To prevent the chance of any such disagreeable occurrences, knock an old barrel to pieces and build yourself a supply of toboggans with the staves.
Toboggans and sleds are not always used on snow and ice, neither is coasting confined to winter weather.
The difference between the two toboggans was very marked.
If this was true, Ralph had done rather a mean thing; for although not expressly stipulated, it was generally understood that the toboggans to be used in the contest were such as they already had, and not new ones imported for the purpose.
It is doubtful if the Indian way of making toboggans can be much improved upon, although within the past few years pale-face ingenuity has been exerted toward that end.
With every eye upon them, Ralph and Theo drew theirtoboggans into position.
As if shot from a bow the two toboggans leaped over the bluff and went rattling down the smooth slope side by side and head to head.
The peculiarity of the new toboggansconsists in narrow hard-wood slats being used instead of the broad, thin boards, and screws in place of gut lashings.
A device is employed for drawing the toboggans back to the starting point.
Toboggans and ski can be rented for use here or at the Lake.
The conditions were different from those in Arctic travel, and the recent fall of light snow negatived any attempt to move toboggans through it successfully.
There remained now nothing for us to do but to toboggan down the mountain, and we overcame our resolution not to do so far enough to go and look at the toboggans under the guidance of our head-waiter.
We met many toboggan men who needed to be "strongs mans" in their ascent of our track, with their heavy toboggans on their heads; but some of them did not look strong, and our own arrived spent and panting at the bottom.
We might enough toboggans find In town, perhaps, of every kind, If some one chanced to know where they Awaiting sale are stowed away.
But trouble, as you understand, Oft moves with pleasure, hand in hand, And even Brownies were not free From evil snag or stubborn tree That split tobogganslike a quill, And scattered riders down the hill.
Said one, "It seems that all the rage, With human kind of every age, Is on toboggans swift to slide Down steepest hill or mountain side.
The supplies had been carefully calculated for the journey, the toboggans were already loaded, and we waited but a break in the cold weather to start.
We should have had a toboggan, but toboggans are little used on the Koyukuk, and we had only our sled.
We were able to replenish our grub supply and also to exchange our two toboggans for one large sled, for we were out of the toboggan country again and they had already become a nuisance, slipping and sliding about on the trail.
Whilst engrossed with this thought, a long train of sledges and toboggans passed her.
She stopped to watch thetoboggans flying down the road.
They were up there, all of them, early in the afternoon, George and Young Joe Warren driving one of the Warren horses hitched to a sleigh, and drawing a string of toboggans after.
Watching Young Joe's daring feat, the boys saw him make the descent and speed along the level, until he reached the spot where the toboggans usually stopped.
Must get a good place for fish and caribou and then freeze up, make snowshoes and toboggans and moccasins and go.
Our toboggans being so rimey to-day, and very often scraped the rime off so as it wouldn't draw so hard.
Stormy to-day and snowing very hard, and our toboggans so heavy we could not get on at all, and had to leave our loads and walk empty to the post.
The men must keep busy to look after them properly, and so, after a Sunday's rest together they again separate and are away on their snowshoes hauling their toboggans after them.
The Indians had recently made a killing, and their toboggans were loaded with fresh caribou meat.
Large as some of the toboggans were they were also light and easily carried, some capable of holding a half-dozen girls--"packed close.
When the loads were firmly lashed on, the toboggans were tipped over to prevent the dogs from running away, and taking the light rifle the two went to the tree beneath which Leloo sat looking up into the glaring yellow eyes of the lynx.
The loaded toboggans were tipped on edge, one along either side, and the heavy canvas shelter tarp was stretched over these and weighted down by doubling its edges under the toboggans.
Both of the toboggans and dog teams were to be taken to haul home the meat, and provisions for a week's trip were loaded.
Heads appeared at the doors of various dwellings, and a little knot of Indians gathered at the top of the bank, where they waited, staring stolidly until two heavily loaded toboggans came to a halt at the foot of the steep bank.
Despite the fact that there was more snow on the eastern slope, the two soon found it insufficient to check the toboggans upon the series of steep pitches and long slopes they now encountered.
Here, carryalls for the riders and long sleighs for the toboggans awaited us to take all back again to repeat the sport.
Off our toboggans sped, one after another, down the mountain, crackling and whistling over the snow, giving each and all a vivid pleasure in the swift, exhilarating ride.
He perceived the essential usefulness of dogs and snowshoes and toboggans in that boundless region of snow.
Canoes when the ice went out, dogs and toboggans when winter came again to lock tight the waterways.
The games captains surveyed the course, and pronounced it ready, and directly after lunch a procession of girls might have been seen wending their way from the house, dragging toboggans in their wake, and chattering merrily together.
Five minutes later, with a rush and a whoop the first toboggans came flying down the slope.
The progress of dragging toboggans to the top of an incline is always uninteresting, and never takes place without an accompaniment of grumbling, in which, we may be sure, the Hurst Manor girls were in no way behind.
Making Skis and Toboggans [3] During the winter months everyone is thinking of skating, coasting or ski running and jumping.
Instead of plunging through the snow, before they reached the hotel their footsteps went crisply on the crackly crust, and the steel runners of their trailing toboggans sang like tea-kettles as they slid over the re-frozen surface.
Others, by the aid of the puffy railway, mount to the top of the hills above the town, and spend enraptured days in sliding down again on toboggans to the village of Klosters.
Some of our men had to go down the river with hand-sleds or toboggans to get food for their famishing families.
Frequently had those settlers to go from fifty to one hundred miles with hand sleds or toboggans through wild woods or on the ice to procure a precarious supply for their famishing families.
But it kept me prisoner till the last of the toboggans had been taken out--I only hope it hasn't made us too late!
I caught him tampering with the toboggans at five o'clock this morning!
Bob lashed his tent, cooking utensils, some traps and a supply of provisions upon one of two toboggans that leaned against the tilt outside.
February was drawing to a close when one day Sishetakushin, Mookoomahn and two other Indians packed their toboggans preparatory to going on an excursion.
In the final distribution of supplies among the tilts, long, narrow Indian toboggans were brought into service, and the loads hauled upon the toboggans.
They had just got the tent up and a roaring fire in the stove when Amesbury and Ahmik came for toboggans upon which to haul the meat to camp.
On New Year's morning Amesbury and Ahmik visited the Indian encampment, and with little difficulty secured from their Indian friends two light toboggans for Paul and Dan to use in the transportation of their equipment.
Paul explained in detail, as they returned to the cabin to get their toboggans upon which to haul in the carcasses, his afternoon's adventure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toboggans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
