They also shot a bear in the edge of the woods, near the south end of the lake, and Hart quickly tanned both deerskins and the bearskin in a rude fashion.
It was not Felton, but a fellow in deerskins who crouched in fancied security in a sort of shallow alcove of the cliff.
When he had resumed his deerskins it was almost day.
To the vibrations of these sonorous earthen cylinders, the sticks plied with a will on the heads of wet deerskins tightly stretched, the ball-players of Niowee advanced.
The first prudential care of the hunters he knew would be to recover them and re-align the train, lest some miscreant, encountering the animals, plunder the estrays of their loads of hard-won deerskins and furs.
Suddenly Cuddy Barnett discovered that one of the pack-horses of his own especial charge was missing,--a good bay with a load of fine dresseddeerskins to take to Charlestown, then the great mart of all this far region.
Spruce boughs were scattered upon the igloo floor and deerskins spread over these.
With joy and many tokens of gratitude, the Sachem of the Wampanoags welcomed this deliverance and showered presents and deerskins upon the rescuing white men.
Shattered by age and misfortune, he presented a sorry appearance, as he lay, half dead, upon the litter of boughs and deerskinswhich his own people had fashioned for him.
When traveling on snowshoes or in soft dry snow the boots are replaced by stockings of the same shape as the under ones, but made of very thick winter deerskins with the flesh side out.
It represents a man dressed in deerskinssitting with his legs outstretched and holding in his extended left hand a drum and in his right a stick, as if beating the drum.
Deerskins are always dressed as furs, with the hair on.
N169] Small rude tents only large enough to hold one or two people are used as habitations for women during confinement, and for sewing rooms when they are working on deerskins in the autumn.
The deerskins were easily tanned into soft and pliant leather.
Shif'less Sol and Silent Tom ate like epicures, while, denuded of their wet deerskins but wrapped in dry blankets, they basked in the heat.
Henry took little interest in the deerskins they had washed, but his attention was concentrated quickly upon their cooking.
The shiftless one raised his head and inhaled its clear, sweet odors, the great heart under the deerskins and the great brain under the thatch of hair alike sending forth a challenge.
He would soon do it, he said, if the others would set to work and cut the deerskins into thongs fine enough for the purpose.
But some of the dressed deerskins were still hanging and there were festoons of wampum, curiously made bead and shell curtains interspersed with gun racks, great moose horns and deer heads, and antlers.
At the summons of a rude drum that made a startling noise, the braves rose, threw down their blankets and displayed their holiday attire of paint, fringes, beads, and dressed deerskins with great headdresses of feathers.
The women cook and learn to dress deerskins until they are like velvet.
Taking the old man to her side of the wigwam she seated him on a rug of deerskins and then built up before him a bright fire.
There was the lap of mother earth, and so down on the ground, with bearskins and deerskins on it for rugs, the children sat.
We massed our sledges together as a sort of breastwork against the drifting snow, spread our fur bags down behind them, crawled in, covered up our heads with deerskins and blankets, and prepared for a long dismal siege.
There were no boughs here for a bed, as the island sustained no growth whatever, and in place of the boughs the dog harness was spread about before the deerskins were put down.
They carried him to the wigwam and rubbed his frosted limbs and face until it was quite safe to wrap him in the deerskins in the warm wigwam.
I see you are dressed in handsome deerskins and have red paint on your cheeks.
The children in deerskins and paints, just like their elders, were jolly little men and women.
In truth, his paint and deerskins are the best part of him--if ever dress is part of man or fairy.
In March, 1771, the two Boones started homeward, their horses bearing the rich harvest of furs and deerskins which was to clear Daniel of debt and to insure the comfort of the family he had not seen for two years.
By hunting, the explorers must feed themselves on their travels and with deerskins and furs they must on their return recompense those who had supplied their outfit.
We know who swung out along the trail to provide for that little band, "dressed in deerskins colored black, and his hair plaited and bobbed up.
In those days, deerskins sold for a dollar a skin to the traders at the Forks or in Hillsborough; beaver at about two dollars and a half, and otter at from three to five dollars.
Here, in idle hours, Neely read aloud from a copy of "Gulliver's Travels" to entertain the hunters while they dressed their deerskins or tinkered their weapons.
The body is covered with a heavy robe made of two deerskins sewed together.
I saw a number of piles of deerskins and several small heaps covered with cloth.
Immediately two old men next the drummer moved to one side and motioned me to sit down on the pile of deerskins reserved for me.
They exclaimed: "There is our sister's tent, for the deerskins are hanging outside.
The process adopted by these Indians in smoking the deerskins is as follows: The woods are searched for rotten wood of a special character.
The wolf answered: "I wish I had some deerskinswith which to make clothing for the children.
Around the inner side of the fire, under the semi-circular tent, were spread a number of deerskinsto serve as couches.
Having rescued their newly made snow-shoes and brought them, with their other property, into this place of refuge, they sat or reclined on their deerskins to await the end of the storm.
The flag was soon hoisted, and the girls, with the sealskin square beneath them, lay down under the deerskins and attempted to sleep.
But the deerskins were not large enough to cover them, and kept sliding off.
A chief also gave De Soto two deerskins as a great present.
The stores of dressed deerskins and other valuables were carried off.
Hence all families are eager to finish the work on deerskins as fast as possible, for until that is done the walrus season may not begin.
At the mouth of the bay they were joined by the Esquimaux of False River, who were carrying supplies of seal-blubber to the fort for the use of the dogs in winter, and a few deerskins to trade.
Then she spread the deerskins out on the couch; and when this was done, the tea was thoroughly heated.
The floor was covered with willow matting, and on the raised half of it were spread several deerskins with the hair on.
Edith was in her igloo of ice, seated on the soft pile of deerskinswhich formed her bed at night and her sofa by day, and worrying Kaga's baby, which laughed vociferously.
Three days later when they returned, Quagnant had two deerskins and Conrad none.
He had come to look upon the deerskins which served him for a bed as his own.
To Meyndert's lodge Quagnant came late in the afternoon, and there sat himself down on a pile of deerskins near the fire.
Presently, in response to a shout, several Indian women brought bearskins and deerskins from the wigwam and spread them down under a great tree.
Young Eagle was to send five deerskins to dry the tears of the warrior whose son he had injured; Short Arm was to send three blankets to the widow of the man whom he had killed.
Meanwhile Ardan lay, dreaming with a proud smile against the fire; and, upon the deerskins near the couch of Darthool, Ailne and Nathos played at chess, for little did they care to heed the treacherous valour of the Ultonians.
He was a small householder on the outskirts of the town, and would buy our stolen deerskins or game at his own prices, and sell them at some distant market, doubtless to his great advantage.
She knew that the great moment of confiding came when they were snugly tucked in beneath blankets anddeerskins in the strangest little sleeping room in all the world.
This platform formed the floor and the deerskins the walls of a little room within the skin house.
Marian gave her a rousing hug, then whispered as she drew the deerskins about her: "Go to sleep now.
At last, in utter exhaustion, she threw herself among the deerskinsand fell into a troubled sleep.
They had hardly crept between their deerskins when Patsy was fast asleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deerskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
