He had taken what he now saw was the wrong pair to go with his spats; they should have been grey, but were deerskin of a dark tan; whether to keep them on or not he could not decide.
He also rode, for lightness, in a thin deerskin jacket which fitted him closely, with a rifle across his saddle, gazing with keen eyes across the shadowy waste when now and then a half-moon came out.
Have you the deerskin cigar-case you showed us with you?
His deerskin jacket was badly rent, there was a great burn on one side of it, and several red scratches defaced his hands.
Then, opening the big fur-coat he laid his hand on a brown smear on the deerskin jacket under it.
Clavering had shaken off his furs, and the close-fitting jacket of dressed deerskin displayed his lean symmetry, for he had swung round in the entrance to the shanty and the shadows were black behind him.
As though to give point to the speech, the man took out a pipe and slowly filled it with tobacco from a little deerskin bag.
A man stepped forward, jingling his spurs, with his jacket of embroidered deerskin flung open to show, though this was as yet unusual, that he wore a bandolier.
The man rubbed the fringe of his deerskin jacket upon the muzzle, and then held it up by the lantern where the rest could see the smear of the fouling upon it.
Muller stood motionless, and the horseman in deerskin glancing round in his direction saw his daughter for the first time.
Two Indian women, one quite young and the other quite old, were cooking by the side of a small brook, in which they had evidently been washing deerskin clothing earlier in the day, as it now lay drying on the bank.
When he came out he washed his clothing as well as deerskin could be washed, and, wrapped in the blanket and painted coat, ran up and down the bank, or otherwise exercised himself vigorously, while it dried in the bright sun.
One was never more than a mile from running water in that country--and Long Jim and Silent Tom produced food from their deerskin pouches.
I think he had not noticed them before; but now, as he quickly drew his knife across the deerskin thongs, his whole expression changed.
Second door to de right, sah," he answered, gazing curiously at my deerskin hunting-shirt as I pressed by.
Rose and Wanamee came down in their robes of fur, with their deerskin frocks underneath.
I heard the Governor say that a great deal of money was paid for a deerskin dress by some one at court.
She was gowned just as Rose had seen her that first time, only she was covered with a fine deerskin cloak, that she laid aside as they walked up the aisle, rather scandalizing the two Récollet fathers.
And miladi looked as bewitching in her deerskin suit, with its fringes and bright adornments of feather borders, and her lovely furs, as in her Paris attire.
Guarding the door stood a deerskin lodge resembling the lodges now in use among the Yellow Knives; it was the home of the black bear, an animal then unknown on the earth.
The women wore a long apron of deer skin and deerskin leggins, while the less prosperous members of a tribe had little to clothe themselves with but woven grasses and turkeys' feathers.
These were placed over the eyes like spectacles, and fastened with deerskin string, tied behind the head.
They made up the blankets in tight little rolls, which they fastened on their backs, and Paul and Jim Hart put in a tanned deerskin with each of theirs.
When we carried our burden in he knelt and laid back Ormond's under jacket of deerskin before he saw to the broken leg with a dexterity that evinced a knowledge of elementary surgery.
His dress was that of the backwoods, dressed deerskin being the chief material used.
Curtains of deerskin separated pursuer and pursued while they were being lodged and fed.
He wrapped this in a piece of deerskinand gave it to the hunter, saying: "As long as you keep this you can always kill game.
To stiffen and bind these they use a narrow strap of deerskinattached at one end to a round piece of bone, fourteen inches long, tapered to a point, and covered over with leather.
The deerskin and blankets had again been unrolled, and the covering of snow kept the interior warm in spite of the storm without.
The snow was cleared away, sticks were driven into the frozen ground, and strong poles laid across them; the deerskin was then laid flat upon these.
A deerskin was spread on the bottom, and the girls, having been helped down into the boat, were told to lie down and were then covered with blankets.
As it came nearer they could see that he was a tall man, dressed in the deerskin shirt and leggings usually worn by hunters.
Some sewed with sinew and needles of cactus thorn on deerskin white and fine; others winnowed the corn.
