3930 examples of poles in sentences

We kept up a running fight for the remainder of the afternoon, and the Indians repeatedly attempted to lead us off the track of their flying village, but their trail was easily followed, as they were continually dropping tepee poles, camp kettles, robes, furs and all heavy articles belonging to them.

The day-gang on No. 0 was hard at it down there where lengthwise in the channel was propped a line of sluice-boxes, steadied by regularly spaced poles laid from box to bank on gravel ridge.

This is supported by a king-post, with poles and lances slanting from it, and is rather more than twenty cubits high, having the shape of a tope.

But by the simple fact of their having changed names, and having called themselves Poles, Jugo-Slavs, Rumanians, they became friends.

Are not the injustices of the Poles against the Germans, and those of the Rumanians against the Magyars, a proof of this state of mind?

And for this reason she helps the Poles in their unjustifiable attempt in Upper Silesia, will not allow the Germans of Austria to live, and seeks to provoke and facilitate all movements and political actions which can tend towards the dismemberment of Germany.

'Vengents is mine,' says the disappinted offis seeker, and on Election day he peddles split tickets ontil the poles close.

That afternoon he set poles up for guides, along the top of which the thread might run, and so keep clear of the bushes.

Then he carried them down to the elm, and drove six of the staples into the bole of the tree at equal distances all round it, a foot from the ground; the others he drove one into each of the six poles, a foot from the thick end; after which he connected the poles with the tree, each by a hooked rod and its corresponding staples, when the tops of the poles just reached to the first fork of the elm.

Then he nailed a bracket to the tree, at the height of an easy step from the ground, and at the same height nailed a piece of wood across between two of the poles.

If, as he says, modern theology oscillates between the poles of Sabellianism and Tritheism, he himself inclines to the latter pole.

The Poles had been promised self-government and had been called on to support Russia.

A square, somewhat less than a mile each way, was pegged out with poles, and the Maghrabi astrologers, in whom Moizz reposed extravagant faith, consulted together to determine the auspicious moment for the opening ceremony.

"We used to burn our dead, but often we place them in totem-poles.

" "I thought those great poles by your doors were totems," said Ted, puzzled.

As we belong to the Raven, or Bear, or Eagle clan, we have the carved poles to show our rank, but the totem of the dead is quite different.

"Tell us about that," said Kalitan, so Ted told them many tales in the moonlight, as they sat beneath the shadows of the quaint and curious totem-poles of Kalitan's tribe.

Never shall the sacred tie, which should only unite congenial spirits, be violated by two souls, distant as the poles, jarring as contending elements.

Long bamboo poles plied bumping along her gunwale, sticking into the air all about her, many and loose and incoordinate, like the ribs of an unfinished basket.

Obscene delight raged in the crowded boat, with yells and laughter, and flourish of bamboo poles.

The two poles swayed, inclined toward each other; for one incredible instant the ball, beside its glowing fellow, shone pale and took on human features.

The fugitives by the gate still thought themselves abandoned, when her beak, six feet in air, stole past them, and her lean boatmen, prodding the river-bed with their poles, stopped her as easily as a gondola.

Had the weather been variablecalms alternating with stormssnow strata of different density would have formed, a condition which we would immediately have noticed when driving in our tent-poles.

But lo, here come a couple, as near ideals as any in these degenerate daysthe two poles of beauty: the milieu of which would be Venus with us Pagans, or the Virgin Mary with the Catholics.

Two races were there, as wide as the poles apartthe thin-lipped, straight-haired Arab and the thick-lipped, curly negroyet the faith of Islam had bound them closer than a blood tie.

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