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Example sentences for "doeskin"

Lexicographically close words:
doeing; doen; doer; doers; does; doesna; doesnt; doest; doeth; dof
  1. Her doeskin gown has wide, flowing sleeves; the neck is low, but not so low as is the evening dress of society.

  2. What right has a little bishop in a purple stock and doeskin breeches, who hangs back in his palace from the very call of God, to a phrase so fine and tragic as "the body of this death?

  3. Black doeskin breeches, still warmly lined with their pants, lay where they had been thrust off at the corner of the bed, partly covering black hose and silver-buckled shoes.

  4. In the rapid glance Alleyne saw that he had white doeskin gloves, a curling white feather in his flat velvet cap, and a broad gold, embroidered baldric across his bosom.

  5. I pray you then my fair dove, that you will vouchsafe to me one of those doeskin gloves, that I may wear it as the badge of her whose servant I shall ever be.

  6. With a quick movement he raised his hand and removed his officer's hat, and I saw on his gauntlets of fine doeskin the Ormond arms, heavily embroidered.

  7. Cato, burrowing in my boxes, drew out a soft, new suit of doeskin with new points, new girdle, and new moccasins.

  8. She reached out, clutching his shoulders through the sopping blanket, heedless of the rain pouring down her own face, running under the collar of her doeskin shirt down her back and chest.

  9. With the knife she cut strips away from her doeskin dress and bound them around her feet.

  10. Redbird's dress was of white doeskin as well.

  11. Just as Chief Falcon gave us new doeskin garments when we surrendered to the Winnebago.

  12. The day was cold and overcast, and the damp air around him and the chill ground under him made him shiver in the white doeskin shirt he had worn for his wedding.

  13. Sweat trickled down her back and inside her doeskin dress.

  14. She wore, not the doeskin clothing Nancy remembered, but a torn gray cotton dress that was too big for her and dirty around the bottom edge.

  15. He could feel her bones under her doeskin dress.

  16. Her doeskin shirt and skirt kept the rain off her body, but her hair was soaked and her face was streaming by the time she got back to the wickiup.

  17. She stood up abruptly, picked up her fringed doeskin dress and struggled into it.

  18. She turned away, the fringe of her doeskin skirt swirling about her shins.

  19. Keeping on her buffalo-hide cloak, her doeskin dress and leggings, she lay down on her own pallet, padded with blankets and prairie grass.

  20. She slipped the ribbon over her head and dropped the case down the front of her doeskin dress.

  21. He remembered his mother's body, like a castaway doll, her eyes pathetically wide, the gash in her throat, the splash of blood on her doeskin dress.

  22. She had on a doeskin dress that Sun Woman had given her, and she had done up her two blond braids the way she always had.

  23. Ef I had no vessel that wud draw water I hed my ole doeskin shirt.

  24. Having drawn a doeskin glove on to the left hand, he offered his arm to his wife, and advanced from behind the screen with his hat in his ungloved right hand ready to transfer it to the left should occasion require.

  25. I think so too," said the Major, drawing on his clean doeskin gloves.

  26. He gave me a hug and a hearty shake, so that the thrums tossed, and my little round cap of doeskin flew from my head.

  27. As Scarthe said this, he raised his hand triumphantly towards the peak of his helmet; where a glove of white doeskin was seen conspicuously set--its tapering fingers turned forward, as if pointing in derision at him who possessed its fellow!

  28. For some seconds Scarthe stood twirling the piece of doeskin between his fingers, and examining it on all sides.

  29. A glove of white doeskin leather was a fashion of the time--so, too, the gold and lace ornaments upon the gauntlet.

  30. He slowly loosened the leather thong about his neck and opened a small doeskin bag that hung by a leather thong about his neck.

  31. Stepping on shore, he opened a doeskin pouch that was fastened to his belt.

  32. When all had been cut away, he placed them in the doeskin pouch that hung at his belt.

  33. They are safe in my doeskin pouch," answered Hawk Eye.

  34. After some little time he replaced the crow's wing in the doeskin bag and fastened the leather thong about his neck.

  35. Her doeskin gown with profuse fringes hung gracefully as the drooping long leaves of the willow, and her two heavy braids of black hair, mingled with strings of deers' hoofs and wampum, fell upon her bosom.

  36. The maiden was attired in a doeskin gown set with elk's teeth like ivory.

  37. Every girl was beautifully dressed, for at that time the white doeskin gowns, with a profusion of fringes and colored embroidery, were the gala attire of the Sioux maidens.

  38. The white doeskin gown of the War Maiden," he continued, "was trimmed with elk's teeth and tails of ermine.

  39. Stasu was sitting before it upon a buffalorobe, attired in her best doeskin gown.

  40. I have omitted to mention that in the cavalry white doeskin gloves are always worn at drill; and we were even allowed during the winter months to wear white woollen gloves.

  41. It was then that I appreciated the precaution I had taken of donning doeskin riding breeches under my trousers.

  42. Domingo did not move any more quickly, because the doeskin breeches made it impossible.

  43. It was another doeskin parcel, bound lengthwise and crosswise by thongs.

  44. He next brought out a parcel, wrapped up carefully in doeskin to protect it from the appleseeds; and turned foolish in the face, as bits of ribbon and calico fell out upon his knees.

  45. A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs.

  46. Then he took from one of them a magnificent war bonnet of white eagles' plumes, and from another a robe of soft doeskin adorned with beautiful designs in coloured beads and porcupine quills and needlework in brilliant silk.

  47. But in the early morning Rube Carter awoke to see him wearing the doeskin robe and moccasins, and in the act of covering his head with the great war bonnet.

  48. Then slowly he removed his war bonnet, put aside his staff, and began to untie the thongs of his doeskin shirt.

  49. Nigel had to turn his doeskin heels and show his little golden spurs.

  50. And then thought of him faded from her mind and she fell to contemplation of the doeskin garment again.

  51. He held up to her the doeskin garment and his eyes were very anxious.

  52. Stumbling, jerked this way and that, one white shoulder gleaming against the brown stain of throat and face where the doeskin garment was pulled awry, she came into the central space before the great fire.

  53. She was looking down the lake with the sun on her uncovered head, on the soft whiteness of the doeskin garment, and to young Dupre she had never seemed so near the divine, so far and unattainable.

  54. The fringed garment of white doeskin lay under his elbow and a fold of it brushed his cheek, and, boy that he was, its touch brought the quick tears to his eyes.

  55. He waved the doeskin gloves in token of adieu, and retreated once more into the excited obscurity of the wings, where his manager was trembling like an aspen, in the midst of a perspiring company.


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