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On their feet, people in winter wear in the country soft leather socks, called mocassins, with one or two pairs of thick worsted socks inside.
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Their icebound mocassins were sadly worn by much travel, and the sharp ice of the river jams had cut them to rags.
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To such extremity were the gods driven that they ate the soft-tanned leather of their mocassins and mittens, while the dogs ate the harnesses off their backs and the very whip-lashes.
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Failing that, I hope they sent it off via a hide buyer & didn't waste it - I make custom mocassins & moose is one of my 2 favorite leathers; the other being buffalo.
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Failing that, I hope they sent it off via a hide buyer & didn't waste it - I make custom mocassins & moose is one of my 2 favorite leathers; the other being buffalo.
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch."
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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Some fer-ners think we're all ego, but it's really just about having a pretty good life and being all friendly-like despite trying to be killed by rattle snakes, scorpions, killer bees, fire ants, water mocassins, and crummy weather.
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We also have huge (over 6 ft) Eastern Diamondbacks, Cottonmouth mocassins and the tiny Pigmy rattler.
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I am honoured to have worked with you big hair, fleece funky skirts, and unintentionally we were wearing the same mocassins in the court room scenes.
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Visitors can pull out dresser drawers to reveal actual artifacts under glass alongside reproductions that they can pick up and hold, such as bison-skin mocassins and a rattle.
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