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Example sentences for "backwoodsman"

Lexicographically close words:
backwash; backwater; backwaters; backwood; backwoods; backwoodsmen; backyard; backyards; bacon; bacteria
  1. Oh, don't speak in that tone to me," said the backwoodsman to his wife, who had sought to check him.

  2. Who but Jasper would have seen behind the features of that young, sinewy backwoodsman the soul of the leader and liberator?

  3. I, proud of the chance to show I was not a mere backwoodsman at such a sport, capped his aphorism with a line from Shakespeare's Cymbeline.

  4. It could scarcely be thought that such pride should be spent on a little pelt by a mere backwoodsman and his nine-year-old son.

  5. The fact of the great backwoodsman having passed many years of his life there is still remembered with pride by the inhabitants of that region.

  6. The backwoodsman roused himself from his stooping posture and sat glaring at the editor.

  7. Garrulous Old Jim attempted no sarcastic criticism; he rolled his blear eyes in the direction of the backwoodsman and shook his head as if to say, "I give it up.

  8. The equipment of Gerald was soon completed, and with the shot-bag and powder-horn slung over his shoulder, and the long rifle in his hand, he soon presented the appearance of a backwoodsman hastening to the theatre of war.

  9. The backwoodsman of the new States, and the Kentuckians particularly, almost invariably scalp the Indians they have slain in battle.

  10. The backwoodsman was intolerant of men who split hairs, or scrupled over the method of reaching the right.

  11. The solitary backwoodsman wielding his ax at the edge of a measureless forest is replaced by companies capitalized at millions, operating railroads, sawmills, and all the enginery of modern machinery to harvest the remaining trees.

  12. But even this backwoodsman was more than a mere destroyer.

  13. The improved farm machinery made it possible for him to go boldly out on to the prairie and to deal effectively with virgin soil in farms whose cultivated area made the old clearings of the backwoodsman seem mere garden plots.

  14. The simplest backwoodsman knows by experience that all cultivation is impossible in the neighborhood of bogs and marshes.

  15. The vast forests of the United States and Canada cannot long resist the improvident habits of the backwoodsman and the increased demand for lumber.

  16. He greeted the backwoodsman as an old acquaintance, but with a degree of sympathy and compassion in the tone of his salutation which contrasted strangely with his usual rough dry manner.

  17. The backwoodsman made no reply, but his rigid sturdy mien softened, and his eyes, as I thought, glistened with moisture.

  18. Forquer rose to speak as Lincoln sat down, and his smile of derision seemed to show that he expected to demolish with ridicule the backwoodsman from New Salem.

  19. Forgetting his backwoodsman appearance, he rushed forward with others at the close of the speech to express his admiration.

  20. A backwoodsman named Trimble went to Rutledge with credentials from North Carolina, and has gone off to Cherokee Ford to join McCall.

  21. Thar's Mac," cried a backwoodsman who was sitting on the court-house steps as we rode up.

  22. The garrison windows shone like lanterns, and behind these Creole and backwoodsman swung the village ladies in the gay French dances.

  23. The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout.

  24. Hooray for Davy," cried a huge, strapping backwoodsman who stood beside her, and the others laughingly took up the shout.

  25. He was a rough backwoodsman with a wife and a horde of children.

  26. He had always felt the big redheaded backwoodsman could never be hurt.

  27. The shambling backwoodsman held his coonskin cap in his hand as he approached the witness chair.

  28. The backwoodsman seemed attracted to the boy by this very quick and unsophisticated bubbling of candid youth; while the boy most evidently worshipped his older companion as a symbol of the mysterious frontier.

  29. It differed little from others of its kind, save that the cattle were in better shape and the men walking alongside, of the tall, competent backwoodsman type, seemed well and hearty.

  30. In the face of real catastrophe the New Brunswick backwoodsman does not rave and tear his hair.

  31. And when a backwoodsman gets at odds with his bacon, then something has got to be done.

  32. The conversation of the old backwoodsman was both illuminating and amusing.

  33. Lynx and them is holed up, all right," declared the backwoodsman with conviction.

  34. But if the backwoodsman forgot for the moment he was likely to be missin' his scalp-lock, or if he tried to take a holiday it meant his family would go hungry.

  35. And, not many years ago, an old pork-gobbling backwoodsman threw his frying-pan into the river because I had cooked frogs' legs in it.

  36. A dozen able and interesting authors have written books wherein trout, flies and fly-fishing are treated in a manner that leaves an old backwoodsman little to say.

  37. The backwoodsman spat contemplatively, and rolled the question over in his mind.

  38. The subject, in its general aspects, had been well thrashed out between them many times, leaving both firm in their own views; but in the particular instance of Red Fox the backwoodsman felt his position unusually secure.

  39. Three or four times had the backwoodsman turned suddenly, feeling that keen eyes were upon him, and been just in time to catch sight of a red shape fading into the thickets.

  40. The backwoodsman as well as the Boy had a kind of primitive horror of the formal sport of fox-hunting, which seemed to them a regulated and long-drawn cruelty.

  41. The gaunt backwoodsman was persona grata to the bees.

  42. It happened that the tall backwoodsman had a fancy for good fowls.

  43. The physical surroundings of the backwoodsman nourished the non-social elements of his character.

  44. The Indians had not yet retreated so far, nor were their atrocities so remote, that fear of them had ceased;[99] and the eye of the backwoodsman was ever keen for a savage human foe as well as for wild animals.

  45. While his meager crops were coming on, the backwoodsman must supply his family with food from the stream and forest.

  46. The youthful backwoodsman read Blackstone with delight; for this legal classic is the poetry of law, just as Pope is logic in poetry.

  47. Canada lay north, and the tendency of the backwoodsman was to thrust west; among the Southern backwoodsmen, the tendency was south and southwest.

  48. To outsiders the craving of the backwoodsman for whiskey was one of his least attractive traits.

  49. Mr. McCann, who received him, could see the delight of his employers, and his own profit, if he should succeed in taking this fat backwoodsman into camp.

  50. Two hours later, when Peaney entered the lobby of the Mountain House, he saw a very fat, uncouthly dressed backwoodsman talking to Pansy.


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