bushwhacker

1 The futile and aggravating marches made in pursuit of the elusive guerrillas and bushwhackers, who were never caught, were replaced by well-directed movements striking at the heart of the trouble.

2 There’s no pitcher as good as Johnson anywhere, much less traveling around with a bunch of hippodromers and bushwhackers.

3 Before realizing it we found ourselves in the midst of a camp of about fifty bushwhackers.

4 A force of twelve hundred men—Canadian refugees, and bushwhackers from Southern Illinois and Missouri—was to attack Camp Douglas on Tuesday night, the 8th of November, liberate and arm the prisoners, and sack Chicago.

5 Pinpricks of red light appeared like beady mouse eyes in the woods, evidence of bushwhackers braving the poison ivy for a closer look.

6 Another route to the plane is bushwhacking from Duck Lake Trail.

7 In Arkansas, where one officer had predicted easy conciliation, another soon reported that “the countryside seems to have degenerated into bushwhackers.... It is hardly safe to go out of our lines a mile.”

8 The enemy had a small force stationed at Ballou's Gap, seventeen miles distant, from which he was in the habit of sending out bushwhackers to annoy our pickets.

9 While traversing the region between Knoxville and Sparta, we were repeatedly fired upon by bushwhackers, but had only one man killed by them—a Texian of Gano's squadron.

10 Ever since the earliest photographic technologies, bushwhackers have willfully deviated from marked trails, but never, it seems, have more renegades tweaked convention than in the past decade or two.

11 You will improve with more experience, Major; but I reckon you could hit a bushwhacker if he wasn't more than ten feet from you; and these tools generally come into use at short range.

12 The trip was not considered a very safe one, on account of the number of bushwhackers there had been in that vicinity.

13 Why, with such prospects, I should have straggled right into the arms of three bushwhackers, I do not know.

14 Our company was sent out with wagon-trains and detachments of infantry who loaded the wagons while we fought bushwhackers.

15 As guerillas and their brethren, the bushwhackers, infest the country more or less, picketing is dangerous as well as difficult.

16 He had an idea that would commend itself to Belcha's bushwhackers, but it was not entertained.

17 In some mysterious manner we had lost one of our cups, and at each meal for a week it fell to the lot of this particular bushwhacker to get left.

18 They were surrounded by bushwhackers, and the rifles were popping all about, so they had to leave him there.

19 The group bushwhacked through the jungle.

20 "Then why couldn't you come to the door and say so like a man, instead of sneaking up like a cowardly Secession bushwhacker?" demanded Mr. Truman, angrily.

1 土匪

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2 大镰刀

scythe

3 伐木者

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4 游击队员

guerrilla partisan

5 乡下人

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