peltry

Example Sentences

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Two wolves had run down a deer, only to deliver their own peltry with it to the astonished sportsmen they had summoned by their ill-advised howling.

From Winter Fun by Stoddard, William O.

"Not all the peltry of Siberia—" said James, rather sharply, as he thought; and dismissed the subject in favour of his own neatly-spatted foot.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Their clothes consist of gaily-painted deer-hide, ornamented with beads, and the gayest calicoes, which they obtain from the Government trading posts by bartering peltry for them.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

Crow and Blackfoot and Sioux Indians often raided the brigades when on the home trip loaded with peltry.

From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

That evening Jessup left for Johnstown on his way to Albany with his peltry; and took with him a letter which I wrote to the Commandant at Johnstown fort.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)