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Example sentences for "buckskins"

Lexicographically close words:
buckra; buckram; bucks; buckshot; buckskin; buckthorn; buckwheat; bucolic; bud; budded
  1. I have often met a band of six or eight Navaho traders with horses and blankets in the canyon of the Havasu, and they took away the well-dressed buckskins in exchange, for which these canyon people are noted.

  2. Men and women both dress the buckskins for which the Havasupai is so famous.

  3. After they had got a large bundle of buckskins dressed, they put them on their backs and began to walk on to seek the country of lots of water, where plenty of corn would grow.

  4. This, indeed, is one of their staple articles of trade, good buckskins fetching as high as five dollars and even ten dollars cash.

  5. Here Palmer and his cockneys stared at him, as country buckskins are wont to do at a monkey, or parrot, or any such creature that pretends to mimic man.

  6. But do the buckskins generally stir so early as this?

  7. And as she sat thus, a little way withdrawn from the scurrying activity of the scene, there came a step on the soft green sod and a slim form in buckskins halted beside her.

  8. A torch flared redly with the sudden revealing of a slim youth in buckskins and two Nakonkirhirinon warriors deep in the Great Sleep.

  9. How oft had she peeped with fascinated eyes from behind her father's forge at sturdy men in buckskins who spoke with the blacksmith about the wonders of the country of the Red River, and they had come from Fort William.

  10. I won from him two thousand oranges, five gallons of wine, seventeen buckskins and two hundred heifers.

  11. The heifers I presented to Paola and the buckskins I gave to her brothers to make leggings out of.

  12. The entrance to the sweat house was then covered with a black and white striped blanket upon which were placed two large Coçonino buckskins one upon the other, and upon them a double piece of white cotton.

  13. The buckskins represented daylight, or the twilight that comes just at the dawn of day.

  14. Then, in lieu of buffalo robes and buckskins they were clad in neat belted tunics and loose cotton breeches, and for a wrap or mantle had gaily striped blankets of their own weaving.

  15. One of the Buckskins hunting antelope one day in the vicinity of La Bonte Creek crossed the trail of a single tepee or family, and three ponies.

  16. His brother Buckskins thought he was crazy--some of them did.

  17. As for the good old buckskins of our venerated grandsires and governors, they arose in Roman times.

  18. Raoul watched Justus Bennett, in civilian life Smith County's land commissioner, ordering two privates in buckskins and coonskin caps to put up a tent for him.

  19. Men in buckskins were dragging their rifle butts along the ground, sitting down on the river's edge and splashing water on their faces, shaking their heads angrily, raccoon tails on their caps wagging.

  20. My buckskins are gone, sir, and no mistake," replied our gentleman.

  21. He rose, but there were no buckskins under him.

  22. So I did, now I recollect; but still the buckskins must be found.

  23. In buckskins black with filth, his blanket a tattered rag, an ancient rifle across his saddle, the undying picturesqueness of the red man was his.

  24. But, little as I was, I said nothing, only thought of the time when I should be grown, and do as my mother did, and wear the buckskins and the blanket.

  25. It is quite certain that he did not throw them away, as according to accounts he wore his buckskins in returning to Oregon the next summer.

  26. It is just barely possible that both may be true--that he kept his buckskins and buffalo coat and occasionally wore them.

  27. Jack, fetch a cloak to hide your buckskins and wait me here.

  28. So gorgeous was this newly tailored suit that, though my own buckskins were also new and deeply fringed on sleeve and leg, even to the quill and wampum embroidery on the thigh, I did cut but a dingy figure beside Jack Mount.

  29. And I began tearing off my buckskins and flinging them right and left, shouting for Jack the while, and dressing in my finest linen and my silver-gray velvet.

  30. She dressed herself in Katherine's clothes, then folded up the buckskins and shirt.

  31. Rhoda took off her buckskins and tattered blue shirt slowly, with lips that would quiver.

  32. Skenedonk also had new toggery in scarfs and trinkets which I did not recognize, and his fine buckskins were cleaned.

  33. Our St. Regis Iroquois kept to the buckskins, though they often had hunting shirts of fulled flannel; and my father's buckskins were very dirty.

  34. The knife glanced on a rib, but blood ran down his buckskins and filled his throat.

  35. The sun flecked a broad expanse of water, and down this shining track rushed a fleet of canoes; white uniforms leading, and brick-colored heads above dusky-fringed buckskins following close after.

  36. And spurred boots and buckskins are scarcely the mode for a garden fête.


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