They were pitted with scars and traversed with red and purple weals.
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There were puckered weals where flesh met what appeared to be stone.
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A small weir over a river, where weals are laid for taking fish.
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If weals had started up across it, Noel would not have been surprised.
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I saw all the swords of Feudal and all the weals of Industrial war.
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Here, their sweat attests to labour, and their weals are caused by strong-handed grips.
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Itchy red weals on the skin are the major symptom, also known as urticaria or nettlerash.
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He got up and beat her till she was marked with weals, but she uttered no complaint.
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All seems far from the world, drowsy, careless, indifferent to the weals and woes of suffering humanity.
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Gingerly, she extended her hand and allowed her fingertips to trace over the weals that zigzagged down his back.
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One horse, named Justabout, suffered open weals to his flesh on two separate occasions at the hands of the same jockey.
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But Brian Moore's face was covered in scratches, bruises and weals that bear no relation to rugby as I know it.
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You could always tell where she'd been in the school, you just followed the red weals on the legs of the kids.
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If I was to bare my arm now I could show you weals that's more colours and brighter than your neckankercher there.
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But the sight of the weals on Clem's back had for the moment killed all feeling in her but disgust and horror.
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Four days later he developed a mild temperature, a sore throat, blisters on the palms of his hands and weals on his tongue.
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I sat in it once when they were picking tomatoes, my feet dangling, the ridge of the seat hurting my thighs, making red weals.
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Eventually, having been caught drinking alcohol, he was saved from a stretch in a reformatory by showing the judge the weals on his back.
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He pulled down the boy's shirt, and saw that his back was covered with weals, the effect of the cruel flogging he had received.
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The angry cross-hatch of purple weals between his nipples is matched by four on his back and, according to some reports, one on his buttocks.
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Their idea of a fun Saturday afternoon is to go paintballing and end up covered in golfball-sized red weals from being shot at close range.
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The fights might be choreographed, but they involve real pain and physical damage and Randy can trace his career through the scars and weals that cover his body.
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The spores are white. The stem is grey to white. The flesh is watery, grey and has a rancid smell. The Latin vibicina means "with weals or welts (vibices)" and would seem to describe the slightly raised striations of the cap.
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In the early 1900s, Cole and his sons made a weekly trek across Sugarland Mountain via what is now the Huskey Gap Trail to Elkmont, where they worked for the Little River Lumber Company. As tourism increased in the mountains in the 1920s, Cole began offering his services as a mountain guide, especially for tourists wanting to hike to the summit of Mount Le Conte. Historian Vic Weals wrote that Cole's "considerable knowledge of his wilderness" made him "one of the more sought- after native guides."Vic Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont (Knoxville: Olden Press, 1993), p. 26.
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All three of these operations failed within their first few years, however, after their dams and boom systems were destroyed by floods.Wilma Dykeman, The French Broad (New York: Rinehart, 1955), 167-174.Vic Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont (Knoxville: Olden Press, 1993), 1-3.Oliver, 55-56.
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He was followed shortly thereafter by the family of David Ownby (1816-1889), who came to the area to search for gold.National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Mayna Treanor Avent Studio, Section 8: 6. The small community that developed in the valley was known simply as "Little River".Weals, p.24.
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One such splash dam was located at the mouth of Spruce Flats along Middle Prong, just above Walker Valley. While English's lumbering venture turned a small profit, a flood along Little River apparently wiped out his splash dams in the late 1890s, and his venture had folded by 1900.Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont, 1-3.
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Weals, p.28. Logging skidders were used to pull trees from the steeper slopes. Elkmont was established in 1908 as a transfer station where logs were moved from gear- operated trains (used for reaching higher elevations) to rod-operated trains for transport to the sawmill at Townsend. Elkmont in 1915 Early Elkmont was a typical temporary logging camp.
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Strutin, History Hikes of the Smokies, 237.Vic Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont (Knoxville: Olden Press, 1993), 1-3. Between 1908 and 1939, the Little River Lumber Company removed most of Meigs Mountain's commercial timber. The company built two large band saw mills in Townsend and connected the mills to the Elkmont area via the Little River Railroad.
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Weals, pp.1-3. In 1901, Pennsylvania entrepreneur Colonel Wilson B. Townsend purchased of land along Little River and established the Little River Lumber Company. Townsend set up a band saw mill in Tuckaleechee Cove, laying the foundation for the town that would later bear his name. Rather than splash dams, which are at the mercy of the volatile mountain streams, Townsend constructed a logging railroad between the company's sawmill in Tuckaleechee and the river's upper reaches, all the way to the Three Forks area (where the river absorbs Fish Camp Prong and Rough Creek).Weals, pp.v, 27-28. The railroad was later extended to Walland, connecting it to Maryville and Knoxville. The railroad employed 10 Shay engines to move the log-filled flatcars along the river valley.
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Weals, pp.59, 75. In 1926, Townsend sold most of his Little River Lumber tract to the newly created Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission, although he had been given permission to continue logging for most of the next decade. By the time the company ceased operations in 1939, it had produced 750 million board feet (1.8 million m³) of lumber.
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Usually there was a maximum of six strokes (known as "six of the best"). Such a caning would typically leave the offender with uncomfortable weals and bruises lasting for many days after the immediate intense pain had worn off. Elsewhere, other implements prevailed, such as the tawse in Scotland and Northern England, ruler, and the slipper. Girls were caned too, but generally less frequently than boys.
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He also could not have singlehandedly overcome McPherson, who was quite strong, despite having heart trouble. The two men also consider McPherson's wounds. The weals actually looked as though they may have been administered by a hot wire mesh, or perhaps a cat o' nine tails. Holmes is about to go back to the bathing pond to test a theory he has formed which might explain McPherson's death.
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Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont, 11-15. While Walker was well liked and respected throughout the northwestern Smokies, he was always a source of controversy due to his practice of polygamy. Walker, who was very religious, believed that Biblical scripture allowed him to take more than one wife. In 1864, he married Mary Ann Moore and a few years later married a third wife, Mary Moll Stinnett.
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This base quickly grew into a small town, which was given the name Tremont, a combination of "tree" and "mountain."Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont, 85-88. While Tremont remained a base of operations, the logging camps moved further and further up Lynn Camp Prong as the operation progressed. These camps consisted of small shanty houses that could be loaded onto flatcars and moved from camp to camp.
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His sharpshooting skills were so well known, he was often barred from shooting contests.Vic Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont (Knoxville: Olden Press, 1993), 12. Walker kept over a hundred bee stands, which he robbed without the use of mask or smoke, and sold the honey in nearby Tuckaleechee. During the U.S. Civil War, he aided struggling families in Tuckaleechee by going from house to house to cut firewood and do basic chores.
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Vic Weals, The Last Train to Elkmont (Knoxville, Tenn.: Olden Press, 1993), 26. By the time the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission started buying up tracts of land in the late 1920s for the formation of the national park, the Little River Lumber Company owned the entire western side of Sugarland Mountain and the Champion Fibre Company owned the mountain's southeastern section.Carlos Campbell, Birth of a National Park In the Great Smoky Mountains (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969), 69.
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Dermatographic urticaria (also known as dermatographism or "skin writing") is marked by the appearance of weals or welts on the skin as a result of scratching or firm stroking of the skin. Seen in 4–5% of the population, it is one of the most common types of urticaria, in which the skin becomes raised and inflamed when stroked, scratched, rubbed, and sometimes even slapped. The skin reaction usually becomes evident soon after the scratching and disappears within 30 minutes. Dermatographism is the most common form of a subset of chronic hives, acknowledged as "physical hives".
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