You are not to communicate with Miss Nancy Marten until you have seen me.
Mrs. Martenseemed to know when her friend had risen; she turned and waved a hand, and obviously explained her action in the next breath.
But you are going to tell Mr. Martenthat the day you and Nancy sign a marriage contract your father will settle half a million sterling on you, and half a million on Nancy.
He, at any rate, made no further allusion to Marten or his projects; though he continued to watch Power narrowly but unobtrusively.
Power did not answer, and Marten tingled with the quick suspicion that he was opening up the very line of inquiry in which he was most vulnerable.
We certainly wondered why Marten made things so easy for us--in other respects," he volunteered.
Again Power remained silent, and Martenwas obliged to reopen the discussion.
Dacre seemed to think that he would be interested in the latest gossip in financial circles with reference to a supposed scheme organized by Marten and Van Ralten to fight the Oil Trust.
I also ordered a marten skin to be placed on a proper mould, and a beaver skin to be stretched on a frame, to which I tied a scraper.
Le Roux purchased of these Indians upwards of eight packs of good beaver and marten skins; and there were not above twelve of them qualified to kill beaver.
Fisher-cat, marten and mink were numerous along the creek, but these were neither swift-hunting nor long-fanged.
What he scented was not the scent of a rabbit, a marten or a porcupine.
Canoe lake, Marten lake and all the immense water area comprised of the numerous lakes in this district are well stocked with this valuable food.
Drift lignite was also found in Marten river near the base of Marten mountain, but it was not traced to its source.
The latter receives also the waters of a chain of large lakes lying north of Marten lake, which discharges into Great Slave lake.
This account by Marten is chiefly filled with nautical remarks, and observations of the latitude and variation, which may make it very acceptable to navigators and geographers, while we are sensible it may appear dry to many others.
Fifty degrees below zero was bad for fisher and marten and lynx; on such nights they preferred the warmth of snug holes and deep windfalls to full stomachs, and his traps were usually empty.
About noon we fell upon Little Marten Lake, having walked about two miles.
After walking about five miles, we came upon the borders of Marten Lake, and were rejoiced to find it frozen, so that we could continue our course straight for Fort Enterprise.
Our hunters went forward to Marten Lake, intending to wait for us at a place where two deer were deposited.
I questioned the chief about the Great Bear andMarten Lakes, their distance from Fort Enterprise, &c.
His band was between West Marten and Great Bear Lakes, and he offered to provide a quantity of dried meat for us on the banks of the Copper-Mine River in the beginning of summer, provided we sent him goods and ammunition.
Small detachments of the nation frequent Marten Lake, and hunt during the summer in the neighbourhood of Fort Enterprise.
At Marten Lake we joined the canoe party, and encamped with them.
We took it forMarten Lake, which was three times its size, and fancied that we saw the rapids and the grounds about the Fort, although they were still far distant.
A river was pointed out, bearing south from our encampment, which is said to rise near Great Marten Lake.
Twice annually, for many years, had vessels anchored at Havre, laden with the skins of fox, marten and beaver, collected and shipped by the Company of the Hundred Associates or their successors in the Quebec monopoly.
Against them Oleg turned his arms, and once more victory went with him; the Drevlians, while retaining their own chieftain, were reduced to the standing of vassals, and an annual tribute of marten and sable skins was imposed upon them.
Trade by barter, of course, existed among them, but their medium of exchange had not got beyond the currency of marten and sable skins.
We were camped over Sunday once, and Roxy had noticed many martentracks in the neighbourhood.
One track we pursued led us up a bank and along a portage and presently stopped at a marten trap; and we had to cut across to the river and cast about hither and thither on its broad surface to find the mail trail.
Besides the wanton destruction of marten traps, it will carry off the sticks and hide them at a distance, apparently in sheer malice.
At Peel's River, on one occasion, a very old carcajou discovered my marten road, on which I had nearly a hundred and fifty traps.
When they have discovered a line of marten traps they will never abandon the road, and must be killed before the trapping can be successfully carried on.
