160 examples of snowshoes in sentences

As we have no winter thaws no crust forms on the snow, therefore we travel from the various points that may be necessary with snowshoes.

He was undeniably the best hunter and trapper and trainer of dogs to sledge, as well as the most expert upon snowshoes of all the Indians living upon the point, and he was, furthermore, one of the dirtiest of them and the biggest drunkard whenever opportunity afforded.

CHAPTER XX ONISTAH READS SIGN McRae fitted Jessie's snowshoes.

Some one in snowshoes had cut her path and had deflected to pursue.

But one of the snowshoes had come off in the struggle.

" The girl took off her mits and tried to unfasten the leggings after she had kicked the snowshoes from her feet.

Already she had adjusted the snowshoes.

Astor M'Kree had set up a team of dogs and a sledge painted a brilliant blue, and in this equipage, or on snowshoes, he was up and down between his house and the bay several times in most days.

Mary shrugged her shoulders and answered: "Two days ago we did a portage on the Albany, and came, at camping time, upon the gruesome spectacle of two skeletons lying side by side under a little shelter formed of snowshoes and spruce boughs.

The weather remained clear and cold until the ninth, when Milton Elliot and Noah James came on snowshoes to Donner's camp, from the lake cabins, to ascertain if their captain was still alive, and to report the condition of the rest of the company.

The twenty-first was also bright, and John Baptiste went on snowshoes with messages to the lake camp.

Staff in hand, they had set forth on snowshoes, each carrying a pack containing little save a quilt and light rations for six days' journeying.

They moved in single file,the leaders on snowshoes, the weak stepping in the tracks made by the strong.

They stopped at midday and revived strength by eating the toasted strings of their snowshoes.

If this scheme should fail, he and his sons with others would get food to the camp on snowshoes.

Hopefully, that mother kissed her three children good-bye, and then wistfully watched them depart with their rescuers on snowshoes.

He insisted that the Donner Party was responsible for its own misfortune; that parents killed their babies and ate their bodies to keep themselves alive; cut off the heads of companions and called them good soup bones; and were as thievish as sneaking Indians, even stealing the strings from the snowshoes of those who had come to their rescue.

A pair of snowshoes hung over her back, and her hand gripped a short-handled broad axe.

Have you a pair of snowshoes to lend me?

Then he turned, to see Aurore, a distant figure of scarlet and black at the edge of the wood road, shuffling northward on her long snowshoes, northward, as if in pursuit of the sound that had gone before.

As the sled disappeared among the trees, bearing the queerly bundled figure of the Priest, the Boss unhooked his snowshoes from the wall.

growled Jakapa, and slinging his snowshoes over his arm, he stamped out.

The Tunguse encampments were sometimes three or four days' journey apart; the cold, as we ascended the Stanavoi range, steadily increased in intensity until it became so severe as to endanger life, and day after day we plodded wearily on snowshoes ahead of our heavily loaded sledges, breaking a road in three feet of soft snow for our struggling, frost-whitened deer.

In a monotonous routine of walking on snowshoes, riding on reindeer-sledges, camping in the open, or sleeping in smoky Tunguse tents, day after day and week after week passed, until at last we approached the valley of the Aldanone of the eastern tributaries of that great arctic river the Lena.

No one can fully understand the pleasure that these columns of fire-lighted smoke gave us until he has ridden on dog- or reindeer-sledges, or walked on snowshoes, for twenty interminable days, through an arctic wilderness.

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