We have many of their horses; we have scalped three of them; let them go!
The victor scalped him with his own knife, took his war club and his bow and arrows, and then turned to the woman.
They raised a yell when they saw the blood of Thomas Knowlton trickling from the watch-tower where he had been shot, then rushed up to where the corpse lay, brought it down, scalped it, and cut off the head and arms.
This alarmed the haymakers and the children, who ran for their lives towards a mill on a brook that entered Deerfield River, fiercely pursued by about fifty Indians, who caught and scalped a boy named Amsden.
Melchizadek Smith, a missionary for thirty years among the Injuns, who wuzscalped at the time his father wuz barbariously killed, and I hed a life uv the Rev.
The lieutenant fell, and Brant, rushing out from his concealment, scalped him with his own hands.
About six weeks afterward Mr. Slocum and his father-in-law, Ira Trip, were December 16 shot and scalped by some Indians while foddering cattle near the house.
A venerable old man, named David Fonda, was killed and scalped by an Indian party attached to the expedition, and in its march of a few miles nine aged men, four of them upward of eighty years old, were murdered.
They had not proceeded far before some savages in ambush shot all three down, scalped them, and made off.
A party fell upon them suddenly, and killed and scalped the priest and thirty of the Indians.
Your Indians have murdered and scalped old Mr. Fonda, at the age of eighty years, a man who, I have heard your father say, was like a father to him when he settled in Johnstown and Kingsborough.
Burgoyne, instigated by motives of policy rather than by judgment and inclination, pardoned the savage who scalped poor Jenny, fearing that a total defection of the Indians would be the result of his punishment.
In the course of the succeeding year they surprised the little town of Dartmouth, on the other side of Halifax-bay, where they killed and scalped a great number of people, and carried off some prisoners.
They accordingly retired in confusion, leaving a considerable number lying on the field, to the barbarity of the Indian savages, who massacred the living, and scalped the dead, even in the sight of their indignant companions.
A month had not elapsed before he was killed and scalped within a mile of the station.
I felt I would rather risk being scalped than stay there any longer.
Many of them leaped in and scalped the fallen before the eyes of the horrified soldiers.
The soldiers from England shuddered at the sight of their scalped comrades.
I have here, it is true, the daily chance of being scalped or burnt alive by the Indians.
They had not been scalped and their bodies lay not very far apart and the number of empty shells lying near each body showed the desperate defense they had made.
I reached over and gave him a poke in the side and told him that it made no difference whether he was from Arkansaw or New Jersey, that he would be scalped unless he was ready to put up a pretty stiff fight.
To leave the impression that it was the work of the tribesmen they scalped their victims, ran off their stock, and burned their wagons.
Once outside he scalped the murdered boy, and set fire to the house, and then drove the woman and the remaining children to a knoll where the wounded Indian lay with the others around him.
The latter instantly seized the Americans, chopped off their hands at the wrists with their knives, and, after having scalped them, pushed them into the fort.
And taking his knife, he seized with his left hand the half-breed's thick and tangled head of hair, and with the greatest dexterity scalped him.
He quickly fell however under the tomahawks of his enemies, and was found at daylight, scalped and mangled in a shocking manner.
Getting scalped was nothing to the loss of such beautiful specimens of horseflesh.
Entering a cabin, they tomahawked and scalped a woman and her two daughters.
Indeed, hundreds of unfortunate men and women, making their way across to the goldfields, fell foul of these red demons, and were slaughtered and scalped unmercifully.
Wall, they killed and scalped every man, woman, and child as they could drop on, and fired the settlers' farms over fifty miles.
The man who had beenscalped came across the prairie toward the section men.
About the year 1868 a war party of Osages made a raid on the aboriginal inhabitants of the county and murdered and scalped several squaws who were chopping wood near the Blue.
His brother, Prairie Chicken, killed one of the Indians and scalped him in the midst of the battle.
Nine of them were murdered in the most brutal manner: scalped and stripped of their clothing.
One of them shook hands with him while the other pierced his body with a spear and then scalped him and left him writhing in the broiling sun to die on the prairie.
General Jackson did not wish to leave the corpses of the slain to be dug up and scalped by the savages.
Our hero Crockett, who had so valiantly smitten the dissevered heads of the two Creeks who had been so treacherously murdered, confesses that the revolting spectacle of the whites, scalped and half devoured, caused him to shudder.
The Indians then scalped the heads, and, leaving the bodies unburied, the whole party entered a trail which led to the river, near the point where the two wigwams were standing.
They were pursued by the savages, and one was tomahawked and scalped within a few hundred feet of the gate.
He soon however fell beneath their tomahawks, and was in the morning found scalped and mangled in the most shocking manner.
The sextons and choristers found every morning the holy placesscalped and the parsons had to stand there in the morning service.
Thereupon he let these reversed knockers or erected tails run at each other and act and utter fleurettes, and laughed inwardly at the most clever people of birth, whom he had himself scalped and scaled.
The blackguards were obliged to submit, and the dread of beingscalped was too strong upon them to allow them to refuse.
This idea was strengthened by another thought, namely, that the savage who stabbed and scalped Dupont might not have been the savage who shot him.
Then the Indians who held the vessel of human blood poured it over the stem, after which the one who had scalped the lancero attached the scalp to it.
On the next morning, at sunrise, two hundred heads, scalped and horribly disfigured, were thrown by the Moluchos over the walls of Santiago.
One of the Indians brandished a cutlass with a gesture of furious joy over the cold head of the assassinated lancero; and while with the left hand he seized the pendant hair, with the other adroitly scalped him.
But a boy who was scalped by them was cured, and escaped with life.
Having scalped the dead, they carry off the women and children prisoners, and place against a tree near the hut the hieroglyphic picture, before which they plant two arrows with their points crossing each other.
Here they found the Scotchman and the negro woman, the latter of whom they killed; and making prisoner of the young man, returned and scalped Kelly.
He was then scalped and permitted to remain in that situation for several hours.
As they were returning to the canoe for the purpose of recrossing to the Fort, after the termination of the hunt, Gilmore was espied by two Indians, concealed near the bank, who fired at, killed and scalped him.
The little girl who had been scalped in the yard, was much burned, and those who had been murdered in the house, were consumed with it.
In October, two Indians appeared near the house of Conrad Richards, and finding in the yard a little girl at play, with an infant in her arms, they scalped her and rushed to the door.
In a moment of the most perfect confidence in the innocense of their intentions, the Indians rose on them and tomahawked and scalped all, save a few women and children of whom they made prisoners.
These were scalped and mangled by the Indians in a most shocking manner, and lay some time, before the men in the fort, assured of the departure of the enemy, went out and buried them.
This was in August; the Fates work quickly, for in October poor Filson was scalpedby the Indians in the neighborhood of the Big Miami, before a settler had yet been enticed to Losantiville.
When taken prisoner, [253] she refused to go with them, and Dorman sunk his tomahawk into her head and then scalped her.
Mrs. Gibson, being incapable of supporting the fatigue of walking so far and fast, was tomahawked and scalped in the presence of her children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scalped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