All about it several small skins such as beaver, marten and weasel were scattered on the floor.
There were marten skins, ermine skins and weasel skins galore, but none of his skins nor so much as a hair of a black fox pelt.
All that was left of the marten that had been caught in it was some bits of skin and about an inch of the tail.
Yes, a marten was here only an hour or two since and is still not very far away.
They sold the red men beads and blankets, guns and trinkets, and in exchange took furs of the marten and mink, the beaver and otter, which the Indians shot or trapped in the country around.
As for the mink, they have discovered it is quite different from either the marten or the fisher, and its fur is not as beautiful.
There is nothing to show where these marten skins came from, or why they are mentioned under Chester alone.
Wrenboy: Their brooches were shining like green fire, the same as a marten cat's eyes.
Wrenboy: When dawn discloses the oak and shows us The wide sky whitening through the scanty ash, High in the beeches the furry creatures, Squirrel and marten lightly pass.
Almost any kind of a marten would be paid $10 for.
I traded one year several hundred pelts of Anticosta marten and with one or two exceptions they all showed this distinction from those we got on the north shore or mainland.
The third kind, which is the scarcest, and consequently of most value, is the marten found in the black spruce country, or swamps of northern Labrador.
The pine marten that is found in the country covered by soft woods, such as pine, spruce, white fir and birch.
Our returns were principally beaver, foxes and lynx, very few marten, and in that year I had at the close of trade 96 marten and 96 fisher.
In some parts of the country they stand in the returns about equal to the marten exported.
On the watershed between the valley of the St. Lawrence and Hudson's Bay, marten are prime on the first of October.
Otherwise the marten are as well furred and as rich and deep in color as the far-famed Labrador ones.
Two of thesemarten boxes were left by one of our crews in the middle of a brule.
When the mountain ash berries are plentiful and hang late in the autumn, both the fisher and the marten are difficult, if not impossible, to trap, as there is no meat lure you can bait with, that will induce them to leave the berries.
The only thing to do when fisher are known to be about a line of marten traps is to make a larger sized house for him and extra heavy weight to keep him down when caught.
If they find a marten caught and they are not hungry, they will carry it off at right angles to the trail and bury it in the snow, or climb a tree and deposit it on a cross branch.
He generally visits them once in ten days or a fortnight, and if the catch averages one marten to ten traps it is considered very fair.
This was impressed on my memory as being a strange coincidence, because the post I had been previously stationed at turned out over two thousand marten to eight or ten fisher.
Spite the Marten is also called the Pine Marten and the American Sable, and he is one of the handsomest members of the Weasel family.
Chatterer, you and your Cousin Happy Jack may well be thankful that Spite the Marten doesn't live about here, for he is very fond of Squirrels and delights to hunt them.
He is larger and heavier than Spite the Marten and his coat is a brownish-black, light on the sides, and browner below.
You are a member of theMarten or Weasel family, and that family is called the 'Mus-tel-i-dae.
Billy Mink, Little Joe Otter, Shadow the Weasel, Pekan the Fisher and Spite the Marten belong to its slim-bodied branch.
One is called Spite theMarten and the other Pekan the Fisher.
But Spite the Marten is a lover of the tree tops, and is quite as much at home there as Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
In this same deep, dark forest clear across the northern part of the country lives Pekan the Fisher, also called the Pennant Marten and Blackcat.
Marten and silver fox should not be raised in the south, as these are animals that do best in the cold sections.
In the Far North there will be foxes, otter, mink, and marten for some time to come.
The lower part of the left-hand drawing shows the usual marten motion, namely, the jump.
Now, marten or mink investigate these things simply by passing over or through them--if they do not stop inside--but they never make regular paths around them as the ermine does.
Tracking marten and shooting them is as successful a method as trapping them.
Their trading completed, Amesbury produced two particularly fine marten skins, and laid them upon the counter.
Perceiving the marten had begun to build its nest here, we kept the front-door open in the daytime; but were obliged to fasten it at night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
