| 单词 | toboggan |
| 例句 | Visitors ready to conclude their visit to the fair and daring enough to ride elevators to the top would then toboggan all the way back home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He should have remembered that penguins will toboggan whenever they get a chance. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The little black Adélies, with a shocking white ring around their eyes, made a comical sight for the crew as they tobogganed off the icebergs into the water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And he opened the cellar door and started down, nearly tripping when Captain Cook unexpectedly tobogganed down after him. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Then they would flop on their stomachs and toboggan across the slippery ice. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Then, of course, they would turn around and toboggan down the steps again. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z We’d get a piece of cardboard and go tobogganing down the depot’s narrow staircase. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After Woolf dismounted, Azucar butted him out of the way, ran over a spectator, slashed the NBC Radio wire—cutting off the national broadcast—and dragged his terrified groom down the track like a toboggan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We took our snow tube and June’s toboggan and switched off about a hundred times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Then it turned, and with outstretched flippers, tobogganed down on its white stomach. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course you could toboggan,” the first official said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “You could toboggan very well. Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ochs Brothers sell toboggans. They import their own toboggans.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Silently, they placed their coiled ropes underneath them and sat in a line with their knees around the man in front—tobogganers with no toboggan. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A boat broke loose and tobogganed up on the shore, and then another. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To help make ends meet, Johnny began hitching the horse to his toboggan and using them to make deliveries for the local grocery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Out on Edmonton’s dirt roads, his legs swinging free from Forest Dawn’s sides while the toboggan bobbed along behind, Johnny decided he wanted to be a jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tobogganing,” he said, “requires a special piste. You could not toboggan into the streets of Montreux. Where are you stopping here?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z To me, building a toboggan seemed like part of the whole Maine experience. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Even if I had a table saw, Mr. Cox explained, I would face other challenges at this late date, because building a proper toboggan requires more than just tools; it takes time. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The rather thin string sound betrays the recording's age and there's more stage clatter than is ideally comfortable in the tobogganing and ball scenes. Strauss: Intermezzo ? review 2011-01-13T22:45:00Z Challenges range from clocking your best time on a 4,000-foot-high alpine toboggan to finding and trying local delicacies in a pedestrian mall. Amazing Race for the Rest of Us 2010-03-29T17:01:00Z As she made her way through the store, occasionally pushing wisps of sandy brown hair back up under a sunshine-colored toboggan, she'd grab an item, consult her spreadsheet and note the price. Want to make a fresh and festive Thanksgiving dinner for $40? Here's your menu 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z There's an outlandish car chase that, with Kara's cello case doubling as a toboggan, morphs into a yet more outlandish ski chase. My favourite Bond film: The Living Daylights 2012-10-05T09:48:12Z I wished that I had made my own toboggan, and that it had been faster, and that we had competed with the likes of teams named Rocky Balboggan. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Ice-skating, tobogganing, a particularly inglorious game of Red Rover: these are all things that took an unfavorable toll on my face. Obamacare saved my a**: Really, it literally saved my a** 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z I put it in your baby box; it’s there now, on top of the blue-and-pink-striped hospital toboggan and your first onesie, Daddy’s Little Princess. To my daughter who thinks she might be gay 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z If anyone could help me build, or acquire, the right toboggan, it was him. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The theme at the toboggan races was Mardi Gras. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Take her tobogganing, as these polar bears are doing. Natural World: The Mating Game – review 2013-07-20T05:59:03Z Our plan was to enjoy the ride, survive the cold and compete in something we, as New Orleanians, understood: the toboggan race’s costume contest. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z While my wife packed up, I took our daughter to the snowfield to build a quick snowman and ride on a toboggan. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z This mountain park is home to Tobotronc, a really exhilarating 5km toboggan run – the world’s longest alpine slide – which runs through evergreen forest. 10 of the best UK and European theme parks: readers’ tips 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Without a solid sheet of slippery ice on the chute, and the pond, there can be no toboggan races in this seaside community set on the rocky Atlantic coast 190 miles north of Boston. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Early French settlers in what would later be North America took the Algonquian word for this vessel and made it tabaganne, and that became the English toboggan. 7 Words English Borrowed From American Indians 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The local council is always about to run out of grit, and our boiler is definitely jinxed, but come the first snowfall "we are out playing truant with the toboggans". Turned Out Nice Again by Richard Mabey – review 2013-03-08T09:00:01Z On their last patrol down the mountain before dark, two ski patrolmen strapped her to a toboggan and took her down the mountain. Hidden from the newscycle and healed 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Cox, a retired high school teacher, wasn’t just a former toboggan race champion — he was the official toboggan inspector, charged with registering sleds at the chute on race weekend. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z "On May 17th came the sad news of the death of Lord Brabazon of Tara, one of the great pioneers of motoring, aviation and tobogganing." The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z He had made the toboggan his team was now racing, using techniques he had learned as a boat builder. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The towering ski jumps and toboggan runs, not to mention the “Miracle on Ice” hockey rink, look much as they did when Jimmy Carter was in office. 36 Hours: Lake Placid, N.Y. 2011-12-08T15:29:59Z The film's high point is an action sequence set on a snowy mountain with the turtles improvising their shells as toboggans while fighting bad guys and swerving under and around an out-of-control big-rig tractor-trailer. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is a half-hearted shell game 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Terry Scott Cohen, 42, enjoys roller coasters, mushing in Alaska and tobogganing in the Pyrenees Mountains. For the Disabled Traveler, Strategies for a Successful Trip 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Then think of this: Once the toboggans hit the bottom of the chute, whistling through the surrounding trees, the wooden creations come screaming onto the ice of Hosmer Pond, like rudimentary rockets, wild and unleashed. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z “My toboggans,” he told me, “are always fast.” Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It was time to take our shot at the holy grail of toboggan race times. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Two days of racing would be condensed into one, to be held on a makeshift toboggan strip built out of snow, into the mountain itself. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Our long-tail boat plowed through the water like a heavy wooden toboggan. Diving Thailand’s Andaman Sea, by day and night 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z There are also hiking, running and mountain biking trails on the forested slopes, as well as a 500-metre long summer toboggan run. A local’s guide to Berne, Switzerland: 10 top tips 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Sure—electric toboggans, running on the roofs of cars. Bruce McCall’s “Brooklyn or Bust” 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The best-kept secret: You can walk up to a local hut, eat some Tyrolean dumplings, rent a toboggan for about five dollars and whiz down. 5 New Standout Ski Hotels 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Will I be solo tobogganing in New Zealand? | Party of One 2013-05-09T08:00:38Z On the eve of the coming toboggan races, to be held three weeks from now, I bring you one family’s humble story from last year’s championships. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The slats then need to be steamed and made pliable, and bent over a mold to give them that toboggan shape. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z I watched the sled wallahs — a string of young Kashmiri men with battered toboggans — begin their long trudge uphill. A Family Ski Adventure in the Himalayas 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z The winners stepped forward to collect their trophies, which were shaped like miniature wooden toboggans. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z No one knows what exactly prompted Joshua Pusey, a lawyer and the inventor of the modern toboggan, to patent a folded piece of cardboard carrying matches and a striker in 1892. Who Made That?: Striking on the Modern Matchbook 2012-01-06T10:00:00Z The emotion of “Year of the Rabbit” is joy, epitomized by the ballerinas who are sent sliding across the floor, toboggans with pointed toes. Dance Review: City Ballet Performs Justin Peck’s ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2012-10-07T22:18:34Z Anyone with a wooden toboggan meeting specifications can enter the competition. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In my mind, we were beginning a new family tradition: We would race our toboggan in winter. Competitive Tobogganing in Maine. Well, Sort Of Competitive. