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moccasin
in
The Deerslayer
(Edited)

Broad belts of the virgin wilderness not only reached the shores of the first river, but they even crossed it, stretching away into New England, and affording forest covers to the noiseless moccasin of the native warrior, as he trod the secret and bloody war-path.
Chpt 1

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
In stature he stood about six feet in his moccasins, but his frame was comparatively light and slender, showing muscles, however, that promised unusual agility, if not unusual strength.
Chpt 1

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
Don't think, Hurry, that I'm consorting any plan to put myself in his moccasins, for such a thought doesn't harbor in my mind; but I can't help a little invy!
Chpt 2
The man had not passed an hour; and I know'd it for an Indian footstep, by the size of the foot, and the intoe, even before I found a worn moccasin, which its owner had dropped as useless.
Chpt 4

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
But the moccasin may greatly relieve my mind, if you bethought you of bringing it off.
Chpt 4
If I saw the moccasin, howsever, I could tell, in a minute, whether it is made in the Delaware fashion, or not.
Chpt 4
"That's the way with you, Jude; forever finding out friends, where I distrust foes," grumbled Tom: "but, speak out, young man, and tell us what you think of the moccasin."
Chpt 4
I should say that moccasin has a northern look, and comes from beyond the Great Lakes.
Chpt 4 *
This I know from moccasin prints; and 't is likely they are hunters, after all, who have been out so long that they know nothing of the war, or of the bounties.
Chpt 5
The girl who had so suddenly arrested the steps of Hetty was dressed in a calico mantle that effectually protected all the upper part of her person, while a short petticoat of blue cloth edged with gold lace, that fell no lower than her knees, leggings of the same, and moccasins of deer-skin, completed her attire.
Chpt 10

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
Your gifts are for paint, and hawk's feathers, and blankets, and wampum, and mine are for doublets of skins, tough leggings, and sarviceable moccasins.
Chpt 12
I say moccasins, Judith, for though white, living as I do in the woods it's necessary to take to some of the practyces of the woods, for comfort's sake and cheapness.
Chpt 12
"No see moccasin," said Hist, impatiently "why no look—and see him."
Chpt 19

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
There is, truly, a moccasin floating against one of the piles, and it may or may not be a sign that the castle hasn't escaped visitors in our absence.
Chpt 19
Moccasins are no rarities, however, for I wear 'em myself; and Deerslayer wears 'em, and you wear 'em, March, and, for that matter so does Hetty, quite as often as she wears shoes, though I never yet saw Judith trust her pretty foot in a moccasin.
Chpt 19

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
Moccasins are no rarities, however, for I wear 'em myself; and Deerslayer wears 'em, and you wear 'em, March, and, for that matter so does Hetty, quite as often as she wears shoes, though I never yet saw Judith trust her pretty foot in a moccasin.
Chpt 19

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
There the moccasin lay, beyond a question, floating so lightly, and preserving its form so well, that it was scarcely wet.
Chpt 19
There were many modes, however, of accounting for the presence of the moccasin, without supposing it to have been dropped by an enemy.
Chpt 19
As for the Indian, he was of opinion that the moccasin should be viewed as one would regard a trail in the woods, which might, or might not, equally, prove to be threatening.
Chpt 19
She declared her readiness to take a canoe, to proceed to the palisade and bring away the moccasin, when its ornaments would show whether it came from the Canadas or not.
Chpt 19
That moccasin must be had, or Floating Tom will keep off, here, at arm's length, till the hearth cools in his cabin.
Chpt 19
The canoe had reached the piles with its head inclining northward, and at a short distance from the moccasin.
Chpt 19
In short, the most wary and jealous eye could detect no other evidence of the visit of enemies, than that which was connected with the appearance of the floating moccasin.
Chpt 19
As he approached the moccasin, having now nearly completed the circuit of the building, he threw the ominous article into the canoe, by a dexterous and almost imperceptible movement of his paddle.
Chpt 19
What has become of the moccasin?
Chpt 19
The moccasin was examined, and Hist confidently pronounced it to be Huron, by the manner in which the porcupine's quills were arranged on its front.
Chpt 19
The moccasin might have drifted from a distance, or it might have fallen from the foot of some scout, who had quitted the place when his errand was accomplished.
Chpt 19
Under the circumstances, Hutter and Hurry were not men to be long deterred from proceeding by proofs as slight as that of the moccasin.
Chpt 19
It was one of these who had dropped his moccasin, which he had not been able to find again in the dark.
Chpt 19
Hurry set about repairing his moccasins, by the light of a blazing knot;
Chpt 23

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
"Ay, Old Tom used to give the piece a character, though he wasn't the man to particularize the ra'al natur' of any sort of fire arms, in practise," returned March, passing the deer's thongs through the moccasin with the coolness of a cobbler.
Chpt 23

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
Her long coal-black hair was soon adjusted in a simple knot, the calico dress belted tight to her slender waist, and her little feet concealed in their gaudily ornamented moccasins.
Chpt 25

moccasins = soft leather shoes traditionally worn by Native Americans
The great number of moccasins that had passed made the examination difficult, though the in-toe of an Indian was easily to be distinguished from the freer and wider step of a white man.
Chpt 27
If he escape, blood will be in your moccasin prints, from this spot to the Canadas.
Chpt 30

moccasin = soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans
I do not mean to pass this-a-way, ag'in, so long as the war lasts, for, to my mind no Huron moccasin will leave its print on the leaves of this forest, until their traditions have forgotten to tell their young men of their disgrace and rout.
Chpt 32

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(1) (moccasin)
a soft leather shoe traditionally worn by Native Americans.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, moccasin appears in water moccasin -- a type of poisonous snake.

moccasin in The Deerslayer (Edited)

moccasin
in
The Deerslayer
(Edited)