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Example sentences for "buffalo robes"

  • The smooth ground floor was strewed with fragrant hemlock branches, over which were spread blankets or buffalo robes.

  • Our travellers carefully examined the ground over which they reared their frail shelters, and then folded in their blankets or buffalo robes, experienced no solicitude.

  • Buffalo robes, and a few of the soft and fragrant branches of the hemlock tree, would create a couch which a prince might envy.

  • The berries they were drying on buffalo robes.

  • See opposite page for illustration of Ponca Indians in buffalo robes.

  • They were clothed in buffalo robes, and had bows, with quivers made of skin, on their backs.

  • The Kit Fox had been suffocated to death by some dozens of bundles of Buffalo robes falling on it, while attached to a ladder, and had been thrown out and eaten by the Wolves or the dogs.

  • When the carts overtook us, we exchanged our horses for them, and sat on Buffalo robes on the bottom, our horses following on behind us.

  • Well, he had lots of bedding, buffalo robes, buffalo overshoes and blankets.

  • The Indians had placed their stakes consisting of ponies, buffalo robes, deer skins, trinkets of all kinds and characters, in the hands of their squaws.

  • The cost of buffalo robes in merchandise is about $1.

  • We will now detail a few of the most common or everyday dresses among them, in different seasons, male and female, estimating the cost of each in buffalo robes at $3 each, their value in this country.

  • Blankets can not supply the place of buffalo robes, cloth the place of skin, boots that of moccasins, in these high latitudes and terrible snowstorms.

  • He struck another match so he could see her shoes, unlaced them, took them off, and eased her down on a pile of buffalo robes he had arranged.

  • It was very black now, but when Ellis struck a match she saw that they were in some kind of cabin with a big pile of buffalo robes in the center.

  • The cabin lighted as he struck still another match, led the horses to the opposite wall and tied them to a pile of buffalo robes.

  • Amongst the Crows, who were liberally provided for by the Government, horse racing was a common pastime, and the stakes were usually dressed buffalo robes.

  • The author further declared that the fur trade in those "great western realms" was then limited chiefly to the purchase of buffalo robes.

  • Unquestionably that region yielded an immense number of buffalo robes, and since the slaughter thousands of tons of bones have been gathered up there.

  • There I could see the chief in the dim light, seated at one side, on a pile of buffalo robes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffalo robes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being borne; buffalo chips; buffalo hide; buffalo hunt; buffalo meat; buffalo robes; buffalo skin; buffalo were; came away; can give; could hold; dried grass; each atom; fertile valley; four states; good painter; great consequence; hand half; internal secretions; merry time; other tribes; relative motion; seventeenth century; shall endeavor; table land; would turn