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Example sentences for "yeggmen"

Lexicographically close words:
yeers; yees; yeez; yegg; yeggman; yeggs; yeh; yeild; yeilded; yeilding
  1. The girl, too, drew nearer, while the two yeggmen rose and stood in rigid silence by the window.

  2. When are them yeggmen gonna send Marc Anthony up to Cleopatra?

  3. One afternoon I see Scanlan and Miss Vincent whisperin' together like yeggmen outside a postoffice.

  4. By investigating the case a little further before actually starting out upon it, Nick discovered that the yeggmen had carried their depredations even into whole villages.

  5. Roughly speaking, there was a stretch of main line of the railroad over which, or rather along which, the yeggmen seemed to be most active.

  6. These yeggmen do not confine themselves to breaking into freight cars and stations along the line of the road.

  7. Yeggmen are as cautious and as careful about what they do in the lonely places among their brethren as the cave man used to be in primitive times.

  8. It is not the fashion among yeggmen to welcome an addition to their party, no matter whether that addition is composed of one or of many.

  9. Sometimes the yeggmen traveled in small groups; sometimes they worked in twos or threes, but often they went about in large bands which had been known to include as many as fifty or even more.

  10. We opened the bag, and guessed that the tools must have been thrown away by some yeggmen who were making a bolt across country for the Canada border," remarked Thad, as the three officers sat down close to the fire to warm their hands.

  11. If they turned out too heavy for the fleeing yeggmen to keep, think of how you'll suffer.

  12. And they suddenly remembered what had been said only a short time before, about the dangerous yeggmen coming back again on this night.

  13. Perhaps, as somebody said only a little while back, this leader of the sprinting yeggmen has himself been camping here one or more times in the past, and he knows the trails of the woods around here.

  14. Of course in searching the two yeggmen there had been found the proceeds of their recent robbery, in the shape of packages of bills, and some gold.

  15. Whatever did them yeggmen want carryin' hard mud around with 'em, I wonder?

  16. The afternoon was wholly before them, and who could tell what change of plans the two yeggmen might make before the coming of the night?

  17. If we're going to take on this dangerous job of looking up yeggmen who have broken into a bank, and looted it, why, it seems to me we ought to make a little preparation.

  18. That is something most yeggmen would find a pretty hard proposition, don't you say, Frank?

  19. But possibly Andy on his part was hoping secretly that by spying around they might be able in some way to learn where the yeggmen had hidden the plunder they had taken from the looted Bloomsbury bank.

  20. He felt that they could surely afford to linger for some time, if there was any chance of learning whether the yeggmen meant to change their plans, or proceed to carry out their original scheme.

  21. Then I'll have to run for it, and I'll be hanged if I'll run from all the yeggmen in the State of Maine!

  22. Seems to me that this part of Maine has become a favorite tramping ground for yeggmen and post office robbers," said a man in white flannels, with a tennis racquet in one hand and two tennis balls in the other.

  23. That would be just what these two yeggmen were apt to do, you see.

  24. The game we had last Saturday was sure a corking sight; The Yeggmen beat the Grafters, but the Grafters made them fight.

  25. The Yeggmen lead the league just now--that team is full of tricks; They beat the Con Men yesterday by seventeen to six.

  26. Simply that we are two newspaper men looking for an article, without names, dates, or places--just a good story of yeggmen and tramps.

  27. And all this time he was the leader of the most dangerous band of yeggmen in the country.

  28. I have heard that several loose pearls which may or may not be yours have been offered for sale by a man on the Bowery who is what the yeggmen call a 'fence.

  29. He had varied his regular rounds because of the recent depredations of motor-car yeggmen who had timed him in pulling off several jobs lately.

  30. Rumor had it that certain hard characters at one time made their headquarters somewhere up in the woods around the lakes, and who could say that the lone cabin might not prove to be a nest of yeggmen or hoboes?

  31. Simply that we are two newspaper men looking for an article, without names, dates, or places - just a good story of yeggmen and tramps.

  32. A loud series of hoarse shouts from down the track told that the pair of yeggmen had caught sight of them.

  33. Yeggmen now is it, and not just poor game poachers?

  34. If you asked me point-blank what my opinion was, I'd say that he might be a game warden playing a part, or else an officer of the law, looking for yeggmen who have done something that they knew would send them to prison if caught!


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yeggmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.