"Slip noose" Quotes from Famous Books
... have traveled that way for hours through the storm until we reached the tall woods below the limit of the snow. When I came to myself, I was lying on a bed of fern in a bright morning and Nukewis was cooking quail which she had snared with a slip noose made of her hair. I ate—I could eat now that I had had my Vision—and grew strong. All the upper mountain was white like a tent of deerskin, but where we were there was only thin ice on ... — The Trail Book • Mary Austin et al |