And, very reasonably, surprised, the aborigine did as he was bid and cautiously advanced to inspect me.
My companion was some little way behind at the moment, and when the gentle aborigine saw the stranger he stared hard for a moment, then, turning on his heels, with extraordinary swiftness flung at me half a pound of hard flint stone.
As a matter of fact, he told himself, theaborigine didn't understand oxidation, either.
He tried to imagine an Australian aborigine in a hat on a hot day, decided the aborigine would have too much sense, and got back off the subject again.
Malone doubted that the aborigine knew anything about thermonuclear processes, but he could start a fire with them.
In spite of his lack of knowledge, the aborigine could use that nice, hot, burning fire .
In spite of his lack of knowledge, the aborigine could use that nice, hot, burning fire.
As observed in his return from the British possessions he was still a trueaborigine and superstitious as a child.
Fourth, the use of the hyperborean aborigine (the Whale Sound Eskimo) for the rank and file of the sledge party.
Still I would not forget that the pale-faced missionary and the hoodooed aborigine are both God's creatures, though small indeed their own conceptions of Infinite Love.
Here the Stone-Boy, of whom the American aborigine tells, frolics about, shooting his baby arrows and shouting aloud with glee at the tiny shafts of lightning that flash from the flying arrow-beaks.
Whether in the hidden depths of the old man's consciousness there was a feeling of paternal vanity in showing this wretched aborigine the value and importance of the treasure she was about to guard, I cannot say.
Vainly the shivering aborigine drew her tightly bandaged papoose closer to her square, flat breast, and looked longingly toward the cabin; the old man backed her against the palisade.
The orator replied as follows: "Sir, the aborigine of the western plains cares not what color or flavor the fruit possesses which hangs from his roof tree.
Given half a chance, he would undoubtedly have told the savage more about the latter's habits than the aboriginehimself knew.
Towards the end of dinner one day late in December, when everybody else had finished except for coffee and pipe, the aborigine held up his empty plate.
They knocked off supper, and all but the aborigine knew what it meant sometimes to go hungry to bed.
These features, while imparting energy to the language, at the same time made it easy to convey its meaning by picture writing or symbolism, the only mode of writing which the aborigine possessed.
Thus in the rude civilization of the aborigine wampum filled a space accorded to no one article in our own.
I have learned to take the salutation quite calmly, and even the wildest, most spectacled and knobby-browed aboriginecannot startle me.
He was a very plump and greasy looking aboriginewith a doll-like rosiness of cheek and a scared and bristling pompadour and very small pig-eyes.
We gave him some of each, and shook hands all round, when the aged aborigine was pleased to add: "Pimos!
With each of these he saturated the wound with some difficulty, however, as the aborigine insisted for a time in keeping his lips to the wound as his own theory of first aid.
Now the aborigine gave vent to a shrill piercing yell, and, at the same time, waved hysterically to his comrades, all five of whom dropped their tools and rushed to the shack and surrounded the chief.
Tie = there, tieulo = anaborigine (a man of there).
Tieulo = an aborigine (man of there, of that place).
And I dressed with trembling fingers because I dared not otherwise face the brave little Austrian, the plucky little aborigine who, with the donning of the new Amerikanische gown had acquired some real Amerikanisch nerve.
The lady aborigine of the golden voice, and the ugly husband of the peaked chin had a strange fascination for me.
The first surprising thing that the new-comers did was to seat themselves at the long table with the other aborigines, the lady aborigine being the only woman among the twelve men.
One aborigine had been wont to emphasize his after-dinner arguments with a toothpick brandished fiercely between thumb and finger.
I discovered that when the lady aborigine was animated, her face was that of a young woman, possessing a certain high-bred charm, but that when in repose the face of the lady aborigine was that of a very old and tired woman indeed.
