peltry
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Tobacco, rice, flour, indigo, peltry, oil, whale fins, flaxseed, spermaceti, masts, spars, &c. are in good demand.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Sparks, Jared
Governor Dongan seized the moment to promise better bargains for the peltry than the French could offer.
From The Road to Frontenac by Merwin, Samuel
"Not all the peltry of Siberia—" said James, rather sharply, as he thought; and dismissed the subject in favour of his own neatly-spatted foot.
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
For three seasons bale after bale of unsold peltry had been stacked to the rafters of the London warehouse.
From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey
These boats would then set out on their homeward journey laden with peltry gathered from far and near.
From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey
A trade shop in which the Indians bartered their peltries.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin
North of the St. Lawrence was a power that he shunned still more—the French governor, who had legal right to plunder the peltries of all who traded and trapped without license.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
In order to procure guns and ammunition from their English friends they were compelled to take thought for the decreasing peltries.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
A company of English traders, under the guidance of a party of Indians, were traversing the country from Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean, in quest of furs and peltries.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by Vide, V. V.
A cache is a sort of underground storeroom or place of concealment—generally jar-shaped—wherein peltries and other goods are deposited, pending their convenient removal.
From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram
