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Sentences ending with logs

When the movement was completed, each man knew that he was not the only person who had crept to the front wall and had his eye at a crack between the logs. [5]
Are there not trout in the streams, gum exuding from the spruce, sugar in the maples, honey in the hollow trees, fur on the sables, warmth in hickory logs? [4]
They had come to a long piece of corduroy-road, and the horse's hoofs struck rumbling hollow sounds from the floor of cedar logs. [11]
While we looked, the waters increased so fast in this place that in a few minutes a torrent was roaring by the little stable and its margin encroaching steadily on the logs. [5]
You can hear the logs. [11]
Three of our officers--dare-devils, seh --floated down the Mississippi on logs. [9]
When you think of the old homestead, if you ever do, your thoughts go straight to the wide chimney and its burning logs. [4]
How the Holston men and some others escaped in the night in spite of our guard, and swam the river on logs. [9]
At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. [4]
I sometimes long for one of the old-fashioned talks before your smoldering logs! [4]

Sentences containing logs two or more times

Then the pike-pole, or the lever, reaches the heart of the difficulty, and presently the jam breaks, and the logs go tumbling into the main, while the vicious-looking berserker of the water runs back to the shore over the logs, safe and sound. [11]

More example sentences with the word logs in them

John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
As Brydon's gang worked, they saw a man out upon a small raft of driftwood, which had been suddenly caught in the drive of logs, and was carried out towards the middle channel. [11]
Suddenly, a being with a red shirt, with loose prairie kind of hat, knee- boots, having metal clamps, strikes out from the shore, running on the tops of the moving logs till he reaches the jam. [11]
The big house where they lived was old, solid, picturesque the lower part built of logs, the upper of rough clapboards, with vines growing up the outside stone chimneys. [13]
The Sagalac, even when muddy, had its own deep interest, and when it was full of logs drifting down to the sawmills, for which he had found the money by interesting capitalists in the East, he sniffed the stinging smell of the pines with elation. [11]
When their eyes were turned from the fitful blaze of the logs, the gala light of many candles greeted them. [9]
Here and there were groups of river-drivers and their foremen, prying twisted heaps of logs from the rocks or the shore into the water. [11]
To the north were booms of logs, swilling in the current, waiting for their devourer. [11]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
I stood and watched the mills and the yards, and listened to the saws, and looked at the great slide, and the logs on the river: and I said ever to myself that it was all mine-- all. [11]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
Although the lead was pattering on the other side of the logs, Cowan lifted me to the port. [9]
The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
Logs, floats, boards, various things the witnesses say all show the same current. [7]
Sometimes we ran upon them in the water, where they looked like the rough-bark pine logs from the North, and Nick would have a shot at them. [9]
Venerable mud-turtles crawled up and roosted upon the old logs in the stream, their backs glistening in the sun, the first inhabitants of the metropolis to begin the active business of the day. [5]
The work of undoing the great twist of logs was exciting, and they fell on each other with a great sound as they were pried off, and went sliding, grinding, into the water. [11]
One night, as they sat by the blazing logs in his study, which had been the General's, Chiltern arose impulsively, opened the big safe in the corner, and took out a leather-bound book and laid it on her lap. [9]
Louisville was deserted, the tavern porch vacant; but tacked on the logs beside the door was a printed bill which drew my curiosity. [9]
One evening when the river was very high and it was said that Brydon's drives of logs would soon be down, a strange thing happened at the Bridge House. [11]
We came to the little church, of upright logs and plaster, with its crudely shingled, peaked roof, with its tiny belfry crowned by a cross, with its porches on each side shading the line of windows there. [9]
They then crossed the hollow to Semenovsk, where the soldiers were dragging away the last logs from the huts and barns. [2]
There was a temple built to her "of hewed or sawed logs nine inches thick"--so said the specifications. [9]
The river went swishing, swilling past, and the dull boom of the logs as they struck the piers of the bridge or some building on the shore came rolling to them. [11]
The current was strong, and the logs came on swiftly. [11]
There was a strange, horrible, grinding sound, and then they saw the light of that one room move on, waving a little to and fro-on to the rapids, the cohorts of logs crowding hard after. [11]
