194 examples of tepees in sentences

General Carr ordered that all the tepees, the Indian lodges, buffalo robes, all camp equipage and provisions, including dried buffalo meat, amounting to several tons, should be gathered in piles and burned.

More than once he had scented death in tepees and cabins, which he had not entered, and more than once he had sniffed at the mystery of death that was not quite present, but nearjust as he had caught at a distance the subtle warning of storm and of fire.

And at the sound of it Kazan rose from out of his silence and his fear, and with his head turned straight up to the sky he howled as the wild dogs of the North howl before the tepees of masters who are newly dead.

In scores of forest cabins, in smoke-blackened tepees, and even in the frozen homes of the little Eskimos, anticipation of this wild night of pleasure had given an added zest to life.

By the first gray light in the east the tepees are banished.

It was all so illusive a breath might have blown it away; yet there it was, real as life,a circular camp of white cone-shaped tepees, astir with Indian people.

In the shadow of the evergreens, upon a point extending far into the water, stood the tepees of a group of Indians, hardy hunters and dependents in a vague sort of way of the great fur company which took its name from Hudson's Bay.

Squatted beside the fire of pine knots and smoking silently in one of the tepees was Red Dog, a man of no mean quality among the little tribe.

Molly sees the smoke from the tepees of the reservation, and a light from a log cabin, and draws a breath of relief.

It was a cry such as Indian dogs make about the tepees of masters who are newly dead.

One of the belles of the tribe leads a man into the dancing apartment, which consists of one of two tepees thrown together.

Perhaps in some of the tepees hang polished guns furnished by the Government, but they are more for ornament than use.

He was never allowed to leave the cluster of tepees for the forest, except with the warriors, but he took part in the fishing on the lake, being a willing worker there, because idleness grew terribly irksome,

There were two tepees and piles of saddles and panniers and blankets about them, but not a soul that he could see.

I was among the tepees of the Red Indians of North America when they leaped unscathed through the roaring blaze of the sacred fire, and trod the burning stones and embers in their dances before the Great Spirit.

They lived in tepees, had floors and were set on a lot and a wall boarded up around them.

From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills.

Surely they don't forget that?" "I've heard a graduating class read theses, sing cantatas, and deliver sounding orations; then I've seen those same young fellows, three months later, squatting in tepees and eating with their fingers.

"I guided her through the tangle of tepees, through glaring fire-lit circles and through black voids where we stumbled and had to feel our way.

The larger trees of this type looked as if their trunks were seated on the tops of the pole frames of Indian tepees.

They'll build fires and throw up a few tepees, maybe for the French.

Now the weather began to grow very cold again, and Robert saw the number of tepees in the forest increase.

Just beyond were skin tepees.

The roar of flames from the right showed that the hunter had done as well, and a light flash among the skin tepees was proof that Tayoga was not behind them.

Supper should be eaten around a big camp-fire, and should consist of coffee cooked over the fire, nut-bread sandwiches, cold chicken and potato chips, and chocolate ice-cream under individual miniature tepees of brown paper.

194 examples of  tepees  in sentences