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Example sentences for "sealskin"

Lexicographically close words:
sealeth; sealing; sealings; seall; seals; sealskins; seam; seaman; seamanlike; seamanship
  1. Mrs. Pottle bravely panted along, making tremendous exertions under her thick sealskin jacket to keep pace with Bob, who assisted her with his arm.

  2. The farther was a lady of maturer years, equally tall, very stout, wearing a heavy sealskin jacket, her bonnet awry, her arms pinioned by two natives who were urging her along.

  3. They are to be covered with sealskin or sail-cloth, and to be decked all over, except for two holes--one for each man.

  4. We wore our usual dress of a pair of ordinary trousers and woollen pants, a shirt, and wolfskin cloak, or a common woollen suit with a light sealskin jacket over it.

  5. As we were in the act of taking a sealskin on board the boat heeled over, I slipped, and my rifle fell into the sea--a sad accident.

  6. The necklace from which was broken the fragment you found in the sealskin bag," I explained.

  7. Then how did the murdered man's pocket-book get into the sealskin bag?

  8. The relief was immediate, and, picking up the sealskin bag, I walked slowly beside her, away from the track.

  9. In the excitement I had forgotten entirely the sealskin grip which the porter now sat at my feet, and I had not investigated the pockets at all.

  10. They took away that black sealskin bag you brought home from Pittsburg with you!

  11. For all I know, this may be mine, but I don't know how it got into that sealskin bag.

  12. I have the short end of the chain in the sealskin bag," I reminded him.

  13. Then I realized what had not noticed before: the hand and wrist of the broken left arm were jammed through the handle of the sealskin grip.

  14. Had they not in their possession a sealskin bag containing a wallet and a bit of gold chain, which, by putting the crime on me, would leave a gap big enough for Sullivan himself to crawl through?

  15. Then the golden altar by itself, and the vessels used in the service of the sanctuary by themselves are covered with blue cloth and sealskin and made ready for carriage.

  16. Then they filled two sealskin bags with food and water.

  17. So Ahmow dressed himself in his new reindeer suit that his mother had made, and pulled his sealskin cap well over his ears.

  18. Over these they wear sealskin boots, which are long enough to cover their knees.

  19. For this purpose they converted a sealskin into pretty fair parchment, and wrote with the ink which Captain Vane had brought with him and carefully husbanded.

  20. Eskimo ladies wear enormous sealskin boots the whole length of their legs.

  21. It consisted of an undercoat of bird-skins, with the feathers inwards; bearskin pantaloons with the hair out; an upper coat of the grey seal; dogskin socks and sealskin boots.

  22. They also picked up his spear with the sealskin buoy attached.

  23. They soon came up with their victim, and another spear, with its accompanying sealskin buoy, was fixed in its side.

  24. Emerging at the outer end of the tunnel, he stood up, drew the hood of his sealskin coat over his head, shouldered his spear, and went off with huge and rapid strides over the frozen billows of the Arctic Sea.

  25. Oblooria goes with her brother and mother," answered that young lady, toying coquettishly with her sealskin tail.

  26. We may state that the chimney-piece, as well as the sealskin collar, is the property of OSCAR, and will appear in his Lectures "on the Growth of Artistic Taste in England.

  27. There is no reason why the farmer should not be educated; there is no reason why his wife should not wear a sealskin jacket, or the daughter interpret Beethoven.

  28. Still holding her hand with the ring, he put his arm under the sealskin coat that reached to her feet, and held her close to him while he kissed her as he had never before kissed her.

  29. The waiter went off in the leisurely style that was only consistent with the management of an establishment that dated back to King John; and in a few minutes Beatrice appeared, having laid aside her sealskin coat, and her hat.

  30. Ye stand here like giants as ye are, but to-morrow some Roman Adonis with a sealskin cap will pat your red brawn and bet his sesturces upon your blood.

  31. Shortly after that I put on my overshoes and a sealskin cap.

  32. But the operation is not at all an easy one, and can only be performed by a highly skilled workman, and that is one reason why sealskin jackets are so expensive.

  33. They were very similar to modern Skis but had a rigid binding made of sealskin with no means of tightening or loosening it.

