A type of tent or dwelling used by Native Americans.
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Examples for "wigwam "
Examples for "wigwam "
1 He lost his scalp; it hangs in the smoke of my wigwam .
2 They promise me a wigwam in their village in the Blue Mountains.
3 This made a little tent in the middle of the large wigwam .
4 The wolf then went to the wigwam of the two old women.
5 The clouds of steam which filled the wigwam quite disconcerted the wolves.
1 The women went into the wickiup and covered their heads with their blankets.
2 Glanton rode his horse completely through the first wickiup trampling the occupants underfoot.
3 They let him live in the wickiup encampments.
4 All followed the sprint she made for the wickiup , and saw, with her, the picture its interior afforded.
5 But it's up to us to help all we can, and I reckon we'll begin by taking a preliminary survey of this wickiup .
1 I ran to the wetu and clasped the wizard by his arm.
2 He had reached the wetu and was lifting the woven mat.
3 It was dark in the wetu , so I thought perhaps my eyes tricked me.
4 When I left the wetu , the sun was setting.
5 She walked quickly past, disappearing into some other wetu .
6 He turned and began to walk towards his wetu .
7 It was warm in the wetu , and the bark gave off a faint sweet smell of resin.
8 Because there is no wetu in which you might lay your head without risk of witnessing some indecency.
9 Those English who have never been within a wetu fashion them squalid, inferior to their own habitations in every way.
10 Bettah have another conscwiption... o' ou' men will wetu 'n neithah soldiers no' peasants, and we'll get only depwavity fwom them.
11 I cannot write of what took place in that wetu , because I made a solemn oath, which I have never broken.
12 The wetu was a well-made dome of bark with a hide drawn across its entrance to keep out the fall chill.
13 So, he had gone to live in his uncle's wetu , while his elder brother Nanaakomin was like a shadow at their father's side.
14 In the dim light of his wetu , Tequamuck spoke to me of what he had foreseen -hispeople reduced, no longer hunters but hunted.
15 When Sofia asked what ailed me, I blamed my bowels' distress on the corn mash I had taken from the common pot in the wetu .
16 I followed father into the wetu where the sick sonquem lay, his son at his side, surrounded by the most notable men of the village.
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