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Example sentences for "wickiups"

Lexicographically close words:
wickerwork; wicket; wickets; wicking; wickiup; wickless; wicks; wictim; wid; widden
  1. The spaces between nearby wickiups were also filled with people, all waiting for Owl Carver to speak.

  2. White Bear spent the rest of the day moving through the wickiups under the trees with his Sauk medicine bag and his bag of pale eyes surgical instruments.

  3. The wickiups were silent under their glistening blue-white hummocks.

  4. Wolf Paw's wives pulled Nancy through the band's collection of hastily built wickiups and lean-tos.

  5. In his joy it seemed to him that the wickiups were bathed in a golden light.

  6. He saw the gardens and long houses of Saukenuk, cool and pleasant in the summer, the snow-covered, warm winter wickiups in Ioway.

  7. Ahead, the leeward sides of the wickiups were rows of snowdrifts, all the same size.

  8. She turned and pushed her feet through the fresh snow, hurrying past the round-roofed, snow-covered wickiups of the British Band's winter camp in Ioway country.

  9. Before the wickiups he could see what the women had been working at, tasks abandoned for the moment, clothing being mended, skins stretched, meat and fish cleaned and set on frames to dry.

  10. Would any but a jilted woman sit and mope while our wickiups go up in smoke?

  11. All about them wickiups sprouted like misshapen plants.

  12. The dome-shaped wickiups where the villagers lived were softly beautiful in the early morning light.

  13. So they went, light of foot, among the pines until they saw the wickiups opening eastward to the sun, but many of them stood ruined and awry.

  14. The women sat by the wickiups weaving baskets of willow and stems of fern.

  15. Jones, and I scoured the vicinity in search of a spring or pocket, but though we found many old wickiups there was no water.

  16. One moment the Apaches were squatting among their lodges; and in the next moment people and goods and wickiups were gone; the place was bare.

  17. Several low wickiups had been fashioned by binding the tops of bushes together and throwing skins or tattered blankets over the arched stems.


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