In the middle stood a great sacrificial altar, on which burned logs of cedar wood, whilst fragrant balls of Kyphi [Kyphi was a celebrated Egyptian incense. [10]
A large, round stage, encircled by a fence of young birch logs, had been built for dancing amid the leafy lindens, and stood directly opposite to the imperial tent. [10]
A cottage of squared logs, filled in with plaster, and whitewashed. [6]
It was well sprinkled with pagan temples and stocked with awkward, homely idols carved out of logs of wood. [5]
I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent. [5]
Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house. [5]
In the lower room is a wooden cage, made of logs bolted together and filled with spikes, nine feet by ten feet square and perhaps seven or eight feet high. [4]
All along the road we saw nothing but mean shanties, generally of logs, with now and then a decent one-story frame, and the people looked miserably poor. [4]
His gang of river-drivers, with their big drives of logs, came sweeping down one beautiful day of early summer, red-shifted, shouting, good- tempered. [11]
He can run reckless on the logs like a river-driver; he can break a jam like an expert. [11]
Presently they were ranged about an old-time fire-place whose blazing logs sent out rather an unnecessary amount of heat, but that was no matter-supper was needed, and to have it, it had to be cooked. [5]
It is all quiet there; nothing but the logs tossing round it. [11]
At more than ordinary peril he crossed the river on a couple of logs, lashed together, some distance above the spot where the picket had seen Mademoiselle. [11]
He had taken one out of the pack he had got from Captain Sevier and pushed it between the logs where the clay had fallen out. [9]
As dark grew on, Mr. Carvel liked the blazing logs for light, and presently sets the decanter on the corner of the table and draws nearer the fire, his guests following. [9]
Then I ran on again up the creek, heedless of cover, stumbling over logs and trailing vines, when all at once a dozen bronze forms glided with the speed of deer across my path ahead. [9]
It was the old man's duty to keep the booms of several great lumbering companies, and to watch the logs when the river-drivers were engaged elsewhere. [11]
There was an old horse-blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out. [5]
The main part of the steering is done at the bow, with a pole; the three-log breadth there furnishes room for only the steersman, for these little logs are not larger around than an average young lady's waist. [5]
The crack, crack of the Deckards on the south and east were stilled; not a barrel was thrust by the weary garrison through the logs, and the place became silent as the wilderness. [9]
By the light of the camp-fires there appeared a wide weltering flood of logs and debris. [11]
And the sight of no roofs and spires could have been more welcome than that of these logs and cabins, broiling in the midsummer sun. [9]
His house is of logs, with two rooms, a kitchen and a spare room, with a low loft accessible by a ladder at the side of the chimney. [4]
A big fire of logs was blazing in the ample chimney-place; groups were seated about at ease, chatting, reading, smoking; couples promenaded up and down; and from the distant parlor, through the long passage, came the sound of the band. [4]
For a quarter of an hour she went on at a slapping pace, clearing the moose-bushes with bound after bound, flying over the fallen logs, pausing neither for brook nor ravine. [4]
I got hold of a gun in the dark, and pushed it through a crack between the logs, hardly knowing what I was doing, I was so dazed with fright. [5]
She had seen men brought in from fighting prairie fires for three days without sleep; had watched them drop on their beds, and lie like logs for thirty-six hours. [11]
The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs. [5]
We bound the logs together with grapevines, and as we worked my imagination painted for me many a red face peering from the bushes on the farther shore. [9]
He has a little boiling-place of his own, with small logs and a tiny kettle. [4]
And when at length the brush crackled and the flames caught the logs, three of the mightiest chiefs arose. [9]
On they came, leaping logs and brush and ditches, until one of them pulled up, yelling madly, at the very door, the foam-flecked sides of his horse moving with quick heaves. [9]
There was a lashing, a frightful howl from one of the logs, and the night's silence once more. [9]
Between the Lower Lake and the settlements is an extensive forest, traversed by a cart-path, admirably constructed of loose stones, roots of trees, decayed logs, slippery rocks, and mud. [4]
Did you notice, Janet, how beautifully clean those logs had been cut by their sharp teeth? [9]
In front of it two enormous logs are rolled nearly together, and a fire is built between them. [4]
The fire is in front: it is not a fire, but a conflagration--a vast heap of green logs set on fire--of pitch, and split dead-wood, and crackling balsams, raging and roaring. [4]
