Should the flat paddle blades resting upon the shoulders be found uncomfortable, as they doubtless will at the end of the first two or three hundred yards, a Pontiac shirt or sweater will serve as a protecting pad.
The sweater or Pontiac shirt eases the cutting effect of the paddles just as well as any of the special portaging pads, and the canoe can be handled more easily with it.
A large, roomy Pontiac shirt to slip over the outer shirt and use as a sweater is much preferable to a sweater on the trail.
When not in use sweater or Pontiac shirt may be carried with the poncho.
I would suggest that a light sweater take the place of a coat as it will be found more comfortable and useful and may be carried on top of the pack or in the blanket roll, for it will rarely be worn save in the evening camp.
He never asked me where it came from, so I didn't have to tell him you had it wrapped around an old sweater you were returning to me.
The speaker, a student who wore glasses, and therefore could have no hope of taking part in such a rough game as football, slapped a fellow on the back who was wearing the blue and white sweater of a Chester athlete.
At this moment the man in the sweater returned, carrying a spanner.
One evening the sweater would look small, and James would come away jubilant; the next it would have swollen over a vast area, and Peter would walk home singing.
When the news began to spread through the place that Grace was knitting this sweater there was a big sensation.
At this moment the doors of the Woodfield Garage opened and a small car rolled out with a grimy young man in a sweater at the wheel.
The whole thing hung on one point--to wit, what size the sweater was going to be.
The amateur sweater of those days was, in fact, practically tantamount to German propaganda.
And it was not until one day when Grace Forrester was knitting a sweaterthat there seemed a chance of getting a clue to her hidden feelings.
On the one hand, they wanted to know their fate; on the other, they fully realized that whoever the sweater was for would have to wear it.
Would any trainer who knew his business (as Steggles does) have gone to bring out a sweater for his man to change for his jersey in the open air, at the very time the man was complaining of chilliness?
The landlord stared blankly at the trainer, who stood with a sweater dangling from his hand, and stared blankly back.
She rose to her feet and started down the canyon; her bloody sweater still lay on the ground with other things of which she was heedless.
He seemed to be coarsely dressed as might a woods guide, wearing a heavy sweater under his outer coat.
He saw the hands of his watch creep toward the hour of eight, after which he might give up pretence of study, don a sweater and a pair of canvas "sneakers" and go over to the gymnasium.
Nearer than that, more colour was supplied by an occasional dark red sweater amongst the groups loitering about the edge of the gridiron.
A substitute struggled out of hissweater and came racing on.
Betty in a jolly voice, as she buttoned her sweater more closely about her, and saw that her cap fitted snugly.
Grace, even in this moment sought her sweater pocket, where, as might be supposed, she carried some of her seemingly never-failing chocolates.
The next thing he noticed (and that was when they had descended forty or fifty yards below the spring) was that the child's sweater was frayed near the shoulder.
And I bet I know how that nice sweater got frayed, too.
We're going to find out something about the sweater first.
It is known that the child wore a sweater when he disappeared.
It's a wonder they didn't mention the color of the sweater while they were about it," Tom said.
Mary cannily waited until the last, and came down, clad in a white sweater and heavy white tweed skirt, after the others had cleared the generous platter of ham and eggs, and the mountain of corn bread was a hillock of crumbs.
The sweater is still a ruffian, though the street is no longer the scene of action, but, in some attic or tenement-house bedroom, he gathers his victims from the poorest and most helpless of our population.
Another deducted a whole week's work from a woman's wages because she was ten minutes late, and so aggravated the people in the neighborhood that they smashed his windows, showing the state of things between the sweater and his people.
The sweater deals as a middleman with the manufacturer and the worker.
It is impossible to condemn the sweater and retain your respect for the public which permits him to carry on his nefarious business.
The sweateris a comparatively recent institution, and I devoutly believe an institution of the devil.
The sweater takes large contracts and divides it out among the very poor, reducing the price to starvation limits, and reserving the profits for himself.
It is not correct that it would cost the manufacturer more to reach the worker without the sweater than with him.
The demand for clothing would be just the same without the sweater as with him.
Dick, as Betty threw off the sweater which she had wisely donned before going into less well heated quarters.
He wore an old sweater and his old felt hat was pulled down almost over his dark eyes.
Yours are all right, and take your white sweater if you wish.
Fred put on the slicker, tied the sweaterabout his neck, and settled himself cross-legged beside her.
She put on the sweaterand Fred helped her to get the clumsy slicker on over it.
The sweater and the slicker will keep me dry, and this will be my chance to find out whether these shoes are really water-tight.
So I pulls on a sweater and climbs in next to the steerin' wheel.
About an hour later, after they'd jollied me into stayin' all night, I puts on a sweater and starts out for some hoof exercise in the young blizzard that was makin' things white outside.
There was my own fur coat which is Northampton to me, and my black sweater which is Bailey's, and my suitcases and myself--all of us dropped into this garret room.
I put on a nice waist and my pink sweater with the gray collar, which I made myself, and my earrings, and Aunt Sarah's ring.
I saw on the street a sweater that I knitted myself last winter.
The hand that had been gripping the sleeve of the pitcher's sweater fell to his side again.
When Don Cort reached the campus he was shivering, in spite of the sweater and topcoat Ed Clark had lent him.
She sat up straight and tucked her sweater tightly into her skirt, emphasizing her good figure.
Did you hear what the one with the red sweater was saying?
The girl in the red sweater said, "My name is Grace Bentley and my friends want me to tell you what a perfectly lovely time we've had.
She grabbed my sweater and beat it, an hour or so ago, and I don't know where she went.
His shoulders drawn together with the chill that struck through even his heavy sweaterand coat, he went on, following the tracks he had made coming down.
She got up, pulled Jack's heavy sweater off a nail in the corner, and went out without another word to him or a look toward him.
When she had reached the line of timber that stood thick upon the slope opposite the basin, he saw Kate, bulky in sweater and coat, come from the cabin and take the trail after Marion.
Coming down stairs on light feet, she threw a red sweater around her shoulders and went out the front door.
Right away, now, if you’re going with me,” and Bill laughed as Patty sat up straight and tied her sweater sash and pretended to get ready to go.
She had on a white summer frock and a silk sweater of an exquisite shade of salmon pink.
Eliot, supported between two of his men and breathing threatenings and slaughter against those who would carry him off, called Graham's name; and with a nervous shiver the negro was out of his sweater in a jiffy.
Frieda could hardly believe her ears when she saw Marjorie actually take off her sweater and start to unfasten her dress.
The sweater would be a weightier matter; it had been a birthday gift from her father.
Mrs. Johnson, apparently the only person in the room, sat in a chair beside the table, knitting a white sweater for Frieda.
The baby's sweaterthat she was making was almost finished.
Ruth saw Frieda wearing it--and yoursweater besides--and she said Frieda stole it!
She selected one of her prettiest dresses--a pale pink voile--and also wore her pink silk sweaterwhich matched it so perfectly.
Here, get your wheel out, strip off your sweater and get around to the track entrance and have your number pinned on.
Jerry grabbed up his chum's wheel, while Ned assisted the lad in pulling his sweater over his head.
It will give us good practice in wheeling in a crowd," observed Jerry as he stripped off his sweater and, in regular racing costume, began to make the circuits.
Constance, with a soft green sweater over her frock, came to meet them.
Over these she wore a white sweater of a very fancy weave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
