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Example sentences for "palefaces"

Lexicographically close words:
pale; palea; paled; paleface; palefaced; palely; paleness; paleocrystic; paleontologic; paleontological
  1. The good preacher, Martin Godfrey, has accompanied him, for the purpose of instructing his people and mine; and he afterwards intends to visit the Palefaces settled in other parts of the country.

  2. Okematan has travelled far to the south and seen the Palefaces there.

  3. You see, the Cree chief was an observant savage, and, before returning to his tribe, had made up his mind to see all the phases in the life of the new Palefaces who had thus come to take possession of the land.

  4. We will drive the Saulteaux into Lake Winnipeg and the Palefaces off the face of the earth altogether!

  5. The Great Spirit who rules over all inclines my heart to go and dwell with the Palefaces until I understand them better, and teach them some of the wisdom of the Red-man.

  6. After a gaze of unutterable meaning round the circle Rednose went on-- "This, this is the way in which the owl-eyed chief of the Palefaces begins to do us good!

  7. Their object, they said, was to smoke the pipe of peace with their enemies the Saulteaux, and to see with their own eyes the wonderful things that by report the Palefaces were doing in Red River.

  8. If we killed or scalped all the Palefaces in Red River the great white chief would come over the great salt lake with an army that would swallow us up as the buffalo swallows up a tuft of grass.

  9. But as I lived longer with the Palefaces I found that they were not all fools.

  10. He was mistaken, ignorant; he knew no better, and the Palefaces who did know, did not put light into him; so the names of Saulteaux chiefs were put in the writing.

  11. You remember that the season of singing frogs [April] has passed three times since one of the palefaces came among us.

  12. And it happened that a woman of the palefaces came forth and stood high up, and looked upon us, smiling.

  13. And before the first frosts made the hills shiver, the palefaces who trade for furs came to our village, and the man went with them; and with him went the woman.

  14. But he said: ‘So many of the palefaces have listened to me making Vylin sing; and they wept to hear.

  15. The Great Spirit brought the palefaces hither to perplex them and punish them.

  16. Why have the palefaces come into my camp?

  17. There is no common tie between the palefaces and the Blackfeet.

  18. I have gone into seclusion for eight days and there asked, asked, asked if the just Great Spirit has really allowed the palefaces to do what they like with what we deemed our very own.

  19. For each one of the five, three Palefaces shall eat the dust in the day of our triumph.

  20. In the space of five suns we shall sweep the Palefaces into the sea, and rule all the land to the Eastern waters.

  21. The palefaces will have brought it on themselves," the Comanche answered in a gentle voice.

  22. Since the palefaces reject him, Eagle-wing will retire to the desert.

  23. In the first place, my father knows very well that the palefaces and redskins have been in a constant state of warfare since the arrival of white men in America.

  24. He loves the Indians: unhappily all the palefaces do not resemble him.

  25. The Comanches have long lances," he said; "the palefaces will not refuse.

  26. I had begged the Chief of Prayer of the palefaces to invite them in my name.

  27. Five palefaces inhabit the cabin of the Comanches.

  28. The young men of the tribe demand their punishment, for the blood of the palefaces is agreeable to the Master of Life.

  29. Does the chief of the palefaces recognise it?

  30. The palefaces call him Red Cedar, the Indians the Maneater.

  31. The palefaces came in the night, like jaguars without courage.

  32. Let the palefaces listen," he said; "an Indian sachem is about to speak.

  33. The palefaces call them, the first, Don Miguel Zarate; the second, General Ibanez.

  34. If, within an hour, the palefaces are not free, the prisoners I hold will be pitilessly massacred, and the altepetl plundered.

  35. Listen, all you chiefs of the palefaces here present, and judge of the clemency and generosity of the Comanches.

  36. He say he take us on warpath to help keep palefaces from going into Kantuckee.

  37. We had best keep one as a hostage and send the other back to say that unless the Chief of the Palefaces pays a ransom within three days--" But at that moment, as a great romancer used to say, a strange thing happened.

