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  • The ad attacks Dahlkemper for saying people should conserve energy in the face of high gas prices: "Hmm, how about we use dog-sleds, too?"

    A Day At The Congressional Races 2009

  • The terrorists have melted the igloo containing the dog-sleds and skis, the terrorists have destroyed the Presidential dog-house, the terrorists have weakened the ice holes where your president went fishing, the terrorists have ensured the polar bears are running short of food and the terrorists have caused the hot-water swimming pool to overflow.

    The Arctic is disappearing due to terrorism 2007

  • It is a day on which we celebrate hockey, beer, screaming stads, dog-sleds, and flannel.

    meli Diary Entry meli 2000

  • Morning came, and long before sunrise a thin line of men, women, and heavily laden dog-sleds put out from the farther shore of the lake and headed for the black spruce swamp.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • The paper was not always what true refinement called for, but one could overlook that, when one remembered that it probably came to him on dog-sleds over mountains of snow.

    'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • He could tirelessly follow the dog-sleds, sometimes on the scantiest rations, for hundreds of miles over the snow, sleeping in the open in the arctic frost.

    Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

  • Behind were seen a number of shanties, then another large building in which dog-sleds and great birch-bark canoes were stored.

    The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905

  • I was called on again, and started next day with three dog-sleds and some liquor, to recover the stolen horses if possible.

    Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 1898

  • In hazy weather land and sky formed one impenetrable veil, with no horizon as dividing line, when, even at a short distance away, men and dog-sleds resembled flies crawling up a white curtain.

    From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

  • Cape North, we found a caravan of sixteen dog-sleds, laden down with furs, on the point of departure.

    From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

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