When he remembered that he was in the wigwamof Ogallah, the chieftain, he turned upon his side and raised his head on his elbow.
But if Jack counted on finding all the hours dull and monotonous, from being compelled to stay within the tepee or wigwam of the Sauk chieftain, he was greatly mistaken.
This was the question which for the moment held life in suspense, while Jack Carleton stood in the middle of the dimly lit wigwam and gazed doubtingly toward the figures near the smoldering fire.
He descried a wooded ridge stretching across his field of vision, but not the first resemblance to village or wigwam could be discovered.
Jack doffed his hat and bowed to her with elaborate courtesy, after which he leaned his rifle against the side of the wigwam and folded his arms.
The angered pup, with a yelp of pain and rage, turned about, inserted his teeth in the most favorable part of the body, and then limped out of the wigwam with a few more cries, expressive of his feelings.
It was nightfall ere they reached Seth's wigwam once more, and they were thoroughly tired, and glad to rest while Seth cooked the supper in a way that only Seth could.
He had proved his manhood in deadly combat; He had won his name by the fiercest fight Ever known among any of our warriors; But now he chose to lie in his wigwam and dream, And I knew what he dreamed, O Medicine Man!
Fiercely in the silent Canawac motion tongue, Her look burning into my living spirit, She made the sign of the quick kill; And turning she slipped like a vision From my wigwam of torture.
So hard I worked, O Medicine Man, From the lifting to the setting of every sun, So long I danced at night in the Assembly Lodge, That when I walked to my wigwam Sleep came swift and deep upon me.
I wondered if Mountain Lion were on the water Or if he were hunting the wide forest Or if he were drilling ornaments of blue shell Or weaving the sacred, singing fire bird A new wigwam of gold osiers.
With hands of high satisfaction My Mother set my wigwam beside her lodge.
Silently in my tortured wigwam I writhed in the flame of the fire bird And choked with the rising sick sweetness Of the hated water flower of the pasture lands.
Again I watched all the moon time And in the gold red morning She slipped from her wigwam And entered the ancient forest.
The next sun, the young women Set me a tall prideful wigwam apart.
Every wigwam in which death occurred was immediately demolished, and a new one, if needed, erected in its stead.
The darkness built its wigwam walls Close round the camp, and at its curtain Press'd shapes, thin woven and uncertain, As white locks of tall waterfalls.
The wigwam amid the mountains is a symbol of what he is, but the locomotive at its side is an emblem of progress and of promise to those who will use their opportunities.
The lone Indian who places his wigwam in the midst of the mountains seems to be always a stranger.
But the air of the woods is not pleasant to her: she pines after the wigwam of her fathers.
He shall be in thywigwam ere the sun setteth again,” said Tuscalameetah.
In the wigwam or tent you are constantly taking in poison, more or less active, with every inspiration.
This object is effected by a tent or wigwam which keeps off rain and wind.
The wigwam these people were living in was not half covered: both wind and rain passed through it.
When our boats returned, they paddled over to the wigwam at the head of the port, about a quarter of a mile beyond our tents, and began to repair it, and by sunset were housed and sheltered for the night.
About midnight it rained very hard, and the inside of the wigwam became soaked with wet; so they all roused up, and made a large fire; then ate some blubber, and drank some more water.
We had no doubt that the younger man was at hand watching us, and just at daybreak, as we were preparing to start, he jumped into the wigwam with his face streaked almost all over with black, and pretended to be quite a stranger.
Jim he spoke to the duke, and said he hoped it wouldn't take but a few hours, because it got mighty heavy and tiresome to him when he had to lay all day in the wigwam tied with the rope.
Right in the middle of the wigwam we made a layer of dirt about five or six inches deep with a frame around it for to hold it to its place; this was to build a fire on in sloppy weather or chilly; the wigwam would keep it from being seen.
I went to the raft, and set down in the wigwam to think.
And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time.
We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself.
Then they all dreamed of something, a knife, dog, skin, or whatever it might be, and when morning came they went from wigwam to wigwam asking for presents.
Two days before the sacrifice she was led from wigwam to wigwam, accompanied by the whole council of chiefs and warriors.
Men and women, variously disguised, went fromwigwam to wigwam smashing and throwing down whatever they came across.
A great clump of trees hid a wigwam until they were in sight of it There was a smoke issuing from the rude chimney, and a savory smell permeated the air.
No doubt there are those up there who have shared his heart and his wigwam until he tired of them.
