The wire flashed the word to the West End; everybody at the Wickiup was glad; but Ed Peeto burned red fire and his little dog Sport ate rattlesnakes.
They decided, of course, that Bullhead was asleep, and fixed everything at the Wickiup to send a new man up there on Three in the morning and fire him for good.
Nobody at the Wickiup wanted to hear the telling over at the cottage; nobody wanted to imagine the scene.
What few of the old men in the Wickiup were left looked at Bucks just once and began to arrange their temporal affairs.
Maybe," murmured Bucks, looking through the Wickiup window at the Teton peaks.
Before midnight the switchmen were snug in the yard shanties; in the Wickiup there were the night ticket agent downstairs and the night baggageman.
As the stubby string of freight cars slewed quartering into the lower yard, the startled officials saw them from the Wickiup windows wrapped in a stream of flame.
Blackburn was four years at the Wickiup on the night trick; it wouldn't have seemed natural to see him there in daylight.
Boy-like, I hung around until it was time for Blackburn to take his trick, and then he and Doubleday and I walked over to the Wickiup together.
He acted around the cottage and the Wickiup like a man who has lost something and who looks for it abstractedly--as one might feel in his pockets for a fishpole or a burglar.
The crowd broke, the band marched down the platform and, striking up the "Washington Post," opened ranks on the grass plot above the Wickiup to receive the De Molay guard.
The old Wickiup was decorated till it looked like a buck rigged for a ghost dance.
In twenty minutes twenty men were running as many ways through the storm, and a live engine boomed under the wickiup window.
Only the sounder clicking iron jargon and the thunder shaking the wickiup like a reed filled the ears of the men about him.
It wasn't until I saw the light in our wickiup window and heard Bobs' bay of welcome through the crystal-clear twilight that the leaden weight of desolation slipped off the ledge of my heart.
As for the wickiup itself, it was well-enough built, but lacking in windows and quite unfinished as to the interior.
It's like any other shack where two or three men have been batching--no better and no worse than the wickiup I came to here on my honeymoon.
Having watered his horse and staked him out to feed, he sat down upon a log near the wickiup and ate his cold supper quietly.
Living in a wickiup in the mesquite was the Indian, Tom Weed, who shared with his squaw a passion for liquor.
If it were cold, they burrowed in the blankets of the hut; if it were warm, they followed the shadow of the wickiup around.
The women went into the wickiupand covered their heads with their blankets.
Geronimo started building such a wickiupfor his mother, Alope, and his three children.
His two daughters, ten and five, and his seven-year-old son tried so enthusiastically to help him that the wickiup never would have been built if Alope hadn't taken charge.
I entered his wickiup to speak to him, and he said, 'I am happy to see you once more, Delgadito.
Catching up a burning brand, he fired the wickiup he had shared with Alope, then cast the brand against his mother's house.
Geronimo plunged into his wickiup and sought his store of weapons.
Geronimo sought the wickiup where he had left his family.
Delgadito turned and entered hiswickiup to indicate that Geronimo was dismissed.
Geronimo and Alope, however, built a fine wickiup very near the house of Geronimo's widowed mother.
Then she banished him, as it were, and he built a wickiup of spruce tops, under the shelter of which he piled thick, fragrant billows of "Yukon feathers.
We gleaned that he was alone with his squaw, and had a wickiup down the river a short distance.
Here was his wickiup made of a few cottonwood boughs, and in front of it the ashes of a fire.
The air was cold and he was most uncomfortable, the only shelter being a wickiup of boughs we had built to protect him from the sun.
The campody of Sagharawite, three months later, near the new wickiup of the Arrow-Maker.
A little bank that runs from the wickiup to the toyon bushes is covered with white forget-me-nots.
The wickiup is built in the usual Paiute fashion, of long willows set about a circular pit, bent over to form a dome, thatched with reeds and grass.
CHIEF (Issuing from his wickiup in full holiday dress, blanketed.
In civilization he might have found the wickiup too close to be supportable, but in that raging wilderness, raging then at least, it was snug beyond compare.
The wickiup was abandoned, but they brought much of the jerked meat with them, thinking wisely of their commissariat.
The second night after the wickiup was finished his words came true.
When thunder and lightning subsided somewhat, the hunter and the lad crept into the wickiup and listened to the roaring of the rain as it came.
When they reached Clarke Valley and built their wickiup he had one powerful friend, but now when the Sioux were once more in pursuit, he had two.
The far side of the valley is much the steeper," said the hunter, "and I think it would be a good idea for us to build the wickiup over there.
