But the pad quickly changed to the soft scrunch of moccasined feet, and, presently, a man, bearing a great load of wood upon his broad back, came on through the dusky aisles of the forest.
He moved along over the shallows of snow so that his moccasined feet gave out no sound.
They lifted McElroy, swinging in his blanket, and the tread of the moccasinedfeet was hollow on the planks.
The swish of the moccasined feet was as the sound of many waters.
Dupre flashed round on his moccasinedheel and reached her in a stride.
Twice a hatchet came flittering through the firelight, its bright blade flashing as it circled, to fall perilously close, and several times a squaw or two prodded one or the other with a moccasined toe.
To him ran little Francette, light on her moccasined feet as the wind in the tender pine-tops, her eloquent small hands outstretched and clutching at his sleeve audaciously.
In several places she observed the impression of a small moccasined foot; but not a child's.
They crossed the river; and, in the soft sand on the opposite bank, saw again the print of small, moccasined footsteps.
With her heavily moccasined foot Joan scattered the ashes and charred sticks where the fire had been.
Moccasined footprints had been seen on the sands of the beach, indicating that there were Indians near.
Then came the hum of voices, followed by the soft tread of moccasined feet.
The young men had almost buried the girls under huge masses of the beautiful flowers, when the soft tread of moccasined feet caused them all to turn in surprise.
His eye searched the wet clay floor, but hardly could have discovered anything there, because the hunter's moccasined tracks had been obliterated by the footprints of the Indians.
A familiar soft-moccasined footfall sounded on the path.
The measured stamp of moccasined feet, the rush of Indians past the cabin, the dull thud of hatchets struck hard into the trees--all attested to the excitement of the savages, and the imminence of terrible danger.
Walking along the stony creek bank, she had slipped, and her moccasined foot, caught in the narrow crack between two rocks, had been held fast as she fell forward.
A slow, cautious, catlike movement, without sound, as each moccasined foot touched the sand.
Old Cy and Levi patrolled the premises, while Martin, Hersey, and his deputy hunted a little for game and a good deal for moccasined footprints or a sight or a sign of this half-breed.
As usual with him, he glanced up and down the narrow beach to see if a deer had wandered along there that morning, and in doing so he now saw, close to the water's edge and distinctly outlined in the damp sand, the print of a moccasined foot.
They had run fully a mile and his own breath was growing shorter when the toe of his moccasined foot caught under a bit of brushwood and he plunged head foremost into the snow.
He moved toward it, his moccasined feet making no sound.
The end of the hall he believed opened outdoors, and he ran swiftly in that direction, his moccasined feet making no sound.
Philip lighted a cigar, and pointed to the other's moccasined feet, wet with melting snow.
Two hundred feet more and a second pair of moccasined feet joined in the pursuit, and a little later still a third!
His blue eyes began to shine; the long pipe-stem snapped short between forefinger and thumb; the smoking bowl dropped, and he set hismoccasined heel upon it, grinding clay and fire into the stone floor.
The soldiers had stepped forward to salute, the two rangers laughed scornfully, flung their rifles over their shoulders, and passed on into the darkness with noiseless, moccasined stride.
Then he rose and followed her with silent moccasined feet.
The slim brown arms were flung above the girl's head, and I caught the glint of quaintly hammered silver bracelets, as she stepped forward with that ease of motion that generations of moccasined feet on sand and sod and stone can give.
No moccasined track in the dust of the trail gave hint of any human presence near.
So near were these two warriors to him, that, on listening intently, he heard not only their voices, as they communicated their thoughts to each other in low tones, but the tread of their moccasined feet on the ground.
When the bee-hunter made his way into the bow of his canoe, however, which he did with a moccasined and noiseless foot, he was startled at perceiving how small was his cover.
Stooping down to one of his moccasined feet, Mustagan untied the deerskin string with which the moccasin had been securely fastened around his ankle to keep out the snow.
When this was selected he seemed to critically examine every yard of the ice, over which, on his moccasined feet, he so lightly and yet so rapidly glided.
Both must have closed unawares, or else the moccasined feet that stole out in the darkness must have been very, very light, and the other figure beside him very stealthy; for no alarm was given, no ear took note.
He scanned from the young face to the moccasined feet swiftly, and then turned his eyes to the others.
I traveled to-day in the middle of your street because my moccasined feet stumbled on the smoothness of your walks.
From the heated earth their feet came to a narrow ledge of rock, worn smooth by the furred and moccasinedtread of centuries, with the chasm on one side of them and a wall of rock on the other.
Jan again, and his moccasined feet fell in heavy, thumping tread to the door.
There were grunts and the thump of moccasined feet dancing about in a lively struggle.
They could now hear the stealthy tread of moccasined feet above them on the floor of the loft.
A terrible fear conquered her, and she struck Star's sides sharply with her moccasined heels.
The dull tread of moccasined feet as Indians carried pack after pack from river bank to the fort, was ceaseless.
He stood an elbow's length from me and kicked moccasined heels against the floor in the way of light-headed lads.
The soft, moccasined tread of Mandanes past our door startled Father Holland so that his book fell to the floor, while I shook like a leaf.
Thousands and thousands of light, moccasined feet had worn it deep and patted it hard as a sheep-path.
They tied me loosely; a tall warrior stepped beside me; others fell in behind with a patter of moccasined feet.
Broadalbin Bush," she murmured, clearing her eyes of the clouded hair and feeling for her stirrups with small, moccasined toes.
He gaped upward at the bare-faced wall that arose for hundreds of feet, without any particular ledge or outcropping where even a nimble Indian could find safe lodgment for his moccasined feet.
And how Renee's eyes shone and her cheeks blossomed, while the little moccasined feet made no more sound than a mouse creeping about.
She put out her small moccasined toe toward a rather stiff-looking plot of green plants.
Again, not far behind him, three grunting savages were taking up the print of his moccasined feet.
After it sped Jean, hismoccasined feet scarcely seeming to touch the rocks, moss and intervening low bushes, as he cleared them.
Before Ronald could free himself from the bushes, the Blacksmith had seized the frightened old woman and had thrust her moccasined foot and bare ankle, for she wore no leggings, into the fire.
In the ashes, where the fire had been, was the print of a moccasined foot, a large foot that turned out and pressed more heavily on the inner side than on the outer.
She glided rapidly through the grass, noiseless in her moccasined feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moccasined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
