Newport tried to make the Werowance kneel--in vain!
Masterful the tone, backed by the weapon raised-- Wily Powhatan was moved to shift his ground, Waiting squaws he bade to fill with yellow corn Dozen baskets that were speedy set in row 'Twixt the Werowance and the doughty President.
Werowance and Caucorouse are not synonymous terms.
There was an interesting werowance named Pepisco, a religious sort of fellow, who awakened hope that he might become the third Indian convert in the little company of two--Pocahontas and Chanco.
According to the wealth of the werowance were the size and dignity of the temple, varying from a small arbour of twenty feet to a structure a hundred feet long.
The eighteenth day the Werowance of Paspihe came himselfe to our quarter, with one hundred Savages armed which guarded him in very warlike manner with Bowes and Arrowes.
On the 26th of May, Indians had made an attack four hundred of them with the Werowance of Paspihe.
In a sudden access of fury, aggravated by the jeers with which his fellows greeted his mishap, the savage turned upon his prisoner and would have stuck a knife into him, bound and helpless as he was, had not the werowance interfered.
When the usual stately welcome had been extended to the Paspaheghs, and when they had returned as stately thanks, the werowance began a harangue for which I furnished the matter.
But it was late, and theirwerowance and conjurer restrained them.
The werowance spoke again, pointing to the hills with the black houses upon them, dimly seen through the mist.
At a sign from the werowance men and women formed a rude procession, and followed us, who were to go upon a journey, to the edge of the village where the marsh began.
The werowance drew out the arrows from a gaudily painted and beaded quiver, stuck them into his belt, and dropped the quiver into the water.
I went to the lodge of the werowance with the copper, and found him not there.
The Indians frowned, and one in the boat behind called out to strike the singer upon the mouth; but the werowance shook his head.
Yesterday, at the full sun power, he was in the lodge of the werowance of the Chickahominies.
The werowance of the Paspaheghs rose to his feet, cast aside his mantle, and began to speak.
On this march the werowance himself stalked beside me, the moonlight whitening his dark limbs and relentless face.
Nantauquas looked for that of the werowance of the Paspaheghs, but found it not.
The Werowanceof Pautuxent visited the strangers, and when he was about departing, used the following language, as recorded in the MS.
The great Werowance was not in his ceremonial lodge but in the one in which he ordinarily slept and ate when at Werowocomoco.
The four Dutchmen who for some weeks had been building the house for Powhatan, had discussed amongst themselves the relative advantages of friendship with the werowance or with the English.
Evidently the priests were giving the werowance some advice.
Even though the werowance himself were acting in good faith, might not others of the chiefs have plotted to put an end to the white man whose coming and whose staying were so beyond their fathoming?
The werowance promised, they reported, that when his daughter was restored to him he would give the corn which the white men asked for.
The shamans and priests had advised the werowance thus.
The Englishman could not read in the expressionless face of the werowance what he was thinking of this proposition--the first attempt of the colonists to explain their presence in the Indians' domain.
That was undoubtedly the point of vantage, but The Powhatan was a much dreaded werowance and they dared not risk his ire.
At first the respect he owed her as the daughter of the great werowance was uppermost and he thought he must needs do her bidding and leave her.
If there had been but one loading in his pistol he would have fired at the werowance and trusted to the confusion to rush through the crowd and out of the lodge.
Behind their werowance now swarmed the other braves and chieftains, two hundred in all, and all with masks that made them as fearful, thought John Smith, as a troop of devils from hell.
On their arrival they found the werowance absent, whether by chance or by policy.
He had made his choice, and even though she were the daughter of the great Powhatan, he did not doubt that the werowance would give her to one of his best braves.
The great werowance had returned his thanks to his brother and the bearers of his gifts were just leaving when Pocahontas rushed in to her father's lodge half breathless with eagerness.
Captain Smith," said Powhatan with a sigh, "I never used any werowance so kindly as yourself, yet from you I receive the least kindness of any.
The werowance spoke again, pointing to the hills which were dimly seen through the mist.
Presently I rose and, making my way to the werowance of the village, where he sat with his eyes fixed on the spectacle, told him that I was wearied and would go to my hut, to rest for the few hours that yet remained of the night.
But I told a lie," said the girl, looking down; "I said you had gone to make Manteo the Werowance of the Pamunkeys.
De grand werowance of long-knives has cut down de peace tree and broke de pipe, and de tomahawk is now dug up.
He had come to invite the old Werowance to visit Jamestown, to receive gifts which Captain Newport, a colonist who had just come back from England, had brought from King James.
The Paspaheghs drew around us closer and closer, and the werowance clutched me by the shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "werowance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