They slept late the next morning, and when they crawled out of the wickiup they found the sleet packed about an inch deep on the ground.
To provide against contingencies they strengthened the wickiup with another layer of poles, and Boyd spread over the leaves on the floor the skin of a huge grizzly bear that he killed on one of the slopes.
Then the three worked with amazing speed, and by the time the full dark had come the wickiup was done, the skins that they had brought with them being stretched tightly over the poles.
She found that the open area before the wickiup was crowded, and she could not get close.
If Redbird does not welcome you into this wickiup I share with her and Eagle Feather, I cannot invite you inside.
Sun Woman went to the back of the wickiup and came back with a bundle of long, dark red peppers.
Then the shaman went into his wickiup to put the watch in his medicine bundle.
She had collapsed in the wickiup without removing anything.
Owl Carver bade them depart with the good wishes of the tribe, and White Bear and Redbird walked to the new wickiup they had built on the edge of the camp.
Redbird's Wickiup White Bear rowed upstream on the Ioway River past stands of weeping willow whose yellowing fronds drooped into the dark green water.
As he neared the farther edge of the woods, a newly risen half-moon, like a white wickiup in a black field, shone at him through the trees ahead.
They sat facing each other in front of the shaman's wickiup in the center of the British Band's winter camp.
They left the wickiup and she walked through the camp with her eyes on the ground, too frightened, he supposed, to look about her.
Had not Yellow Hair been in the birthing wickiup with Redbird?
Entering the wickiup she saw, silhouetted against the light of the low fire in the center, a figure rising up big as a buffalo, her half brother, Iron Knife.
She gathered up some twigs, brought them into the wickiup and added them to the fire.
She stumbled in the direction all the other people were going--to the medicine wickiup in the center of the camp circle.
He renewed his application and was at length relieved of his comfortable station and ordered into the Wickiup as despatcher's assistant.
Glover, leaving the Wickiup with Morris Blood, ran into Gertrude Brock coming out of an Indian curio-shop with Doctor Lanning.
Glover, buried in drawings and blueprints, was in his office at the Wickiup all day with Manager Bucks and President Brock.
Gertrude, I must go to the Wickiup at once to get further news.
The snow fell all day, but to Gertrude's relief her father and the men of the party were at the Wickiup with Bucks, who had come in during the night with reinforcements from McCloud.
That night the very last rafter in the Wickiup gables rang with his cry.
The head engine whistled again, those in the battery took up the signal, and heeled in snow they bore down on the Wickiup whistling a chorus.
The face in the Lalla Rookh had put an end to thoughts of sleep, and he walked up to his office in the Wickiup to work until morning on his report.
At five o'clock that morning despatchers and night men under the Wickiup gables, sitting moodily around the big stove, sprang to their feet together.
When the car that carried the remains of Abraham Lincoln from Washington to Springfield was dismantled, the Wickiup fell heir to one piece of its elaborate furnishings, the lounge, and the lounge still remains as an early-day relic.
When you leave here tell Bob Scott to meet me at the Wickiup with the horses at eleven o'clock, will you?
The stormy interview with Callahan and Blood at the Wickiup had taken place just a week before, and McCloud, after what Sinclair had then threatened, though not prepared, felt as he saw him that anything might occur.
Barnhardt lost no time in telephoning theWickiup that Sinclair was in town, but within an hour, while the two women were still under the surgeon's protection, a knock at the cottage door gave them a second fright.
The president and general manager were at theWickiup during the afternoon, and left for the East at nine o'clock in the evening, when their car was attached to an east-bound passenger train.
He rode past Smith's room in Fort Street, but the room was dark, and he jogged down to the Wickiup square, where he had been told to meet him.
In the private room of the superintendent, provided as a sleeping apartment in the old headquarters building many years before hotel facilities reached Medicine Bend, stood the only curio the Wickiup possessed--the Lincoln lounge.
Hughie repeated the message to get it letter-perfect; to handle stuff at the Wickiup signed "J.
But did you know that Williams shot down Gordon Smith's only brother, a trainmaster, in cold blood in front of the Wickiup at Medicine Bend?
Had a stick of dynamite been exploded under the Wickiup there could not have been more excitement at Medicine Bend.
Meet him at the Wickiup Sunday morning; he has full authority.
Trainmen were running to and from the Wickiup platform.
There was no talk till they reached the Wickiup office.
At the Wickiup Whispering Smith found McCloud in the office signing letters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wickiup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
