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Example sentences for "wild rice"

  • At one point we observed pond lilies, and at another a small quantity of wild rice.

  • After crossing Leech Lake the voyagers pushed up the Gabecanazeba River, which was filled with rushes and wild rice.

  • Their food was largely of wild rice, which grew in great abundance in their country.

  • The water along its shores was green with the fields of wild rice, the gathering of which, just at this season, is an important occupation of the Indian women.

  • Serve on a bed of wild rice; garnish with parsley and lemon wedges and pass gravy separately.

  • I chilled the wine, and laid the birds on a bed of wild rice just as you did on T.

  • It has also a lake, called Lac la Folle, at the point of its junction with the Mississippi, whose borders are noted for the abundant and vigorous growth of wild rice, reeds, and rushes.

  • Its borders are fringed with the monomin of the Chippewas, or wild rice, and several of the liliaceous water plants.

  • Schoolcraft, Piniddiwin of Brower), through a lake about a mile wide, filled with a fine crop of wild rice.

  • Immense flocks of passenger pigeons, buntings, grosbeaks, attack the ripening fruits and the wild rice of the swamps.

  • At this period the Amerindians passed in canoes through the water-fields of wild rice, shaking the ears into the canoes as they swept by.

  • Wild rice is not likely to become a popular breakfast food except among the Ojibways, yet a lot of time and effort have been spent on trying to find out how to grow crops of it.

  • Wild rice grows in swamps, shallow lakes, and sluggish rivers covering immense areas in the Mississippi Valley and the middle North-western states.

  • Even the old women and the boys adopted signals, so that while the population of the village was lost to sight in a thick field of wild rice, a meeting could be arranged without calling any one by his or her own name.

  • This soup of wild rice, pounded venison and maize was my main-stay.

  • We were encamped beside a wild rice lake, where two months before we had harvested our watery fields of grain, and where we had now returned for the duck-hunting.

  • Our native women gathered all the wild rice, roots, berries and fruits which formed an important part of our food.

  • They have false oats, (wild rice) use little canoes, and keep their word strictly.


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