But in the few minutes' interim, two other lads had come to our support, and dismounting we rushed them, whipping our slickers into ribbons over their heads.
But our hopes revived as we saw the contingent of about six hundred beeves stampede out of a bend below and across the river, followed by two men who were energetically burning powder and flaunting slickers in their rear.
So polish up your saddles, oil your slickers and your guns, For we're bound for Lonesome Prairie when the green grass comes.
When it had been finished, everyone was, in spite of slickers and gas suits, so drenched that water could be wrung out of every garment.
These slight shelters, however, the men had learned to make very comfortable protection against the elements, by banking soil about the edges and covering the open end with slickers or shelter-halves.
Rain fell most of the time, soaking throughslickers and blouses to one's very skin.
Tents, iron huts, and rude log shacks slipped past; men in muddy slickers drew back against the bank, and then the train stopped.
His back was arched and his wet slickers split, but it was plain to Charnock that the men could not hold up the timber, which would injure them if it fell.
Festing hung up his wet slickers and sat down with a vague sense of satisfaction.
It began to rain soon afterwards and he had left his slickers at the bunk-house, but he stuck to his work, while the sweat the effort caused him ran down his face, until the whistle blew.
The elephant guns and cordite ammunition were broken out, the blankets, slickers and other necessaries were loaded up on the porters, and the three hunters donned their moccasins for the first time.
Behind their saddles the boys strappedslickers and H.
They caught the rain in their slickers and made their coffee of it, and spent another more or less uncomfortable night coiling themselves over and around a cracker-barrel which seemed to take up the whole interior of the wagon.
I had Pong get out the blankets for you, seeing that you have only your slickers with you.
Wet slickersrustle against one another in the narrow traverses, and equipment, principally the French and English gas masks, hanging at either hip become entangled in the darkness.
The streets are wet and dark now and through their narrow windings our headlights reveal tall figures in slickers or khaki overcoats topped by peaked felt hats with the red cords of American artillerymen.
However, the boys saw her gaze with disapproval at the enlarging pool of water which dripped from their slickers onto the floor.
Then, with slickers buttoned, he and Dan went out into the night.
Brad and Dan stripped off their slickers and wiped their dripping faces with a coarse towel which the attendant brought from one of the rest rooms.
Wear your slickers and either high boots or galoshes," the Cub leader advised the boys.
It lashed their faces, streamed down their slickers and soaked their shoes.
Jimmy had been prepared for such an emergency, and he was on deck in five minutes, fully dressed with his sea-boots and slickers on; and Aynsley joined him in the lee of the deckhouse with a pilot coat over his pajamas.
It rattled on Jimmy's slickers and stung his face, but the cold was mild by comparison with what he had endured in the North, and he sat in the shelter of the coaming, glancing up the Sound every now and then.
Our horses turned their backs to the storm, but we drew slickersover our heads, and defied the elements.
The cattle balked at another hill, and all the tincans and slickers in the crowd could scarcely move them.
A few, like Pink and the Silent One, flapped their slickers till their arms ached.
The few necessities the girls were taking were rolled in slickers and strapped behind their saddles.
The guns were stored in the girls' slickers and soon the party was ready to start.
Clad in shining slickers they were riding on through the downpour.
Merritt; "better get out those slickers or we'll be soaked.
They had come back from their plunge and were spreading theslickers above the fir branches for bed, when Matthews began to talk in a low dreamy voice, more as a man thinking out loud than one uttering a confessional.
Bout every ten yards we had to chop the oar-locks free of ice an' the only part of our slickers what wa'n't friz was where the muscles was playin'.
As the rain descended upon the slickers that covered the girls, and upon their faces, Dot merely buried her head sleepily under the raincoat, but Linda sat bolt upright on the bed of leaves.
A breeze from the ocean was so cooling that Linda had to pull their slickers over them as a covering.
Slickers were in demand and all guns and revolvers for those going forth were well cleaned and oiled.
They learned that it was necessary to apply three coats of varnish to the material, and when the slickers put them on it was a fascinating operation.
The finishers, or slickers as we call them, cannot put any gloss on unless the leather is perfectly tight," insisted McCarthy.
Do you mean to tell me you didn't see those two slickersflapping out in front?
Horne and Moore rode over to them and for the first time the girl noticed that the two men who had wielded slickers out in front of the run were nowhere to be seen.
She knew these for riders flapping yellow slickers in the wind.
In the same flash Billie had seen two slickers out before the peaks of the run, flapping weirdly in the faces of the foremost cows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slickers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
