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Example sentences for "hogback"

Lexicographically close words:
hoes; hoff; hofficer; hog; hogans; hogged; hogges; hoggie; hogging; hoggish
  1. However, the vote was not recalled, and the iron railing is now in a course of fabrication over at the Hogback Forge, which happens unluckily to be owned by Stephen P.

  2. Iron-master, and proprietor of the Hogback Furnace--a man who in spite of his adherence to the dangerous doctrines of the Whigs, has arisen from poverty to wealth by his own exertions.

  3. We're in the neck of a little hogback draw that goes on down to the big canyon.

  4. Do you know a little sand creek in the hogback called Dry Valley?

  5. But the gist of it is this: You know these hogback hills--how they seem to be made up of all the geological odds and ends left over after the mountains were built.

  6. Ef she got out of the canyon and climbed up on the hogback she'll be all right; she'll soon find out she can't make no progress in this mist and darkness.

  7. Kirkby would certainly see the cloudburst coming and he would take the people with him in the camp up on the hogback near it.

  8. He loosed the horses from their pickets and started them up the steep trail that led down from the hogback to the camp by the water's edge.

  9. To the left, under the towering peaks of the divide, the rounded crest of the hogback was discernible, and a black spot marked the location of Mannix's automobile.

  10. The boy mounted and led the other two horses down the hogback in the scanty timber to the head of the grade.

  11. On the hogback he began to take advantage of the screen of timber on the lower side of the road, and to ride more cautiously.

  12. In the direction of the hogback he could see nothing.

  13. Now you want me to go chasing up to the hogback to head him off.

  14. There the man in the slicker and his companion joined him, mounted, and the trio rode quickly along the hogback in a southerly direction and disappeared on a blind rail into the forest.

  15. So it was past noon when he finally reached the hogback where the outstanding event of the morning had taken place.

  16. Then, as he reached the south end of the hogback where the trail left the road and cut straight across to the mine, two horsemen broke from the timber, and Rathburn reined in his horse as the guns which covered him glinted.

  17. At a point almost directly below the ridge where the man and horse stood, it crossed a small hogback and descended a steep slope between lines of jack pines, disappearing in the timber farther down.

  18. As if in answer to his question the third member of the party, evidently a boy, led the horses a short way up the hogback where a good view could be obtained of the road in both directions.

  19. But Sautee's answer was drowned in the roar of the motor as he sped up the road toward the hogback and the mine.

  20. The gaze of the man on the ridge was concentrated on the bit of road which showed on the hogback and the slope beyond.

  21. He lit out through town for the road to the hogback and the pass over the mountains.

  22. But when he looked down toward the hogback he saw a car coming up the road toward the mine.

  23. But the watcher evidently was not so much concerned with the approach of the truck as with certain movements which were in progress on the hogback at the head of the grade.

  24. He saw that the automobile from the hogback had reached the village.

  25. After getting to the top, this trail followed a hogback for about a mile south, then, rounding the head of another break to the east, it struck straight east, going down the river about two miles from it.

  26. With a hatchet, rawhide, and a few nails, we patched up the tongue and reach of the wagon; got it back upon the hogback by driving to the mouth of the gully.

  27. The trail to Hogback Mountain was steep and flinty.

  28. Several monuments of the tenth century Norse colony are to be found in the district, such as the Hogback Stone in West Kirby Museum, and the gravestone bearing the wheel-shaped head.

  29. Then the Hogback stones have to be placed.

  30. The "summit" is high above timber-line, and when the trail has reached it it does not descend immediately but pursues a hogback ridge for a mile and a half at about the summit level.

  31. That boy, he's always snatching time to sit out here on the top of old Hogback Hill, watching buzzards sail, crows flap, and how the lark gives a little spring when she sails up into the sky.

  32. That crazy boy's always rigging himself up in something like this, and having the kids from the village pull him off down that bare slope of old Hogback Hill.

  33. Her slow progress while being dragged to the brow of Hogback Hill gave him a chance to study her every line.

  34. Behind and above rose the long hogback that formed the north wall of the canon.

  35. Knowing that the hogback hid all the country beyond the view of those in the canon, Thady Shea had waited until Dorales had ridden down into the canon, then had come on with Thomas Twofork.

  36. So he climbed the long hogback and settled down to smoke and watch the road that wound down from the canon toward the lava beds, the road that led into the world.

  37. He looked up at the long hogback which closed in those five persons, shutting out all the rest of the world like a vast door of rock.

  38. She looked up, beyond Abel Dorales, above Abel Dorales, at the line of the hogback that cleaved across the hot blue sky.

  39. The localities are Scott’s creek, Webster, and Hogback mountain.

  40. The zone seems to pass around the southern base of Hogback mountain, thence across the Blue Ridge into Transylvania, making its appearance, as has been noted, on Boylston creek.

  41. Then the main body of the herd, with Sims at its head, the dogs flanking and Bud bringing up the rear on horseback, moved silently out toward the unknown hazards of the hogback pass.

  42. No longer the friendly loom of the hogback was on his left.

  43. I seen the confab from over on that hogback yonder.

  44. Now the dark wall of the hogback rose up on Larkin's left; the last of the flock was behind shelter.

  45. There was no fissure-vein, no great mother lode leading off through the country for miles; only a hogback of black quartz and then worlds and worlds of desert as barren as wash boulders could make it.

  46. They did not strike out boldly up some hogback or canyon but at every fork and bend they turned this way and that, as if he were hopelessly lost.

  47. VI They climbed up on one of the hogback rocks some ten yards from shore.

  48. They scrambled over the hogback and slid down its farther side.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hogback" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    chine; col; crest; horseback; ridge; saddle; spine