Then there came the morning, very early, when the babiche collar and the iron chain were fastened to him again.
He shortened the babiche by twisting it again and again about his hand, and the club rose and fell with the skill and strength of one long accustomed to its use.
Untying thebabiche he dragged the dog to the canoe.
Then he dragged Kazan to a log that high water had thrown up on the shore a few yards away and made the end of the babiche rope fast to a dead snag.
Instantly he sent the canoe into midstream, swung it quickly down with the current, and began to paddle enough to keep the babiche taut about his victim's neck.
A second and a third time he sprang the length of the leash into the night, and the babiche cord about his neck cut into his flesh like a knife.
Before Kazan recovered from the blow that had stunned him Sandy examined the muzzle and strengthened it by adding another babiche thong.
She, too, saw the point, and suddenly the babiche leash slipped from her fingers, and a strange light leaped into her blue eyes as she saw what stood at the end of that white tip of sand.
This time a stout babiche thong was tied to the collar round his neck, and he was fastened to a staple in the log wall.
He did this by plaiting babiche thongs in the same manner that one does in making the web of a snow-shoe.
As quick as a cat he was on his feet again, with the end of the babiche twisted several times about his hand.
Somewhere he obtained a chain for Kazan, and after fastening the dog securely back of the tent he cut off the babiche muzzle.
The hair was worn short at their flanks, and one still dragged after him three feet of corded babiche trace.
Then, still holding the babiche thong, she drew Kazan up close to her, so that he lay with his weight against her.
One huge red-eyed dog who still dragged the bit of babiche trace muzzled Gray Wolf's soft neck for a fraction of a second too long, and Kazan uttered a savage snarl of warning.
For instance, our friend Mu'nialu had the babiche for his new snowshoes made by his house-mate, the younger Tunazu.
In making the point netting the end of the babiche is knotted round the bar at the right-hand lower corner with a single knot.
Over his heart Philip noticed a blood-stained locket, fastened by a babiche string about his neck.
He gave a low cry of pain, and his hand clutched at the babiche cord which held the locket about his neck.
His mind began to work more swiftly as in darkness he cut the babiche cordage that bound the patrol dunnage to the sledge.
His guide fainted, but Walker tookbabiche and, without a needle, sewed up the wound.
Ahead of the team which had come that morning walked the breed, his left arm bound to his side with a babiche thong.
For a long time he wrote, and when he had done he sealed the writing, put the envelope and the skull together in a box, and tied the whole with babiche string.
Jose and Little Babiche had formed alliances which held them there--besides, King Macavoy needed them.
I was with him, and I have known Little Babiche fifteen years--as long as I've known you.
I struck his back hard, and spoke loud from a song that we used to sing on the Chaudiere--Babiche and all of us, years ago.
Pierre continued: "Babiche turned to me with a little laugh, which was a sob too.
The next day we come on safe, and in a week I was back at Fort St. Saviour with Babiche and all the mails, and that most wonderful letter of the governor's.
They halted in the bush, and Little Babiche went forward to spy upon the Fort.
One spear caught Little Babiche in the arm as he swung aside, but with the butt of his musket Noel dropped him.
Or was it the breaking of one of the babiche cords?
Then Falkner bound him hand and foot with the babiche thongs, and dragged him to the bunk.
He made space for himself on the sledge, and laid himself out in that space with great care, first taking pains to fasten about his thighs two babiche thongs that were employed at times to steady his freight.
Corporal Carr approached, pulling a roll of babichecord from his pocket.
Half a minute later Challoner had Neewa once more in the prison-sack, but this time he left the cub's head protruding, and drew in the mouth of the sack closely about his neck, fastening it securely with a piece of babiche string.
In it he rolled the meat and fats, and with babiche thong bound the whole into a pack around which he belted the dunnage ends of his shoulder straps.
And then at last The Call that was coming to him from out of the night became his master, and he gnawed the babiche in two.
For Miki, while still muzzled, now followed at the end of the babiche that was tied to Henri's sledge.
I struck his back hard, and spoke loud from a song that we used to sing on the Chaudiere-- Babiche and all of us, years ago.
Explain also that the men of the fort lie inbabiche bonds; that Glyndon is a prisoner; that Glyndon's wife is a captive.
The cold struck nippingly at bare fingers that loaded arms and travelling necessities on the sledges, lashed the moosehide covers over the provender, and tied the stubborn babiche knots.
He tucked her into a nest made of blankets and then tied her in securely with babiche rope.
It was built of light, dry wood, hewn with a belt ax, and the corners were fastened with babichecord made of caribou skin in place of nails.
He picked up the end of the babiche rope with which the woman had assisted them to drag their load, and set off across the Barren.
The babiche rope had slipped from his hand, and when things cleared before his eyes again the sledge was twenty yards ahead of him.
He sprang to his pack, whipped a knife from his pocket, and cut the stout babiche rope that reenforced its straps.
If the buckskin should break-- He thanked God that it was the tough babiche that had been around his pack.
And then, suddenly, the babichecord about his wrist grew loose.
His fingers caught the end of the babiche that was fastened about his own wrist, and he clutched it savagely, believing for a moment that he had found her.
At the same time he had to keep his end of the babiche taut.
It was a strange, tense little smile, but it told him that she was not afraid, that she had great faith in him, and knew what the babiche meant.
The babiche rope, not half as large around as his little finger, had swung her to the downstream side of the rock.
Baree, fastened to a table leg by a babiche thong, heard her pause for a moment at the door.
Then she fastened another length ofbabiche to him, and made him drag two sticks.
In the glow of it Baree lay trussed up like an Indian papoose, tied into a balloon-shaped ball with babiche thong, his head alone showing where his captor had cut a hole for it in the blanket.
Then, with a long breath of relief, she put down her four-legged burden and fastened the end of the babiche to one of the cut spruce limbs.
The babiche string tightened about Baree's neck as she urged him to follow.
She was untying the babiche from about the table leg, and under her breath she laughed.
The thick lips were set tightly, the flat nose seemed flatter, and with a shiver Philip noticed Bram's huge, naked hand gripping his club until the cords stood out likebabiche thongs under the skin.
He swung his head toward the door with a great gasp and the babiche cut like whipcord under the strain of his muscles.
With thebabiche thong he had taken from his enemies he bound him hand and foot.
The giant's bleeding lips were gathered in a snarl and he was straining at the babiche thongs that bound him.
Babiche gave two hungry yelps that sounded painfully loud in that silent house.
Babiche begged gracefully for her part of the buns.
She did not talk any more, just listened to sobbing breaths that the girl drew--listened as she sat in the wicker chair with Babiche cuddled in her arms.
Babiche was sitting up and begging with her paws crossed.
Inside the car her head drooped, she felt the new Babiche licking her lifeless hand, she felt the whir of the motor.
Babiche pranced joyously, tossing her bone in the air and worrying it.
At the foot of the bed Babiche awoke too, yawning and stretching beautifully, reflexing her droll puppy body and wagging her wee feathery tail.
But even Babiche yawned at all the Utopian theories with which her mistress would reform the world.
And when the door was shut she sat down in one chair and putBabiche carefully on the bed.
Felicia stood there, an absurdly dowdy figure, Babiche clasped in her arm, and smiled timorously.
It is well to wrap the frame on either side where the babiche is drawn around it, with buckskin or sealskin.
Otherwise even a slight crust upon the snow will in time cut the babiche strands.
On the opposite side of the fire from her sat a young Indian maiden of about Bob's own age netting the babiche in a snow-shoe, her fingers plying deftly in and out.
The girl lay aside the snow-shoe and babiche and, taking up a tin cup, dipped some hot broth from the kettle and offered it to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "babiche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
