For long days and nights the shrew stayed in the storeroom, until all that remained of the meadow-mice were four peltsneatly folded and four skeletons picked bare of even a shred of flesh.
Once a month would I load these pelts on the white mare, and make the journey by the path down the creek.
Wearily I tramped back the dozen miles up the creek, beside the mare, carrying my pelts with me; stumbling on the stones, and scratched by the dry briers.
There was no money in that country, and the store took our pelts in exchange for what we needed from civilization.
The pelts were packed quickly but carefully into his hunting bag and within twenty minutes after his arrival he was retreating up the trail at a half run.
With the approach of spring the skipper found to his satisfaction that he had already collected more pelts than he had been able to purchase on his previous spring's voyage in the South, and at prices that even to him seemed ridiculously low.
He found himself calculating the number of pelts he would secure, and amongst them perhaps a silver fox.
This could not be estimated even approximately for they had not so much as seen the pelts yet.
Before winter ice spread over the sea, ptarmigan, hare and reindeer were sought on land to supply the table during the long night with delicacies, while bear and fox pleased the palates of the Eskimos, and their pelts clothed all.
In it were two saucy little teddies in pelts of white silk that would have gladdened the heart of any child.
Bundles of seal-skins, packages of pelts and much ivory were brought out to trade and establish friendly intercourse.
The animals whose pelts we required were abundant everywhere.
Her gown shall be panther's pelts fringed 'round with wolf-tails an' eagles' claws!
He picked up his "catch" of peltsand shouldered them.
He flung the pelts into the storeroom, and passed on to the house, wondering if Buck had returned from the camp, whither he knew he had been that day.
He's been away nigh four days," he said, and took the opportunity of shifting his burden of six freshly-taken fox pelts and lighting his pipe.
Preparing thepelts occupied part of the boys' time.
The fur trader never likes to see the country from which the pelts come opened up to settlement.
Louis thought that if Walter agreed to turn over to the Company the pelts of the food animals he killed, and not to engage in barter with the Indians, he might arrange for a gun and ammunition.
The decision proved academic, for fur prices declined until no market for Aleutian arctic fox pelts could be found.
As a result, little research has been conducted on cleaning and treatment techniques except for experiments on live beavers and on the carcasses and pelts of sea otters and beavers.
In a few days he had loaded the pelts on board the wagon, covered it with the wagon-sheet we had used in the dugout, and made me a comfortable bed inside.
But wealth in the shape of pelts was accumulating about us, and we determined to stick it out till spring.
Defn: Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.
Strange men from the North glided silently to the Factor's door, bearing the meat and peltsof the seal.
The crew had deserted, but amidships, among the packages of pelts and duffel, sat a stranger.
They took your pelts and arms, and escorted you to Sudbury.
And a merry day it was for all of them, for wolf pelts could be traded at the mission store for necessaries.
Yes, and a nice haul of wolf pelts to boot," added Skipper Ed.
And none of them gave heed or thought to the danger the pelts had cost, save to give thanks to God for His deliverance; for dangers in that land are an incident of the game of life, and there the game of life is truly a man's game.
Every kind of edible bird or beast was trapped and prepared for food, while the skins and pelts of animals were cured and made into garments and covers.
Hal set traps for animals, and this game we skinned; the meat we dried and the pelts we hoped to use in the winter.
We offered the squaw the bear-pelts if she would return with help and rescue us.
Two dogs were placed in the canoe, in case they would be needed for sledging, and a store of food and pelts were packed under the seats.
Good silver fox pelts bring in the open market from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars each, and black fox pelts even more than that.
And in the end I got sick of the big blood-rusted traps and the stretching-rings and the blood-smeared cutting-boards and the smell of pelts being cured.
After them came the Van Pelts of Groodt Esopus, dexterous horsemen, mounted upon goodly switch-tailed steeds of the Esopus breed.
I'd be pretty liberal with my first buying and it wouldn't be long before the Indians would be coming from hundreds of miles to exchange their pelts for tobacco, beads and trinkets.
I understand that you are going up the Yukon to trade for pelts with the Indians.
The pelts were tanned through in seven days and yielded leathers which, after drying and finishing, possessed yellow colour, long fibre, and good tensile strength, but a rather empty feel.
When the toboggan was unloaded they took it out, dragged in the dead wolves where they would not freeze, and after they had kindled a fire and eaten their supper, removed the pelts from the three, and fine big pelts they were.
The adventure of the evening occupied their conversation until the wolf pelts were scraped and hung to dry.
These were of different sizes, and properly shaped to fit the pelts of martens, foxes and other animals hunted along the trails.
The survey of the pelts placed Indian Jake in a most amiable mood that evening.
Pelts dry quickly, and therefore comparatively few boards, assorted to suit the size and form of the various animals, are sufficient for the hunter's purpose.
He helped Katherine over the second portage, and tumbled bundles of pelts and packages of dried fish into the boat.
More likely that it will break before noon," retorted Miles, who was helping to bring out the pelts from the stockroom.
Every place at the store was so crowded now, from the shipments which had recently come in, that it was really a relief to get these bundles of pelts cleared out of the way.
Yes," answered Katherine, who was busy rearranging the pelts which Mr. Selincourt had rejected.
For every dollar's worth of stuff we let them have this fall they'll bring ten dollars' worth of pelts next spring--unless it is an extraordinary winter.
Claimed to be free traders like ourselves, and wanted to know if we minded 'em tryin' to pick up a few pelts around here in the spring.
The pelts are appropriated to the manufacture of gilder's cement, or will make excellent glue.
Commonly the hides andpelts are nearly or quite in natural condition, retaining the hair, fur, or feathers.
He usually appears when a number of sick people come, interprets their dialect into good Persian for Mirza, and beats and pelts them with stones when they crowd too closely, but they do not care.
When they crowd almost into the tent, Aziz, when appealed to, pelts them with stones and beats them with a stick, and they take it very merrily.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pelts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buckskin; ermine; fur; hide; pelt
