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  • Subienkow played his game as coolly as if he were bartering for a foxskin.

    Lost Face 2010

  • The unhappy helplessness of the man in the foxskin coat evidently afforded him great pleasure.

    The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

  • They did not share that enthusiasm with the proud trapper, over that particular foxskin; simply because they knew it was a very poor specimen of its kind, and by rights not worth one-tenth the amount of the check which Ethan had received from the dealer in the distant city -- Phil's uncle, though Ethan never dreamed of such a dreadful thing.

    Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge Silas K. Boone

  • Sigridson, "and you who struck her on the cheek with your glove shall be struck dead with a weapon of well tempered steel instead of foxskin."

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • "Two men are coming; one with a double jacket, the other with a foxskin jacket."

    A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss

  • After bringing him his foxskin cap she established him in a comfortable arm-chair, and then mixed his absinthe for him.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • Subienkow played his game as coolly as if he were bartering for a foxskin.

    Lost Face 1910

  • His picturesque foxskin cap with all its trimmings was incrusted with frost from the breath of his nostrils, and his lagging footfall sounded crisply.

    Old Indian Days 1907

  • His picturesque foxskin cap with all its trimmings was incrusted with frost from the breath of his nostrils, and his lagging footfall sounded crisply.

    Old Indian Days Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

  • He was attired in wolfskins and wore a foxskin cap upon his head.

    Old Indian Days Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

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