pardners

"Sometime I'll lose my temper -- and that's the kind of pardners me and Justus Morrow was."

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The old feeling of camaraderie which had sprung up between them at times was gone now; they could no longer be "pardners" as they had been that night in the old cabin.

Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Jackson Gregory 1912

The hurried progress of men in search of "pardners" became a race, boots clumped noisily against the floor, the cowboys swooped down upon the line of women folks, often enough there was no spoken invitation to the waltz as a strong arm ran about a lithe waist, the fiddle scraped, the guitar thrummed into the tune, and with the first note they were dancing.

Six Feet Four Jackson Gregory 1912

At five o'clock on a magnificent May morning the "pardners" jogged out of Keeler, driving the burro before them.

McTeague 1899

After breakfast the "pardners" separated, going in opposite directions along the slope of the range, examining rocks, picking and chipping at ledges and bowlders, looking for signs, prospecting.

McTeague 1899

They were originally five in all -- three "pardners," a wagoner, and a cook.

To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days Charles King 1888

At five o'clock on a magnificent May morning the "pardners" jogged out of Keeler, driving the burro before them.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

After breakfast the "pardners" separated, going in opposite directions along the slope of the range, examining rocks, picking and chipping at ledges and bowlders, looking for signs, prospecting.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

He became incoherently eloquent, spoke of the ease and rapidity with which the thing could be resold to a syndicate at an enormous profit, should his "pardners" and he not care to develop it themselves.

Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885

Our private soldiers wore the rubber poncho-blankets above their overcoats in wet weather, and two "pardners" would make a shelter tent of the pair of waterproofs which had metal eyelets to adapt them to this use.

Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864