Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxskins
Literary usage of Foxskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an by Charles Francis Hall (1865)
"... 100; white foxskins, 150; eider-down, before cleansing, 500 Ibs.; after
cleansing, 100 Ibs.; and of stockfish — that is, dried codfish unsalted, ..."
2. The Story of My Life; Or: More Than a Half Century as I Have Lilved it and by G. C. Rankin (1912)
"It was my business in the shop to stretch foxskins and coon- skins across a
wood-horse and with a knife, made for that purpose, pluck the hair from the fur. ..."
3. Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the by Agnes Christina Laut (1905)
"Digging pits in the narrow gullies of sand, he covered these over with driftwood,
the rotten sail-cloth, moss, mud, and foxskins. Cracks were then chinked ..."
4. Explorations in the Far North by Frank Russell (1898)
"The cross foxskins are worth from 5 to 15 M3 in the country. ... The Indians do
not bring any foxskins to trade from that quarter. One silver fox was killed ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... and prunes, which were to be exchanged for foxskins, furs, &c.; we are also
informed that 'one of the pipes of seeker [ie sherry] in the Swallow, ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"As recently as 1850, in the northwest of Canada, the natives were expected to
give, in return for an old flint-lock musket, a pile of silver foxskins as ..."
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