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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.
Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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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.
The Famine 2010
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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. . .” 2008
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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.
Happy Wending! 2010
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We also have huge (over 6 ft) Eastern Diamondbacks, Cottonmouth mocassins and the tiny Pigmy rattler.
Puff This! 2008
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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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