peltry
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They talked of Wycross, Lucy's house in the country, compared it with Peltry, which Mabel deprecated as a barrack, and came to hear of Urquhart's house in the New Forest.
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Her sister Mabel, who had three boys, did not conceal her satisfaction at the approaching release—but Mabel spent Christmas at Peltry; and the hunting was a serious matter.
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Peltry shops abound, and sportsman, hunter, miner, teamster, emigrant, can be completely rigged out at fifty different stores.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Peltry and lead constituted almost the only circulating medium.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.
After them came the Van Pelts of Groodt Esopus, dexterous horsemen, mounted upon goodly switch-tailed steeds of the Esopus breed; these were mighty hunters of minks and musk-rats, whence came the word Peltry.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington
