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Example sentences for "bearskin"

Lexicographically close words:
bearing; bearings; bearish; bearlike; bears; bearskins; bearward; beast; beaste; beastes
  1. Mr. Pericles in his bearskin was easily to be distinguished.

  2. Mr. Pericles, imperiously, with his bearskin thrown back on his shoulders, and forth they stepped, following him.

  3. Well, you bring me a bearskin for a rug, and we'll call it quits," Bob answered.

  4. Their bearskin caps and coats, which Mills had procured for them, he made them keep as a present, and Tom, for a present to him, left his skis behind.

  5. She shook her head from side to side, then, drawing away, she stumbled past him into the room, dropped to the bearskin rug, and held out her hands to the flames.

  6. Out there where the peasant was changing from leather boots to felt boots and was hunting up his scarfs and his great parki, or bearskin overcoat.

  7. Next day, in mid-afternoon, White Bear stood again in the center of the camp wearing the same black bearskin he had worn six years ago.

  8. The ceremonial bearskin swung heavily on his head and shoulders as he trotted out of the camp toward the trail that ran along the river's edge.

  9. Iron Knife put an arm around Gray Cloud's shoulders, bent down and picked him up under the knees, bearskin cloak and all.

  10. He turned his back on the unknown depths of the cave and seated himself at its entrance, pulling the bearskin cloak around him for warmth.

  11. He knelt and peered over the edge of the bluff, the bearskin cloak bunching around him.

  12. And now presently there he knelt on the fine white sand, his bearskin robe opened and flung back, his well-knit shoulder and sinewed arm bare and brown.

  13. But none the less his wild savagery had given place to a certain aspect of civilization that made the white bearskin over his shoulders look doubly strange.

  14. Then putting my head under my bearskin I soon fell asleep, though some dogs succeeded in smuggling themselves in, and two or three times they awoke me by trying to get under my bearskin and lie by me.

  15. One of the Sea Lapps held my reindeer, and after I was seated another drew my bearskin round me, and made it secure with the cord belonging to my sleigh.

  16. Then a big bearskin was given to me as a blanket, Pehr saying, "I killed this bear myself.

  17. But I appeared before the American Geographical Society in New York dressed in this suit, seated in my Lapp sleigh, with a stuffed reindeer harnessed to it, and my bearskin over me.

  18. When all was ready, even the taciturn Bearskin admitted that he had never seen a party so well fitted out, in every respect, for an Indian expedition.

  19. For some time the latter seemed to be gaining ground, but the Delawares, still superior in number and hastening to the spot, aided by Bearskin and his followers, recovered their lost advantage, and the combat raged with renewed fury.

  20. He then wrapped his cloak round his shoulders, and went out to see what provision Bearskin had made for the security of the camp, during the absence of Reginald, War–Eagle, and their party.

  21. The orders given to Bearskin were, to make the best of his way to St. Louis, and having delivered the letters with which he was entrusted, there to await Reginald’s arrival.

  22. Indeed I care not much how long it may be before I see his face again,” said Bearskin sulkily.

  23. Weel a weel, ye maun just step ben and tak’ a stoup o’ cognac to the success o’ Bearskin and his crew.

  24. By this mild radiance she saw, standing on the bearskin before the fire, a curious figure.

  25. Before going to work on the hiding part of the business, the girl put back the log, knocked it firmly into place and put the bearskin over it.

  26. He sat down on the bearskin and watched her with the bead-like eyes of a squirrel--or a musk rat.

  27. The girl ran to the window and pulled aside the bearskin curtain which had completely shut out the light.

  28. Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand.

  29. But neither the din and noise nor the creaking of the well-sweeps could awake Jurand, who was carried upon a bearskin into his own house and put to bed.

  30. The grips on the sledges are nicely arranged, and provided with cushions of bearskin on Johansen's and of cloth on mine.

  31. But we had no cord to lash them with, and had to make it for ourselves of raw bearskin or walrus hide, which is not the best possible material for lashings.

  32. The inner opening was covered with a bearskin curtain, sewed firmly to the walrus hide of the roof; the outer end was covered with a loose bearskin laid over the opening.

  33. About Christmas-time, accordingly, we at last managed to make ourselves a bearskin bag.

  34. He was seated on a box covered with bearskin placed on a sledge drawn by seven dogs, the banner waving behind him on a pole rigged as a mast.

  35. The bearskin which covered it, it had dragged a long way, but fortunately it had not succeeded in getting anything eaten before I came.

  36. This fortune fell to Parker, who parted his hair in the middle, put on his mittens and bearskin cap, and stepped over to Malemute Kid's cabin.

  37. She brought herself to her knees on the bearskin mat, her face aglow with true Eve-light, and shyly unbuckled his heavy belt.

  38. Yet, here in the nineteenth century we behold artists purposely setting bearskin caps upon their poetry to make it effective.

  39. How long ago is it that they began to put great bearskin caps on soldiers with a view to make them look grisly and formidable when advancing on the enemy?

  40. We shall have a couple of splendid bearskin rugs.

  41. At length the last day of the seven years approached, and Bearskin went and sat down again on the heath beneath the circle of trees.

  42. Then he hung the bearskin around himself, and went about the world chuckling at his good luck, and buying whatever suited his fancy which money could purchase.

  43. While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart that the seven years were over, he heard in the corner a loud groan.

  44. Bearskin took a ring off his finger, broke it in two, and, giving the youngest daughter one half, he kept the other for himself.

  45. Now, snuggling down into a corner of the rickety old sleigh, with the musty moth-eaten old bearskin robe pulled up to her chin, she sat lost in complete rapture.

  46. Illustration: Bearskin Cap on a Ramrod 125] Lewis Wetzel had two brothers only less famous than himself in the backwoods warfare, and more than once Indian fighting seems to have run in families.

  47. At last Wetzel put his bearskin cap on his ramrod, and pushed it a little beyond the edge of his shelter.

  48. One was then tied, inside the bearskin suit, just under each jaw or under each armpit.

  49. The remainder of the bearskin was fitted exactly to the body, arms, and legs so as to perfectly hide every part of the body and give the wearer the appearance of a grizzly.

  50. In the second place, the power of the doctor was thought to reside wholly in his bearskin suit, or parts thereof, and apparently was considered the result of an elaborate ceremony performed in its manufacture and subsequent donning.

  51. In undressing, on the other hand, the bear doctor performed no ceremony at all, but simply took off his suit and carefully laid it away, hanging up in the cavern the bearskin itself to keep it clean.

  52. In the morning I shall place my bearskin suit upon you and you shall practice bear-doctoring.

  53. Upon putting on the suit for the first time, the procedure was as follows: While seated in the dancing area, burakal-ba-kidjon took the bearskin in both hands and swung it over his right shoulder and then turned his head to the left.

  54. A groan went up at this, but the man with the bearskin coat approved.

  55. He was without scales, but the man with the bearskin coat fetched a pair and obligingly weighed in the dust while Rasmunsen passed out the goods.

  56. A man, an eminently decorous-looking man, came sauntering by in a great bearskin coat.

  57. Eagle feathers and magpie feathers, as well as a bearskin robe, conferred power.

  58. The rifle made such acquisitions much less hazardous and in the late nineteenth century it had become common for Indians to own a bearskin cloak, which became their most prized possession and was buried with them.

  59. A pioneer white resident who had lived in Alpine County, California, for ninety years casually mentioned that every Indian man who was buried during his boyhood was wrapped in a bearskin shroud.

  60. This, with Tom Lincoln's passion for hunting, promised good things for the family to eat, as well as bearskin rugs for the bare earth floor, and deerskin curtains for the still open door and window.

  61. Tom and the children enjoyed the story of Christian's pilgrimage from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City the more because of her love for the story she was reading to them, as they lay on bearskin rugs before the blazing fire.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bearskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.