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Example sentences for "wolfskin"

Lexicographically close words:
wolfed; wolfhound; wolfish; wolframite; wolfs; woll; wolle; wollen; wolles; wollop
  1. So in his terror he merely held his wolfskin buckler in front of his head, and the Albanian aimed a mighty blow at him with his sword, which was like to have felled him to the ground.

  2. Simplex, likewise, drew his broadsword and wrapped his wolfskin round his left arm by way of a buckler.

  3. His bow and arrows were in a wolfskin case which was slung across his back, and at his side hung his buffalo-hide war shield.

  4. Their suspense was soon ended, however, for in a few moments the wolfskin over the entrance of the lodge was drawn aside, and two of the three Pawnee guards came out.

  5. Such a wolfskin was kept by the boy Grenier.

  6. Then his wolfskin couch grew very soft and warm, the night airs very gentle, the silence very drowsy, and Tony slept.

  7. The boy was already dressed in the brilliant buckskin costume his mother had spent so many hours in making, and his precious wolfskin was flung over his arm.

  8. Across the front the Dane's wolfskin serk was thickly sewn with iron rings; but the axe-blade shore through iron and hide like cloth, and buried itself in the viking's breast.

  9. The knife fell unheeded from her hand upon the wolfskin beside her as she sank, half fainting, into Olvir's arms.

  10. The wrists have narrow borders of wolf fur, and there was a wolfskin fringe to the hood, which was removed before the garment was offered for sale.

  11. The wife of the captain of a whaling umiak wears a strip of wolfskin in place of the string of beads when the boat is "in commission" (as Capt.

  12. The hood has a fringe of wolfskin sewed to the outside of the binding.

  13. There is a deep groove around the edge of the face into which is fastened a strip of yellowish wolfskin with long fur to represent the trimming around the hood of the jacket.

  14. He sat up upon the wolfskin with passionate pain upon his face; all his soul was in rebellion, and he was only a child and was powerless.

  15. He had been struck backward, and his head had fallen on the hard bricks where the wolfskin did not reach.

  16. August a little while later, as he opened his eyes and saw Dorothea weeping above him on the wolfskin before the stove.

  17. Released from the wolfskin bag and heartened by Billy's laughter, Teddy Brisk demanded: "Was it Cracker?

  18. Billy Topsail got out of his wolfskin bag.

  19. Cracker and Smoke and Tucker and Sling were worrying the wolfskin bag and dragging it off.

  20. Teddy Brisk was tied up in the wolfskin bag.

  21. When Billy released him from the wolfskin bag the boy was still screaming.

  22. The Chief Umslopogaas was seated on a stool by the door of his hut with his rhinoceros-horn-handled axe which was fastened to his right wrist by a thong, leaning against his thigh, and a wolfskin hanging from his broad shoulders.

  23. The effect of size must have come, I think, from the great wolfskin that he wore.

  24. August, a little while later, as he opened his eyes and saw Dorothea weeping above him on the wolfskin before the stove.

  25. Wolfskin mitts are unexcelled for use in cold windy weather.

  26. In Adelie Land, the only furs we used were finnesko, wolfskin mitts and sleeping-bags of reindeer skins.

  27. There were various coverings for the hands: felt mitts, mittens, instrument-gloves and wolfskin mitts.

  28. Jendzian slept under his warm wolfskin till morning, and then went straight to Pan Volodyovski, who, as he had not seen him for an age, received him with gladness and took him at once to Pan Yan and Zagloba.

  29. Beneath the hood of the carriage sat an aged man wrapped up to the throat in a wolfskin bunda, and with a large astrachan cap on his head drawn down over his eyes.

  30. There was no time to regain the couch, but a quick swerve took me out of the firelight in the shadow of a great wolfskin against the wall.

  31. Then I remember clutching at the wolfskin like one clinching a death-grip of reality, praying God not to let go a soul's anchor-hold of reason.

  32. I remember exactly how he strode into our kitchen in his felt boots and long wolfskin coat, his eyes and cheeks bright with the cold.

  33. But Lingaard gained his feet, saving me but losing the wolfskin to the hounds.

  34. Tostig Lodbrog, as the old man and I and the wolfskin were mauled and worried by the dogs.

  35. Paul Langford dropped one shoe nervelessly to the wolfskin in front of his bed.

  36. His hat was made of wolfskin after the Indian fashion, from underneath which fell long brown hair, carefully combed, in profuse masses.

  37. She wore the wolfskin over her back, and in those days no one paid any attention to a wolf.

  38. We were, perhaps, too lightly clad under the wolfskin clothing; we are making another experiment with a little more on to-night.

  39. The others had no sleeping-bag with them, so they made themselves a cozy little hut of snow, into which they crawled in their wolfskin garments, and had a tolerably good night.

  40. Went in wolfskin dress, but the perspiration poured down our backs enough to turn a mill.

  41. I also made several experiments with respect to the clothes we should wear, and was especially anxious to ascertain whether it would do to go in our thick wolfskin garments, but always came to the conclusion that they were too warm.

  42. He carried a wolfskin case containing his bow and arrows, a flint knife in a buckskin sheath, his buffalo-hide war shield, and a weasel-skin pouch containing his fire sticks and some dried meat.

  43. He wore a large wolfskin cap decorated with a great pair of buffalo horns.

  44. He had too much self-respect to whine, so he went back to the wolfskin and curled up in the sun, but did not go to sleep.


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