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17 example sentences for BEAVER, such as:

1. To him a beaver is a quarter of a fur coat for his wife or a nice hat.
2. Her hat is made of at least one beaver pelt, I dislike this style, or any style of fur.
3. I had to change the collar at any sacrifice, and to have a beaver one like an officer's.
4. The route taken by Duncan and David lay directly across the clearing of the beavers, and along the margin of their pond.
5. For this purpose I began visiting the Gostiny Dvor and after several attempts I pitched upon a piece of cheap German beaver.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEAVER
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beaver
 n.  amphibious rodent about two feet in length; fur of the beaver; tall hat, originally made from beaver fur
Classic Sentence:
1  He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
2  No more monkey-jackets and tarpaulins for me; I must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a beaver; so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
3  These He said should be slaves; and He ordered them to work forever, like the beaver.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
4  Give me twenty rifles, and I will turn to the right, along the stream; and, passing by the huts of the beaver, will join the Sagamore and the colonel.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  In fact, everybody in the room bore on his head this characteristic emblem of man's sovereignty; whether it were felt hat, palm-leaf, greasy beaver, or fine new chapeau, there it reposed with true republican independence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  I had to change the collar at any sacrifice, and to have a beaver one like an officer's.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
7  For this purpose I began visiting the Gostiny Dvor and after several attempts I pitched upon a piece of cheap German beaver.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
8  The handsome beaver replaced the mean-looking raccoon, and I began by degrees to get to work.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
9  Hardly had he passed an angle of the wood before a stout gentleman in a beaver cap came riding toward him on a handsome raven-black horse, accompanied by two hunt servants.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
10  Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
11  The gas jet threw its full light on the bloodless, sunken face under the black hat and on the white cravat, brilliant against the beaver of the coat.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 2
12  She wore a beaver hat with blue feathers, a surtout of gray-pearl velvet, fastened with diamond clasps, and a petticoat of blue satin, embroidered with silver.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
13  He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  The route taken by Duncan and David lay directly across the clearing of the beavers, and along the margin of their pond.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
15  Though these German beavers soon grow shabby and look wretched, yet at first they look exceedingly well, and I only needed it for the occasion.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
Example Sentence:
1  To him a beaver is a quarter of a fur coat for his wife or a nice hat.
2  Her hat is made of at least one beaver pelt, I dislike this style, or any style of fur.