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Families race down a toboggan run that weaves through the forest and, when winter's here, there's even a small ski resort. Germany: Illegal migration rise prompts border crackdown 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z This Fremont ski bar has snowboards and toboggans adorning the walls, setting the mood while you sing sweet melodies. Check out 47 bars and private rooms to sing karaoke in Seattle 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Through her research, she has learned he was an outdoorsman and with friends built a toboggan slide on the side of the mountain near their home. Army Air Force pilot from Pennsylvania killed during WWII accounted for, authorities say 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Rave to ski patrol members Audrey and Chris, who provided on-site first aid, a quick toboggan ride to the first-aid station, medical assessment and incident reporting. Rant and Rave: A group’s selfless actions make an injury bearable 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z As he waited to be tobogganed down the mountain by ski patrol, she followed her children Moses and Apple down the mountain, testifying that she was accustomed to having things done for her. Gwyneth Paltrow scores court win that means more than $1 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin. Ski patrollers struggle to afford mountain towns. Will unions help? Each year Ottawa, Canada's capital city, hosts a Winterlude festival that celebrates the fun that snow and ice can bring, with tobogganing and ice sculptures, as well as skating along the canal. Rideau Canal skating rink still closed amid mild winter 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Guests can then return to central Davos by foot, cable car or a free toboggan that mazes through forests straight out of a fairy tale. Even With the Crowds, Davos Is a Winter Haven 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The force of friction on the toboggan is 31.0 N. Which statement describes an accurate free-body diagram to represent the situation? College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Snow Land is a little more interesting, with tobogganing penguins to avoid around its frozen lake. Mario Kart 8’s new DLC tracks are more (or less) of a good thing 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Patrollers must be able to ski an 80-pound toboggan loaded with a large adult to safety. Ski patrollers struggle to afford mountain towns. Will unions help? The wicker toboggan twisted and turned as we gained speed, with the “runners” purposely navigating within inches of walls or turning the basket so we slid sideways. Now that Madeira is easier to get to, it makes for a great family vacation 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The challenging words the spellers face range from those with just a few letters like 'luge,' a small toboggan, to those that stretch through the alphabet like 'scherenschnitte,' a papercutting art form. U.S. national spelling bee pits kids ages 7-15 trying to spell success 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Construct Your Own Problem Consider two people pushing a toboggan with four children on it up a snow- covered slope. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z “We want to overtake the toboggan powerhouse Germany and become No. 1 on the ice track,” Prock said. A luge stunner: Hackl leaves Germany for Austrian team 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The vernacular is pretty rad, too, with ordinary words and phrases that mean something different in the park: superman, truck driver, toboggan. Worthington tops Roberts in BMX freestyle Olympic debut 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z Street tobogganing is just one of many memorable activities families can experience on the Portuguese island of Madeira, part of an archipelago of the same name that includes three other islands. Now that Madeira is easier to get to, it makes for a great family vacation 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z He was transported by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in the small city of Idaho Falls, where he died, according to the sheriff’s office. Grizzly mauling near Yellowstone kills backcountry guide 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Construct a problem in which you calculate the acceleration of the toboggan and its load. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z He was transported by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being taken to a hospital, according the sheriff’s office. Grizzly mauling near Yellowstone kills backcountry guide 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z He was taken by toboggan and snowmobile to an ambulance before being transported the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, according the sheriff’s office. Montana man dies after bear mauling near West Yellowstone 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “Do you girls want to use our toboggan?” the father asked. ‘Her Voice Was Distinctive and It Projected Down the Aisle’ 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z “That was one where I told the other patrollers, ‘I’m taking this toboggan.’ A Surge of Women in Ski Patrols, Once Nearly All Men 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Among the things to be considered are the forces exerted by those pushing, the angle of the slope, and the masses of the toboggan and children. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Her childhood was spent outdoors raking leaves and speeding through the countryside on sleds and toboggans, bikes and boats. Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z At these sledding hills in Minnesota, most families stuck with the classic equipment, wooden Radio Flyers, rectangular toboggans and brightly colored plastic sleds. Snow ✅ Sled ✅ Thrills ✅ 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z At the sound of a bell, she sprinted and then threw herself on her almost 100-pound toboggan and hurtled headfirst down the legendary Cresta Run. It’s Among the World’s Hardest Sled Runs. Why Weren’t Women Allowed to Use it? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Summer brings sunbathers, picnickers and sixth-formers sat in circles, while in winter, on those rare occasions it snows, people drag in toboggans. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A third person is pushing the toboggan with a force of 42.5 N at the top of a hill with an angle of 15°. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Voters who’d forgotten their flair could stop by the front of the theater, where a row of card tables offered “Trump hairy pins” and Trump toboggans for purchase. The Trump Fans Who Think Impeachment Was ‘Exactly’ What His Base Needed 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He was taken to the ski patrol room by toboggan and then taken by ambulance to the hospital, the resort said. Skiing accident at Pennsylvania resort kills Virginia man 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z ‘I thought somebody's toboggan snapped and a piece of plastic flew my way,’ he said. McConnell says Trump to sign border bill, declare emergency 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “I refuse to go down in a toboggan unless I absolutely wasn’t physically able to ski down,” she said. Perspective | Lindsey Vonn, always brave but now broken, wills her body to one last run to the podium 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Now it’s time to celebrate a bunch of goofballs who’re seeking glory on a slippery toboggan chute. Slippery slope: Competitors seek glory on a toboggan chute 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z In the winter, they had to carry food and blankets either on their backs or towed on toboggans. Cold weather doesn’t deter frontier ranger re-enactors 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “The children are enjoying outdoor walks, tobogganing and the building of snowmen.” Heavy Snowfall in Alps Leaves 6 Dead and Strands Tourists 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Autumn is faded blue jeans, oversized sweatshirts and stringy toboggans from a forgotten day. Tennessee editorial roundup 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Once, after a blizzard, my dad placed my two younger brothers and me on a toboggan and tied the rope around his waist. Perspective | Where you live has a bigger impact on happiness and health than you might imagine 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Items of note include an antique toboggan used in a Christmas special, signed red oven mitts, and cookbooks. Martha Stewart’s studio props up for auction 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Items of note include an antique toboggan used in a Christmas special, signed red oven mitts signed, and cookbooks. Martha Stewart’s studio props up for auction 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z In Maine, teams with names like the “Trophy Husbands,” ”Frozen Boogers” and “Nothing to Luge” are holding their own winter competition to see who’s fastest down a toboggan chute. Down the chute: ‘Fun and frivolity’ at toboggan competition 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The annual race event featuring teams racing down the 400-foot toboggan chute gets under way on Friday at the Camden Snow Bowl in Maine. Organizers getting ready for National Toboggan Championships 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Scott Hannon remembered his father pulling the toboggan to Springfield Dairy, where ZaZa’s Pub & Pizzeria now sits, and riding his bike all across town. Minnesota man inspired by father to pursue education career 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z The first organized “motorized toboggan” race in the U.S., an event Crane helped coordinate, was held in Lancaster in 1962. Vermont town new home to snowmobiling hall of fame 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Patrons could also ride a miniature Black Diamond train, a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round and toboggan roller coaster. Easton island once drew thousands to its amusement park 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The event features teams of two, three or four people riding old-school wooden toboggans. Slip sliding away: Toboggan races draw to a close in Maine 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The annual race down the 400-foot toboggan chute got underway Saturday. Toboggans race down icy chute to glory in Maine competition 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z There, patrons rode a miniature Black Diamond train, a Ferris wheel, a merry-go-round, toboggan roller coaster and other rides. A wild ride: Story of Lehigh Valley small amusement parks 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z The best backcountry choices are the classics: toboggans, tubes and saucers. Cowabunga! Backcountry sledding for the big kids 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z