Your husband takes you to his wigwam and you cook his meal, and it is all done with, and no fuss.
My father brought a brave to the wigwam and we had a feast and a dance.
Why should he sit in the wigwam all winter, now and then killing a deer or helping on the dock for a drink of brandy?
There will never be a brave good enough for you," said the woman Wenonah, who lived in a sort of wigwam outside the palisades and had learned many things from her white sisters that had rather unsettled her Indian faith in braves.
The Indian had roamed undisturbed, and built his temporarywigwam in some opening, and on moving away left the place again to solitude.
When the parents on both sides have agreed, the young man comes by night to the wigwamof his future spouse and seats himself near her; which is the same as declaring that he takes her for his wife and she takes him for her husband.
The rafter poles are placed wigwam fashion and should be very close together in the finished structure; so also should be the short sticks forming the side walls and the walls to the hallway or entrance.
True love for her he could not feel, Yet such a fact dared not reveal; His squaw she was alone in name And never to his wigwam came.
The Queen, with head and form erect, Bore McCray undismayed, And in her father's wigwam Her wounded lover laid!
These straggling parties, which you have to fear, are in quest of booty, and will not expect to find anything in his wigwam except a few furs.
I mean, miss, that if he don't like company so near him, he must shift and build his wigwam further off.
Then you and I will get to work with our flint and steel and set this old wigwam afire.
It laid hold of the thin, dry bark at the edge of the old wigwam and blazed up with extraordinary rapidity.
Nothing was left of the wigwam but ashes which the wind picked up and whirled about.
While he was doing justice to it, the lord of the wigwam returned, and great was his amazement to behold the guest whom his lady was hospitably ministering to.
When the daughter of our nation is seized for the wigwam of him whose words filled the coverts with creeping foes to drink our blood, shall we give him our Bird of Heaven and say 'it is well'?
When the boy heard this, he advanced boldly, and his quick eyes made out a snug wigwam in the hollow of a great tree.
One clear, summer night the girls lay awake upon their beds, looking up through the smoke-hole of their wigwam and telling one another all their thoughts.
He kept on his journey until he spied a small wigwam quite by itself on the edge of a wood.
There they beheld the great white wigwam in which dwelt the ten virgins with their grandmother, who was a wicked old witch.
Now the young man was grateful to his rescuer and he no longer cared to return to his own people and to the brother who had betrayed him, therefore he went with the old man to his wigwam to hunt for him.
They kindly made for her a little wigwam of pine boughs, and brought ferns for her bed.
The paths that lead to this low brown wigwam are well beaten; deep, narrow trails, like sheep paths, in the hard-frozen snow.
There was but one entrance to the lodge, of barely sufficient width to afford the passage of Hans Vanderbum's body, and the sides of the wigwam were too strong and firm for her to think either of piercing or breaking them.
My brave warriors, I will show you," she exclaimed, springing at them in such a perfect fury that they tore out of thewigwam and were seen no more.
The situation of Hans' wigwam was fortunate indeed, as he ran little risk of discovery if he used ordinary discretion after leaving it.
The wigwam was composed of skins and bark, the latter greatly predominating.
So saying, Hans passed out of the wigwam on his way to return to Oonomoo.
A warrior of the long house takes no friend from the wigwam of an Algonquin.
The Chief of the Conestogas will die in a strange land; his bones will be a plaything for the wolves of the mountains; his scalp will hang before the wigwam of an Algonquin dog.
They promise me a wigwam in their village in the Blue Mountains.
They have hills of hatchets and of arrow heads, sharp and clean, and very much tobacco, and they sing and dance in the greatwigwam of Okee, in the home of Kiwassa, in the land beyond the setting sun.
The Ricahecrian starts for his wigwam in the Blue Mountains to-morrow as my father commands.
He loved the maiden, and when they took her away to her home upon the far prairie, he mourned by day and by night, and vowed that he would leave no house or wigwamunsearched till he saw his maid again.
The Hurons and Iroquois were sworn enemies to each other, but in a wigwam or even a camp of the Neutrals until recently each had been safe from the other's vengeance.
We passed another wigwam of Chippawas, making maple sugar, the mildness of the winter having compelled them in a great measure to abandon their annual hunting.
We were glad to leave our wigwam early this morning, it having rained incessantly the whole night; besides, the hemlock branches on which we slept were wet before they were gathered for our use.
We passed some deep ravines and made our wigwam by a stream on the brow of a hill, near a spot where Indians were interred.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wigwam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
