With one tiny foot, upon which she wore a lovely shoe made of a tanned flea's hide, the fairy queen beat time, yet she heard every word which the gallant elf prince said.
The hides, being tanned white, had a very neat and tent-like look.
The homes of these Indians were lodges--tents made of tanned buffalo skin supported on a cone of long, straight, slender poles.
When he killed any animal he gave them part of the meat, and gave them skins which his mother-in-law tanned for robes or for clothing.
She tanned robes for the hunters, made them moccasins worked with porcupine quills, and did everything she could to get a little food or worn out robes and hide, from which she made clothes for her boys.
Our lodge is good; the parfleches are never empty; there are plenty of tanned robes and soft furs for winter.
The young man's wives tanned plenty of cow skins and made a big fine lodge, and in this the son-in-law lived with his wives.
This strip of tanned skin--made up of several pieces--was so wide that one edge rested on the floor, and reached inward under the beds and seats.
They went almost naked; yet in cold weather each man or woman was most of the time wrapped in a warm robe of tanned buffalo skin.
His face and as much of the short bull-neck as Jack could see were tanned red-brown like russet leather, and his cheeks and chin were covered with an unshaven beard of two or three days’ growth.
His face was tannedby exposure to a leathery russet, but deepened to a bricky red in his cheeks.
She placed the bearded, tanned rancher at once, when she saw him working on a piece of harness before the door as she drove up.
He thoughtfully studied the rancher's bearded, weather-tanned face, illuminated by the moonlight.
The soft-handed clerk falls in line with the tanned and strong-muscled out-of-door laborer.
She is a small, wiry woman, with skin tanned to the color of sole leather.
Ward trembled a little while he talked, and his face grew paler and paler as he dug deep into the blackest part of the past, until when he finished he was a tanned white.
That lady, having discovered that her guest's gloves needed mending, was working over them with pieces of Indian-tanned buckskin and beeswaxed thread, the picture of domestic content.
A loose strand blew across her tanned cheek, so that she reached up absently and tucked it behind her ear, where it would not stay for longer than a minute.
Then he saw that she was breathing faintly, unevenly, and in another minute he saw her lashes quiver against her tanned cheek.
Tanned like a native and as lithe as a tiger, he became a real son of the sun.
Their feet were enclosed in moccasins of deer hide, tanned by a long and tedious process.
A mat was hung across the doorway to keep off the drafts from the exterior, and the floor was covered withtanned deer hides, or with mats of considerable thickness.
Their women presented him with a suit of white tanned deerhide, as a testimonial to his bravery and gallantry; made much of him, and crowded about the renowned chieftain in wonder and delight.
His strong profile had beauty, his florid skin was tanned by the sea, his blue eyes were smiling at Electra, and in spite of the whiteness of his thick hair he did not seem to her old.
William Stark, the publisher, looked at her with round blue eyes growing rounder and a deeper red surging into his sea-tanned face.
His sun-tanned face clearly showed how hard he was trying to gather up the tangled threads of her scrappy narrative.
Indeed his name proclaimed his foreign origin, for he was called Taurus Antinor Anglicanus, and surnamed Niger because of his dark eyes and sun-tanned skin.
A sun-tanned giant whose massive frame and fair hair, that gleamed ruddy in the sun, proclaimed some foreign ancestry was the praefectus in command of this tangled bundle of humanity.
The eyes of the don dwelt pleasedly upon the tanned face of his foreman.
But each sun tanned face was wreathed in smiles, for securely tucked away in those well worn overalls was a snug sum, their harvest wages, that insured them and their loved ones against want during the coming winter.
He tanned the soft doe hides, making leggings, moccasins and shirts, stitching them together with deer sinew as he had seen his mother do in the long-ago.
Her tannedcheeks were flushed, her fine square shoulders were tense.
I came up to labor with you," replied Roger, his blue eyes very clear in his tanned face.
She looked at Roger's face, so lined and tanned and now for the first time in months wearing an expression of relaxed contentment.
It was midsummer and Roger's tanned legs and feet were bare and scratched and mosquito bitten.
The room was silent for a moment then, "Ernest," faltered Roger, his thin tanned face working.
He was standing so, a tall figure, his face streaked with dirt and sweat but with satisfaction radiating from every line of his thin tanned face, when, "Hello!
The eldest of the three was a pretty boy with light flaxen hair and blue eyes, very tanned of skin, very grubby of face and hands.
Mr. Stott was a middle-aged man of strong build, honest hazel eyes, clipped beard, tanned face and generally pleasing appearance.
In the tanned haycock we see the hay dried and browned by the sun.
The men had been fighting all the morning, and Zouaves and linesmen alike looked fierce indeed, with tanned faces, eyes reddened by the smoke, and a black mark at the corner of every mouth, from biting off the ends of the cartridges.
The crew were men from Algarve, with tanned skins, dressed in short drawers and jackets of amaranth-coloured velvet, with Venetian caps on their heads.
I could 'a' tanned your young hide when you bulled off after that bear," said the latter.
At her side walked a young farmer, whose tanned face and curling hair and straight-gazing gray eyes proclaimed a robust and simple manhood.
He unconsciously took off his hat, baring the curly hair over the tanned face.
The lover caught her slender figure in his strong arms and held her so close that her breath came fragrantly against his tanned cheek.
She was accustomed to tanned faces; the black and white contrasts of Edward's face pleased her.
The big creature was just as Baird had seen him last, wet and muddy and queerly mottled about his cheeks and nose, red patches upon the nearest approach to pallor his tannedface could attain.
But to the keen eyes in the tanned faces of Last's riders the change was appallingly apparent.
He now moved up to the camp fire with disappointment written plainly upon his gaunt, sun-tanned and bearded face.
Deeply tanned all over; with its shock of dark hair and beard, now going grey, and a shaggy growth almost covering the loathsome body, it looked a mere beast of the field.
Kent refrained from looking at her, but the blood crept darkly into his tanned cheeks.
Val read the consternation in their weather-tanned faces, and smiled in wicked enjoyment.
A big man, swarthy and dark, with sullen eyes, clad in garments of tanned hides and wearing a red cap and a knife in his belt.
Picturesque they were, in their fringed buckskin cunningly tanned and beaded, their feathers and their ornaments of elk teeth and claws of the huge, thick-coated bears.
He saw the woman's arm shoot out and her strong hand, smooth and tawny as finest tanned buckskin, double itself hard and leap in where the jaw turns downward into the curve of the throat.
His face was more tanned than very dark by nature, but it seemed brown in contrast to his light hazel eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tanned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