This age, which imitates everything, even to the virtues of our ancestors, has invented a fireplace, with artificial, iron, or composition logs in it, hacked and painted, in which gas is burned, so that it has the appearance of a wood-fire. [4]
In one wretched hut of logs he found a poor woman, with whom, after conversation on serious subjects, he desired to pray. [4]
The smell of hundreds of thousands of logs in the river, the crushed bark, the slimy ooze were all suggestive of life in the making. [11]
Gangs of carpenters hoping for high pay arrived in Moscow every day, and on all sides logs were being hewn, new houses built, and old, charred ones repaired. [2]
He had seated himself, and was absently thrusting at the logs with the poker. [9]
Marx had only himself to provide for; his wife was dead, and his sons were raftsmen, who took pine logs to Mayence and Cologne, sometimes even as far as Holland. [10]
A red blot hid the cannon's mouth, and behind it a man staggered and fell on the candle, while the shot crunched its way through the logs of the cottage in the yard where we stood. [9]
He had said he would be down with the first drive of logs in the summer, and at the little church of St. Saviour's they would settle everything and get the Cure's blessing. [11]
He knew if he slipped, doing what he intended, that both might be drowned, and certainly Mr. Rupert; for the logs were close, and to drop among them was a bad business. [11]
Then pretty soon he says: "Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock. [5]
It was slow going for the slender legs, over the fallen logs, and through the rasping bushes. [4]
The blood seemed frozen in his veins, and he was at all times so cold that the great stove and the wide hearth facing him were fed with mighty logs day and night. [10]
Some, in a frenzy of passion, hurled their logs against the windows; others paused, seemingly to measure the distance and force of the stroke, thus lending to their act a more terrible and deliberate significance. [9]
Then we went forward quickly, hands waved a welcome above the logs, the great wooden gates swung open, and at last we had reached the haven for which we had suffered so much. [9]
The river-drivers laughed, for they failed to see that the man was old, and that he could not run across the rolling logs to the shore. [11]
Before the consuls fired the logs of Indian wood, my father led us to the image of Pertinax, that we might kiss it. [10]
Then he looked far up the stream, with hand shading his brown eyes to where a crib-or raft-was following the eager stream of logs. [11]
Then he went far up the river to Rice Lake and beyond, to bring down the drives of logs for his Company. [11]
The old man, evidently hopeless, laid down his pike-pole, folded his hands, and drifted with the logs. [11]
And no one ever thought much about Indian Island, off beyond the sweating, baking piles of lumber, and the blistering logs and timbers in the bay, till she told stories about it. [11]
Nine logs was enough for one time; he must shove right over to town and sell. [5]
He did not dare at first to look up from the logs, for fear he should forget himself and be defeated instantly. [9]
I believed I could shoot the bridge myself, and I went to the forward triplet of logs and relieved the pilot of his pole and his responsibility. [5]
He sees a cluster of logs gather and climb, and still gather and climb, and between him and that cluster is a rolling waste of timber, round and square. [11]
The storm had ceased, the wild dog huddled quietly on the hearth, and for hours the only sound was the crackling of the logs as Pierre stirred the fire. [11]
A dam of brush and logs and mud and stones backed the stream into a little lake. [13]
A few steps brought him to a spacious apartment; he entered, seated the King with more hurry than ceremony, then ran toward a young man who sat at a writing-table in front of a generous fire of logs. [5]
But below the bridge they saw an arm thrust up between the logs, and then another arm crowding them apart. [11]
It was a brave sight, for the logs were in a narrower channel and more riotous. [11]
A short distance below 'a torrent of yellow mud rushed furiously athwart the calm blue current of the Mississippi, boiling and surging and sweeping in its course logs, branches, and uprooted trees. [5]
He stood staring at it, while the roustabouts passed and repassed, noisily carrying great logs of wood on shoulders padded by their woollen caps. [9]
He went in as she bade him and stood before the flickering logs in the wide and shallow chimney-place--logs that seemed to burn on the very hearth itself, and yet the smoke rose unerring into the flue. [9]
But Brydon slipped and fell; the roots of a tree bore him down, and he was gone beneath the logs! [11]
In the remote and bleak village the heart returns to the red blaze of the logs in one's fireplace at home. [6]
The supper was an 'al fresco' affair, the party being seated about on rocks and logs and shawls spread upon the grass near the farmer's house. [4]
The way was also exceedingly steep in places, and what with roots, and logs, and slippery rocks and stones, it was a desperate climb for the horses. [4]

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