I wince when I recall the bearskin she draped over the sofa in her gubernatorial office. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
It doesn't want culture in bearskin and top boots. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Gavotte, who heard her admiring Zebbie's bearskin. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
He was a huge man in a bearskin coat and felt boots. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
I pulled at the bearskin on the floor, and was silent. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
It was Creb, the Mog-ur, dressed in his bearskin cloak. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Her escort sat behind her on the bearskin saddle blanket. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
And on the stones a man was sitting, wrapt in a bearskin cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
The soldiers should wear a showy military suit and bearskin hats. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
He shook off his muklucks and flung the bearskin parkha into a corner. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The bearskin fell off, and there lay my mother stretched out on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
The bearskin he hung up for a curtain to his door to keep out the cold wind. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
The garment itself was woven of camel's hair, and it was lined with bearskin. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Gold braid on our chests, a single bright-colored feather in our bearskin hats?. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
A medicine man, hideous in adornments of buffalo horns and bearskin, approached De. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Again he asked, "Where did you get the bearskin that I saw hanging outside the door?". From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
I say, I give also the said bearskin, as an immediate fund to the said citizens for ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
If she raised the bearskin curtain at the doorway and spoke to them they did not heed her. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
This also the Devil agrees to and mockingly bestows upon him the bearskin into the bargain. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
The general put on his bearskin helmet, saluted, and made for the door, spurs and sword clinking. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
And I nearly killed myself tripping over the bearskin when I came down to breakfast that one time. From Wordnik.com. [A Selection From Einstein's Letters] Reference
And she would expect the woman to come back with a bearskin, or the bear on a leash, as instructed. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
How long I lay upon the bearskin, hearing the grunting of the wendol and smelling their foul odors!. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
His eyes had rested on a Kodiak bearskin that hung against a pillar at the top of the gallery steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
This official had on the enormous bearskin head-dress, and dark green uniform of the Cossack regiment. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Thus a bear market has falling prices, and is favorable to bearskin jobbers and modern-day short sellers. From Wordnik.com. [ASK TIP SHEET] Reference
This is a Kodiak bear rug -- a bearskin rug right here, which I'm sure all the animal activists will love. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2007] Reference
Near it are spread a bearskin used as a sleeping-blanket, some pine boughs, surveyors 'tools, and a tin box. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
She knew his bearskin cloak covered the stump of an arm that had been amputated at the elbow when he was a boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The artist is the same man, by the way, who created a sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007] Reference
His hand moved to the revolver in the pocket of the big bearskin coat, only to be withdrawn before he touched it. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Jerrine lay on a bearskin before the fire, and Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and I sat on the old blue "settle" at one side. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
This was squeezed through a bearskin, the process segregating the gold and depositing the mercury back into the tub. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
She is followed by the terrible Hans Trapp, dressed in a bearskin, with blackened face, long beard, and threatening rod. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
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