Now it so happened that there was none of this kind of peltry at the fort of old Baranoff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference

States with their stocks of peltry, camped near us from time to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference

We've heard a lot of peltry from Barack Obama, as Hillary Clinton used to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2008] Reference

He intended, personally, to inspect every peltry before allowing it to be sent north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

Canoes laden with peltry were perhaps the only craft which disturbed the waters of the Detroit river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Englishwoman in America] Reference

Twice in the year they came down to the hamlet at Gray Eagle to exchange their peltry for such goods as they needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Another petty officer is appointed in each enclosure to barter goods for the game or peltry which they bring in or crops that they manage to raise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

Seventeen of the Creeks fell and the rest escaped in the darkness, leaving their packhorses and a considerable quantity of peltry in the hands of the victors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773] Reference

Here they bartered their peltry for powder, bullets, and various other articles most needed by frontiersmen, and catching a southeast wind started on their return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

The peltry trade in that quarter is ruined for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference

France, and La Tour gathered in all the peltry traffic of the bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference

The taboo, strictly speaking, only appears where the peltry is absent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference

American vessels venturing to the North-west coast for furs and peltry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States of America, Part 1] Reference

The skins of these animals are good peltry, and are sent in great quantities to Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680] Reference

Then Johnnie, dressed from head to toe in peltry, moored at his elbow that lonely isle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference

In either case the peltry would be a mere veil hiding the true individuality for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference

After his reason comes back to him, when he gets up and finds where he is, he asks for his peltry.    From Wordnik.com.  [History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians] Reference

They had many cities and castles, and carried on a trade with Greenland for pitch, sulphur, and peltry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference

On the 18th of September, 1608, Pont Gravé, having obtained his cargo of furs and peltry, sailed for France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01] Reference

He gave very minute directions in reference to his burial and the disposal of his rifle, blankets, and peltry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky] Reference

The same day there was some trading in peltry, but the other barques carried off the better part of the booty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02] Reference

De la Tour, himself an exile from his province, wandered about the New World in his customary pursuit of peltry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference

Some time after, they came to my shallop, and presented me with some peltry, exhibiting many tokens of pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02] Reference

The other detachments now came in, bringing with them quantities of peltry, all having met with very great success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Salt Lake Trail] Reference

De la Tour or the Evangeline, I think no man who was not engaged in the peltry trade would hesitate which to choose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference

They knew perfectly well that the trade in peltry was greatly desired, in fact that it was indispensable to the French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01] Reference

Mr. Tiebeau to embark with his peltry who in that case will make an addition of two, perhaps four men to the crew of the barge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

The peltry shall be of the breadth of thine hand, and no lesser; and say unto him that it shall be of the best sort, and none other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time] Reference

"I see but little difference whether a man gets his peltry by the rifle or by the trap," said the ill-looking companion of the emigrant, in his rough manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

But if it should come to the question of marrying the De la Tour or the Evangeline, I think no man who was not engaged in the peltry trade would hesitate which to choose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference