Sentences with phrase «beaver pelts»

Extensive extraction, at first focusing on beaver pelts and wildlife, then on forestry and eventually on minerals, has depleted many of our resources.

«They left England with land that was good for harvesting beaver pelts.»

Leading British magazine Auto Toff will declare the Viper «the crudest product from the New World since beaver pelts,» nonetheless turning a five - minute Nürburgring lap that causes ace test driver Nigel Chuffley to lose consciousness several times.

Take a moment to marvel at the beard: a beaver pelt run roughshod over a face, creeping north to the eyes, annexing territory well to the south and stopped only by the firebreak of melted skin that gave way to scar tissue.

With eyes that twinkle with delight and flash with sadness and sporting a mustache resembling a beaver pelt, Branagh carries the persnickety character with easy charm and fierce determination.

Not exact matches

Is O'Leary actually Trump in a beaver - pelt hat?

Fort Orange was located at the nexus of the lucrative beaver - pelt trade.

Once hunted for their pelts, beavers are back in demand, not for their bodies but for their minds — specifically, for their engineering skills.

Their results shed light on how beavers use similar pelts to stay warm while diving through water.

Since our early days as the global leader in the beaver - pelt industry, we've cut down trees, and dug up rocks, and pumped stuff out of the ground, and sold it to you — and others — so you could turn it into more useful things like furniture, appliances, houses, suburbia, and so on.