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Example sentences for "birchbark"

Lexicographically close words:
biplane; biplanes; bipolar; biramous; birch; birched; birchen; birches; birchwood; bird
  1. The natives strip the birchbark from the trees while it is still green, and cut it into long threads like vermicelli.

  2. They ferment the juice of this birchbark and make a mild alcoholic drink.

  3. Rising, she went into the birchbark cabin.

  4. And where in all this wild land does one get so much as a birchbark canoe?

  5. What but the red flower in its birchbark case had wrought the change?

  6. With a cry the girl sprang back, crushing the birchbark case with its red flower into shapeless ruin.

  7. Today came one from the forest bringing love's message to that tall woman of Grand Portage,--the little red flower in the birchbark case.

  8. Whereat the gallant smilingly tossed the meat and its birchbark platter at the woman's feet.

  9. The leaves were wilted with the heat of the man's body and came easily off in her fingers, disclosing a small square box cunningly made from birchbark and stained after the Indian fashion in brilliant colours.

  10. Might be," admitted Nat, "but what's that got to do with making birchbark gas?

  11. The old one was written on a piece of birchbark and put in the fire to signify that it was to be in existence no longer, and as it burned the girls all pronounced the new name in concert, and promised to forget the old one.

  12. It was a long narrow crate, built of wooden slats, and careful opening revealed a birchbark canoe, big enough to paddle on the lake.

  13. In the place of the balsam shelter of that day there was now a watertight birchbark tepee which Pierrot had helped the Willow to make during the summer.

  14. For he believed that Nepeese was alive, and he was now just as sure that he would overtake her on the trap line as he was positive yesterday that he would find her at the birchbark tepee.

  15. For a week he made his burrow in the dog corral, and at least twice between dawn and darkness he would go to the birchbark tepee and the chasm.

  16. The Ojibwe woman saves scraps of birchbark to kindle or light fires with them.

  17. They are not quite rain-proof as a roofing material, so birchbark rolls are used for that purpose.

  18. In the early days, the Indian men drew outline pictures on birchbark scrolls to remind them of midewiwin rituals, practices and medicines.

  19. If some can not be repaired, rolls of birchbark are there to make new ones.

  20. The birchbark keeps the food from spoiling.

  21. Sheets of bark are sewed together with basswood string and made into birchbark rolls, used as waterproof roofing for wigwams, as shown in plate 46, fig.

  22. A large shallow birchbark tray is shaken up and down by the woman as she stands in a breeze.

  23. Nearly any kitchen utensil common to the white man, can be duplicated in birchbark by the Ojibwe.

  24. To-morrow the treaty party will leave, the skin tepees will be pulled down, and in those beautiful birchbark canoes whole families will be on the move.

  25. Snow begins to fall, and the grind of forming ice warns the Chipewyan it is time to change birchbark for moccasin and snow-shoe.

  26. We walk along the shore to watch Indian women busied in making a birchbark canoe and in washing clothes with washboards--the old order and the new.

  27. They passed the place where Uncle Teddy had called the moose with the birchbark trumpet on the occasion of the Calydonian Hunt.

  28. Uncle Teddy put the birchbark trumpet to his lips and sent forth a strange call, that sounded like an animal.

  29. A schedule of the order in which they would take their turns was quickly written on a sheet of birchbark with an indelible pencil and tacked to a big pine beside the Council Rock.

  30. Uncle Teddy sent the call of the birchbark trumpet echoing far and wide, but though they watched in breathless silence, no moose appeared in answer to the call.

  31. A third time he blew on the birchbark trumpet.

  32. The sound made by this birchbark trumpet resembles the call of the female moose, and when the male hears it he comes to see what it means.

  33. On the ground at the upper end of the ravine lay the great bull moose they had seen that afternoon when he had come, in the pride of his strength, to answer the call of the birchbark trumpet.

  34. The next day Hinpoha found a piece of birchbark in Eeny-Meeny's wooden hand, bearing the now familiar warning blaze and signed with the initials D.

  35. They are highly prized and are kept in little birchbark bags.

  36. Up from the rear Polly urged her birchbark with long, steady heaves that seemed to prove her magnificent muscles tireless.

  37. It was of birchbark and Polly shot it along under the stroke of her paddle as though it had the weight of a feather.

  38. It lay between Wyn and the birchbark canoe.

  39. So it makes birchbark canoes come pretty high.

  40. Beside the plate were the birchbark cup to drink water from, a birchbark napkin ring that held a paper napkin, and the usual knife, fork and spoon.

  41. He turned to Lord Meton, and repeated the words; and just then the birchbark began to settle under them.

  42. When a birchbark seam begins to part there's no power on earth that will hold it when the canoe is heavily loaded.

  43. Quietly he drove the birchbark under the shadow of the big bateau.

  44. She had resumed her paddling, and Bateese was putting mighty efforts in his strokes now, so that the narrow, birchbark canoe shot like an arrow with the down-sweeping current of the river.

  45. On the third and the fifth and the seventh days he went over to McTabb's cabin, and Rookie came out and talked with him at a distance through a birchbark megaphone.

  46. He piled up dry needles over a precious bit of his birchbark and struck a flame.

  47. They would tow the Keewaydin, Sahwah's birchbark canoe, behind the launch, and some time during the day would manage to let every one go for a paddle.

  48. Katherine asked, as she came within speaking distance and saw that Jervis had his birchbark by a towrope.

  49. This was no birchbark journey broken by weary toiling to and fro on a portage trail, but Katherine and Phil were seated in one of the good, solid boats turned out by Astor M'Kree, and both of them looked even brighter than usual.

  50. Phil, as they settled themselves in the birchbark for the journey up to the long portage.

  51. They used birchbark canoes a great deal at Roaring Water Portage in the summer-time, but there was too much ice about for birchbarks to be safe yet.

  52. Then, tying his birchbark on behind, he stepped into the vacant place and commenced to pull up stream with long, steady strokes.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birchbark" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.