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  • SHAMAN, the women bending under their burdens of camp gear and dunnage.) (Enter from left youths carrying fish-spears and large fish.) (Appear, coming down the hillside, RED CLOUD and the hunters, many carrying meat.).) (The various repeated characters, despite differences of skin garmenting and decoration, resemble their prototypes of the prologue.)

    The Acorn-Planter 1916

  • Too many gorgeous stripped athletes had he seen slouched into conventional garmenting, to expect too much of the marvelous creature in the white silken swimming suit when it should appear garbed as civilized women garb.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • In the struggle with the terrifying and pitiless natural forces, they returned to the primitive, garmenting themselves in the skins of wild beasts, and covering their feet with the walrus mucluc and the moosehide moccasin.

    The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

  • It was far more trouble to permit their ambitious bungling, which must be undone and painstakingly reassembled, than to have clad them all himself, swiftly revolving and garmenting them like dolls.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

  • All wear moccasins and are skin-clad, primitive, in their garmenting.

    London: The Acorn-Planter 1916

  • Too many gorgeous stripped athletes had he seen slouched into conventional garmenting, to expect too much of the marvelous creature in the white silken swimming suit when it should appear garbed as civilized women garb.

    The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

  • All wear moccasins and are skin-clad, primitive, in their garmenting.

    The Acorn-Planter 1916

  • [Page 38] was so subtly commanding that it did away with the consideration of garmenting altogether.

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • In the struggle with the terrifying and pitiless natural forces, they returned to the primitive, garmenting themselves in the skins of wild beasts, and covering their feet with the walrus mucluc and the moosehide moccasin.

    The Gold Hunters of the North 1910

  • Jennie paused suddenly in her garmenting, relief growing in her face.

    The Laying of the Monster 1910

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