buffalo chips
Example Sentences
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I realize that it wasn’t just the buffalo chips that drew us here.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2010
Considering the condition of the air in some of our cities the introduction of buffalo chips would have a negligible effect on the olfactory senses of most people.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Denver, the State director of revenue refused to put the Colorado state emblem, a buffalo, on new tax tokens for fear they would be called buffalo chips.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the ride out, Perilee had explained that homestead fires were fed with dried buffalo chips.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Or, provided with a gunny-sack, he might be scouring the immediate neighborhood for a supply of dry buffalo chips, with which to eke out the scanty stock of fire-wood.
From Campmates A Story of the Plains by Munroe, Kirk
