The peones, arrieros, and wagoners were posted behind the galeras, so as to be sheltered from the balls of the besieged.
Intuitively, the ring formed by the arrieros and wagoners had extended itself, and a large space was left open in the middle of the room.
The worthy corporal, when he saw the arrieros and wagoners go off, and that Don Leoncio had abandoned his brother with the greater number of peones, did not attempt to deceive himself as to his own position.
One method of their operation was described in a Georgia newspaper item of 1828 which related that two wagoners upon meeting a slave upon the road persuaded him to lend a hand in shifting their load.
The tidings of the defeat preceded him, borne by the wagoners who had mounted their horses, on Braddock's fall, and fled from the field of battle.
The wagonerstook each a horse out of his team and fled.
The wagons in question had to be impressed, and the wagoners compelled by force to assist.
Imboden had his cavalry and in addition seven hundred wagoners organized into companies and headed by commissaries, quartermasters, and several wounded officers.
McNeill’s Partisan Rangers came to the aid of the wagoners down by the river.
Among the wagoners and rustics who made up the greater number, I saw two or three heads of a superior cast--unmistakable Czechish heads--in marked contrast to the rest.
This day, when I was three or four miles from home, in a very solitary part of the swamps, I heard the sound of bells, similar to those which wagoners place on the shoulders of their horses.
I could not at first imagine what river this could be; but another of the wagoners inquired how far it was to the Edisto, to which it was replied by some one that it was near thirty miles.
Teamsters and wagonersleave their charge and rush to the rear.
At noon of that day a number of wagoners and packhorse-drivers had come to Dunbar's camp with wild tidings of rout and ruin.
As the wounded men were carried to the rear, the wagoners about the camp took their guns and powder-horns, and joined in the fray.
The Colonel was vexed because everything was out of joint in the department of transportation: wagoners mutinous for want of pay; ordnance stores, camp-kettles, and provisions left behind.
The wagoners who escaped the evening before had reached the camp about midnight, and reported that there was a war-party on the road near Fort Lyman.
If there was anything worse than a prairie road in the spring, these wagoners had yet to learn of it.
The triumphant wagoners of the muddier portions of the trail, whose oxen had caused them to exult by the way they had out-pulled the mules in every mire, now became thoughtful and lost their levity.
Time after time the stupid beasts barely were kept from crashing blindly into the train, and the wagoners had the most trying and tiring day of the whole journey.
During the night the wagoners arose several times to change the picket stakes of their animals, hoping by this and by lengthened ropes to make up for the scantiness of the grass.
No longer was there any need to freight buffalo meat to the wagons; for so many of the animals were killed directly ahead that the wagoners only had to check their teams and help each other butcher and load.
Finally, enraged by being left behind, the stubborn wagoners remembered one of the reasons advanced by the captain the day before when he had urged them to cross over and complete the corral.
They had their watch for nothing, and while they doggedly kept their eyes on the two plainsmen, Uncle Joe and his two wagoners were busy on the other side of the camp, stowing merchandise in the wagons and making false packs.
Wagoners whipped their tired teams into the best speed they could give and the clatter and screeching of the rumbling wagons filled the air as they raced around into the circular formation.
While they discussed matters pertaining to the caravan, and ran bullets, listening to the gossip of the smith's customers, they saw Uncle Joe and his two wagoners driving his mules toward the shop to have them re-shod.
They drew rein and waited for the crawling column to pass them, smiling and nodding in reply to the cheerful salutations of the wagoners and traders.
In summer many wagoners carried their own cooking utensils.
Many of the wagoners hung bells of a shape much similar to dinner bells on a thin iron arch over the hames of the harness.
It was for the great wagons and their wagoners to haul over the mountains and distribute throughout the west the products of mill and factory and the rich harvests of the fields.
Immediately after leaving Norfolk, and travelling in the woods where there was little accommodation for travellers, we had every night seen bivouacs of wagoners or emigrants, moving to the western states--the backwoods.
Hearing such hideous sounds proceeding from the outer darkness, the wagoners thought that the whole Pawnee nation were about to break in and take their scalps.
Conversation became general, and it was evident that the wagoners shared the sentiments of the landlord and his wife with regard to Mr. Dunn.
The landlady, after a curious glance at the cook, withdrew to serve a couple of wagoners who had drawn up at the door.
The wagoners will be paid and guarded the same as military convoys, and drafted as required.
Consequently, military posts are spaced out around Paris, up to eighteen leagues off, on all the highways; permanent patrols in correspondence with each other to urge on the wagoners and draft relays of horses on the spot.
The wagoners and drivers who manned this fleet on wheels were men of a type that finds no parallel except in the boatmen on the western rivers who were almost their contemporaries.
Thomas Gore was one of the first wagoners on the road, and a regular.
Charles Guttery, who recently died at an advanced age in Beallsville, Washington county, Pennsylvania, was one of the best known and most esteemed old wagoners of the road.
Samuel Acklin followed Taylor in the old tavern at Malden, and was favored with a large patronage, consisting mainly of wagoners and drovers.
Old wagoners and stage drivers spread its fame, but railroad conductors are silent as to its memory.
To gain the wagon yard going west, old wagoners ascended a steep grade, but on the other side the way was level.
Many old wagoners wore a curious garment called a hunting shirt.
The old wagoners were invariably invited to participate in these festivities, and engaged in them with a gusto not excelled by the lads and lasses of the surrounding neighborhood.
The May Pole, however, was the favorite tavern of the old wagoners of the National Road.
Wagoners drove in all kinds of weather and the descent of a mountain or large hill was often attended with great danger, especially when it was covered with ice.
Wagoners cared little for style but demanded an abundance while the stage-coach passengers demanded both.
The wagoners generally stopped at a wayside inn which was less expensive than at the inns in the villages.
I have a convoy of provisions for the garrison at Breda, and my wagoners are even now growing impatient, I doubt not.
He saw the whole of the little town before him, smoke rising from the chimneys; he overtook a few carts slowly wending towards the market, and heard the wondering exclamations of the wagoners as his blood-flecked steed flashed by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wagoners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
