moccasins

Here and there a woman was in moccasins, though the majority danced in frail ball-room slippers of silk and satin.

CHAPTER 11 2010

Men and women danced in moccasins, and the place was soon a-roar, Burning

Chapter 1 2010

You will tan the hide using the animal's brain and your own urine as softeners, and fashion a shirt, breeches, and moccasins from the leather.

How to Sit and Wait: Bob Robb's Guide to Hunting Whitetail Deer from a Tree Stand or Ground Blind 2005

Men and women danced in moccasins, and the place was soon a-roar, Burning

Chapter I 1910

Since then, indeed, there had been periods when one of them had inclined to the vocation of a trapper, and the other to that of an Indian chief, but Paul's thoughts clung to those gold-braided uniforms, with which the wooden spears, and the patched rag sandals, which the brothers wore in their games -- the latter they called moccasins -- could by no means bear comparison; also, why they afterwards wanted to be naturalist and superintendent was incomprehensible to him; the new Rapine pictures always remained the best.

Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

He would make or mend a shirt with the greatest precision and neatness, and cut out and manufacture his canvas trousers and loose summer-coats with as much adroitness as the most experienced tailor; darn his socks, and mend his boots and shoes, and often volunteered to assist me in knitting the coarse yarn of the country into socks for the children, while he made them moccasins from the dressed deer-skins that we obtained from the Indians.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

The moccasins were a little too tight, but Caswallon promised him they would stretch into comfort.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

Under his moccasins was a block pavement, yellow and green stone set in a simple pattern of checks.

The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

They was the pure typical mountain type; wore home-made shoes, called moccasins, old jeans pants and coat made by their wives on the old-fashioned looms, and flax shirts.

Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1918

"If you will have it -- the moccasins are the colour I once loved on the face of my little daughter."

Michael O'Halloran Gene Stratton-Porter 1893