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  • noun Plural form of stroud.

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  • Some cool elements in the story - like the mind-controlling strouds and the automaton Guards it turns people into - round out a good story.

    REVIEW: Galactic Empires edited by Gardner Dozois 2008

  • Thanks. thread count duvets girls footed sleeper pajamas girls footed sleeper pajamas infant toddler rack room baby suit peg perego primo viaggio hip hop pram rear facing contemporary blocks comforter lion king party decorations quilt white cuff watch american drew solar powered deck light survival kit strouds infant clothing summer decon zootux ashton drake niketennis - 2006-08-17 16: 53: 02

    Popularity in the 21st Century barbylon 2004

  • The grim chief trader, and the stern-faced factor who watched with approving eyes while two men fought in the wide cleared space between the rough counter and the high-piled bales of woollens and strouds.

    The Gun-Brand 1921

  • It required its clerks, or factors, to pay an advance of 81-1/2 per cent on the sterling cost of the blankets, strouds, and other

    The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin Frederick Jackson Turner 1896

  • They also had warm leggings of strouds, beautifully fringed and fastened with strong garters artistically worked with porcupine quills.

    Winter Adventures of Three Boys Egerton R. Young 1874

  • As an equivalent for it, they proceeded to lay out for him, as he was told and shown next morning, a blanket, hat, pair of leggins of green cloth, two fathoms strouds, one barrel of flour, one bag of corn, and three kegs of whisky.

    Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

  • According to his statement, as high as four plus (about $20) have been paid for a fathom of strouds, and the same for a two-and-a-half point blanket, two plus for a pair of scarlet leggins, &c.

    Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

  • As an equivalent for it, they proceeded to lay out for him, as he was told and shown next morning, a blanket, hat, pair of leggins of green cloth, two fathoms strouds, one barrel of flour, one bag of corn, and three kegs of whisky.

    Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

  • In all cases, patterns of blankets, strouds, and such other articles as cannot be described with sufficient precision, will be deposited at some convenient place for inspection, and the articles to be furnished will be in conformity therewith.

    Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818

  • New-York, and other places, (which are not prohibited by the acts of trade), to truck those skins with them for Indian trading goods, especially the British woollen manufactures, which the French dispose of to the Creeks and Choctaws, and other Indians, by which means the Indians are much more alienated from our interest, and on every occasion object to us that the French can supply them with strouds and blankets as well as the English, which would have the contrary effect if they were wholly supplied with those commodities by your Majesty's subjects trading with them.

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

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