Then the girl papoose was grateful, and she begged the Great Spirit that He would make many and many another pair of just such comfortable shoes for every other little barefoot maid in all the world.
She walked swiftly homeward, bearing the White Papoose upon one strong arm and the White Bow upon the other.
Rest now, after your ride, and the White Papoose shall make a pillow for you of the rushes I will pull.
That beau'ful one 'bout the little papoose that hadn't any shoes, and the flowers growed her some.
Where the papoose sleeps the blossoms wither," remarked Black Partridge, regarding the bruised and faded plants with more attention.
When he had penetrated it, he found his sister sitting on a stump, surrounded by a laughing, gesticulating crowd of young girls and old women, with a tightly swaddled papoose in her lap.
The Indians call these two the "Old Squaw and the Papoose on Her Back.
So also on the plains, the old folks would ask the children at night, "Can you see the papoose on the old Squaw's back?
Little Papoosemust have put something in his mouth that was choking him now.
A solemn Little Papoose bound in its stiff cradle is one of the drollest things imaginable.
He took the papoose out of a broad strap around the squaw's head hanging in a loop in the back and taking up the remaining flour, put it in the strap on his wife's back, she stooping over to receive the load.
Then he took the papoose and set it atop the sack of flour.
She makes a bed of soft moss upon the hard board and lays the papoose very straight in its little frame.
The wind swings the cradle, and, like the Mother Goose baby, the Indian papoose rocks on the tree top.
If the snow comes, it will be a thousand times more dangerous," said Amos, "for we shall leave a track then that a papoose could follow.
Tut, an Indian papoose could have told," said Du Lhut impatiently.
He set him down on the doorstep and said: “My squaw and my papoose you helped last summer.
The Indian woman followed John into the yard, and Mrs. Grafton took the sick little papoose on her lap and gave it some medicine.
Papoose sick,” said the Indian mother, “see doctor.
The Indian mother took her papoose home, saying that Mrs. Grafton was “a good doctor.
That night they bid me go out of the wigwam again; my mistress's papoose was sick, and it died that night; and there was one benefit in it, that there was more room.
When Amine opened her eyes, the littlePapoose ran out to acquaint the woman, who followed her into the hut.
For two months did Amine remain under the care of the Papoose woman.
While living in the dugout Indian women visited Mrs. McCashland and wanted to trade her a papoose for her quilts.
Billy remembered thepapoose doll and was delighted to think that it would really belong to his friend.
When I was a papoose I cried to my ma, So she gave me bread, And now my name is 'Bah'!
Out came the little girl, holding her papoose doll.
Her mouth opened and she formed only the word "Oh"--Billy put the papoose doll into her arms.
Bah must weave a little blanket and take it to the store where they will perhaps trade with you for the papoose doll.
That my papoose," laughed Bah, and turning her back towards Billy he saw, strapped cozily to the papoose cradle, a baby sheep!
Through all that hour of rest not even a papoose had been visible around the hogans--which, while there was nothing warlike in their keeping under cover, was not exactly a friendly attitude.
Another Praying Indian, when they went to Sudbury fight, went with them, and his squaw also with him, with her papoose at her back.
There they lay quivering in the cold, the youth round like a dog, the papoose stretched out with his eyes and nose and mouth full of dirt, and yet alive, and groaning.
My mistress's papoose was sick, and it died that night, and there was one benefit in it--that there was more room.
One scene showed her walking along, with the papoose on her back, all unsuspecting of the danger that threatened.
He hesitates, but determines to save the little papoose by doubling back on his tracks and meeting the posse, of which the doctor-sheriff is the leader.
Which if I was the parent of a fool papoose like Willyum, I'd shorely drop him down a shaft a whole lot an' fill up the shaft.
It is an Indian story," she pursued; "about a poor little papoose that was accidentally killed.
I laid the papoose back in the place where I had found him and left my string of fish, a poor tribute, with what money I had about me, and hurried down into the bed of the brook.
He had gathered little information in regard to the coal question, but in that notebook, buttoned snugly away in his coat, he had set down the papoose story, word for word.
When all had looked at the compass, Opechanchanough took it again in his hand, holding it gingerly as he would have held a papoose if a squaw had given one to his care.
She patted her arms and spoke to her as if she were a papoose on her back: "Fear not, little one, no evil shall come to thee.
The wee papoose laughed in his face, as he spoke to it.
He found the new flower to be a tiny papoose cradle.
As he looked closer, he saw that there was a tiny papoosein the little cradle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papoose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