  38. Make a circle round the camp-fire and we shall drink the firewater of the Palefaces and smoke the pipe of peace.

  39. But now, A'tim, since the coming of the Palefaces we are slaughtered by them and by the Redmen.

  40. The palefaces have appreciated their courage, and esteem them.

  41. Do you two Palefaces promise to rustle around as soon as I go?

  42. It is a good thing that she is fifty years young instead of old, for if she wasn't I don't know what the Palefaces and Scouts would do without her.

  43. Tony didn't see me standing by the garden fence, and he gave the funny little whistle that he calls the Raccoon whistle for the Palefaces and which he always whistles when he wants to signal something to one of the girls.

  44. You two Palefaces might as well learn something about gumshoeing a villain now as ever.

  45. We've just decided in Scout Council to take the Palefaces out to the Harpeth ridge to hunt spring shoots and roots, and we always count on you for pies, Roxy, Stocking-darner.

  46. His medicine told him they might ride into the 'Dobe Walls and kill the palefaces in their sleep with clubs.

  47. Inez was so wholly of the palefaces that she disdained an Indian.

  48. The great chief of the Ricahecrians no longer throws the tomahawk--the guns of the palefaces are about him.

  49. Some the palefaces slew, and some they took prisoner.

  50. Then will the Ricahecrians be friends with the palefaces forever.

  51. They knew the palefaces would follow up the river, so they cared not to stay upon its banks; the Pamunkeys, too, are their enemies.

  52. After the canoes in which sit the palefaces from whom my brother flees?

  53. He had heard that the palefaces rode in canoes that had wings, great and white.

  54. He is gone over to the palefaces and helps their god against the real men.

  55. With their guns the palefaces beat the Conestogas like fleeing women back to their village on the banks of a great river, and themselves returned in triumph to their board wigwams, bearing with them many captives.

  56. My young men shall take their guns back to the palefaces to-morrow, and shall bring back fire-water, and we will drink, and forget that the days of Powhatan are past and that Otee fights against us.

  57. The palefaces made him to work like a squaw in their fields of tobacco and maize.

  58. My brother cannot see their trail, for the eyes of the palefaces are clouded, but Monakatocka sees it.

  59. Many years ago the Conestogas, they whom the palefaces call the Susquehannocks, came down the great bay and fought with the palefaces.

  60. Many years before the palefaces came, the Chickahominies were a great nation, reaching to the foot of the Blue Mountains, and then were they and the Ricahecrians friends and allies.

  61. Take care that these two palefaces do not escape; we are betrayed," he said, in a broken voice, panting from the speed with which he had come.

  62. Eagle Head, with a sinister smile, "I knew that well enough: why have the palefaces two hearts and two tongues?

  63. The palefaces have taught the Stag all the cleverness of the Yoris.

  64. My abode among the palefaces has, perhaps, unconsciously, given my words a strange turn that has led you into error.

  65. However cruel the palefaces may be, they love their children as we love ours.

  66. All the palefaces have crooked tongues; moreover, is not my brother a prisoner also?

  67. What do the palefaces care for an Indian's life?

  68. The poison of the palefaces has penetrated to their villages.

  69. To obey the orders of the sages of my nation, I consented with regret to leave the callis of my fathers, and pretend to adopt the customs of the cowardly palefaces whose ruin we have sworn.

  70. The palefaces have the eyes of moles," he said.

  71. The palefaces gave that name to their red son, and he finds it good, since it comes from them, and he keeps it.

  72. A band of palefaces passed within bow-shot of me, in the direction of Guetzalli.

  73. The palefaces are insatiable," the Black Bear replied.

  74. The redskins and the palefaces each follow the path the Great Spirit has traced for them.

  75. The palefaces are moles; they are only good in their great stone villages.

  76. The palefaces are perfectly ignorant of our plans.

  77. But the palefaces are the enemies of the Indians.

  78. I believe that the expedition whose passage I discovered is directed against the great cabin of the palefaces at Guetzalli.

  79. When the warrior perceived that the palefaces would not see him, he went towards them mocking them, and led them for three hours after him into the heart of the desert.

  80. He gave the palefaces wisdom and science, by teaching them to know the value of sparkling stones and yellow pebbles.

  81. Have the palefaces discovered the trail of the Apaches?

  82. If, as is not probable, the palefaces have placed vedettes before their great lodge to announce the arrival of the expedition, my brother will seize and kill them at once, to prevent them giving any alarm.

