Others hung their moccasins, mittens, and leggings on little sticks before the fires to dry.
Such leggings are always removed when entering a lodge or house or when resting beside a campfire--in order to free the legs from the gathered snow and prevent it from thawing and wetting the trousers.
Further, if his hand happens to be dirty, he will spit on it and rub it on his leggings to try and cleanse it before presenting it to you.
Neykia wore a silk handkerchief over her head, a light-coloured cotton waist open at the throat, a silk sash over one shoulder, and a short skirt revealing beaded leggings and moccasins.
A little cloud of powdery snow rose above the dragging heels of his snowshoes, and, whirling about, covered the back of his leggings with a coating of white.
He was dressed still in his costume of the voyageur--the loose blouse shirt, the buckskin leggings and moccasins, the long tasselled red sash.
The Corn Woman stood up and the dancers getting up with her shook the rattles of their leggings with a sound very like the noise a radiator makes when some one is hammering on the other end of it.
The rattles were sewed to the leggings of the women--little yellow and black land-tortoise shells filled with pebbles--who sang as they danced and cut themselves with flints until they bled.
In Winter they have leggings and shoes made of moose skin, but the shoes, the uppers as well as the soles, are as pliable as a glove.
A third took our mules by the bridles and led us to his own door, when half-a-dozen pretty girls, with flashing dark eyes and long taper fingers, insisted on undoing our leggings and taking off our spurs.
I spied thirty scalps on his belt, his leggings and mocassins were sewn with the hair of the Wallah Wallahs.
That will teach them," he would say, when reproached by new coming dragoon officers, at the forts, who thought it unseemly for a white man to decorate hisleggings with human hair like the reds.
They wore dresses of deerskin, fringed and worked with porcupine quills, something between a military undress frock coat and an Indian shirt, with leggings and moccasins, three-cornered cocked hats and long beards.
She spun, wove, knit, made leggings of skins, and caps and moccasins, but through multitudinous duties found time to teach her children.
Leggings and moccasins had been sliced to pieces by the prickly pear.
The scarlet belts, breeches of smoked buckskin, and blue cloth leggings of Alexander Henry's old coureur des bois were known for hundreds of miles.
The squaws make mockasins and leggings variously ornamented; and handsome necklaces, wrought with beads of different colours, which are symmetrically strung upon red silk, or thread coloured with vermillion.
They also make handsome garters for supporting theleggings below the knee, of the breadth of the hand; they are formed of beads strung on worsted yarn.
After the termination of this ceremony, the scalps are either thrown away, or are used to decorate the leggings of the warrior, or to suspend from his medicine-bag, or from the bridle of his horse.
Their bodies are nude except the loin skirt; their leggings and moccasins are the same as the others.
The females carry in their hands decorated baskets and sprigs of piñon, and they wear white leggings and beaded moccasins.
The Ethsethle wear leggings of corn pollen and the forearms of the gods are covered with pollen.
From here they visited San Mateo Mountain (New Mexico) and gave to it two songs and prayers, and dressed it in turquoise, even to the leggings and moccasins, and placed two eagle plumes on the head.
The leggings are of white deer skin fringed, and the moccasins are similar to the others.
One of my new horses rolled over me yesterday, but beyond bending my sword and tearing one of my leggings did me no damage, though Major Baker thought at first that my leg was broken!
Only my leggings were absolutely plastered above my knees with mud.
The mud actually worked its way through my leggings to my skin.
The chief wore on his shoulders a sort of cape, trimmed with a fringe of snowy ermine; his leggings and moccasins were a mass of bead-work.
His leggings were black, and his sable blanket was belted by a band of white beads.
The valley was deep in slush and mire, and the water soaked through his leggings and moccasins again, but he paid no attention to it now.
He was tall, but slim, apparently youthful, and he wore nothing except breech cloth, leggings and moccasins, his naked body a miracle of savage painting.
He noticed how the men wore but one garment leggings and moccasins made in one piece, and how they were painted in bright colors, many wearing symbols or rude representations of some animal which he learned was their "medicine.
The werowance as he came towards them did not wear his red mantle nor his crown of English make, but a headdress of eagle feathers and leggings and a cape of brown bear fur.
His mother had said to him: "Thy leggings are old and worn, and thou knowest that good luck cometh to the hunter wearing moccasins and leggings made from skins of his own slaying.
But I bound mud on the wound with my leggings and I have followed close behind thee along the shore all the way.
The elderly werowance wore all the ceremonial robes of his tribe: a headdress of feathers, leggings and girdle and a long deerskin mantle heavily embroidered in beads of shell.
He was equipped in a tunic-like shirt of dressed buckskin, with leggings and moccasins of the same material, each curiously embroidered and fringed.
One of the six Kiowa military orders, the Raven, Raven Soldiers, or Black Leggings of Clark (see page 229).
The leggings are generally made of antelope skins, dressed without the hair, and with the legs, tail and neck hanging to them.
In the winter they wear a short shirt of dressed skins, long painted leggings and moccasins, and a plait of twisted grass round the neck.
The dress of the men consists of a robe, a tippet, a shirt, long leggings and moccasins.
The seams of the leggingsdown the sides, are also fringed and ornamented, and occasionally decorated with tufts of hair taken from enemies whom they have slain.
In addition, the sleeves and leggings bore hair fringes representing the scalps of cranes killed by Scar Face.
On the breast and back of the shirt were quill-worked rosettes representing the sun; the side seams of the leggings and sleeves were covered with strips of quillwork three or four inches wide.
His coat was open at the front as the white men made them; he wore blanket breeches encased at the bottom in hard elkskin leggings bound at the knee.
You feel that I am an uneducated man, without money, and that I do not wear a white shirt; that I tuck my pants in my leggings and that I sleep among the Indians.
For clothing, they wore nothing more than a piece of skin tied around the waist, or leggings of hide.
His moccasins alone were of dressed deer's hide; his leggings were of scarlet cloth; and his tunic of figured cotton stuff--all three elaborately beaded and embroidered.
His tunic, embraced by the bright wampum sash, hung well and gracefully; and the close-fitting leggings of scarlet cloth displayed the perfect sweep of his limbs.
Then they went out on the back porch and shook their leggings and put them on still another chair.
I only know that I wish that I had my fringed hunting tunic and leggings on once more.
His buckskin tunic had been ornamented over the front with dyed porcupine quills and Indian bead-work, while his leggings were scarlet with a fringe of raccoon tails hanging down from them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leggings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
