Leggings of moleskin (or some other strong, pliable cloth) large enough to push the foot through protect the legs.
Hudson's Bay Company trappers wear good-weight moleskin trousers, almost entirely to the exclusion of other fabrics, and I adopted them several years ago as superior to any other.
The kulutuk takes the place of the moleskin adickey.
In Ungava I supplied myself with caribou skin trousers, which, as is the custom there, I drew on over my moleskin trousers in windy or intensely cold weather.
A man clad in a white adikey and white moleskin trousers emerged from one of the buildings, paused for a moment to gaze at Bob and his companions as they approached, and then reentered the building.
It turned out to be Cheetham himself, in a moleskin suit, and a long beard.
I've got the last suit of moleskin I ever worked in laid away.
She had on a moleskin hat, close fitting to her glossy head.
She was wearing a moleskin coat with a deep collar of silver-fox.
His costume consisted of a pair of moleskin trousers, a cotton shirt, and one suspender.
He was dressed in the usual costume-cotton shirt, moleskin trousers, faded hat and waistcoat, and blucher boots.
He was dressed in a tail-coat turned yellow, a print shirt, and a pair of moleskin trousers, with big square calico patches on the knees; and his old straw hat was covered with calico.
Hopkins, came limping into the camp, travel-stained and footsore, with his spade strapped across his back, and his Bible in the pocket of his moleskin jacket.
He wore a velveteen tunic, girt round the waist with a sash of china silk, a pair of moleskin trousers, and held his cabbage-tree hat in his left hand.
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Skipper Jonathan's clothes of moleskin steamed with the rain and spray of the day's toil.
Well, I believe there's a grand opening in the moleskin line, so there's a chance for ye.
His clean old crab-apple face was always grinning at you from over a white-sleeved moleskin waistcoat, as if he had been no better than a breaker of road-metal.
It was a boy about fifteen, dressed in a ragged pair of moleskin trousers, a good deal too large for him, but kept straight by a leather strap round the waist.
His moleskin trousers were still damp, but he donned them, and renewing the fire he stretched himself luxuriously for a long and much needed rest.
He now removed his rain-soaked jacket and moleskin trousers and suspended them from the ridge-pole, where they would receive the benefit of the heat and gradually dry.
Moleskin waistcoats used to be thought a good deal of, but are now only met with occasionally as a curiosity.
Once or twice she has made a moleskin waistcoat for a gentleman.
The rustle drew nearer yet, and round the bend of the trail came a man in moleskin trousers, a gray shirt, and a shapeless felt hat, which seemed to have no colour but those lent to it by years of sun and rain.
The man in the moleskin trousers and the shapeless hat laughed, lounged indeterminately for a minute, rolled his quid in his cheek, spat, wiped his bearded mouth with the back of a sunburnt hand, and laughed again.
I think that we'll doss here for the night," said Moleskinwhen we had walked about a mile further.
Moleskin ruefully, looking at his own bare toes peeping through the ragged leather of his emaciated uppers.
Finding that we meant to do them no harm, and observing that Moleskin threw away little scraps which might be eatable, one bold little beggar came down, and with legs wide apart stood a short distance away and surveyed us narrowly.
One night towards the end of October I had lost all my money at the gambling school, although Moleskin had twice given me a stake to retrieve my fallen fortunes.
Moleskin remarked at one time, when the snow whirled around the cutting, causing us to gasp with every fiercely-taken breath.
Tell Moleskin that I'm not comin' any further," Carroty shouted after me as I passed him by.
Anyway, he put the dog on me and the animal bounded straight at the thick of my leg, but that animal didn't know that it was up againstMoleskin Joe.
What the devil was I thinkin' of when I took on that pig of a Moleskin Joe?
If you think of it, there is no end to anything," Moleskin went on.
Once I tried to hit it with my foot, but the blow swung clear, and my hobnailed boot took Moleskin on the shin, causing him to swear deeply.
An old lady gave me twopence and later I learned that she had given Moleskin a penny.
When the meal was finished, Moleskin flung away the bones.
His hands groped towards his waist, then suddenly flew upward beneath his moleskin pillow, and there lay clutching something out of sight.
His eyes were closed, his cheek lay upon an old white moleskin coat, rolled under his head like a wizened apple upon a grimy snow-bank.
The mass of humanity slowly untangled, the moleskin clad players rose from the turf, all but one.
On the turf the moleskin clad warriors, under the crisp commands of their Coaches, swiftly lined down, shifted to the formation called, and ran off plays.
But Bob nevertheless held the candle while his mother selected a suit of warm underwear, a pair of woollen socks, a flannel outer shirt, and a pair of freshly washed white moleskin trousers from the chest of drawers.
They were to bring back with them flour, pork, tea and molasses for the house, and woolen duffle, kersey and moleskin cloth for clothing, besides many little odds and ends to be purchased at the store.
Then the two lads drew on their kersey and moleskin adikys, David slung the ruck sack upon his back, and, each bearing his rifle and a light ax, they passed out into the leaden-gray light of the winter morning.
The trousers were very fancy articles: they were mostly of moleskin and corduroy, cut in the approved coster pattern "saucy over the trotters," and we took all that we could find large enough to fit our men.
Describing the real swagger, clad in flannel shirt, moleskin trowsers, and what were once thick boots.
Leather is a better protection than moleskin against thorns; but not so serviceable against wet: it will far outlast moleskin.
If you are likely to have much riding, take extra leather or moleskin trousers, or tweed covered down the inside of the legs with leather, such as cavalry soldiers generally wear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moleskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buckskin; color; corduroy; cotton; ermine; fabric; fur; hide; nylon; pelt; pigment
