Having eaten and paid for our breakfast, we waited for the teams to come along, and then we concluded to travel with them, as it would give us the appearance of being all right, if we should meet any soldiers on the road.
About four o'clock, teams were brought up to the fence along the road, and we were ordered to load on our traps and get ready to move into camp.
We soon came upon some teams that were camped beside the road, being on their way back from Walhalla to Cherokee County, North Carolina.
This took us half an hour, and I was fearful that we would not reach the house before the teams had got started, and we would be unable to capture the guard.
Dick was about to reply when Corporal McCarthy stopped the teams at the edge of an expanse of ice that had been swept clear of soft snow by water and wind.
No matter what their skill at the bat or in the field may be, their drinking habits, with the demoralizing effect on the teams at large which follows, more than offset the advantage of their alleged ability in the field.
It goes to the credit of the leading teams in the pennant race of 1894 that the first three clubs did better team-work at the bat, and more of it, than any previous trio of the kind known in the annals of the League.
Despite of the costly experience of the past five years in the countenancing of drunkards in the League ranks, we see, this season of 1895, club teams including players notorious for their old drunken habits.
Only two of their contests with the Eastern teams were won by a single run, but they won three games against the Eastern teams by one run.
If the team gets a fairly good start at the beginning of this season he is just as like as not to let several teams chase him under the wire in September next.
About a third of the twelve teams of the League only were controlled by competent team managers, while at least another third were wretchedly managed, and the other third were not above the average in management.
Eastern teams Nichols led Stivetts by the percentage figures of .
In the meantime the two Western teams of Cleveland and Pittsburgh began to lose ground, and by the 21st of June they occupied fifth and sixth positions in the race, Cleveland leading their rivals of Pittsburgh by 13 points.
One such bench must be for the exclusive use of the visiting club, and one for the exclusive use of the home club, and the players of the competing teams shall be required to occupy their respective benches while not engaged in active play.
Main Street was clean again, and so were the farmers and their teams at the hitching-rails; the girls were beginning to wear white at church on Sunday, and to walk about without their hats.
Photograph one of theteams and then on into the boat and to the Bear with the four bags, a box full, part of another bag, and all pockets full of specimens.
There are Eskimos on the beach with dog teams and sledges waiting to cart off what was unloaded from the ship.
Above hung a pale, sickle moon, and down the long slope, over which the harrow-torn furrows ran, lines of men and weary teams were plodding home.
Behind him, a drawn-out line of machines and plodding teams were moving on at measured distances, binder after binder, half-hidden by the tall oats that went down before them with a harsh crackle.
With a great trampling, two other teams came up just then.
There were few broncho teams on the prairie to compare with hers.
The other teams had vanished, and they rode on over the vast shadowy levels alone.
A row of loaded waggons and teamsloomed black against the sunset at the edge of the prairie.
I couldn't give the teams more than an hour's rest, either.
He had a good many teams to be fed, and hay was scarce after the unusually dry spring.
The thresher now expected was an unusually large one, and Gallwey had set out with most of the teams to assist the men in charge of it.
I believe these teams are in the field by six in the morning, and it usually is dark when he comes in again.
The dust settled a little, and, with a clashing tinkle, there came out of it three big teams and lurching machines.
In the meanwhile, she watched the toiling teams coming on across grey grass and golden stubble in echelon.
The teams were doublespanned and the difficulty overcome; the sleds were under way again, the dying dog dragging herself along in the rear.
Dog-teams carried the news to Salt Water; golden argosies freighted the lure across the North Pacific; wires and cables sang with the tidings; and the world heard for the first time of the Klondike River and the Yukon Country.
The teams got started early in the afternoon, but the road was rough and the horses had to walk all the way.
The road was crowded with farmers' teams heading for Toronto, Jabez knew them all and they all knew him.
The pontoon teams did not arrive until late in the evening of the twenty-fifth, when they were loaded, ready for an early start next morning.
On the eighteenth teams went to the levee and remained until five a.
July 14th and 15th baggage and teams were unloaded from the steamer.
The first quarter ended with neither side making a score, and there was a consultation on both teams during the little breathing spell.
The teams gathered in a knot at either end of the field for a last consultation.
But both teams had been forced to call on more substitutes, and Harvard lost her best punter.
An exchange of punts followed, both teamshaving good kickers that year.
The old road was through the Shaker village and contained grades which rendered it impossible for teams to draw any but the lightest loads.
The people seem to appreciate the economy of good hard highways over which teams can draw big loads without undue fatigue.
For miles and miles and miles one can travel boulevards upon which no trafficteams are allowed.
Ten wagons were left behind, it being needful to drive back, over the roaring channel, some of the doubled heavy teams for them.
One by one the teams were urged into the ticklish crossing.
There were bold souls and weak, strong teams and weak, heavy loads and light loads, neighbor groups and coteries of kindred blood or kindred spirits.
