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Example sentences for "redskin"

Lexicographically close words:
redresser; redressing; reds; redshank; redshanks; redskins; redstart; redstarts; reduce; reduced
  1. At these recollections he became conscious of a burning desire to humiliate the redskin who had dared to do these things to him.

  2. I kin tell you about the only redskin I ever let off.

  3. That infernal redskin is going to do that again," ejaculated Jonathan.

  4. Looking closer, he found he was not covering the smooth polished head adorned with the small tuft of hair, peculiar to a redskin on the warpath, but a head from which streamed long black hair.

  5. I pulled my tomahawk and went around the head of the island and found the redskin leanin' against a big log.

  6. The redskin was within easy gunshot, and he held his rifle pointed straight at the boy, but the latter, not knowing whether it was a summons to surrender, or whether the savage meant to fire, bounded behind the nearest tree.

  7. Around each was a white ring, while the greasy clay that served for paint was daubed over the rest of his features with an effect so hideous as to prove that the redskin was a genius in that line.

  8. As he passes within reach, each redskin belabours him without mercy, so that, as the victim has to run a long way, he is almost certain to be knocked to the earth, where more than likely he is beaten to death.

  9. Will looked sharply at the redskin as he passed his rifle to him.

  10. We all know now that the redskin of North America bears no resemblance to the portraits painted of him by Chateaubriand or Fenimore Cooper.

  11. The Indian of South America, though closely akin to the redskin of the North, is infinitely his superior.

  12. I have a rifle and the redskin hasn't any, so I'm not afraid.

  13. As they made no further effort to advance, he said: "This redskin is only a boy.

  14. Instantly Kit Carson struck the treacherous redskin a blow between his eyes with his fist.

  15. Have you ever seen this young redskin before?

  16. Kit Carson told us to follow this redskin until we got him.

  17. Is this redskin left here for us, or do you think the village was trying to run away?

  18. The drawbridge is raised and the portcullis closed, so that a thieving Redskin would find it a hard matter to make his way in.

  19. Tell me, of what am I accused, besides having gone away to acquaint myself with the Redskin natives of the country?

  20. Let me have but another shot or two at the Redskin rascals.

  21. Him not come back since yesterday; bery likely Redskin got him.

  22. There were also two redskin warriors, one of them a cowardly Coras, a renegade of his nation.

  23. Harry replied, ill-humouredly; "Can a redskin warrior be the friend of a white man?

  24. Jake, flourishing his rifle over his head and uttering a terrible oath, "then I'll shoot the first Redskin I come across.

  25. It was in that direction that the camp of the hunters lay, and thither the footsteps of pale face and redskin were directed.

  26. It might be asked why the redskin should have taken this course, for in some respects it had more than one absurd feature.

  27. Neither the Redskin nor the Indo-European had any choice as to the main features of the career of his solar divinity.

  28. I say, John, I see the smoke of the redskin camp.

  29. There was no other course but to press forward in redskin fashion, at which happily he was an adept.

  30. Now, then, what we have to do is to hoist the redskin on to it and leave her there to drown.

  31. We are putting the redskin on the rock,' Smee called out.

  32. By all the unwritten laws of savage warfare it is always the redskin who attacks, and with the wiliness of his race he does it just before the dawn, at which time he knows the courage of the whites to be at its lowest ebb.

  33. This redskin appears to be rather an unreflecting damsel; and, from what you have told me, a dangerous one.

  34. A shot that may cost us our scalps," said I: for I saw that there was no longer any chance of a pacific arrangement--even upon the condition of our making sharpshooters of every redskin in the tribe.

  35. A few months flew by so quickly, sir, because I was in love, you know; and one evening in autumn the dog barked; next moment my redskin stood before me with a finger on his lip.

  36. Tom Morris was a madman when he was informed by that poor friendly redskin that at twelve that night the fort would be attacked by a wandering tribe of redskins, every one murdered save Mary, who was to be dragged off into captivity.

  37. Clear back for the settlements," the little hunter had said, and the Redskin obeyed him to the letter.

  38. The Redskin hardly deigned to answer; instead, he swung his dogs round, pulling them by means of the reins, till he had them lying in the hollow itself.

  39. It can be imagined, therefore, that he looked forward to the meeting with Beaver Jack with some anticipation, and hailed that taciturn Redskin heartily when, two weeks later, they came across him.

  40. Then, as Hank repeated his question somewhat peremptorily, the Redskin swung over on to his right side and looked back at the hunter.

