They live in canvas tepees of primitive style, but with the exception of moccasins and a few Indian trinkets they have conformed somewhat to the costumes of the civilized people around them.
Thirty or forty Indians came to the trading house, a mile from the mission, for the purpose of obtaining ammunition and moccasins for making what is called the fall hunt.
In her rooms at the hotel Mollie sits with Alice each day on the fur rugs, cutting, sewing and beadingmoccasins and moosehide gloves.
Both women sat upon fur rugs on the floor, as is their custom when sewing, and they were sorting bright beads, and cutting moosehide into moccasins and gauntlet gloves, to be decorated with beads in the fashion of the Yukon River Indians.
Here we bought two pairs of beaded moccasins for seven dollars.
And so they would go back to the wigwam, where, a little later, they would be tantalized by seeing the sister taking a load of game apparently from the air, and a pair of moccasins from feet that obstinately refused to be visible.
The white men wear a little more on their backs, and canvas shoes instead of moccasins on their feet, and that is about the sum of the matter.
The crisp snow crunched under their feet, although the moccasins were soft and warm; and everybody was muffled in furs, even to hoods and pointed caps.
She stood lithely upright, one smooth knee nestling to the other, her feet in their ankle moccasins planted parallel and close together, and her body all glistening like a gold dragon-fly.
And my ankle moccasins were gay with Oneida devices wrought out of porcupine quills and beads, scarlet, green, purple, and orange, and laid open at the instep by two beaded flaps.
We have given you moccasins so that the strange, bright trail shall not hurt your feet.
Nick had cooked dinner--parched corn and trout, which we caught in the brook with one of my fish hooks and a red wampum bead from my moccasinstied above the barb.
And near these we set her little moccasins lest in that unknown land her tender feet should suffer on the trail.
And so, lest I should be disgraced by my eavesdropping, and feeling mean and degraded, yet oddly contented that Penelope loved no man with secret passion, I slunk away, my moccasins making no sound.
He tells me that he means to quit the army and enter the business of tanning Iroquois hides to make boots and moccasins; and says that Tim Murphy has knee moccasins as fine as ever he saw, and made out o' leather skinned off an Indian's legs!
She can make a pair of old moccasins jump about when she drums.
Empty moccasins danced when you touched the witch-drum.
These were cut up and made intomoccasins and traded at our store during their stay about the post in summer.
Never after wringing out your wet moccasins place them near the fire to dry, but scrape out any remaining moisture with the back of the sheathe knife, stuff each shoe with brush and hang at back of camp to dry gradually.
You have purchased," said he, "a parcel of elegant moccasins for your New York ladies.
Then he took off his clothes and got his old mountain-suit out of the closet--moccasins and all--and put them on.
The tanned skins that had been brought along for the purpose of replacing worn-out moccasins were equally divided, and strong extra foot-gear was made up with great care.
That night he eased the pangs of hunger by chewing on an old pair of moccasins that he found at the bottom of the sled.
Later on the shuffling of Si-wash's moccasins scrunching upon the pine-cones made itself heard.
They came towards her, Leo moving with an active, swinging stride, while the other moved with the almost cat-like stealth which the use of moccasins ever gives their wearer.
Soft deer skin moccasins are very much superior to civilised boots or shoes under such conditions.
When I got that far I got mighty careful, an' the way I coaxed that little craft in between them cypresses was so quiet that I didn't even wake up the water moccasins asleep on the roots.
Puff adders and moccasinsare deadly enough, but they are mild beside the rattler.
But with the passing of time the alligators slipped from the wharf, the moccasins retreated to where gunshots were less frequent, and vast stretches of pines and of river-front passed into other hands.
His shirt, with its tail flapping outside a pair of buckskin trousers, bright-colored turban, and buckskin moccasins were the customary clothes of the tribe.
He had seen cotton-mouth moccasins before and had a lively recollection of the fat, dirty colored reptiles and their deadly fangs.