  83. By this time he had learned that all palefaces were not alike.

  84. The palefaces had visited the shore a second time, and on this occasion had stolen a bag of beans and some more corn.

  85. Occasionally he met the palefaces in the woods or at his father's village.

  86. To unite them and overpower the palefaces was the end toward which he planned.

  87. For a time it looked as if the palefaces would be driven into the water.

  88. To make the treaty as strong as possible, the palefaces had written it down on paper and had signed their names to it.

  89. He had forgotten the present and was again the mighty warrior who had made the hearts of the palefaces quake with fear.

  90. The whites at Weymouth were driven away and the palefaces at Plymouth continued to live on most excellent terms of friendship with the Wampanoags.

  91. For fourteen Indians the long struggle against the palefaces was over.

  92. The palefaces while trading with the Indians suddenly seized upon twenty-seven of the latter, took them to their vessel, and sailed away with them before they could be rescued.

  93. Then Massasoit described the treaty that he had made with the palefaces in which the settlers and the Wampanoags had agreed to remain friends and to help each other in every way they could.

  94. He determined henceforth to take Pontiac for his model and to do what he could to unite his people and prepare them to resist the next attempt of the palefaces to take the land of the redskins.

  95. Massasoit was so grateful for the kindness shown him that he told the palefaces of the Indian plot against them.

  96. The palefaces had left Cape Cod and had sailed across the bay to Patuxet (to which the English gave the name of Plymouth).

  97. The palefaces took fright at the news of what has been done, and none has been found within our territory.

  98. The palefaces are to the rising and setting sun, toward the cold and toward the soft wind.

  99. The palefaces have taken the warpath against each other, and the allies of the Black Eagle have called upon him to take wing and help them.

  100. The worshipper of the God of the palefaces would save the life of the paleface had he made milk of the blood of her brother.

  101. The palefaces take the warpath against each other," said another of the Indians, after gazing for a moment or two.

  102. You know I come of a superstitious race, and all my association with the Palefaces has never yet robbed me of my birthright to believe strange traditions.

  103. The dream had not yet come to the white man; only one great Indian medicine man knew that some day a great camp for Palefaces would lie between False Creek and the Inlet.

  104. The palefaces have their ears stopped when their eyes are closed," answered one of the strangers; "it is easy to get at them.

  105. He is gone over to the palefaces and helps their god against the red men.

  106. No doubt there was some justification for the act, but it made our tribe the enemies of the white men, and many who professed to love the God of the palefaces now cast away such love and would have none of it.

  107. The palefaces gave him that name because no deer can run as fast as he.

  108. I had heard much of the white man's country, and knew the palefaces were fast pushing into our own.

  109. The snows will be deep in the mountains for many moons; the palefaces will perish if they try to labor through them.

  110. Our tribes had no liberty upon the seashore, but the palefaces pursued them as if they had been like wild beasts, and compelled them to take refuge in the deserts of the Andes.

  111. Do not the priests of the palefaces themselves say so?

  112. Why have you not reported to the palefaces the message with which I charged you for them?

  113. The palefaces have no occasion to traverse our country.

  114. The palefaces are women without courage: as soon as their enemies weep and pray for pardon they forgive them.

  115. Numbers of palefaces fell into our hands; among them was a powerful chief, named Don Estevan de Leon.

  116. Yes; I believe it is so the palefaces pronounce his name.

  117. It was I," he said, without preamble, "who directed the last invasion made upon the palefaces of the frontiers.

  118. There are many palefaces from the South there at present.

  119. I see streams of blood, which redden the soil; the odour of that blood rejoices my heart, for it is the blood of palefaces shed by their brothers!

  120. Were not the palefaces eating when I and my young men came up?

  121. Tokeah," continued the Indian with dignity, "lifted the tomahawk against the palefaces as the Miko of his people, but the chief of the Salt Lake has made him a robber.

  122. Meanwhile let them go at large, and cause the blood of the palefaces to flow, as that of the Oconees has done.

  123. Miko has read your book of life; when yet a young man he learned your letters, for he saw that the cunning of the palefaces came from their dead friends.


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