We will attack every traveling party of long knives.
Terror clutched his belly as he saw coming at him thousands of long knives in blue uniforms with rifles and bayonets.
Perhaps not about the treaties, but surely about the vast numbers of long knives.
A warrior set a long knives' saddlebag before Black Hawk, who opened it.
This name was soon after applied to the Virginia militia generally; and to this day they are known among the north western Indians as the "Long knives," or "Big knife nation.
The term "Big Knives" or "Long Knives" may have had reference either to the long knives carried by early white hunters, or the swords worn by backwoods militia officers.
There were debates upon striking the Long Knives, as the Virginians were called.
But of the Indians it was Logan who first struck the Long Knives.
Boon asserts that at this time the "Long Knives" proved themselves superior to their foe in almost every battle; but the facts do not seem to sustain him, though the statement was doubtless true as regards a few picked men.
At a council called to consider the Governor's letter, the chief, Blue Jacket, and the Prophet made speeches in which they declared their wish to remain at peace with the British and the Long Knives, as they called the settlers.
Some time ago you put a war hatchet into my hands, saying: Take this weapon and try it on the heads of my enemies the long knives, and let me afterwards know if it was sharp and good.
They begin with the Virginians, whom they call the long knives, and who were the first European settlers in this part of the American continent.
It is your concern to fight the long knives; you have raised a quarrel amongst yourselves, and you ought yourselves to fight it out.
I know the long knives; they are not to be trusted.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long knives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
