We, however, gave them no time to recover from their surprise, our knives and tomahawks performed quickly and silently the work of death, and little remorse did we feel, after the scene we had witnessed in the morning.
How many of these detested brutes we killed I cannot say, but we did not leave off until our hands had become powerless from exhaustion, and our tomahawks were so blunted as to be rendered of no use.
They would have the best saddles from Mexico, and the best rifles from the Yankees, the best tomahawks and blankets from the Canadians.
On our way we met with some fierce-looking jaguars, which we did not think it prudent to attack, so we let them alone, and soon found occupation enough for our knives and tomahawks among a close-packed herd of wolves.
Among the Kurnai of South-eastern Victoria the relations of the dead would cut and gash themselves with sharp stones and tomahawks until their heads and bodies streamed with blood.
Among the Kamilaroi, a large tribe of eastern New South Wales, the mourners, and especially the women, used to cut their heads with tomahawks and allow the blood to dry on them.
In the Mukjarawaint tribe, when a man died, his kinsfolk wept over him and slashed themselves with tomahawks and other sharp instruments for about a week.
Threatening braves pushed around them; tomahawkswere waving in the air above their heads; and awful shouts sounded in their ears.
Under their blankets many of the Indians carried muskets, with the barrels sawed off short; while all had their tomahawks and knives.
It was so easy to people its aisles with creeping, treacherous foes, armed with bows and arrows, with guns sold by the French traders to be used against the English-speaking colonists, together with tomahawks and scalping knives.
They have laid their bows and tomahawksdown on the ground; but look out for treachery.
Fully fifty dusky hands sought tomahawks and knives as the assemblage watched to see what the several companions of Larue would do to avenge the open insult.
Few Indians used guns in those days, the vast majority depending still upon the bows and arrows of their race, backed by tomahawks and knives, and sometimes war clubs in time of battle.
They fought like tigers, climbing up to the top of the wall and throwing their tomahawks down at the soldiers, and even tearing out the palisades in some places; and I saw more than one Indian cut down with sabers inside the fort.
Through the green of the trees the sun shone on tomahawks and musket barrels.
Visit to the Ruins of Fort George 112 Dead bodies, mangled with scalping-knives and tomahawks in all the wantonness of Indian fierceness and barbarity, were every where to be seen.
The annexed are drawings of twotomahawks in my possession.
The Indians kept her face painted and a white fillet around her head, as a protection against thetomahawks of strange savages, and she was treated very kindly by them.
Already a demand for the surrender of Forty Fort and the valley had been made by Colonel John Butler, and the tomahawks of the Indians were lifted above the heads of those families who had not succeeded in reaching the fort.
Instantly innumerable knives and tomahawks penetrated our frail home, while bullets went through the poles and tent-fastenings up above our heads.
He saved us from the tomahawks of his fellow-warriors, and brought us to his home to know a noble and a brave woman.
And the boys, seeing that the Indians had no tomahawks and could do them no harm, were reassured, and they all went on together toward Fort Niagara.
Here was held the great treaty of 1764; and here England made that alliance with the tribes which turned their tomahawks against the "American rebels.
We each possessed ourselves of twotomahawks for our defence, and all the bows we could find; and, carrying them under our arms, returned to our companions.
I dreamed that I heard the Indian war-whoops, and saw a whole band of savages spring out of the darkness and rush with uplifted tomahawks towards me while I lay helpless on the ground.
Waboga went about the work, without saying a word; and a couple of tomahawks were soon hacking at the tree.
They had their spears, too, slung lance-fashion by the side of the saddle; with tomahawksstuck in their belts.
The savages instantly appeared, and applied their tomahawks to the door.
They were not only turned loose upon them with their own tomahawksand scalping-knives, but were well supplied with British rifles and balls.
At length the tomahawks were lifted to strike them; at that instant the crack of rifles was heard, and the two Indians fell dead.
Many of the Iroquois stood their ground, hewing with tomahawks and war-clubs, and dying not unrevenged.
Arrows accompanied them, and spears and tomahawkscame hurtling through the air hurled with deadly aim.
In an instant the visitors sprang to their feet, and drawing their tomahawks from beneath their cloaks, uttering similar cries, rushed towards the white men standing round.
Accordingly, he had not been long at the fort when two warriors, with tomahawksin their hands, entered, seized him by the arms, and dragged him towards the river.
With arrows, tomahawks and war-clubs, the work was soon completed.
Tomahawks and knives and battle-axes gleamed in the air, and the work of extermination was instantly and energetically commenced.
The enemy finding the pursuit keen, and perceiving that the strength of the prisoner began to fail, instantly sunk their tomahawks in her head and left her, still warm and bleeding, upon the snow.
The guns of the Indians were stacked near the fire; their knives and tomahawks were in sheaths by their sides.
He quickly fell, however, under the tomahawks of his enemies, and was found at daylight, scalped and mangled in a shocking manner.
At that moment, the followers of Tecumseh seized their tomahawks and war clubs, and sprung upon their feet, their eyes turned upon the governor.
Arriving at the steeper part of the hillock they kicked their shoes away, and in a trice were scrambling up, their muskets slung over their shoulders and tomahawks or cutlasses in their hands.
Now put yer knives and tomahawks down, and Jules Lapon, you as wanted to get our scalps over by Albany, jest hook that ere whistle out'er yer belt.
They found the five canoes lying side by side, and at once drew their tomahawks with a view to cutting holes in the sides and bottoms.
And after them came the Indian band, their nostrils agape, their fingers gripping the tomahawks which they hoped to use very shortly.
They have shouted the war-whoop, and crimsoned their tomahawks in the blood of our citizens.
From the canoes on both sides uprose a glittering, glistening rain of mother-of-pearl-handled tomahawks that descended into the waiting hands of the Somo men on deck, while the Marys on deck crouched down and scrambled out of the fray.
But even worse still, it was learned that the British government was taking steps, by means of secret agents, to employ the Indians to fight on the British side, and use their tomahawks against British colonists!
He had received many lessons about shaping tomahawks and war clubs, and how to use them.
They went away, repressing their rage with difficulty, but when going they brandished their tomahawks over their heads in sign of war.
Their weapons were tomahawks and bows, the latter made of a certain kind of firm mountain hawthorn, so rigid that my men could not bend them.
Their spears pointed with sharpened deer-horns and tomahawks made of hard flint were not very dangerous, but they used them with wonderful skill.
Arrows and spears were flying about his head; bullets hummed past him; he saw tomahawks raised aloft to strike at him.
Broken pieces of pottery, arrowheads and tomahawks are often plowed up in the fields; and mounds of various sizes, made by the Indians, are still seen in some sections.
They had only bows, arrows, stone tomahawks and such weapons for war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tomahawks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
