"Snowshoe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manager. "An idea for a new film—'The Snowshoe Rescue!' Here, Russ, make some notes of this for future use," and he began to dictate to the young operator, who with his employer frequently thus improvised dramas ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope
... again what I did then for all the foxes between the Athabasca and the Bay, M'sieu. It must have been—I don't know what. It dragged me out into the night. I followed. I found the trail of the wolves, and I found the snowshoe tracks of a man. Oui. I still followed. I came close to the kill, with the wind in my face, and I could hear the snapping of jaws and the rending of flesh—yes—yes—AND A MAN'S TERRIBLE LAUGH! ...
— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood
... Hormisdas Couture Get sick on hees place twenty mile away An' hees boy Ovide he was come "Raquette" W'at you call "Snowshoe," for Docteur Fiset, An' Docteur he start ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond
... his lamp for cooking he removed two-thirds of its wick and allowed the flame thus reduced to burn all night. Over it hung a kettle of melting snow, and above this, on a snowshoe, supported by two others, wet mittens and moccasins were ...
— Under the Great Bear • Kirk Munroe
... snowshoe struck against a hard object, and he pitched heavily forward upon his face and lay still. He realized then that he ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx
... the grim face of Macdonald grew hard and steely. He had found, by some strange freak of chance, much more than he had expected, to find. Using his snowshoe as a shovel, he dug the body free and turned it over. At sight of the face he gave ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... their mode of life to their environment. Nicholas Denys, who came to Acadia in 1632, gives a very entertaining and detailed account of their ways of life and of their skillful handicraft. The snowshoe and the Indian bark canoe aroused his special admiration. He says they also made dishes of bark, both large and small, sewing them so nicely with slender rootlets of fir that they retained water. They used in their sewing a pointed bodkin of bone, and they sometimes adorned their handiwork ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
... easy on that score," replied Katherine. "I hung Father's broken snowshoe in a branch of the tree, to mark the place, and I shall go over quite early to-morrow to bring ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant |
