He was an intelligent lad, nine or ten years of age, and was pleased with a miniature Indian pipe which I presented to him, and also a small pair of Indian mocassinssuitable for his age.
The women were sitting in a ring round some of the wigwams, doing needle-work, ornamenting necklaces or mocassins with beads, or tracing patterns on bison skins.
Of medium stature, and comfortably clad in skins, all wore leathern leggings and mocassins elegantly embroidered with porcupine silk dyed in various colours.
The little Duc de Brabant recollected the small pipe andmocassins I had presented him when he visited my collection in the Egyptian Hall, under the protection of the Hon.
As they drew near, they saw a group of hunters, among whom were Pierre and Bearskin, sitting round a smouldering fire, some smoking, and others engaged in mending their mocassinsor cleaning their pistols and rifles.
Fastening this round her slender waist with an Indian girdle, and a pair of mocassins upon her delicate feet, she went forth, catching up as she left the tent a scarf, which she threw carelessly over her shoulders.
The mocassins were of one piece, reaching with no visible seam to the knees, and he wore upon his sinewy thighs garments shaped like those worn by the white stranger.
Do I not see the torturing fires lighted, and Braves wearing the Andirondack mocassins bound to the stake of death?
He wore leggings over his trousers, and mocassins upon his feet, with a cloth cap set jauntily over his luxuriant curls.
He wore deerskin leggings fringed down the seams, and mocassinsupon his feet.
She had the internal arrangements of the hut to complete and improve, some pairs of mocassins to mend, and several arrows to feather, besides other matters.
Finding that it was strong enough to bear them, they advanced cautiously out upon its glassy surface; then they tried to slide, but did not succeed well, owing to their soft mocassins being ill adapted for sliding.
Nelly, meanwhile, busied herself in putting the hut in order, and in repairing the mocassins which would be required for the journey home.
I put on mymocassins and carried my snow-shoes, staggering along behind him about half a mile.
These fringes she pointed out to the notice of the women, and even the old chief was called in to examine the dress; nor did the leggings and mocassins escape their observation.
Let him load his women with much provision, and make his mocassins of tanned bear-skin, for many are the suns it will take to journey thither, and rocky is the path that leads to that far abode.
It was determined, that brave men never turned back, that the Lenape were brave men, and must steep their mocassins in the blood of their enemies.
She had smoked it too, and now it was ready to make intomocassins or leggins.
Her cloth petticoat was richly decorated with ribbons, and her leggins and mocassins proved that she had spent much time and labor on the adorning of a person naturally well formed, and graceful.
As she looked on the care-worn countenance of the warrior, she would fain have offered to put new mocassins upon his feet, and bring him food.
He will do well to forget the young wife altogether; for she is far away, making mocassins for the man she loves.
Her mother, a fearfully ugly old creature, still mended mocassins and scolded; bidding fair to keep up both trades for years to come.
While some were dancing, others were preparing for the expedition, getting extra mocassins made, drying meat, or parching corn.
Her mother is mending themocassins of the old man who sleeps before the fire.
The feet of the Saganaw are soft as those of a young child," she remarked, in a voice of commiseration; "but the mocassins of Oucanasta shall protect them from the thorns of the forest.
This they speedily gained, and then pursued their course in silence, until they at length arrived at the log where the exchange of mocassins had been made.
What have they to say, that their young men may have peace to hunt the beaver, and to leave the print of their mocassins in the country of the Buffalo?
But our father asks not why our mocassins have brushed the dew from off the common," resumed the chief; "and yet it is long since the Saganaw and the red skin have spoken to each other, except through the war whoop.
Well, you can't travel in mocassins in wet weather, and Day's boots were away behind with the regular troops.
Blankets of blue and scarlet, or buffalo robes, shroud their shoulders; while buckskin breeches and leggings wrap their lower limbs; mocassins encasing their feet.
In garb he is Indian, from the mocassins on his feet to the fillet of stained feathers surmounting his head.
The soldiers in Santa Fe are half froze for leather; and mocassinsfetch two dollars, easy.
His dress was the usual hunting-frock of buckskin, with long fringes down the seams, with pantaloons similarly ornamented, and mocassins of Indian make.
Mocassins are especially needed when there is a thin sharp crust of ice on the surface, and the pace rapid.
The leather used in the manufacture of the best and softest description of mocassins requires an immense deal of rubbing, dressing, and manipulation; that used by the Esquimaux tribes is chewed by the women until beautifully supple and pliant.
I have made excellent mocassins with this skin, which are admirable if kept wetted.
Before noon our mocassins and leggings were wet and miserable.
I caused May here to change her foot-wear, as we were staying long enough to dry our wet mocassins by the fire.
I wore a beautiful pair all last winter, worked with porcupine-quills and bound with scarlet ribbon; these elegant mocassins were the handicraft of an old squaw, the wife of Peter the hunter: you have already heard of him in my former letters.
Instead of the 'coon-skin cap he wore a white felt hat with broad leaf; and for leggings and mocassins he had trousers of blue cottonade and laced buskins of tanned leather.
It is but a trifle, and yet it may serve to make a pair of mocassins or a pouch.
Then only the breech-clout is worn, with leggings and mocassinson his legs and feet.
I spied thirty scalps on his belt, his leggings and mocassins were sewn with the hair of the Wallah Wallahs.
He has mocassins on his feet, and a flexible felt hat on his head.
Their lower extremities are covered with leggings of leather, ornamented with fringes, and their feet clothed in mocassins of the same material as their leggings.
That they are Indians, their tatterdemalion dress of coloured blankets, leggings, and mocassins would indicate; but their race is even recognisable in their mode of march.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mocassins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
