So they had felled and trimmed to a good start, and now the falling crew and the swampers and buckers were in a dingdong contest to see how long they could keep ahead of the puffing Seattle yarder.
Presently arose the ringing whine of the thin steel blade, the chuck of axes where the swampers attacked a fallen tree.
Immediately the swampers fell upon the prone trunk with axes, denuding it of limbs; the buckers followed them to saw it into lengths decreed by the boss logger.
Back from the skidways, into the woods the swampers cut rough, narrow roads called dray roads or travoy roads,--mere trails sufficiently cleared of brush to allow a team of horses to pull a log thru.
Swampers lived on house-boats for the most part, and the boats will outride all but unusual floods.
Send one of these swampers down to the levee where the men are working.
He found out promptly when he ordered his swampers to advance with their axes and begin chopping down the trees on the right of way.
Between trips, while the men were unloading, he had opportunity to extend his right-of-way lines for his swampers and attend to other details of his engineering problem.
However, Parker resolved to make a survey at once, in order to put the swampers at work chopping trees and clearing the right of way.
And when the swampers begin to clear, Drink round, &c.
And when the swampers begin to clear, Jolly brave boys, &c.
And when the swampers begin to clear, They show the teamster where to steer, Heigh ho!
Unaware that they were being followed, the twoswampers crossed a plowed field, frequently shifting their heavy burden.
By this time, the two swampers had vanished into the darkness far up the road.
Only a few swampers that knows all the runs would dast go that far," said Old Joe.
Then they spied the swamperscrawling over a fence some distance away.
The outer circle of Baskettes considered that the conceit of the Swampers was something unbearable, and declined to support them in any way.
Then among the True Swampers there was an inner circle, who professed to have prominent "rights" on account of their progenitors having been more nearly related to the original Will Baskette.
The Original Swampers declared that they would not sit under a chairman drawn from any other body but themselves.
The Illegitimate Swampers alone supported the Originals, in the hope of getting up by clinging to their coat-tails.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swampers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
