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Example sentences for "mountain sheep"

  • The Queniults showed 'a blanket manufactured from the wool of mountain sheep, which are to be found on the precipitous slopes of the Olympian Mountains.

  • We halted for a day at one of these grassy spots, and I went with Tiger early from camp to procure meat, when a flock of mountain sheep drew us farther into the mountains.

  • Now and then we killed an antelope, and Tiger brought in one evening a mountain sheep, an animal exactly like the ibex, which lives in large flocks in these mountains.

  • We saw an incredible number of mountain sheep, which, at our appearance, flew up the precipices and gazed down at us in amazement.

  • The four corner figures will be recognized as the Naashiddi (hunchback, or mountain sheep).

  • A bunch of buckskin bags, one of the small blue medicine tubes, a mountain sheep’s horn, and a piece of undressed hide lay on the meal.

  • Hasjelti rubbed the invalid with the horn of a mountain sheep held in the left hand, and in the right hand a piece of hide, about 10 inches long and 4 wide, from between the eyes of the sheep.

  • At night he returned, loaded down with a mountain sheep he had bagged, and which he readily sold for several ounces of gold.

  • Along its side a narrow trail wound, worn smooth by the feet of Indians, mountain sheep, and other denizens of the wild.

  • The walls were adorned with trophies of the chase, such as fine antlers of moose, caribou, and great horns of mountain sheep, while several large and valuable bear and wolf-skin rugs were stretched out upon the floor.

  • Perchance, also, one may see a band of mountain sheep, for now that they are so strictly preserved, a heavy penalty being exacted both by the state and federal governments for killing one, they are increasing in numbers.

  • On an upper shelf repose heads of the deer, elk, moose, mountain sheep, and buffalo, mingling with curiously shaped and gaudily tinted Indian jars from the southwest pueblos.

  • Passing under overhanging cliffs, it leads down until the plateau is reached, where twenty years ago I saw bands of mountain sheep.

  • Long snowshoe excursions on the Continental Divide have often brought me into the presence of mountain sheep in the snow.

  • There within thirty feet of me were a number of mountain sheep.

  • One snowy day, while out following a number of mountain sheep, I passed near the home of Rocky and turned aside hoping to see him.

  • Phillips and I shot two rams, for the Carnegie Museum; and the next morning I had the most remarkable lesson that I ever learned in mountain sheep psychology.

  • The time and effort expended in accomplishing the ascent to the other side made it clear that I had been greatly deceived in the distance, but I was happy to make any physical effort to secure a mountain sheep.

  • Looking from a concealed position across a deep valley, I observed on the opposite slope an animal which I became satisfied was a mountain sheep, the Big Horn.

  • I had seen many specimens of the various animals and birds indigenous to the West, but never a mountain sheep, except in captivity.

  • He stared at them, he touched them, he lifted them, he could not get over it; they caused me to rise in his esteem, and he refused to believe that circumventing a mountain sheep is a far more skilful exploit.

  • And if you wonder why our two Indians were surprised, I can only answer with a theory of mine that Indians who hunt on horseback have small knowledge of mountain sheep.

  • Steward had shot a mountain sheep with a revolver, only to find that a deep canyon intervened between him and his prize and there was no way of getting it.

  • It was an agreeable surprise to be able to run three rapids with ease by four o'clock, when we saw on some rocks two hundred feet above the stream a flock of mountain sheep.

  • We came across a great deal of game, antelope, mountain sheep, and deer but we never seemed to have the opportunity to stalk it properly.

  • At last, a long, long way off he saw him, and he changed him into a mountain sheep.

  • He tried to change his boy back again, so that he would no longer be a mountain sheep, but, as he could not tell which was his boy, his efforts were in vain, and he had to go back to Havasu alone.

  • Now and again one will find the horn of a mountain sheep, which has been heated, opened out into a large spoon-like dipper; or a gnarled or knotty piece of wood, hacked out with flint knife into a pretty good resemblance to a dipper.

  • We saw no mountain sheep, but oh, the joy of our camp fire that night!

  • She was clad in a wrapper of mountain sheep skin.


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