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  • adjective Alternative spelling of moccasined.

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Examples

  • At his mocassined feet lay a scalping knife and a tomahawk.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • At his mocassined feet lay a scalping knife and a tomahawk.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • There came a low order; the soft shuffle of many mocassined feet; silence.

    The Hidden Children 1899

  • Urged by that wayward curiosity, which is sometimes excited, even under circumstances of the greatest danger and otherwise absorbing interest, the young man kicked the hickory log that lay nearest to it with his mocassined foot, and produced a bright crackling flame, the reflection of which was thrown entirely upon the object of his gaze; it was a large metal button, on which the number of his regiment was distinctly visible.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) John Richardson 1824

  • Urged by that wayward curiosity, which is sometimes excited, even under circumstances of the greatest danger and otherwise absorbing interest, the young man kicked the hickory log that lay nearest to it with his mocassined foot, and produced a bright crackling flame, the reflection of which was thrown entirely upon the object of his gaze; it was a large metal button, on which the number of his regiment was distinctly visible.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

  • But when Pathfinder heard the sound of mocassined feet and the rustling of brush at the foot of the building, he knew that the attempt to build

    Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • a moment he played with his mocassined foot to satisfy himself, of the power and flexibility of its muscles, and then committing himself to his God, dashed the blanket suddenly from his shoulders, and, with eye and heart fixed on the distant soldiery, darted down the declivity with a speed of which he had never yet believed himself capable.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

  • a moment he played with his mocassined foot to satisfy himself, of the power and flexibility of its muscles, and then committing himself to his God, dashed the blanket suddenly from his shoulders, and, with eye and heart fixed on the distant soldiery, darted down the declivity with a speed of which he had never yet believed himself capable.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) John Richardson 1824

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