How To Use Wigwam In A Sentence
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Small, single-family wigwams and pit dwellings are also documented.
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Large varieties of sweet peas will need a sturdier form of support, either a wigwam or a row of garden stakes.
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Praying Indians were fined or punished if they did not work, committed fornication, beat their wives, or wandered between wigwams instead of setting up their own.
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This expedition burnt the Indian wigwams and cornfields on Block Island, and also in the Pequot country near the mouth of the Pequot, or Thames, River; and Captain Endecott and his soldiers came to Saybrook Port and made that place their headquarters, "to my great grief," said Gardiner, "for you come hither to raise these wasps about my ears and then you will take wing and flee away.
Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
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The collective - all mums of children at the Steiner School in Fulford - first came together on a project to erect a yurt, the Mongolian equivalent of a North American wigwam, on St Nicholas Fields.
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The leavings of her lord's feast sufficed for her, and the coldest place in the wigwam was her seat.
A Brief History of the United States
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His wigwam had once stood as he declared at the head of the King's Highway, and the Town Brook was his stewpond for the fish on which he mostly fed.
Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
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He doesn't know much about it, if he calls a wigwam a wampum," interposed Miss Smith, with still greater pertness.
A Fair Barbarian
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They are self-sufficient, with an outdoor kitchen and a wigwam with its own wood burner.
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All varieties of peas and beans (except dwarf ones), and other climbers including cucumbers and karella, are best grown up in wigwams, which can easily be constructed out of canes, thin pieces of wood or other available material.
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Out of the wigwam crawled the boy who'd shot the arrow.
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The wigwam was a bit bigger than I had imagined and looked comfortable enough, especially since we would have to get up at 4am.
Devil o’ the Highlands Footrace 2009 #1
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Look up and around as you enter its celebrated conical concrete "wigwam" - designed and built within five years from 1962 - and you get drawn into one of 20th-century Britain's grandest colour experiences.
The Guardian World News
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As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and
The Jungle Book.
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The Barrymore of Camp Wigwam fended off two curious Barbizonians with elaborate legpulls; one girl returned to the real world convinced that he was a goalie for the Montreal Canadiens.
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By the late 1880s many Ojibwa lived in one-room log cabins, frame cabins, or tar paper shacks rather than in wigwams.
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Planted to clamber up bamboo wigwams or trained up and over an arch, runner beans are pretty enough to grow in the flower garden and yellow, carmine splashed shelling beans are highly decorative.
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Accommodation links offer breaks in converted castles, churches, lighthouses and wigwams.
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He lay dry sticks over the paper, a wigwam that flared up and warmed the room.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Within 20 yards is the first little info board under a Lodge Pole pine, and I learned ‘North American Indians’ propped up their wigwams with these, and so on for Spruce, Western Hemlock etc.
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The Sami tent, called a lavvo, has a circular framework of poles leaning inward like the teepee or wigwam of Native Americans, and a floor of birch twigs covered with layers of reindeer fur.
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A wigwam of driftwood spars lashed to the central totem pole was encircled by a pattern of grey sticks laid out like basketwork and punctuated by such objects as the flip-flop sandals and trainers that seem perpetually to ride the waves, Coke cans, garish cork or plastic lobster-pot buoys and the armoured white carapaces of spider crabs that abound on this beach.
Wildwood
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You can grow them on a peastick wigwam, but you'll end up with little posies of poor-quality flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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On top went torn strips of card, and over these, wigwam-style, she tented the debris of a wooden orange-box.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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The meaner sort of wigwams are covered with mats they make of a kind of bulrush, which are also indifferent tight and warm, but not so good as the former.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02
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She looked to see if there were bean poles -- yes, a wigwam of them, twined about with the little scarlet flowers haunted by bees.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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A temporary wooden structure, called a wigwam, had been built for the purpose.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
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But I hold that a flower cut from its plant and placed in a vase is as a scalp on the walls of a wigwam.
A Woman's Hardy Garden
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She said it with a strange little smile, for now she recognised that the word wigwam was not to be used in her new life.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 1
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Straight through the heart of this little oasis trickled a streamlet across which the Willow jumped with Baree under her arm, and on the edge of the rill was a small wigwam made of freshly cut spruce and balsam boughs.
Baree, Son of Kazan
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Annual climbers such as sweet peas can be supported by a wigwam made from bamboo or by twiggy prunings taken from coloured stemmed dogwoods and other shrubs cut back in March.
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A wigwam was a round shaped structure made out of bent tree branches that were covered with layers of bark and dried grass.
History of American Women
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There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore.
Les Miserables
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These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack.
The Red True Story Book
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The Wigwam Resort is turning its ballroom into a football stadium with a huge rear-projection screen flanked by Roman Colosseum-like pillars.
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The others were those who could not be at the grove full-time - due to work, home, or an aversion to sleeping either 80 feet up a tree or in a wigwam made of tarps set on a gravel logging road.
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In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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On Tuesday I had my 2nd exam, at the inconveniently late time of 6pm I may add, in ‘the Crypt’ - the morgue-like underbelly of Paddy's Wigwam.
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My grandfather's legs were like the central pole that held the whole construction up and as the wigwam moved I would move with it.
GYPSY MASALA
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paleface," for, here and there, his wigwam might still be seen sending its wreath of blue smoke above the tree-tops.
Wrecked but not Ruined
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Make a wigwam or bamboo tunnel and sow peas or beans.
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I keep dreaming I'm camping with this gorgeous woman, sometimes in army tents, sometimes in mountain tents, sometimes in wigwams.
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A yurt - also known as a ger - is the Asian equivalent of a North American Indian wigwam.
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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The young woman is set apart under the care of two of her friends, somewhat older, and a little wigwam, called a teepee, just big enough for the three, is made for them, to which they retire.
Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
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Small children weaved in and out of the wigwams, laughing gleefully.
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Last I heard, she's using the name ‘Rainbow Flower Love’ and living in a wigwam.
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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'Possum skins and a black's gunya – that's Autralese for a wigwam, isn't it?
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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Since precolonial times Indians had made mats for covering the frames and lining the sides of wigwams and for sleeping or sitting upon.
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The concrete finally cracked apart and the wigwam tipped right over.
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Each wigwam counted usually seven or eight persons, and these, together with their provisions, required the use of about twenty horses.
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Annual climbers such as sweet peas can be supported by a wigwam made from bamboo or by twiggy prunings taken from coloured stemmed dogwoods and other shrubs cut back in March.
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Several families were harvesting bright yellow oca (a sweet potato), and the shore was dotted with wigwam-shaped piles of dark green haba beanstalks drying in the blinding afternoon sun.
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A tepee is a temporary home; the wigwam is the Indian's permanent abiding place.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
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I keep dreaming I'm camping with this gorgeous woman, sometimes in army tents, sometimes in mountain tents, sometimes in wigwams.
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I figured I'd make a wigwam when I came to that clearing.
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As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
The Jungle Book
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I liked the idea of living in it: a wigwam seemed a suitable home for a backyard anthropologist.
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Tomatoes leaned on stakes, runner beans twined round a wigwam of canes and rambling roses rambled over their appointed places.
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papoose," or child, wigwam, &c. &c., though it is doubtful whether they belonged at all to any Indian dialect, are much used by both white and red men in their Intercourse.
The Prairie
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The portability of Ojibwa lodging - the wigwam - enabled such moves to be made quickly and easily.
