Then he would stand as in a trance, with far-away gaze in his eyes, until his fellow-spiker would recall him to his neglected work.
"The U.P. Trail"
Zane Grey
When his turn came to be a spiker, he would love that hardest work of all.
"The U.P. Trail"
Zane Grey
With the handsome white-haired Warburton, and his associates, as they smoked their rich cigars and drank their wine, Neale contrasted Casey and McDermott and many another burly spiker or teamster out on the line.
"The U.P. Trail"
Zane Grey