How To Use Mocassin In A Sentence
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United States in Congress assembled_: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to Captain David Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Mocassin, and to the officers and men under his command, for their heroic and humane action in saving the lives of forty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis" on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the morning of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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Their icebound mocassins were sadly worn by much travel, and the sharp ice of the river jams had cut them to rags.
The Wisdom of the Trail
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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They were coated with ice; the thick German socks were like sheaths of iron half-way to the knees; and the mocassin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration.
To Build A Fire
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She then seated herself on the trunk of a fallen tree, that lay at the side of the almost invisible path they had hitherto pursued, and motioning to her companion to unboot himself, proceeded to unlace the fastenings of her mocassins.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2
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Fox holds a potlatch to signalize his marriage to Lit-Lit and she, "tearfully shy and frightened, is bedecked by her husband with a new calico dress, splendidly beaded mocassins, a gorgeous silk handkerchief over her raven hair, a purple scarf about her throat, brass earrings and finger-rings, and a whole pint of pinchbeck jewelry, including a Waterbury watch.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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But the crowning floral honour of the brook garden is in the irises set in and beside its waters, chief among which are the glorious irises of Japan -- purple, blue, rose-colour, and crimson -- the pink English flowering rush, big white mocassin flowers, New Zealand flax, and pink buckbean, and bog arum.
The Naturalist on the Thames