His dress was the usual hunting-frock of buckskin, with long fringes down the seams, with pantaloons similarly ornamented, and moccasins of Indian make.
His pantaloons of buckskin were shrunk with wet, and reached midway between his knees and ankles, and his huge feet were incased in moccasins of buffalo-cow skin.
Game was exceedingly scarce in the vicinity, and they suffered extremely from hunger, having, on more than one occasion, recourse to the parfleche soles of their moccasins to allay its pangs.
The soldiers in Santa Fe are half froze for leather; and moccasins fetch two dollars easy.
They had very little ammunition, their moccasins were worn out, and they were unable to procure skins to supply themselves with fresh ones.
Illustration: "A pair of moccasinsgroping vaguely about for support.
He had not long to wait when in the large open space at the back of the stove appeared a pair of moccasins groping vaguely about for support.
Moccasins usually covered the feet, shoes being expensive luxuries which few among the settlers could afford.
Moccasins they had already; but now their mother was called upon to fashion for her boys hunting tunics of tanned buckskin, which in turn were fringed, as had been those worn by Kenton and the others.
I have to look at her bead-embroidered petticoat and her leggings and moccasins before I can bring it home to my mind that she is not some very high-bred lady of the court of France or England.
Dressed like themselves, with tomahawk and knife in his belt, and moccasinsupon his feet, appeared Walter Prevost, distinguished from the rest by his fair skin and flowing hair.
On his head he wore a fur cap, as usual, and a pouch and powder horn, with moccasins on his feet, completed his equipment.
I'd hate to wake up in the morning and find one of your moccasins left around to remember you by.
The elephant guns and cordite ammunition were broken out, the blankets, slickers and other necessaries were loaded up on the porters, and the three hunters donned their moccasins for the first time.
He freely admitted that in no instance had Schoverling's prophecies and ideas fallen down, and thereafter wore his moccasins until the end of the trip.
The dry, irritating dust made no entrance through the thick moosehide, and although the moccasins were undeniably hot, they were much better than hunting-boots.
Most of them flatly declared that living on the land might be possible, but that moccasins and traps were absurd.
When I tramped from Fort Rosebury to Kituta in my bare hide I got nothing worse than mosquito bites, and I've had to make moccasins many a time or go barefoot.
Then I'll pack up those heavy moccasins I brought along and we can take the train to-morrow night.
Moccasins are equally as good, especially high ones like ours, and a whole lot more comfortable.
Blackstock dropped the offensive thing beside the moccasins at his feet, and reached once more into the hole.
He picked up the moccasins and mitten again on the point of his stick, scanned the bank sharply to make sure his quarry had not gone that way, and led the procession once more down along the rocky shore of the stream.
You would do better, Colonel," said Blackstaffe suavely, "to wear moccasinsin place of those heavy boots.
Toward sunset he came upon a trail made by moccasins and two pairs of boots, and he surmised that it was Alloway and one of his young officers who had passed that way with the Indians.
He found the imprints of five or six pairs of moccasins farther on, and then they became so faint that the best trailer in the West could not follow them, although he believed that they had been made by a hunting party.
Then they scraped the mud off their moccasins and leggings and sat up on the hard earth.
He went a little way down the slope and hismoccasins made no sound in the grass.
Then they walked on, but the moccasins moved forward in a much straighter and more precise manner than the boots, which were now veering a little from side to side.
So, the two pairs of moccasins indicated that both chiefs were present.
Two of the traces were made by moccasins and two by boots.
One of these men is very large, and he wears moccasins that were never made by my people.
All were stripped to the skin, and wore only girdles about their loins and moccasins on their feet; but Has-se, as the son of the chief, had the scarlet feather of a flamingo braided into his dark hair.
Both travellers wore moccasinson their feet, and carried the usual weapons of offence and defence.
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 moccasins escape their observation.
As to Catharine, she declared the snow-shoes made her ankles ache, and that she preferred the moccasins that her cousin Louis made for her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moccasins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
