Dawkins had on a rough coat, made of white and grey foxes; trousers of the same; boots of seal-skin, and mittens ditto.
Butts was wrapping himself carefully in his fur-coat, tightening his belt, and putting on his mittens as if bent on a long journey.
This was particularly noticeable when buying boots and mittens from them for our use; only the largest sizes made by them could be used at all.
The same may be true of the Norton Sound Innuit; at all events, no white man can wear one of their mittens comfortably until the thumb is lengthened.
No more sea-blisters now, thanks to the ladies on shore," he added, as he drew the soft mittens over his sadly scarred wrists.
The mittens in common use are of deer-skin, with the hair inside; but, in fact, every kind of skin is used for them.
In summer, and in fishing, excellent sealskinmittens are used, and have the same power of resisting water as the boots of which I have just spoken.
They called her the Snow Baby, and they brought her presents of fur mittens and little sealskin boots.
August mittens trousers sleigh steamed northern language sledge When the people of that land heard that there was a white baby in the small black house, they came hundreds of miles to see the little stranger.
There now, when the snow covers us up, good folk will see the shafts and dig us out,' he said, slapping his mittens together and putting them on.
And working his shoulders up and down to free his arms, he put the coat over his sheepskin, arched his back more strongly to ease his arms, poked himself under the armpits, and took down his leather-covered mittens from the shelf.
Having put his boots on again, Nikita drew his feet into the sledge, put on his mittens and took up the reins, and directed the horse along the side of the ravine.
As I pulled on my steaming mittens and hurried my best up the reeling stairs, I could hear the stamp of men's feet that for once were not lagging.
But on the deck the air bites, and Margaret and I wear mittens as we promenade the poop or go for'ard along the repaired bridge to see the chickens on the 'midship-house.
My wet mittens slipped on the iron work, and I swept down the runway into the scuppers, where I was turned over and over by another flood that had just boarded from windward.
As he put on his mittens to go, the talk turned upon Flossie and in natural sequence passed on to the--"er horrid woman.
Alice did not like to hear men swear, so dropped his parka on the floor and tossed his mittens on top of it.
With his hip he closed the door against the push of the wind, and advancing into the room, shook off his huge bear-skin mittens and unwound the heavy woolen scarf that encircled his parka hood and muffled his face to the eyes.
Brent suddenly knew that her bared hand was in his own, and that two mittens lay upon the snow at their feet.
He flew upstairs to resurrect his last year's skates from the attic, and was back in a moment for his mittens and stocking cap.
He scampered along the petrified lawns on the paper route until the last news sheet was delivered, then blew lustily on his black mittens to warm his numbed fingers as he started for home.
Presently, he rested on his axe handle and chafed his cheeks and nose briskly with the shaggy mittens he had found in the box of clothing left in the shack.
Perhaps you can think how they learned to make mittens and gloves.
We know that they had warmmittens and gloves, for we have found pictures they made of them.
The salt taste was plainer; but he was not going to admit he knew what it meant and was glad he could not see his mittens when he took them from his mouth.
His fur mittens embarrassed him, but he could not take them off, because when the thermometer falls below zero one cannot touch steel tools with unprotected hands.
The manufacture of buckskin gloves and mittens is mostly confined to small towns and the country.
Immense quantities of buckskin gloves and mittens are made in Johnstown and Gloversville, New York.
Mrs. Tabitha dressed Moppet and Mittens in clean pinafores and tuckers; and then she took all sorts of elegant uncomfortable clothes out of a chest of drawers, in order to dress up her son Thomas.
Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst.
Illustration] [Illustration] Moppet and Mittenswalked down the garden path unsteadily.
He took out a turkey and knit caps and mittens and packages of candy and raisins for the children and some cloth for a new dress for me.
Then the little man put on his coat and mittens and trudged away to the village with Betsey after the doctor.
The snow on the mittens felt barely colder than her cheeks.
She took off her fur cap, wet boots and mittens and laid them near the fire.
I give because it's my bounden duty, but I'll be whipped if I want to knit warm mittens all my life, an' fill poor barrels.
Isabel stood by with downcast eyes, waiting to take her things, and aunt Mary Ellen looked searchingly up at her as she laid her mittens on the pile.
Deerskin mittens] In the MacFarlane collection are similar mittens from the Mackenzie region.
Waterproof mittens of black sealskin, coming well up over the forearm, were also observed, but not obtained.
Heavy mittens for the winter are made of the fur of the polar bear or of dogskin.
All these mittens are short in the wrist, barely meeting the frock sleeve, and leaving a crack for the cold to get in, which is partially covered by the usual wolf or wolverine skin fringe of the sleeve.
These are of deerskin for ordinary use, but in extreme weather mittens of polar bear skin are worn.
They are made of thick winter reindeer skin, with the white flesh side outward, in the shape of ordinary mittens but short and not narrowed at the wrists, with the thumb short and clumsy.
The mittens are ornamented on the back with a blackened incised pattern, and the seal has blue glass beads for eyes and blackened incised spots on the back.
In extreme cold weather or during winter hunting, very heavy mittensof the same shape, but gathered to a wristband, are worn.
Simpson[N229] mentions both deerskin and bearskin mittens as used at Point Barrow, but makes no reference to gloves.
Clean little mittens on clean little hands, Clean little shoes on his feet.
One shoe gone for ever and aye, T'other one stiff with mud, Dirt-spattered jacket half torn from his back, Mittens both lost in the wood.
A soft, warm scarf, for a wintry day, A pair of mittens for schoolboy Fred, Or some reins for toddling Baby Ned?
Wedding dress of goblin green, Hat and feathers for a queen, Worsted mittens on her feet, Thus her toilet was complete.
She stole up to her room to get a pair of new double mittens that she had just finished knitting for Addison; and for me she brought down a woolen neck muffler that grandmother had knitted for her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mittens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: gantlet; gauntlet; glove