  34. To draw the sledge along, join a lap thong or sealskin or rope or puttee to the outer Ski tips, and also to the ends of the stick across them.

  35. A sealskin cap was lying on Dodge's desk.

  36. This man upstairs, he had a sealskin coat and silk hat?

  37. In the room above, the man in the sealskin coat had thrown himself down, clothes and all, upon the bed, tired with his drive.

  38. By this time all the Eskimos had abandoned their sealskin tents and were snugly settled in their winter igloos.

  39. I wore an old sealskin coat, worn bearskin trousers, stockings of hare-skin showing above torn seal boots.

  40. It could hardly be called a village, for it consisted merely of seven triangular sealskin tents, conveniently placed on picturesque rocks.

  41. On grassy shores were sealskin tents, about which fur-clad women and children vied with wolf-dogs for favorite positions to see the queer doings of white men.

  42. Here we saw five sealskin tents pitched among the bowlders of a glacial stream.

  43. The young bull made violent efforts to escape but the line of sealskin was strong and elastic.

  44. Profuse perspiration came with the first hours of dog work, and our heavy fur coats were exchanged for the sealskin nitshas (lighter coat).

  45. The humid boots, stockings and sealskin coats could not be dried out, for fuel was more precious than clothing.

  46. Tents of sealskin are inhabitable only in the summer time.

  47. The line was a new, strong sealskin rawhide of ample length, which had been reserved for just such an emergency.

  48. No Russian would pay the price which is given for sealskin in return for such a "cold fur," nor would he wear it on the outside for display, while it would be too tender to use as a lining.

  49. Sealskin is good only for a short jacket between seasons for walking, and if one sets out on foot in that garb she must return on foot; she would be running a serious risk if she took a carriage or sledge.

  50. If he be an American, his first discovery is that his favorite sealskin is out of the race entirely.

  51. We shall hunt down this miscreant in the sealskin coat.

  52. He was over six feet in height, with shoulders disproportionately broad, close shaved, with black moustaches, and wearing a sealskin great-coat.

  53. It was decently dressed in a good deerskin jacket, and a sealskin prepared without the hair was carefully placed as a cover to the whole figure, and tucked in on all sides.

  54. The animal reappearing after some time, all the canoes again paddle towards him, some warning being given by the sealskin buoy floating on the surface.

  55. Over these come a pair of shoes of the same material; next a pair of dressed sealskin boots, perfectly water-tight; and over all a corresponding pair of shoes, tying round the instep.

  56. It was a magnificent sealskin mantle, longer than sealskin mantles usually are.

  57. Had it been anything but a sealskin mantle, and equally costly, Mrs Machin would have upbraided.

  58. If the entire contents of the cottage, with the aforesaid exception, had been put up to auction, they would not have realised enough to pay for that sealskin mantle.

  59. It fitted as well as a sealskin mantle can fit.

  60. So the sealskin mantle (for it was spring again) went up with Denry to Bleakridge.

  61. A sealskin mantle is the sole luxurious ostentation that a woman of Mrs Machin's temperament--and there are many such in the Five Towns and elsewhere--will conscientiously permit herself.

  62. Mrs Machin was very nervous, but thanks to her sealskin mantle she was not cold.

  63. I "went away" in a sealskin jacket with coral buttons, and a little sealskin cap.

  64. My long sealskin moccasins, reaching to my thigh, were full of ice and water.

  65. To my great joy there it was still, and shortly I was at work cutting all the sealskin traces still hanging from the dogs' harnesses, and splicing them together into one long line.

  66. When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.

  67. In his sealskin boots and clothes the lad would be carried to the foot of the rapids and drowned.

  68. My sealskin coat has come back; it is beautiful now, and I have got a hat and feather exactly the same colour as my Indian red skirt, so I think they will go very well together.

  69. No doubt by this time Edith and Madge were on the pier--Madge with her red skirt and black sealskin coat.

  70. If the man kills a bear, he has a costume made of the skin and discards the ordinary sealskin suit for it.

  71. If he does not kill a bear, he wears the sealskin suit until it no longer keeps him warm, when he gets another.

  72. They were little people, under five feet in height and almost as broad as they were long, clad in fur jumpers and short breeches with sealskin boots reaching over their knees.


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