That meant the nearness of war; the revolt of slaves; confusion ending in fire and flame through which she was borne safely in the strong arms of Pelagie, and carried to the
log cabin which was still their home.
At length the sun set in a flood of glory, behind the distant western hills, and as darkness drew its veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminished; the last light finally disappeared from the log cabin of some officer; the trees cast their deeper shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream, and a silence soon pervaded the camp, as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed.
The deepest sounds of the retiring and invisible column had ceased to be borne on the breeze to the listeners, and the latest straggler had already disappeared in pursuit; but there still remained the signs of another departure, before a log cabin of unusual size and accommodations, in front of which those sentinels paced their rounds, who were known to guard the person of the English general.
I was born in a typical
log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square.
For the rest of the time there was nothing to do but hibernate in his
log cabin.
They cleared the bank with a rush, swung to the left, and dashed up to a small
log cabin. It was a deserted cabin of a single room, eight feet by ten on the inside.
He was sitting in the
log cabin that Perry had had built to serve as his sleeping quarters and office.
The few that possessed sufficient faith to remain were busy building
log cabins against the coming of winter.
The
log cabins he had known were replaced by towering buildings.
The barns and outhouses are mouldering away; the sheds are patched and half roofless; the
log cabins (built in Virginia with external chimneys made of clay or wood) are squalid in the last degree.
I was a month shy of my 19th birthday when I went to work as an entry-level sportswriter at the
Log Cabin Democrat in Conway in July 1981.
log cabin - a cabin built with logs