As is the habit with all woodsmen he watched the match-smoke to detect the direction of the wind.
Some of these preparations would have been an amazement to the white woodsmen of the region,--for instance, the slow cleaning and oiling of their weapons.
No tenderfoot could look at him and again wonder why, in the talk round the camp fire, the tried woodsmen always spoke of the grizzly with respect.
The notion that this is a 'baby food' to be scorned by real woodsmen is nothing but a foolish conceit.
Many and many a time I have watched old and experienced woodsmen spoil their grub, and their tempers, too, by trying to cook in front of a roaring winter campfire, and have marveled at their lack of common sense.
There was a pounce, a screech, a ripping of cloth, a wild yell for help; then the answering shout and rush of two woodsmen with their axes.
So a cache is something hidden, and was applied by these woodsmen to hidden supplies and other articles of value, which could not be carried about, being secreted until the owners should come that way again.
Some years before, vagrant woodsmen had accidentally burned the old house; but the barn, a weathered, gray structure, was still intact.
But the experienced woodsmen who had agreed to go, and who had talked largely of encountering bears and Osage Indians, and slaughtering buffalo, one by one gave out.
Several expert and practiced woodsmen were to have been of this party, but when the time for setting out came all but two failed, under various excuses.
He said that, in this long war, the Chippewas had been gainers of territory, that they were better woodsmen than the Sioux, and were able to stand their ground.
Woodsmen are tough and enduring and in good condition; but no more so than the average college athlete.
Unless three or fourwoodsmen are fearful liars, I do Mr. Clement no injustice.
Most woodsmen own some little ridiculous item of outfit without which they could not be happy.
There were no woodsmen in Lonesome Water cunning enough to follow up his obscure and devious trail.
Even the most experienced of woodsmen may make a slip at times.
And not until the last man had responded did the woodsmen release their hold on the trees.
The lawyer hurried after him, and several woodsmen followed more leisurely.
Woodsmen, went up and woodsmen came down, and mingled with the busy railroad crews.
The woodsmensat jammed so closely about him that he could see only the frosty stars glimmering wanly in the moonlight.
The march was brisk all that day, for the brawny woodsmenfollowed the snowy trail unflaggingly.
Even the calamity that had befallen him was not mentioned except by word of mouth among the woodsmen of the region.
Several passengers disembarked at the end of the carry road, and were received respectfully yet uproariously by the woodsmen who had just arrived in a fresh train-load from the Spinnaker end.
Presently the other boat was seen coming back with ours, and five strange woodsmen stepped ashore, our men pressing around them.
Farrar's profession was forestry: a graduate of an eastern college, he had gone abroad to study, and had roughed it with the skilled woodsmen of the Black Forest.
And one day, to cap the matter, two woodsmen arrived at Harrodstown with clothes frayed and bodies lean from a long journey.
With a boy's sense of such things I knew that the other woodsmen were waiting for him to speak, for they glanced at him expectantly.
Methinks I can see now, as I write, the long file of woodsmen with their swinging stride, planting one foot before the other, even as the Indian himself threaded the wilderness.
Undaunted woodsmen as they were, they were lukewarm, at first, at the idea of this march through the floods.
Polly Ann cooked a piece of a deer which one of the woodsmenhad with him, and the quarrel died of itself when we sat down to this and the johnny-cake.
Christopher received this outburst with his usual placidity--the placidity that only woodsmen have cultivated in its most artistic sense.
I know how old woodsmen look at book-learned chaps, Mr. Ide.
But his eyes shifted, and the keen and candid gaze of the woodsmen detected his paltering.
Among woodsmenthe amenities of a camp are as scant as welcome is plentiful.
There were shouts of welcome when some of the old woodsmen saw Mr. Boone.
Whereas they often took two or three strokes to take off a branch, the skilled woodsmen with one swift, clean cut, lopped off a good thick branch.
It is a common experience of people lost in the woods to lose their heads; and even the woodsmen themselves are not free from this panic when some accident has thrown them out of their reckoning.
Indeed, these two woodsmen were among the most powerful of their class, and well used to all the work which comes on a trip in a wilderness country.
Indeed, the young hunters proved themselves quite good woodsmen enough to follow Alex down the mountain face into the thicket of the plateau.
For some moments the three woodsmen held a low and earnest conversation together, Alice watching them with startled eyes.
The two woodsmensprang instantly to their feet; Annette screamed.
Brown as berries, with muscles like spring-steel, and in the pink of condition, the lads were as well equipped almost as veteran woodsmen to fight the battle of the wilds which lay before them.
It was plain to see that old Joe was prepared to carry out to the letter the law of "an eye for an eye," the only law that woodsmen North of Fifty-three know or care much about.
Thus it was that, though only boys so far as years were concerned, their many adventures had made of Tom and Jack Dacre two woodsmen of unusual competence, considering that they had not been born and bred to the life.
These coats were the sort used by woodsmen and Alaskan miners and explorers.
In the southern logging districts the negrowoodsmen refused to stay on the job because of the cold.
Why, they are the best three woodsmen in North Ameriky, an', fur that, in the hull world.
I therefore dispatched two of my best woodsmen in surch of him, and proceeded with the party.
Some resisted when the woodsmen pushed them half playfully.
It was an orderly little army, woodsmen with meal-sack packs, an incoming crew on its march to the woods.
He had seen "Whispering" Urban Cobb at "The Barracks" in the forenoon, and knew that he had led away a crowd of woodsmen for some purpose of his own.
Take those fifty woodsmen over there as a special posse.
The smile he wore gave the affair the appearance of a lark, and the woodsmen took it in that spirit.
The woodsmen had piled their duffel-bags in corners and were waiting.
The woodsmen of Virginia, veteran hunters and Indian-fighters, were thrown far out in front and on either flank, scouring the forest to detect any sign of a lurking ambuscade.
A few of the best woodsmen were formed into a company, dressed and painted like Indians.
At this period they pass the time in hunting the Moose, the Deer, and the Bear, for the benefit of their wives and children; and as these men are most excellent woodsmen great havoc is made among the game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woodsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