He was evacuated by toboggan and later taken by helicopter to a Denver hospital, where he was being treated Sunday for hypothermia and other exposure-related injuries. Man rescued after getting lost in snowy Rocky Mountain park 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z They wrapped the unconscious patient up in a toboggan and skied him down the mountain, with ski patrollers at his side watching closely, stopping every half minute to make sure he was breathing, Sheil said. Big Sky Ski Patrol, doctors save young man with bad heart 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Only soft sliding devices, flexible sleds, saucers and inner tubes are permitted; no toboggans or sleds with runners are allowed. Warm up your January hike with eagle viewing in the North Cascades 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Built on 40 acres, the park had a toboggan chute, carousel, derby racer, circle swing, Cyclone roller coaster and more. A wild ride: Story of Lehigh Valley small amusement parks 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Some of my favorite “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons were those where the companions tobogganed through the woods. Cowabunga! Backcountry sledding for the big kids 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The Bush family rode toboggans there in winter; the Reagans rode horses. Camp David ‘a perfect match’ for Donald Trump after Obama snub 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z From the time Nich went down and the call went out, to the time he was out of the toboggan and into a Big Sky Fire ambulance, Sheil said, took about 10 minutes. Big Sky Ski Patrol, doctors save young man with bad heart 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s quite a toboggan ride down a steep hill trying to write a script. Loud and lively at 90, Mel Brooks talks about Gene Wilder, political correctness and his classic movies 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He toboggans down the Great Wall of China. Peyton Manning toboggans down the Great Wall of China 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z A variation of the toboggan that I’ve had success using is the utility tote. Cowabunga! Backcountry sledding for the big kids 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Muaz Ballani donned a Toronto Maple Leafs hat that he wore day after day, and his wife gamely hopped on a toboggan. Canadians stand apart in their warm embrace of refugees 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Outlets also virally shared pictures showing the Facebook founder riding a toboggan down the Great Wall, which were originally posted on his Facebook account. China Zuckerberg: Web users mock Facebook founder visit - BBC News 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The Englishman was reluctant to accept help from a group of men using ‘‘motorized toboggans’’ to try to reach the pole. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Six other teenagers were injured when the toboggan hit a gate separating the luge and bobsled tracks, police said. Twins killed in after-hours bobsled crash at Calgary's Winter Olympic Park 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The fate of the district's toboggans rest in his powerful hands. $1.15 trillion federal spending deal includes provision in favor of sledding 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z American Dream will also, he said, promise same-day delivery of purchases by shoppers who arrive by public transportation, surfing contests at the water park and toboggan rides in the Snow Dome. Dream of a Mall Starts to Rise Out of a Meadowlands Nightmare 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z With tobogganing runs and a movie theatre, and more windows than Versailles, it was to have been even more impressive than the Evergreen Lodge. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z The coaster takes riders in four-person toboggans over hills and down drops at 30 mph. SoCal getting its first water coaster with Aqua Rocket 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The City Council voted Wednesday to look into establishing designated tobogganing areas as well as other options to legalize the pastime, according to CBC. Canadian City To Overturn Ban on Sledding 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A rescue toboggan was used to transport him several miles down rough terrain to an ambulance, which took him to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. Injured snowmobiler rescued in Gallatin County 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z "He's a skinny black guy. He's got a toboggan on," said the caller, who isn't identified. India 'disturbed' by citizen's treatment in Alabama 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Seventy feet up, tobogganing newbies suddenly appreciate the gravity of their situation: They’re about to approach 40 mph on something that looks like it belongs on an old fashioned postcard. Toboggan Championships offer a swift, snowy thrill ride 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The City of Evanston Municipal Code says tobogganing, skiing and sledding are prohibited at James Park, where Mount Trashmore is located. Chicago unlikely to follow trend to ban sledding 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Currently, violators are liable to face up to a $1,600 fine thanks to a bylaw first established in the 1970s after someone sued the city following a tobogganing accident. Canadian City To Overturn Ban on Sledding 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Seriously, this American toboggan hat is way cool. The outfits American fans are wearing at the Ryder Cup are nothing if not patriotic: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z I got a running start, jumped on the toboggan, and crashed headfirst into a tree on the second turn. Hope For People With Autism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Though twentysomethings in faded plaid and oversized toboggans are a pretty common sight in ads these days, marketers often avoid the word “hipster.” H&R Block Is Calling All Hipsters to Do Their Taxes 2014-03-05T15:01:48Z Teenage tourists from Oxford, England, executed imperfect sit-spins on their borrowed toboggans. A Curse to Many in New York Is a Thrill for the More Daring 2014-02-18T01:47:05Z He killed time by riding cafeteria trays like toboggans down the slopes. Father and Son, Together on a Halfpipe Quest 2014-02-08T01:49:08Z He was no fan of the toboggan run, either. Super Bowl Fever Hits Midtown, but Not Everyone Has Caught It 2014-01-30T23:51:34Z The centerpiece was the toboggan run, which impressed even the top law enforcement officials charged with providing security. Football fans and the curious crowd New York's 'Super Bowl Blvd' 2014-01-30T00:54:51Z “I am definitely not doing the toboggan,” Mr. de la Teja said. Reporter's Notebook: For 5 Days, Broadway’s Biggest Show Is 13 Blocks Long 2014-01-29T21:33:48Z Note: For Super Bowl week, Broadway is being turned into one long pedestrian mall / field-goal practice field / toboggan run, closed to traffic from 47th Street to 34th Street. City Room: New York Today: Signing On 2014-01-27T11:11:42Z We talk sleds, and toboggans, and fierce snowball fights. Winter’s most beautiful secret: The astonishing, complex science of snowflakes 2014-01-22T00:00:00Z Entry will be free, though sliding down a toboggan run at 40th Street will cost $5. Go play on ‘Super Bowl Boulevard’ in New York 2014-01-09T18:56:35Z Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, to "try that toboggan run." Football fans and the curious crowd New York's 'Super Bowl Blvd' 2014-01-30T00:54:51Z Rangers located Foster, 45, Monday afternoon, and rescuers treated her for "numerous injuries" as they brought her down the rugged mountainside by toboggan, Patterson said. Guidebook author injured, companion presumed killed in Colorado avalanche 2013-03-19T05:34:32Z We all charged toboggans to our coach in the pro shop and he wasn't too happy about it. Snow in Arizona delays resumption of Match Play 2013-02-21T15:49:11Z It provides a glorious way of reviving one's boyhood when, on a homemade toboggan, one rocketed down the steepest snow-covered slopes. From the Observer archive, 8 February 1959: Chris Brasher tackles the Cresta Run 2013-02-10T00:01:02Z Of course the snow was good news for toboggan retailers. In pictures: Snow across England 2013-01-14T17:43:02Z More tourists came, hotels began to stay open in the winter, and gradually skiing took over from bobsleigh and tobogganing as the sport of choice. Ski resort celebrates Britons who made it downhill all the way 2012-12-14T12:42:09Z He had to pull her on a toboggan. Alice Munro: “Amundsen.” 2012-08-20T04:00:00Z A third lists dancer apparel, chef’s hats, fire-retardant pajamas for toddlers and toboggan hats as products to exploit Linsanity. Jeremy Lin Has Linsanity Trademarked 2012-06-23T16:11:29Z A ship's bell clanged, someone gave me a gentle push and the nose of the toboggan broke the wire that started the clocks. From the Observer archive, 8 February 1959: Chris Brasher tackles the Cresta Run 2013-02-10T00:01:02Z Tobogganning without a toboggan might not be elegant, but it was certainly exciting, and if it did nothing else it would find work for his tailor. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z I did not see a sled or toboggan in the settlement. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z The chances are that he meant no offense to his Roman Catholic fellow citizens; but once on the toboggan slide of alliteration he could not stop. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Perhaps the cows would have gone home by now and he should not excite their nocturnal apprehensions by dragging the toboggan across the twenty-acre field. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Arriving at the rock, he thrust the loaded toboggan close against its foot, and then, at a distance of about ten feet before it, he hastened to start his fire. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z There is a large and merry party of frozen-out fox-hunters at luncheon, after which everyone goes off to the tobogganing ground. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Had he been initiated into Their Masonic ways in those Alpine deliberations, while I was out tobogganing on the chilly slopes? Letter From Europe: Us vs. Them: It's Hardly a Fair Fight 2011-12-23T12:20:12Z Fourteen days without rain and the whole country is on the toboggan, headed straight for bankruptcy. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z But from his landing the staircase looked all wrong for such an experiment and he walked the toboggan down, which lamplight appeared to him a typical product of the bear-haunted mountains of Canada. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Seating himself with his back to the loaded toboggan, he prepared his supper. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z From the window, which looks out to the south-east, can be seen the rifle range and tobogganing ground. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The wagon seemed to Beatrice to be going like the toboggans she had seen on the long slide at Montreal. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The whole country is on the toboggan But what an unsatisfactory hang-out for the weather shark! In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z If it snows for a month without stopping, you're never to toboggan down a roof. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z With smoldering eyes and no explanations, he resigned his profitable post and started inland, on his snowshoes, with a toboggan load of pemmican and flour. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z There was for him no painful crawl up a slippery toboggan of renewed intentions, following a wild, shooting descent that had left him gasping and breathless at the bottom. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z We had a rude species of tobogganing, however, and in fine weather this was a constant pleasure to us. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Oh, it's only the broom and dustpan gone tobogganing down the stairs. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z "You can't toboggan down a river—unless, of course, it gets frozen over." Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z The solitary figure bending to the straps of his toboggan never looked back. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Another gloriously exhilarating sport is tobogganing, either alone or in parties. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z After a moment of suspense, mental and physical, I fell to earth, like the arrow in the song, I knew not where, and tobogganed painfully down something steep and stony, with briers in it. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z If he balanced properly, pushed off, and trailed his rifle butt, he would go down like a toboggan; the trouble was, he might go over a perpendicular fall and into the bergschrund crack. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z "I don't want to toboggan down the river, but if I had a Canadian canoe for the river I could wait for the snow quite easily." Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z In the winter the whole family, including us parents, the tutors, and governesses, skated on the ice or tobogganed on the hills, and we cleared the snow from the pond ourselves. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Folks, give me a boulder-ride in the Rockies, every time, instead of an ordinary toboggan! Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z "In my case, it was more of a toboggan." Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Old Pennant records how in his rash youth he used to toboggan down the peat paths of Craig y Dinas, 'which,' says he, 'I now survey with horror.' Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z "But didn't I explain to you that tobogganing can only be carried out after a heavy snowfall?" Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Perhaps you fellows think I slid down that toboggan track on purpose? The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z “Why don’t we make a toboggan?” said Tom. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z The dogs jogging on beside them, unchecked for a moment, run wildly on, barking aloud and scattering the load of the toboggan to which they are attached. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z "But it kept me prisoner till the last of the toboggans had been taken out—I only hope it hasn't made us too late!" The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Sleds were out in force, however—bobsleds, double-runners, toboggans, “framers,” and every sort of coasting paraphernalia. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z Sometimes there is a sudden upset as the toboggan strikes a rough spot on the hillside. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z “Get on the back of the toboggan, let one foot hang out and steer with it, and come along,” Joe laughed. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z Carpenter Jones, alias “Chips,” manufactured the tobogganing sledges. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z Did you forget it was the toboggan races this morning? The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Their bobsleighs, if not quite up to the level of those provided at Alpine winter resorts in Switzerland, were at any rate serviceable, and they knew of a good place for a toboggan track. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z Nothing could be pleasanter for a party of merry children, than to spend the morning coasting down the steep hillside on wooden sleds called toboggans, which are shaped much like the Indian hand-sledges. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z “I believe he was afraid of a toboggan!” Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z But let us go with the tobogganing party for just once in a way. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z He's had a smash—self and toboggan—flaw in a runner. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z In it he stored his supplies, which he had conveyed on a toboggan. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z I thank Thee for the deep white snow, When I tobogganing can go. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z Then the bottom was removed from the big butter box, the side drum severed, and one end securely fastened under the front end of the toboggan bottom. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z Alongside the Icebear are two huge sledges; one is laden with the tobogganing boards and a few merry sailors, the other with men and officers, and such a row there is and such a din! In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z But there was no sign of a toboggan starting, no sound of one in the invisible crevice of the run. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Toward night, we crossed the pass into the Trinidad Valley and drove down a grade not steep only, but sidelong, where the wagons both went tobogganing down and slid rapidly toward the gulch. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z It's called "nap of the earth" flight, where the helicopter becomes little more than an airborne toboggan, rising as it climbs a rugged Afghan peak, then precipitously diving down the other side. How the Taliban Brought Down the SEALs' Chopper 2011-08-08T07:20:00Z After that, he steered the toboggan down the hills, while the scouts ran on skis. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z Four men seat themselves on a tobogganing sledge, and others start them,—with a will too. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z First would pass a string of them walking, then a dozen or so tobogganing. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z The man who ridicules everything is on the toboggan slide, and he will end up by becoming an out-and-out grouch. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z I realised that I must make a sort of toboggan—something to lie flat upon the snow, that would not cut into it as sled-runners would. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z He came to the door to help in the last packing of the toboggan. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z Canada is perhaps the home of tobogganing, for there the frost is severe and lasts long. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z Suddenly those that walked would flop on to their breasts and start tobogganing, and conversely strings of tobogganers would as suddenly pop up on to their feet and start walking. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z So they joined their friends, who had gotten tired by this time of tobogganing in June, and they all trooped up the hill again to the house. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z When we reached the hill we had to cross, we had as much as we could do to pull the toboggan up the steep incline. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z Tom gave the doctor some wild rides on the toboggan in the next two days, while Joe took the hills on skis. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z This latter was made in the form of a toboggan, and it would accordingly travel where an ordinary sled with runners could not be taken. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z The surface of the snow on the sea-ice varied continually, and over any very smooth patches the pedestrians almost invariably started to toboggan, whilst over “bad going” they all had perforce to walk. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Before breakfast they had built a dozen barrel-stave toboggans—each long enough to hold two persons, if it was so desired. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z No. We discussed, we projected, we planned, and at last we determined to pack the toboggan with all that we three could drag, and depart at once. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z The boys planned to wear skis for a good part of the trip, and to put Mills on the toboggan on the down grades, thus saving time. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z When we arrived at the brow of a short steep pinch leading down to our creek, we realised the impossibility of walking—just sat down in the mud and tobogganed down it. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z The winter festival was in full swing, and the ice-palace and tobogganing had charms for my vocalists, which they were unable to resist. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z "And your hat—my red silk toboggan cap with some of Page's tippet, that matches the muff, sewed in for hair!" from Dum. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Our load was very heavy, and the toboggan sunk in a good deal. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z But they were up long before the sun in the morning, and set off by starlight, all three on the ropes of the toboggan, down the trail. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z With our Canadian snow shoes, O'er snow you walk where'er you choose, But on long shoes Norwegian They are like narrow toboggan. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z We were on snow-shoes, and had brought a toboggan, as the last part of our way lay down hill. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Gramps had recovered sufficiently so that he could risk running to the house for the toboggan that lay across two wooden horses in the barn. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z He mounted the toboggan and went down the slide, landing in a few years in the gulch of destitution and near the precipice of suicide. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z Joe took his skis off, put Mills on the front, and pushed the toboggan over. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z With your shoes Norwegian, Swifter than a toboggan, Go on, go on, you'll win the race, For we are slack'ning in our pace. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Off our toboggans sped, one after another, down the mountain, crackling and whistling over the snow, giving each and all a vivid pleasure in the swift, exhilarating ride. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Even while he felt guilty because he did not ignore Gramps' wishes and go for the toboggan anyway, Bud still sympathized. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z We had plenty of snow and consequently plenty of opportunities for tobogganing. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z And that day he gave them little rest, driving on at a fast pace, with the toboggan rope straining over his shoulder. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z The men in the camp started and turned as the sudden uproar of Rob's involuntary toboggan slide reached their ears. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z Here, carryalls for the riders and long sleighs for the toboggans awaited us to take all back again to repeat the sport. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z He couldn't even wiggle when we tied him on the toboggan, but he'll be full of beans in a few days. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Then we packed and put the dogs to the toboggan, increasing the load of food from Montell’s supply and leaving behind our tent and some few things we could not haul. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Thus the butter box curled up and around like the front of a real toboggan. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z I say," he said, "why shouldn't we toboggan down there? Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Handsleighs and toboggans, loaded with children, were shooting down a neighboring hill at a tremendous speed. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z "Kite down to the barn and fetch the toboggan and a good strong hank of rope, Bud," Gramps said finally. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Eventually we had the food, a hundred pounds of flour, a square tin of tea, a little coffee, some salt and pepper and half a dozen extra pairs of moccasins lashed on the toboggan. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z “Say, I never saw a toboggan till I went East after I was twenty-one years old,” he said. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z They had a stout little toboggan, just big enough for two, and so they started off down this new slope, with the sun shining and the snow glittering. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z One of the attractions was that the toboggans, by the long descent, would be carried far out over the surface of the river. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z We had no "double-rippers" nor toboggans, but six or seven of the long ribs of a buffalo, fastened together at the larger end, answered all practical purposes. Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas 2011-01-22T03:00:17.853Z Save the Scot with the lantern, not one was in sight when Barreau halted the dogs and turned the toboggan on its side by the front of the store. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z “Nothing, only if he hasn’t, I’m going to take a toboggan slide down his nose.” Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z Sometimes a bump on the floor of the tunnel would send them careering toward the roof, and then they would come down again with a thud that almost pitched them off the toboggan. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z To-night, however, we are invited by the officers of the Montreal regiment to a toboggan slide at the mountain, with a supper and dance afterwards. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z When drawing a toboggan it is slipped under the binding cords. Woodcraft 2010-12-30T03:00:30.337Z He drew the toboggan up against a heavy stand of spruce, and taking a snowshoe shovel-wise fell to baring the earth for a fire base. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z They packed the toboggan that night, to be ready for an early start, and then sat around the stove for the last time, in the little cabin. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z And then they felt their toboggan springing through the air and dropping like a stone into some fearful well. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z They could steer a toboggan down a hill, or balance a tea-cup with the dexterity of long practice. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z The police are not about stopping fun but we're asking people thinking of going tobogganing to be mindful of where they end up. Arrest after man dies tobogganing 2010-02-22T08:25:00Z The sound of feet in the crisp snow, the squeaking crunch of toboggans, other voices; these things uprose at hand. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z After the killing of big game it rests with the women and children to cut up the meat and toboggan it to camp. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Day after day during the Christmas holidays the children went skating or tobogganing; and Cuthbert and Doris learnt to waltz on skates, and even Marian learnt to cut threes. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Even the Representative, in spite of his prejudices, fell a convert to her social propaganda, and attended with less boredom than he had anticipated the tobogganings and sleigh-rides and taffy-pulling functions. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Collier had hit the toboggan, financially and otherwise. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager They re-slung them, and passed on with furtive sidelong glances; the women followed, dragging a lightly loaded toboggan. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Once when chum and I were off for a couple of nights from our main camp, on our return we missed a toboggan from in front of the shanty door. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. It takes some of the joy out of the slide to feel that somebody is going to carry your toboggan up the hill on his back. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise "Down he goes," the story continued, "tobogganning over the horse's tail." A Poached Peerage On Christmas Day, 1917, Major Corbett, 48th Pioneers, died suddenly from an aneurism of the heart after some strenuous tobogganing, which had been allowed as a special concession. A Kut Prisoner That evening we got the dog harness ready, and rigged up a toboggan for the trail, loading it with food, bedding, and a small, light tent. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z It was only two years after when camping in the same place and felling a dry spruce for firewood that the toboggan and tree came to earth together. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. Chambotte, twelve kilos away, where the men could also enjoy skiing and tobogganing. History of Ambulance Company Number 139 "I'd like to go riding and hunting with Dad, live in a great country house, with lots of snow in winter and tobogganing—" She broke off with a sudden suspicion. Making Money Sufficient snow had already fallen to enable toboggans to be used, and with their baggage loaded upon these the party made good progress through the forest. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia “We will soon come up with them,” he said, when we had eaten and were putting the dogs to the toboggan again. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z To prove their story they produced the horns which they had brought down all those miles on their toboggans as visible proof. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The latter nearly ran into Fred’s toboggan, and he shot it at a distance of 20 feet. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin Twenty minutes later they were on the toboggan, Patsie tucked in front, laughing back at him over her shoulder with the glee of the escapade. Making Money On the afternoon of the day following the performance of "Otello," Florence, cold and rosy from tobogganing, burst into the drawing room. With Edge Tools A toboggan and its useless dog-harness stood upended, against a tree. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The funniest sight is to see the Gurkha soldiers trying to drag the toboggan uphill, slipping and tumbling and sprawling on the ice, and immensely enjoying one another's discomfiture. The Unveiling of Lhasa Now sit on it," she cried, "and toboggan down. Patricia Brent, Spinster They went stamping into the great hall to the warmth of a great log blaze, Patsie dancing ahead, shedding toboggan cap and muffler riotously on the way, for a dignified footman to gather in. Making Money And we go skating with our brothers, and slide on the pond, and if there's any snow we toboggan down the hill on teatrays and have snowball fights with some boys who live near. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story When he returned I had the toboggan ready for the road. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z The ice is lumpy and broken, and the streamlets that run down to the plain are so tortuous that fifty yards without a spill is considered a good run for a toboggan. The Unveiling of Lhasa It looks like a toboggan slide, only far bigger than most. Harper's Round Table, September 3, 1895 Indian words, like moccasin and toboggan, are often introduced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" “Eating your ‘skoff’ in a sort of tied-in-a-knot attitude, with your plate tobogganing away from you on the very slightest provocation, may be romantic enough on paper, but it’s a beastly bore in actual practice. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising There is a marked difference between the path beaten through snow by seven persons with three full dog-teams, and that made by one man and a slight girl, dragging a toboggan by hand. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Other amusements are sliding and tobogganing, which are a little disappointing to enthusiasts. The Unveiling of Lhasa I have carefully examined the precedents, but there is no mention of tobogganing in the records of this House. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. For Miss Reeves had just come down from Newnham, and, indeed, that afternoon she was still coming down ... on a toboggan. A Novelist on Novels She appreciated the tobogganing as much as anyone, though she liked the triumph of referring to her Swiss achievements. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story And as I stepped forward, meditating interference, Barreau jammed him backward over our loaded toboggan, and held him there helpless. