bushwhacker

How To Use bushwhacker In A Sentence

• During the war, he learned the guerrilla tactics of the bushwhackers, jayhawkers and other insurgency groups who tried, by any means, to halt the progress of Union forces.
• For bushwhackers or skiers who want extra stability, Alpina offers the BC Outbound.
• James, with the help of newspaper editors such as John Edwards, was cast in a political role, as Confederate guerilla, a bushwhacker, enemy of Grant and the corrupt Union.
• In the creek you're at least clearing the route for future highpointers, while the private bushwhackers won't follow exactly the same trail.
• If the enemy was this barbarian from the backwoods, well and good! It would be foolish to take offence at this old bushwhacker.
• The Cedar Surf is about surf shacks, back roads, bushwhackers, hitchhikers and squatters in the rainforest isolation in and around Tofino, Ucluelet and Jordan River, where surfing beaches are crowded with sea lions, not people.
• An ancient-looking apothecary, with an old "Rebel bushwhacker" and a painter out of work who "loafed" of evenings in, or in front of, the corner apothecary shop, had stood gap-mouthed at these recitations until the mine of wonders had been to the last grain exhausted. A Strange Discovery
• Bushman - used from the 1820s - was a term of honour, connoting mastery of a harsh environment; but bushy and bushwhacker - which gained currency late in the century - suggested awkwardness and rustic innocence.
• More important has been the second traditional source - the collected, cataloged, and often published accounts of the Union soldiers whom bushwhackers targeted and tormented.
• Because of this, the track's opening was celebrated in style - bushwhacker style, that is!