But hurry as he might, his overdriven teamswere no match for the tireless desert horse, the wiry mountain mount and the hardy mules of the tidy little pack train of Banion and his companion Jackson.
One or two teams made off at a run into the desert.
Then hook up all the teams you can and move down to the ford.
Slow, swaying, stately, the ox teams came on, as though impelled by and not compelling the fleet of white canvas sails.
The teams did not hasten, did not abate their speed, but moved in an unagitated advance that gave the massed column something irresistibly epochal in look.
It came near to mutiny when Banion ordered a third of his men to stay back with the ox teams and the families.
They said good mule teamsought not to take the dust of ox wagons.
He led off again at last, after theteams were doubled and the loads had been piled high as possible to keep them dry.
Then 'Zekiel was of the opinion that Abbott Smith and Billy Ricker had better board with Hiram and Mandy, because the grocery teams and horses would have to be kept in the Pettengill barn, as there was no stable to the grocery store.
As early as eight o'clock teamsbegan to arrive from north, east, south, and west.
One of the teams from Montrose brought the auctioneer, Mr. Beers, with whom Strout was acquainted.
On the tenth of April, Strout & Maxwell's two heavy teams went over to Eastborough Centre and returned about noon heavily loaded, followed by three other teams from the Centre equally well filled.
The crowd gradually increased, quite a number coming in teams from Montrose and from Eastborough Centre.
The new railroad has probably popularized itself from the outset by hiring the near-by farmers and their teams to grade the line through their localities, particularly where an almost level country makes the grading a slight matter.
It was erected in a day when the railroad was just graduating from the use of teams of horses as motive-power.
For ten years after the opening of the line in 1834, the horse-teams of private freight haulers alternated upon the tracks between steam locomotives hauling trains.
She got into her coat and buttoned it about her hurriedly; and then drawing the cap over her head, she waited, expectantly, although she was sure that time sufficient had expired, whoever drove the teams had not come toward the house.
On the land he was having broken (for he had teams breaking prairie in addition to the tractor) he had arranged to sow flaxseed.
The storm that had come over him had spent its force and he kissed her, turned then, went to where his teams stood, got into the front wagon, and looking back, drove upon his way.
A prairie fire," he cried apprehensively, and urged his teams forward toward Dallas.
When Jean had watered and fed his teams he came back to where the Elder stood and said: "Well, Judge, we'll go in to dinner.
Teams strained at heavy loads of gravel and cement.
I can commandeer some of the teams down here, and some men, and they'll all throw in together and help you build an extra cabin.
As teams are never able to haul the loaded wagons over this region of loose sand, we engaged an atajo of mules at El Paso, upon which to convey our goods across.
Some of our cattle being in good plight, and able, as we were, to spare a few from our teams, we made beef of them when urged by necessity: an extra advantage in ox teams on these perilous expeditions.
A barter of five mules was immediately concluded {23} upon, much to our advantage, as our teams were rather in a weak condition.
In 1903 a series of international matches between teams of six was inaugurated in Paris.
English fencers who were members of these international teams were Lord Desborough, Theodore A.
The visits paid to the United States by athletic teams of the L.
A first-class match takes three days to play, and even a match between two teams of small boys requires a long half-holiday.
Undoubtedly the American teams go through a much more prolonged and rigid system of training, and their scheme of tactics, codes of signals, and sharp devices of all kinds are much more complicated.
Brown, Track Captain of the University of California, asserted, on his return from a visit to the Eastern States, that Harvard was the only Eastern university in which the members of the athletic teams were all bonâ fide students.
Regular meetings take place between theteams of various athletic associations, records are made and chronicled, and championships decided.
Many of these teams are of a plainness, not to say shabbiness, which would make an English owner too shamefaced to exhibit them in public.
In a few days the stench was fearful, and the citizens had to send to all the country around for teams to drag away the dead animals, which were strewn along the roads for miles.
Later, after some experience, they were disposed to bring with them their household goods and the teams and wagons of their former masters.
Later it developed to a higher grade: the tenant furnished teams and farming implements, and the planter the rest, in which case the planter received a third of the cotton, and a fourth of the corn raised.
However, he said that he had found enough to employ two teams the next winter in a place where there was thought to be none left.
The ox teams were fresh and made good time, the drivers were capable and jolly, and there was plenty of food.
It was not with very good grace that the Mexicans got their ox teams ready.
The method of procedure was to assign them in teams of two each, to remove the earth from around a lot of stumps to the width and depth of about eighteen inches.
The rest of us set out on a good long walk, indulging the hope other teams would surely meet and relieve us somewhere on the road.
Then he hitched teams to them and went north to Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas and kept going until he had sold the wagons and teams, keeping one wagon and team, with which to return home.
The father borrowed two teams and wagons, rented a house in the edge of town, and moved the family in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teams" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
