that season of the year, had little else to do, and the ancient paths were soon made smooth by many sleighs and sleds.
On the old Cohos Turnpike trains of these farm sleighs were often a half mile long.
Jack reached the row of sleighswell in advance of Boris.
Give a yell or something, but make no dash toward the row of sleighs at that moment.
If I can get anything like a start, perhaps I can reach one of the sleighsthat always stand nearby.
Jack slapped the horses attached to three of the sleighs sharply and they dashed off.
The Colonial troops had taken a few sleighs and were on their way to Fort George when they were furiously attacked by the combined force of the French and Indians.
He brought away all his wounded men and had them conveyed in sleighs to Fort George.
Some of you fellows start those sleighsand sledges up the road!
While the troops were still scattered and occupied in piling the loot upon the sleighs and sledges, a volley of something more potent than the squire's oaths and objurgations interrupted them.
A whole caravan of sleighs now passed them tumultuously, Lori in front with an embroidered rug, a present from the first-class!
Now, however, the walk is impracticable, and all the sleighs were yesterday morning in requisition, to transport the family and their visitors to their place of worship.
People were going about their affairs up and down the Nevsky without being stopped, and sleighs were passing constantly.
The wide street was, as usual, full of passing sleighsand automobiles.
Their satisfaction was still greater when, a few minutes later, they saw two sleighs sweep past the station and take the direction that led toward the cabin in the woods.
The boys watched the sleighs intently until they were drawn out of sight.
They drove off to join a group of sleighs that were hanging around for a like purpose.
Here the line of sleighs divided, those not racing making a wide turn and going down on the right, next the ropes, leaving the racers a wide path in the middle.
The sleighs in the line were so close that the stout horse had his nose almost in the neck of a nervous man just ahead, who kept looking back, while Fox could feel the breath of the horse behind.
The racing was in one direction only, the returning racers taking their places in the long line of sleighs which carried spectators and went back at a very sober pace to the starting-point.
They had taken their place in the line of sleighs and were ambling along close to the rope.
The sleighs and cutters were thickening round them.
The white-sheeted corpses were packed closely together; and as the sleighs had no tailboards and were very small, the naked feet of the corpses projected out at the back in a horribly grotesque fashion.
Looking around at the country, she restrained her horse involuntarily, and was soon left in the rear of the sleighs and horsemen.
Sleighs were to go with a bed and provisions; and Basia's pony was to go, so that she might leave her sleigh in dangerous places; for Pan Michael had a particular fear of the entrance to Mohiloff, which was really a breakneck descent.
Then the two men hastened to the stables, followed by Basia; and in the space of a few "Our Fathers," the two sleighs were driven up before the house.
Meanwhile in the two sleighs the fates of both knights were in the balance.
These sleighs are, some of them, most elegant in form and finish, and provided with most costly furs.
In the winter the doors of this place are thronged with a crowd of sleighs and sleigh drivers, while inside, skaters and spectators form a living, moving panorama, pleasant to look upon.
Flocks of crows from among the leafless trees by the roadside flew before the sleighs with shrill cawing.
So the cavaliers saw before the door a number of sleighs with pea-straw spread in them, and about the same number of saddle-horses.
The cavaliers hurried willingly to prepare, and soon four sleighs were bearing the eager young men to Vodokty.
The Butryms, men and women, were returning on foot and in sleighs from Mitruny after receiving indulgence.
There were still many sleighs jingling in both directions but they made better time here than they could in the park.
The sleighs which had been used had to be abandoned and wagons requisitioned on the spot wherever possible.
Thousands of sleighs and hundreds of thousands of sleigh runners (on which to drag cannon and wagons), held in readiness, were a part of these preparations for a rapid advance.
Each of these sleighs will accommodate two passengers, and is manipulated by a couple of natives, who stand bolt upright on the elongated runners that project behind, and guide its course with their feet.
This return journey is made by means of queer-looking native sleighs over a smooth cobble-paved, but exceedingly steep road.
The markets, both of Montreal and Quebec, exhibit several hundred market sleighs daily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleighs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
