The charge of $5 per ton seems now a pretty stiff rate, but teamsters in those days sometimes charged $12 per ton for the same haul, although the usual charge was $6.
When the road reached a point ten miles out from the Columbia it began to haul wheat, the teamsters being glad to avoid the long, hard pull over the sandy roads.
At a corner saloon teamsters stopped to have their drinking cans filled with beer and stood about swearing and shouting.
The officials of the city, having decided to startle the striking teamsters by a display of force, sent a regiment of state troops marching through the streets.
For a week there had been a strike of teamsters in the city and that afternoon there had been a riot.
By dint of perseverance, using a good many threats and some motions, I succeeded in having the breakfast made ready; which, having been accomplished, the teamsters were called in to enjoy it.
The teamsters had not fared so well, and, as soon as I returned, they requested me to make arrangements for their breakfast.
While the teamsters were eating, a squad of soldiers came through the yard, with about thirty geese that they had confiscated.
Neither stream nor spring was close at hand, and with characteristic improvidence the teamsters had failed to fill their water-barrels at the stockade before starting.
In a short time I experienced a sensation akin to that of being guillotined, and sitting bolt upright, found the teamsters in the soundest of Lethean conditions.
The profanity of the teamsters was painfully apparent.
Riders or teamsters coming from the field, were beset with inquiries; but in the main they knew nothing.
Occasionally a trunk or projecting branch stopped the wagons, when the teamstersopened the way with their axes.
Along the sides of the bridge many of the wounded were washing their wounds in the water, and the cries of the teamsters echoed weirdly through the trees that grew in the river.
The teamsters climbed into the saddles, and shouted to their nags, whipping them the while.
The sulphurous little demon was, as the miners and teamsters estimated, "only two sizes bigger than a full-grown jack-rabbit.
The teamsters lashed their horses and tried to get away, but many cut the traces and abandoned their loads.
When you have sent the fighting-men up, see that the teamsters move all the waggons to the highest piece of ground you can find in the valley.
The teamstershad taken their station on the outside waggons, and continued to talk and shout to the oxen, exhorting these to be patient and quiet, as if the animals were capable of understanding every word they said.
The teamsters were not averse to boiled duck and broth for breakfast, and the two billies were soon steaming on the camp-fire, while the company yarned and smoked.
As many of the teamsters of the commissary train desired to return to the States, they were sent to drive for us, and our teamsters were taken to supply their places, the Sixth Infantry being under orders to proceed to Oregon.
We remained in camp on account of about fifty teamsters of the commissary train striking for higher wages.
Some teamsterswere discharged and others engaged in their places.
One of the teamsters of the ox-train gazed with wild astonishment at our harmless forge, and asked at last, "Are you going to take only one cannon with you?
This afternoon three companies of volunteers passed our camp en route for the States; they were composed, we were informed, of the teamsters who came out last fall and winter.
Many changes were made in the personnel of the teamstersand other employees.
The teamsters took them to be Yankees, and the wildest stampede ensued.
The teamsters and wagon attachees ran in every direction, crazy with fright.
At the worst places the teamsters would halt and throw together stones or branches of trees to fill the angle in the rock, then mounting, a whoop and a crack of the whip was the signal for the team to dash at the obstacle.
It was an easy and picturesque ride for us who were well mounted, but a wearing labor and strain for the teamsters and their animals.
One of our tired forage trains had gone into park near us, and the teamsters offered to share their supper with us.
The teamsters thought they would be doing humanity a service if they killed a redskin, on the ancient principle that "the only good Indian is a dead one.
Teamsters for miles around had been engaged to transport the outfit across the island to Erastina, the site chosen for the exhibition.
Two of the men Will recognized as discharged teamsters from Lew Simpson's train, and from his knowledge of their longstanding weakness he assumed, correctly, that he had thrust his head into a den of horsethieves.
Next morn we wakened with the shout Of merry voices high and clear; And saw the teamsters drawing near To break the drifted highways out.
But his gang of teamsters wanted him and his handspike, so he went on.
The teamsters camped near Park City for several days, but do not appear to have begun work immediately, and while there were joined by another party, a man named Emerson, who seems to have been a pal and an accomplice of Welcome's.
Dan Dalzell was sent to the road to instruct the teamsters to drive in at the point which young Prescott mentioned.
The two wagons were unloaded of a host of things, after which the teamsters started, at once, to erect the portable houses.
Everything is in the greatest confusion here; a thousand laborers and teamsters are employed to manage teams, take care of animals and stores, and load and discharge lighters.
The two teamsters seemed to cheer up at this, and nodded their heads.
At the Central Bank Building, two striking teamsters accosted Billy and took him away with them.
Eight of our men was pulled, an' a dozen of the Frisco teamsters that's come over to help.
Billy and Saxon did their little marketing together, then separated at the corner, Saxon to go on to the house and prepare supper, Billy to go and see the boys--the teamsters who had fought on in the strike during his month of retirement.
But now the Frisco teamsters and the whole Frisco Water Front Confederation is liable to back us up.
Billy's wages were cut, along with the wages of all the teamsters in Oakland.
Whereupon the carpenters, structural ironworkers and teamsters walked out; and Billy, lacking train fare, spent the rest of the day in walking home.
D'ye want to know what the Frisco teamsters did in the big strike before the Earthquake?
The teamsters' strike, backed financially by the teamstersof San Francisco and by the allied unions of the San Francisco Water Front Confederation, promised to be long-drawn, whether or not it was successful.
Very cautiously, in the next half hour, Saxon tried to feel out her husband's attitude, to find if he doubted the rightness of the violence he and his brotherteamsters committed.
Hallheimer stood on the road talking with the two teamsters who were helping with the moving.
The teamsters were kept busy, for the horses found their load heavy to pull.
One of the teamsters muttered to the other: "There he comes, the old hardhead.
When he again took note of his surroundings, they had gone quite a distance downward, and he called out quickly to the teamsters to stop and let him get off.
Stephen Fausch's horses and wagon started, and the teamsters ran alongside.
Never allow teamsters or drivers to tie knots in straps of any kind with a view to shortening them.
He was a glary-eyed man named Rejack, who treated his horses with a kindness rare among teamsters and was consequently considered a simpleton by his crew.
Rejack barked orders and waved his arms as teamsters jumped around frantically, trying to quiet down the horses and unhook the harness of those that were down.
Teamsters and drummers and such have been complaining.
Soldiers detailed as teamstersand black smiths would also enter the corral, the former with ropes to serve as halters, the latter with branding irons and a fire to keep the irons heated.
This would bring the mule to the ground, when he was seized and held by the teamsterswhile the blacksmith put upon him, with hot irons, the initials "U.
Their drivers were all teamsters by the time they got through.
In the darkness and uproar Hooker's teamsters became frightened and deserted their teams.
Its teamsters take their siesta, reposing in full confidence.
The fallen deserved their fate--all, save the teamsters of the caravan, and those Texans who on Pecan Creek succumbed to the Comanche spears.
The teamsters continued to straggle in and out, and, just as the boy was about to lock the office and go to supper, Saginaw returned.
No one but teamsters gits up at this time of night--you got an hour to sleep yet.
Me an' Saginaw's goin' to slip out an' see that the teamsters gits their oats without lettin' no I.
In the field and on the Staunton road all was commotion; wagons with their teams moving in double column up the road, negro teamsters clamouring with ashen looks, "Dose damn Yanks!
Steve gathered that there were teamsters who wished to turn and go back to Strasburg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teamsters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
