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Example sentences for "parfleches"

Lexicographically close words:
parfaite; parfaitement; parfect; parfit; parfleche; parfois; parfum; parfums; pargana; parhelia
  1. Many buffalo have been run in, and our parfleches are filled with dried meat.

  2. Our lodge is good; the parfleches are never empty; there are plenty of tanned robes and soft furs for winter.

  3. Dusty Star crouching behind the parfleches could not tell which.

  4. Presently, a sharp, rending noise told him that the grizzly had attacked either a tepee, or one of the parfleches in it.

  5. The number of tongues required is uncertain, some informants claiming that there should be an even hundred, others, that four to five full parfleches was the standard.

  6. At the time indicated in the program, the parfleches are opened and the women in turn step out with some of the dried tongue, face the west, and each holding up a piece, address the sun then nearing the horizon.

  7. Wild peppermint is put in with the tongues, the parfleches are tied up and placed at the rear of the tipi.

  8. In the procession of the fourth day, the parfleches are carried behind the medicine woman by her attendants.

  9. The parfleches containing tongues are kept in the medicine woman's tipi where they are "prayed and sung over" during the first and second days of the program.

  10. The women in her rear bear parfleches containing the tongues, together with blankets and other ordinary objects.

  11. The second dog also carried two parfleches and a couple of robes, and tied on top of the pack was a small Hudson's Bay Company copper kettle.

  12. It had become so hardened by age that it had to be chopped out of the parfleches with an axe, but it was perfectly sweet and good, and afforded a very palatable and nourishing hash.

  13. However, two parfleches of pemmican of one hundred pounds each were found among the goods left by the exploring party two years before.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parfleches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.