The skin of his body was dark and shining, with straight, black locks cropped at his shoulders, and he wore no clothing but a scrap of deerskin belted with a wisp of bark.
Now they wore no hats and were naked from the waist up, clothed below withdeerskin garments.
He did not affect either mocassins, leggings, nor the caped and fringed tunic shirt of dressed deerskin worn by most Texan hunters.
His leggings and moccasins of fine tanned deerskin were decorated beautifully with beads, and a magnificent war bonnet of feathers, colored brilliantly, surmounted his thick, black hair.
The man extended a hand, clothed in a deerskin gauntlet.
Then the chief did a surprising thing, binding a piece of soft deerskin over Will's eyes so tightly that not a ray of light entered.
He wore a beautiful deerskin suit which several of the old women had made for him in gratitude for large supplies of food that he had given to them, and he had a splendid overcoat which Inmutanka and he had made of a buffalo robe.
Heavily wrapped in his buffalo coat over his deerskin suit, with two pairs of moccasins on his feet, a fur cap on his head and thick ear muffs, he walked from fire to fire and saw that they were well fed.
Will threw on rapidly his deerskin suit, his buffalo overcoat and took down his bow and quiver of arrows.
We were joyfully welcomed to the dwelling of Ooyarra, whose guest I was now to become, and the place of honour, the deerskin seat, was cleared for my reception.
It was decently dressed in a good deerskin jacket, and a sealskin prepared without the hair was carefully placed as a cover to the whole figure, and tucked in on all sides.
Replying to the respectful salutations of the Chuances, Yukagirs, and Russian Cossacks who in yellow fur hoods and potted deerskin coats crowded about the door, I followed the priest into the house.
In a moment one of the men, clad in a spotted deerskin coat and buckskin trousers, sprang into the centre of the room and bowed low to a lady who sat upon one end of a long crowded bench.
The ore lay at no great depth in the Galena limestone, and the aborigines collected it either by stripping it from the surface or by sinking shallow shafts from which it was hoisted, in deerskin bags.
The man who did not know Loree went to his knapsack and took out a jacket made ofdeerskin tanned with the hair on.
The hunter stopped, took off his deerskin jacket, turned it hair side out, and like a soldier making for the firing-line, pressed forward after the deer.
I know something is wrong," went on Trudeau; "for I tell her it ben tres dangereuse to wear deerskin zhaquette in zese wood' in shooting seasone.
Old grandmothers with the little grand children would sit in the shade near the flowers and work the pretty beads on the deerskin moccasins while the children played and amused themselves.
Her dress was a beautifully dressed deerskin gown, reaching below the knees, as soft as chamois leather, and ornamented with beads and quill work.
Instead of the usual hunting-shirt he wore one of the yellow deerskin coats of a Blackfoot chief, which was richly embroidered with beads and quilt work, and fringed with scalp-locks.
The child leaped up, and, throwing a deerskin round her, stepped aside to allow the wounded man to be placed on her bed.
Each family had a compartment to itself, with sleeping bunks built against the walls, and curtains of deerskin to shield the family from the open passage which ran the length of the house.
None of those seated at the council-fire knew that the sharp-eared Po-ca-hun-tas was hiding close behind one of the deerskincurtains that hung at her bedroom door.
From his own room he had brought down the deerskin pouch holding his small supply of Turkish tobacco, purchased in New York.
They passed two newly made graves in the shelter of the trees, mounds of earth, each marked with a willow wand with a strip of deerskin attached to it.
He was wearing only a deerskin loincloth and moccasins.
The snow was already halfway up Redbird's laced deerskin boots.
Owl Carver and some of the chiefs slapped the palms of their hands against the taut, painted deerskin of their drumheads.
Taylor looked around the smoking glade at the dead, big bodies and little ones, brown flesh and tan deerskin splashed with bright red, eyes staring, limbs helter-skelter.
The best deerskingarments were worked till they were white.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deerskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buckskin; ermine; fur; hide; pelt