  41. Ef it wasn't that Hurley might be over yonder, I'd tell yer a yarn of how a Redskin crawled into my camp one night and as near killed me as possible.

  42. The Redskin had lifted a hand; he came to a halt.

  43. Hank's staring eyes and the eager expression on the hawk-like face of the Redskin told their own story.

  44. I kin tell you this, give a Redskin a knife and firelock and powder, and he kin go anywhere and make most anything in these forests.

  45. Joe heard the beasts stamping as if they were frightened, or as if the arrival of the Redskin had caused them pleasure.

  46. Hank turned on an expansive grin for our hero's special edification, while even the austere Redskin smiled.

  47. At once, without so much as a word, the Redskin slunk off into the forest, Hank and Joe following closely.

  48. Meanwhile our hero and the Redskin each took one of the dummies which the cunning little trapper had manufactured during his hours of watching, and slowly raised that part which was supposed to be the head over the summit of the wall.

  49. Half a dozen hands seized the redskin and disarmed him.

  50. With a swift blow he struck down the redskin in his path, and drawing his keen knife, he slashed the side of the cover with a strong blow.

  51. Many a redskin went down clutching a white man in his arms, and their lives would flow out with their mingling blood as they lay upon the ground in that deadly embrace.

  52. This was Mustang Max, one of the most skillful guides and worst redskin haters on the plains.

  53. Follow the course of the wires, my friends, and you’ll find a redskin hanging on to one of them, simply because he can’t let it go.

  54. And he sent a revolver bullet fairly between the eyes of the foremost redskin on his side.

  55. He had never before done as much real thinking in one hour as he did between his first glimpse of that redskin and the rising of the dark, threatening line of that rifle-barrel.

  56. These two considered him the tallest kind of a young chief already, but all the rest regarded him very much as Yellow Pine did, as "the likeliest young redskin he'd ever come across.

  57. You and your young redskin can scout on down the valley.

  58. The redskin raised the child again, but he was just a second too late, for he rolled off his horse with a hole bored through his skull, as dead as dead could be.

  59. Not ‘cordin’ to thar ideas, for every ‘Pache believes that the whole North American continent belongs to his people, which is about what every redskin thinks.

  60. After a moment he muttered, "Poor Burden, your very importance in this conflict has caught the eagle eye of that young redskin and spelled your doom!

  61. Intuitively the brave redskin knew that his Scotch friend felt as he did.

  62. When and where had this redskin of the American forest picked up such splendid address?

  63. The conference with the distinguished redskin was made smooth sailing by Agent Todd Randall, who happened to be on hand, and who acted as interpreter.

  64. Will was not long in finding Indian tracks, and accompanied by six men, he went forward to locate the redskin camp.

  65. For an Indian she was pretty, her skin being much lighter in shade than that of the average Redskin girl.

  66. The girl looked at him with the half shy, inscrutable gaze of a Redskin girl.

  67. He and Jukes saw as soon as they came within speaking distance, a Redskin girl, rather tall, dressed in the usual winter dress of the Indians, which was not very different from his own.

  68. She looked at Shines-in-the-Night, who was two years older than herself and had all the shrewd cunning and knowledge of the wild bred in her by her Redskin forefathers.

  69. The shrewd mind of the Redskin girl saw the necessity of this, because Stenson would not have been satisfied with a trail that began at the Wolf's Tooth Rocks.

  70. They may have had some redskin as their guide, who knew the country, and took them the best way.

  71. If a redskin had caught sight of them, he might have followed on their trail for weeks, till he found where they were going, and then made off to bring his tribe down on them.

  72. I reckon that fellow has counted our numbers, and no redskin will try to force that pass with five Western rifles facing him.

  73. Each young redskin carried a rifle and they all tossed them up as high as they could reach when they saw the two white boys appear from the riverside.

  74. That redskin sure had a close shave, Chet!

  75. Their racial features were pronounced; there wasn't a redskin boy there that could not trace his line back to some big chief of the olden time when the Indian was master of these plains and hills.

  76. What gets my goat," he muttered, "is how that redskin talks one minute like a college professor and the next like Poor Lo with his face painted and a dirty blanket trailing at his heels.

  77. I reckon there isn't anything a redskin can do that a white man can't beat him at.

  78. The old redskin shot her a swift glance; then his face became expressionless and he gazed stolidly at the river.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "redskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.