teepee

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Hole-in-the-Day leads her from the council and points to his teepee, which is again her home, and where she is as safe as she would be in her husband's teepee, by the banks of the Mine So-to CHAPTER IV While the wife of Red Face lived from day to day in suspense as to her fate, her husband made every effort for her recovery.

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  • A campfire, teepee, arrowheads and spears are just some of the props we're building.
  • ( "When it comes to things in and around the teepee, the wife controls," his lawyer told the jury to explain his client's ignorance of VECO's billing.) —  TPMMuckraker
  • Rube asked Went an' opened the trap an' came away with two fine tail feathers and a nasty scratch on the arm," Kiddie answered, turning from the canoe to search for a suitable pitch for the camp He found a good place on a stretch of sloping ground between two high rocks at the edge of the lake, and in a very little time the teepee was erected, a fire well kindled, and the camp in order Their store of food had been almost exhausted on the island, where they had not set their traps and had caught only fish. —  Kiddie the Scout
  • But that buffalo hunt isn't going to come off When Rube Carter awoke the following morning he found himself alone in the teepee, and might have believed himself to be back in Kiddie's camp on Sweetwater Lake but for the medley of sounds that came to him through the open door-flap He heard the neighing of horses, the barking of dogs, and the high-pitched voices of squaws and children He listened sleepily for a while. —  Kiddie the Scout
  • The wild Sicaugu grunted their amicable "Hao" as they left his teepee, their mouths filled with venison and their hearts planted with the seeds of eternal truth Again he went on a deer-hunt, when he crossed another trail, that of hunters from another hostile tribe. —  Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas
 

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