I'm a heartbroken raftsman, from Greenville I came. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haggerty (3)] Reference
It took a good raftsman to get a raft over the Falls. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
AMOUNTED to something being a raftsman on such a craft as that. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
He might have been a sailor, or a scowman, or a hibernating raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
The Corporal was a slender, lantern-jawed, weasel-faced Monongahela raftsman, sharp as a steel-trap. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Every chopper in the palm-grove, every raftsman at the oar. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
Along Joppa's wild castles the raftsman plied his heavy oar. From Wordnik.com. [Tupelo] Reference
It AMOUNTED to something being a raftsman on such a craft as that. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference
Illinois, and when steady and sober the best raftsman on the river. From Wordnik.com. [Luke Walton] Reference
'I am tired of cutting down trees; suppose you let me be a raftsman?'. From Wordnik.com. [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted] Reference
He called him three times by name, and the raftsman stood before him. From Wordnik.com. [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted] Reference
Once again, a raftsman, slipping, plunged beneath the stream and sank. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
This irritated the raftsman, and he threw open the cupboard door and cried. From Wordnik.com. [Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted] Reference
He could not get it off, and at last asked a raftsman, who stood by, what it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
Months passed away in this manner, and but little of our raftsman was to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
Such an outbreak was the very event to accord with the humours of our morbid raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
Flat and generally of sad aspect, the country of the raftsman lies remote and uncommended. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
"Whither would you go?" demanded the raftsman, laying his hand upon the shoulder of the victim. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
But it did not appear that the intelligence communicated by the raftsman received any confirmation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer. From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
Minnesota, he adopted the life of a raftsman, with all the irregularities that accompanied such a life. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
The application of the worthy raftsman -- for such was the business of Barnacle Sam -- proved unavailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
That battle saved Carolina for two years, but, in the interregnum which followed, our worthy raftsman was not idle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
And, as he spoke, the raftsman looked steadfastly to the tree overhead, and extended his arm as if to grasp the branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
Why, I met a man out in 'Frisco last month whom I knew, two years ago, as a raftsman on this very river at twenty a month and found. From Wordnik.com. [Raftmates A Story of the Great River] Reference
He knew him to be the raftsman who had kicked Bim, and whom he had rescued from the dog's teeth at Mandrake, more than a week before. From Wordnik.com. [Raftmates A Story of the Great River] Reference
Not that I'm anything of a raftsman, "he added, modestly. From Wordnik.com. [Raftmates A Story of the Great River] Reference
By occupation I was a raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haggerty (2)] Reference
For taking my jolly young raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [Banks of the Little Eau Pleine] Reference
She mourned for a jolly young raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [Banks of the Little Eau Pleine] Reference
No stone marks the spot where your raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [Banks of the Little Eau Pleine] Reference
The eye of the raftsman was upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
"Your raftsman saved my life," he concluded. From Wordnik.com. [Kindred of the Dust] Reference
"If John Murphy's the name of your raftsman. From Wordnik.com. [Banks of the Little Eau Pleine] Reference
Schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
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