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z All declared themselves satisfied, and proceeded to take their places on the toboggans. Hildegarde's Harvest They divided the provisions and ammunition into two equal parts, and loaded their toboggan with one of them. Northern Diamonds I prophesy that within a few days all the young folks will be tobogganing at a glorious rate. Dorothy at Oak Knowe Here it was quite possible to make a good toboggan track, for there was a flat space in front and an easy way to climb up at the back. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story As we passed the toboggan slide, my manager told me of an old gentleman over sixty, who delights in those breathless passages down the side of Mount Royal. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things The clan was gathering for the first tobogganing of the season. Hildegarde's Harvest They had to haul the carcass with a thong, like a toboggan, over the snow. Northern Diamonds Then he dropped what the schoolgirls called his “preachy manner” and asked: “How do you like tobogganing?” Dorothy at Oak Knowe French girls must have a stupid time, if they're never allowed to toboggan, or to go in the snow. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story On our way we passed a toboggan slide down the side of Mount Royal. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Suddenly, as if propelled by some invisible engine, they shot into the air, the toboggan followed, and for a moment there was an extraordinary vision of legs and arms, caps and splinters, all whirling together. Hildegarde's Harvest For the last time they packed their dunnage sacks on the battered toboggan, and shipped it to the city. Northern Diamonds Why, the honest old fellow can show several prizes he won, in his younger days, for skating, ice-boating, tobogganing, and the like. Dorothy at Oak Knowe I felt most fearfully wobbly at first, but it was lovely when one got into it; so was the tobogganing—one went skimming down slopes at a tremendous pace. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story Where the crust was thick, with Koot leading the way snow-shoes and dog and toboggan glided over the drifts as if on steel runners. The Story of the Trapper Search revealed a big, jagged stone, so fitted into the slope of the hill that the snow had lain smoothly over it; but it had caught the toboggan in mid-flight. Hildegarde's Harvest Macgregor had already left his toboggan at a sporting-goods store to be equipped with runners for use on ice. Northern Diamonds Large as some of the toboggans were they were also light and easily carried, some capable of holding a half-dozen girls—“packed close.” Dorothy at Oak Knowe It seems that all the rage, With human kind of every age, Is on toboggans swift to slide Down steepest hill or mountain side. The Brownies: Their Book Here he finds that the otter tracks have worn a path that is almost a toboggan slide down the crusted snow bank to the iced edge of the pool. The Story of the Trapper For a woman to go into business used to be like climbing a mountain; now it is almost like going down a toboggan slide. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 Only the toboggan had not arrived, though it had been promised for the middle of the afternoon. Northern Diamonds Course he’s terrible big and I’m terrible little, so all he does is tuck me inside his great toboggan coat. Dorothy at Oak Knowe How strange," said one, "we never tried Till now the wild toboggan ride! The Brownies: Their Book Wrapping her husband in robes on the long toboggan sleigh, the squaw placed the younger child beside him and with the other began tramping through the forest drawing the sleigh behind. The Story of the Trapper Hauling and pushing they worked the toboggan up until at last the spur was crossed. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The toboggan was not finished, but the work was under way. Northern Diamonds Said he’d never had a toboggan ride in all his life, long as that was, because he hadn’t anybody to go with him. Dorothy at Oak Knowe It is uncertain whether the first American sleds were copied from the Indian toboggans, but no sled without runners was known in the United States before 1870, except to the woodsmen of the Canadian border. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Both children donned their heavy clothing and pulled toboggan hoods down over their ears. Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest As soon as breakfast was finished the toboggan was packed, the brush piled once more in front of the lean-to and the fire put out by the simple process of throwing snow on it. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp It was not a long job, and by a quarter after five Fred was back at Mac's room, accompanied by a messenger with the remodeled toboggan. Northern Diamonds It was you who helped the doctor set my bones, it was you who let me slide on your new toboggan, and it’s you who’ve ‘spoke for me’ to this lady. Dorothy at Oak Knowe Coasting in its highest development may be seen in Switzerland, at the fashionable winter resorts of the Engadine, where it is called tobogganing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" They'd dragged out a whole raft of toboggan outfits from the attic, and the minute they gets 'em on they begins to act as coltish as two-year-olds. Side-stepping with Shorty There was no sound save the sharp ring of the skates and the soft grate of the smoothly slipping toboggan. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The toboggan was of the usual pattern and shape, but the cushions had been removed, and a thirty-foot moose-hide thong attached for hauling. Northern Diamonds You can’t step off a toboggan, unless you want to get killed.” Dorothy at Oak Knowe Our sled, without any means of propulsion but our own weight, glided rapidly down the hill over the smooth surface of the pavement like a toboggan on an icy slide. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise Any insect that came in, slipped around until he figured it was a toboggan slide and a mighty poor place to spend the day. Cupid's Middleman Pat had provided a stout toboggan which showed the effects of long use, and on this he deftly loaded their duffle and supplies, lashing them securely into place. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp Everything had been packed into four canvas dunnage sacks, and now these were firmly strapped on the toboggan. Northern Diamonds The whole toboggan was of this one polished board, curving upward in front according to the most approved form, pink tassels floating from its corners that pink silk cords held in their place. Dorothy at Oak Knowe The “Water-Chute” or water tobogganing, is a Canadian pastime, which has been popular in London and elsewhere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" This, particularly if the track begins with a headlong plunge, is one of the most exhilarating follies in the world, and the tobogganing invalid is early reconciled to somersaults. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The toboggan had been dragged in when they first arrived and it occupied most of the available room. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The laden toboggan had come up on the same train with them, and they saw it taken out of the express car. Northern Diamonds My lovely toboggan went beautifully, as it had all the time, but theirs didn’t act right. Dorothy at Oak Knowe The citizens of the planet are apparently about halfway down the toboggan. Mars Confidential If the weight be heavy and the track smooth, the toboggan takes the bit between its teeth; and to steer a couple of full-sized friends in safety requires not only judgment but desperate exertion. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers All their duffle and the supplies which Pat was taking in were loaded on the toboggan, and to this Pat had rigged a sort of harness so that two walking single file could drag it. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The toboggan with its steel runners drew a curious group at the station. Northern Diamonds A real letter explainin’ about the accident, when the lassie’s toboggan got in our way and we got that mixed ’twas nigh the death of the lot? Dorothy at Oak Knowe The side of the mountain was so steep that the dogs couldn't keep up with the sleds an' there was nothing to do but toboggan to the bottom of the hill. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers But the peculiar outdoor sport of this district is tobogganing. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The Indian invented the toboggan, but he seems to have used it for a sled of burden and not as a pleasure chariot. Old Plymouth Trails So they left their baggage at the hotel, with instructions to have it kept till their return, secured their toboggan at the depot, and went down to the river. Northern Diamonds To him Dorothy proudly exhibited her beautiful toboggan, explaining its fine construction with a glibness that fitted an “old tobogganer” better than this beginner at the sport. Dorothy at Oak Knowe She went tobogganing out behind the fort at ten o'clock, with the missionary's wife. The Wilderness Trail But perhaps the true way to toboggan is alone and at night. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers They call it tobogganing, which, of course, it is not and in modern days at least never was, for it is all done on a sled with runners. Old Plymouth Trails They rushed ahead, forcing the pace a little, after all, in a swinging single file, with the toboggan gliding behind. Northern Diamonds But half did have sense and that is—Who do you think gave me my beautiful toboggan things?” Dorothy at Oak Knowe You will toboggan and skate your head off, and I will talk it off, and briefly if you don’t come pretty soon, I will cut you off with a shilling. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Then you push off; the toboggan fetches away; she begins to feel the hill, to glide, to swim, to gallop. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Thus the early Swiss tobogganing was done, the rider steering by putting out a foot to the right or left, after the fashion of the small girl today on her similar sled. Old Plymouth Trails Each of those obstructions cost the boys half an hour of labor before they could get the toboggan through the dense underbrush that choked the portage. Northern Diamonds Flakes are already falling and I’m glad the double sashes are in place on this north side the building, and that Michael has seen to having the toboggan slide put in order. Dorothy at Oak Knowe “That soft sand track down the hillside looks as if it would make a fine toboggan,” remarked the Captain. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars Into the darkness, with hands pressed against the well, and with feet groping for the log steps, we tobogganed down, down, down. With the French in France and Salonika No white man could have a toboggan at the top of a snow-clad hill and not immediately use it to coast down on. Old Plymouth Trails They drew up the toboggan and exchanged their skating-boots for moccasins. Northern Diamonds “Oh! girls! the Bishop says we’ll soon have tobogganing!” she cried, joining a group gathered about a great wood fire in the library. Dorothy at Oak Knowe The earth had given way up there just as it had with the moose in the woods, and the three had tobogganed down the steep hillside into the lake. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars It had no cheery, healthful appeal to skates, toboggans, and the jangling bells of a cutter. With the French in France and Salonika You could do a toboggan slide two miles long. The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass With maddening difficulty, Maurice and Macgregor hacked a road through willow thickets and got the toboggan past. Northern Diamonds She’s never seen a toboggan nor how we dress for the sport, and we brought in our togs to show her. Dorothy at Oak Knowe Its bow, rounded like the front of a toboggan, slapped into a slight swell. The Flying Stingaree Then a husky-dog in bells and harness bounced up over the drifts, followed by another and yet another—eight or ten dogs to each long, low toboggan that slid along loaded and heaped with peltry. The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) A toboggan slide that might reach to Asia. The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass But they dragged the toboggan ashore somehow, caring little where they landed it. Northern Diamonds The Lady Principal knows I can manage a toboggan fairly well, and this of yours seems to be an exact copy of my own that I’ve used so long.” Dorothy at Oak Knowe After he had put on his snowshoes again and hitched up Maigan to the toboggan he disappeared into the darkness. The Peace of Roaring River Sometimes the toboggan or Indian sledge was used, sometimes that of the Eskimo. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Winter had set in before Niverville set out on his long journey, and he travelled over the snow and ice with snowshoes, dragging his provisions on toboggans. Pathfinders of the Great Plains A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons Drawing up the toboggan, the boys took off their snowshoes and began to shovel out a circular pit for the camp. Northern Diamonds The platform was crowded with toboggans and girls; the air rang with jest and laughter; with girlish squeals of pretended fear; and cries of: “Don’t crowd!” or: “Sit close, sit close!” Dorothy at Oak Knowe The toboggan could no longer be used and he had driven over a shaggy old horse that had pulled a reliable buckboard. The Peace of Roaring River Did I not want that I should slide down the road to hell, which I am told I am on, with all the delight of a child on a toboggan slide. The Law-Breakers He knew nothing of the Indian method of harnessing dogs to their toboggans, and he and his men dragged the toboggans themselves. Pathfinders of the Great Plains A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons Then they unshipped the runners from the toboggan, put on their moccasins and snowshoes, and started ashore across a range of low, densely wooded hills. Northern Diamonds The light of his plane slanted down in an easy descent; the flyer was gliding in on a long aerial toboggan slide. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 He tucked the mail-bag and the parcel under one arm and went out, placing the former in a box that was lashed to the toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River So steep is the descent that it may be compared to a Canadian toboggan slide. Aztec Land There are several streets in Northwich where the houses are simply tobogganing into each other, and all over the place are houses which have been condemned and now are closed. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 The ice was white now; skates and toboggan left black streaks, immediately obliterated by fresh flakes. Northern Diamonds The men made another strenuous effort as the log started, 3 but in another moment it rushed away, and, like a toboggan, sped downwards through the forest to the river-ice below. The Greater Power Once Stefan stopped the toboggan in order to show her tracks of a bear. The Peace of Roaring River Here a broad ledge shot down to the river like a toboggan slide, with a six-foot jump off at the bottom. Hidden Water Then that dam-fool of a fine little fellow Smiler, he going all plumb toboggan to hell because nobody look after him all day long. The Spoilers of the Valley "Got to put him on the toboggan," declared the Scotchman. Northern Diamonds Now the hillside was rough with rocks and trees, and the river flowed between steep precipices, so nobody could toboggan down there without being broken to pieces. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The girl petted him as Stefan turned the toboggan and its load right side up. The Peace of Roaring River It was late on Christmas eve when Ungava Bob, returning from the Indian camp, drew his toboggan into the clearing in the centre of which stood the river tilt. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob Smiler dam-fine little rotter all right, but he no good, no work, headpiece all shot toboggan to blazes.” The Spoilers of the Valley The wind bore against him like a wall; the drag of the toboggan seemed intolerable. Northern Diamonds But the eldest brother said he was ready, and asked the chief to come on the same toboggan. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales The man had jumped on the toboggan and he was already being borne away, swiftly, by his team of wild shaggy brutes that seemed never to have known a weary moment in their lives. The Peace of Roaring River Of the dried meat on the toboggan Mookoomahn and those who are with him will eat but once during each sun. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob But he glanced along the port side, like a toboggan down-hill, and he seemed to ricochet over the water. Tales of Fishes As for the camp, there was none, and they could only guess at where the toboggan with their stores might be buried. Northern Diamonds The place where we have our weddings is down by the river at the bottom of the valley, and we will go there on our toboggans.” Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales From the toboggan he removed a load of pelts, dead hares that would serve chiefly for bait, his blankets and the indispensable axe. The Peace of Roaring River Cunningly he watched for a moment when it was well within rifle shot, and drawing his rifle from the toboggan he dropped upon a knee, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob They were excited, but had no thought of fear by the time they entered the last chute where the scow tobogganed down to the foot of the island. Young Alaskans in the Far North They moved in a cloud of puffing white powder, and the heavy toboggan went down so that it was difficult to draw it. Northern Diamonds Then the Algonquin gave his toboggan a push, and jumped on, and didn’t even take the trouble to sit down. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales If de togs is tired I take de doctor on my toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River In the final distribution of supplies among the tilts, long, narrow Indian toboggans were brought into service, and the loads hauled upon the toboggans. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob The pinto hesitated, shifted unwilling hoofs, squatted on its haunches and, tail sweeping the dirt, tobogganed down to the road, jumping catwise the moment it was reached, away from the squirming terror. Rimrock Trail There was no sign of the camp-fire, nor of the toboggan, nor of any of his companions, nothing but a few mounds on the drifted white surface. Northern Diamonds When he got to the top of the mountain opposite he turned his toboggan round and coasted back as he had come. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales We only hit the high places after I got on Stefan’s toboggan, I can tell you. The Peace of Roaring River Bob broke into a run, the others at his heels, and, scarcely halting to drop the hauling rope of his toboggan from his shoulders, he lifted the flap and entered, calling as he did so: The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob The stinging particles changed to dry, powdery snow dust that whirled and eddied about them so thickly that Connie could not see the dogs from the rear of the toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country After groping about for some time they found the toboggan, unstrapped the snowshoes, and used them as shovels to clear away a circular place. Northern Diamonds We took time to explore some old fishing huts filled with curious things,—skins, toboggans, dog-collars, cedar ropes, and many other traps of small value to anybody. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Philippe Papineau rode nearly all the way on the toboggan, sparing the dogs only in the hardest places on rising ground. The Peace of Roaring River A sickening nausea overtook Shad, and he sank upon his toboggan, faint and dizzy with an overpowering weakness. The Gaunt Gray Wolf A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob This trench was as long as the toboggans, and wide enough to accommodate the two sleeping bags placed side by side. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country He flung them on the toboggan, and they arrived at camp that night frozen into solid lumps. Northern Diamonds When he got back with rope, straps, a big mastiff-muzzle, and a toboggan, he found Dave in a very bad humor, and calling the watchful, 127 silent, crouching beast hard names. Kings in Exile The toboggan slithered over the snow and there was a patter of dogs’ feet. The Peace of Roaring River They were up there, all of them, early in the afternoon, George and Young Joe Warren driving one of the Warren horses hitched to a sleigh, and drawing a string of toboggans after. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The loaded toboggans were tipped on edge, one along either side, and the heavy canvas shelter tarp was stretched over these and weighted down by doubling its edges under the toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country They slid out upon the ice and dragged the toboggan after them. Northern Diamonds He was tied upon the toboggan, and being dragged swiftly through the forest—that free forest of which he had so long felt himself master—at the heels of his two conquerors. Kings in Exile He took the time to exchange his toboggan for Hugo’s, which was lighter and to which he hitched his three powerful dogs. The Peace of Roaring River Henry Burns, standing beside the slide, half-way up the mountain, saw a toboggan with four youths dash down the steep incline, presently. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Then suddenly the human toboggan struck the ice of a hillside spring and shot forward. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country The ice was good; the toboggan ran smoothly after them, so that they scarcely noticed its weight. Northern Diamonds She pulled the blue toboggan cap over her head, took a hasty osculatory leave of her father, seized books and lunch basket, and followed her mother to the door. The Dark Star Maigan had already hauled the toboggan to the door of the big shack, and the other animals had come near to renew assurances of armed neutrality. The Peace of Roaring River It took all of Henry Burns's nerve, to seat himself at the front end of the toboggan, while Jack Harvey gave a shove off. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill He swung a heavy pack to a toboggan which stood waiting before the door with the dogs in harness. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country The trail was blazed at long intervals, but not cleared, and it was hard, exasperating work to get the toboggan through the snowy tangle. Northern Diamonds In the mountain districts of Germany winter sports are growing in favour every year, and people go to the Riesengebirge or to the Black Forest for tobogganing and ski-ing. Home Life in Germany A cup of hot tea would do you a lot of good, too, after that long ride on Stefan’s toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River Then he caught the exhilaration of the sport, as the toboggan gathered speed and shot down the incline at lightning speed. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Despite the fact that there was more snow on the eastern slope, the two soon found it insufficient to check the toboggans upon the series of steep pitches and long slopes they now encountered. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country At that rate, they might expect to reach their destination the next day; and, greatly encouraged, they coasted on the toboggan down to the ice, and set out again on skates. Northern Diamonds He went on, picking his way carefully among the bowlders, with his nose close to earth, setting his hindlegs stiffly and tobogganing down loose, shale slopes. The Ranch at the Wolverine Hugo allowed him to romp about for a few minutes before hitching him up to the toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River It told of the snowshoe of the Norwegians, the ski, with which a runner could travel through the deep drifts of loose snow, and coast down the steep hills, as easily as on a toboggan. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Picking up Leloo's harness the Indian led the way across the river where it was but the work of a few minutes to load the meat on to the toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country After breakfast, therefore, they packed the supplies upon the toboggan, unscrewed the steel runners, and put on the new snowshoes. Northern Diamonds But it had tobogganed down a steep bank into an ice stream close by, and was floating away in the distance, cuckooing at intervals as it danced up and down upon the water. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children She lacked the courage of her convictions and allowed him to depart, with his dog running ahead with the toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River Day after day, he set out from there, skiing his way up stream, dragging after him a toboggan on which was loaded a pail half filled with water. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill He glanced at the tiny thermometer that he kept lashed to the front of his toboggan. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country One result of these researches was the development of a boat-shaped type of float, with flared bows, in addition to the toboggan shape. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force He announced to the children that he was going to build a toboggan in the back yard for their joint use just as soon as spring came. Otherwise Phyllis It was a man arriving with a toboggan and two big dogs. The Peace of Roaring River Harvey proudly displayed a big toboggan, some seven feet in length, in the making of which he had expended the surplus time and energy of the last two weeks. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill I've got about a dozen cans out there on the toboggan. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country “When you were gone all in a moment I thought you’d slipped and gone sliding down like them chaps do the tobogganing, sir.” Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills "You can put the toboggan on our lot if you like." Otherwise Phyllis Papineau jumped on his toboggan and followed, only catching up after they had gone a couple of hundred yards. The Peace of Roaring River The chute had been designed for toboggans, and continued only as far as the fastest one of them would travel. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The toboggan was left at the edge of the swamp and the two entered and plunged into the maze of rabbit paths that crisscrossed the snow in all directions. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country Beware Flying Machines!’ he sat down suddenly on the tray, and tobogganed gloriously down the stairs, flapping his fire-guard wings. The Magic World Another step forward would have sent them tobogganing into a brawling stream. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life After this he took a long line attached to the toboggan and passed it over his right shoulder, pulling at the side of the dog, who toiled on briskly. The Peace of Roaring River Watching Young Joe's daring feat, the boys saw him make the descent and speed along the level, until he reached the spot where the toboggans usually stopped. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill When the job was finished, the meat was covered with the hides, and taking only the livers and hearts with them, the two started for the toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country The next had a hissing crest, part of which splashed on board, and they went shorewards like a toboggan down an icy slide on the shoulders of the third. Hawtrey's Deputy In July, before the valley snows melt away, there is tobogganing and skiing within a short walk of the Inn. The Book of the National Parks The toboggan swayed and bumped over hidden things that may have been stumps or rocks, or great buried ruts of the previous fall. The Peace of Roaring River Some of our men had to go down the river with hand-sleds or toboggans to get food for their famishing families. History of New Brunswick The late winter dawn had not yet broken when the little camp on the outskirts of the Indian village was struck and two dog teams drawing lightly loaded toboggans slipped silently into the timber. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country These children from the moon, however, they can see them and whenever they slide down on the moon toboggan they take back their pockets full of things so little we have never seen them.” Rootabaga Stories Consequence is, Sam’s hitting the toboggan for Tophet by all accounts.” Crooked Trails and Straight A moment later one side of the toboggan rose suddenly and the passenger felt herself being shot off into the snow. The Peace of Roaring River When the toboggan had finally brought itself to a standstill Ridgwell extricated himself and viewed the snow-powdered spaces in front of them a trifle apprehensively. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy But they declined with thanks, and indicated that they would camp a short distance below the village where a more gently sloping bank gave promise of ascent for the heavily loaded toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country For me this is the time of the year when the dream of the white moon toboggan comes back. Rootabaga Stories Of infants, sitting up extremely late, Who run you on toboggans down the stair; Or make you fetch a rug and simulate A bear. Modern British Poetry The toboggan was crackling and slithering over the snow upon which the dark indigo shadows were throwing uncanny designs. The Peace of Roaring River With the father dead, Judd came under his mother's care and Mrs. Billings has sure put her boy on the toboggan. Over the Line "Thirty-two rabbits and two lynx," counted Connie as they loaded the toboggan. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country And sliding, sliding down from the moon on this toboggan were the White Gold Boys and the Blue Silver Girls. Rootabaga Stories Why, he gives me his ideas on every subject you could think of, from the way Napoleon got himself started on the toboggan, to the folly of eatin’ fried ham for breakfast. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Wearing a pair of huge snowshoes Stefan followed or kept at the side of the toboggan. The Peace of Roaring River With the speed of a wild-cat, he sprang to his feet, faced about, then, with a bounding leap, cleared the remaining assailant and went tobogganing down the hill. Panther Eye The boy removed the rifle from the toboggan and threw a shell into the chamber. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country “What was your dream of the white moon toboggan?” asked Any Ice Today. Rootabaga Stories They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol If he liked he could go to church on Friday morning; hunt otters from twelve to one on Saturday; toboggan or dig for badgers on Monday. Happy Days Down it goes a continuous stream of sleds, toboggans, and skis. The 1926 Tatler The pace was slow next day owing to the heavy loads, each toboggan carrying more than one hundred pounds to the dog. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country I saw after a while they were weaving a long toboggan, a white toboggan, white and soft as snow. Rootabaga Stories The next wave had a hissing crest, part of which splashed on board, and, like a toboggan down an icy slide, the boat went shoreward on the shoulders of the third. Masters of the Wheat-Lands And so her theme very likely will prove to be a description of a coasting carnival or tobogganing which she once enjoyed. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls “Come on this one with me,” said Hal, who had a long, toboggan sort of an affair. Patty's Social Season The short afternoon was well advanced and after selecting a camping site, the Indian hung the livers and hearts upon a limb, and the two struck out rapidly for the toboggans. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country And after a long while of snizzling and sniffering, climbing up and climbing down, at last the toboggan was done, a snow white toboggan running from the moon down to the Rootabaga Country. Rootabaga Stories Fortunately he had got his skates, and he supposed there'd be toboggans and skis. The Dark Tower Say, there is no more danger on Vesuvius than there is in a toboggan slide, or shooting the chutes at home. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 “Off we go!” said Jim, as he arranged her snugly on the toboggan sled, and took his place in front of her. Patty's Social Season Only the limits of his exchequer had prohibited his availing himself of the opportunity to purchase, at a tremendous bargain, a pair of snow-shoes, a tobogganing cap and a pair of corduroy trousers, slightly spotted. The Varmint |
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