Skin and fur of the beaver.
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Examples for "beaver "
1 His beaver cap lay in the trench with the real Father Vincent.
2 I leave one horse for you in the valley beyond the beaver - dam .
3 The two statesmen were in broadcloth and white linen and beaver hats.
4 The white man is the beaver , and the red man the wolf.
5 In the rear of the balcony, a broad-brimmed, ecclesiastical beaver was visible.
1 At the same time he showed a fine beaver skin for exchange.
2 The heads of the white men lay on a beaver skin .
3 He tried a wigwam where he saw a beaver skin .
4 They would dress him in the best clothes obtainable and with a silk-finished beaver skin hat.
5 The winter had passed since Rebecca Gibbons had traded her corn crop for a beaver skin .
1 Tell-my Babette-togive my coat of beaver fur to Gabord the soldier.
2 Moreover, he had an uncommonly large and rich beaver fur over his shoulder.
3 Here he found, to his disappointment, that beaver fur had greatly deteriorated in value.
4 Inside, neatly folded, was a long rather shabby tweed coat with a beaver fur collar.
5 At the time, hats made of felted beaver fur were much desired by fashionable European gentlemen.
1 The chiefs from far before him knelt With gifts of fox and beaver pelt .
2 Thirty years ago, when he started trapping, a beaver pelt would fetch $50.
3 Here indeed was a find, for beaver pelts brought much money.
4 Eleven thousand beaver pelts were yearly brought down to the fort from the unknown river.
5 Then the Crees had great store of beaver pelts ; and trade must not be forgotten.
6 In the afternoon, Radisson's scouts ran full tilt into a band of Iroquois laden with beaver pelts .
7 One rifle, stood on its end, could be exchanged for a stack of beaver pelts the same height.
8 What means the spectacle of white brothers, who preach peace, preparing for war over a few beaver pelts ?
9 He stopped the rum trade with local Indian tribes, and resorted to legitimate exchange to get his beaver pelts .
10 "It will cost you," Tom considered, "a ducat and a beaver pelt . "
11 The trade in furs, especially the all-important beaver pelts , had been so great that the local Indians had hunted their animals almost to extinction.
12 Using the captured beaver pelts as shields, the Upper Indians ran the gantlet of the Iroquois fire with the loss of only one man.
13 In the 17th and 18th centuries, beaver pelts were exported to Europe, where they were in high demand to make felt.
14 "Fools," cried Radisson, striking a beaver skin across an Indian's shoulder, "will you fight the Iroquois with beaver pelts ?
15 "I know, I know, oh oh oh." At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts , sheepskins, and rabbit fur.
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