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Sentences starting with indians

Indians left the store, and joined the rest; the factor and Sergeant Gosse set out to meet the little army of relief. [11]
Indians would not live either on the village side of The Stone or in the valley beyond. [11]
Indians brought brush and bushes several miles on their backs; and when we could catch a laden Indian it was well--and when we could not (which was the rule, not the exception), we shivered and bore it. [5]

Sentences ending with indians

My money was with my pantaloons, and my pantaloons were with the Indians. [5]
It isn't worth while, in these practical times, for people to talk about Indian poetry--there never was any in them--except in the Fenimore Cooper Indians. [5]
To all these were such statements freely and frequently made by the Indians. [5]
But discretion, as well as pluck, is required when one fights Boers and Red Indians. [5]
Reaching the shore, we marched together, I singing the refrain of an old French song as we went, En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule so attracting the attention of the Indians. [11]
Perrot knew the way, I did not; Perrot also knew the Indians. [11]
And we theorized, too, but there was never a theory that would account for our driver's voice being out there, nor yet account for his Indian murderers talking such good English, if they were Indians. [5]
We took care to moor at night, where we could be seen as little as possible from the river, and divided the watches lest we should be surprised by Indians. [9]
They also proposed to intercede and settle the matter with the Indians. [5]
And all the time M. Marchand kept coming and going, at first when Dennis was there, and always with some good reason for coming--horses, cattle, shooting, or furs bought of the Indians. [11]

Short sentences using indians

The Indians cornered them. [11]
The Indians continued their depredations. [4]
Like Indians in the grass. [13]
My Indians seldom spoke. [11]
The Indians looked pleased. [4]
How about the miserable Indians? [6]
Attend to the Indians. [7]
The Indians sat breathless. [11]

Sentences containing indians two or more times

No, other Indians would have noticed these things, but Cooper's Indians never notice anything. [5]
We had a notion to get out and join the sixty soldiers, but upon reflecting that there were four hundred of the Indians, we concluded to go on and join the Indians. [5]

More example sentences with the word indians in them

They have helped your excellency with the Indians a hundred times. [11]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]
Strangely enough, Mr. Worthington's remarks on American Indians are not only intelligent, but interesting. [9]
Powhatan was displeased with their importunity to go further up the river, and departed with all the Indians, except the friendly Navirans, who had accompanied them from Arahatic. [4]
For instance, we will ask the Indians if they would feel proud to obey your sceptre, Cambyses. [10]
Assembling the Indians, who had watched his movements closely, he told them that he was going through the storm to the nets on the lake, and asked for a volunteer to go with him. [11]
The French leaders, who had never heard of Indians who would fight in the open, were, in spite of great opposing numbers, in warrior mood. [11]
Powhatan kept the whites who were with him to instruct the Indians in the art of war. [4]
But as the whites were protected by the fort, and the Indians were treacherous by nature, it was decided that the latter might use the hard missiles. [4]
The sloop from which they came, and the schooner, its consort, were bound for Gaspe, to bring provisions for several hundred Indians assembled at Miramichi and Aristiguish, who were to go by these same vessels to re-enforce the garrison of Quebec. [11]
On the day when the last morsel of meat and biscuit had been given away the storm had not abated, and he saw with misgiving the gloomy, stolid faces of the Indians round him. [11]
Mother, she did what the Indians were never able to do. [5]
In the company were two Indians, Machumps and Namontack, whose acquaintance we have before made, returning from England, whither they had been sent by Captain Smith. [4]
His only companions were the Indians, who in summer-time came and went, getting stores of him, which he in turn got from a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, seventy miles up the coast. [11]
Meantime the Indians were bringing in supplies of corn and meat, the men were so improved in health that thirty were able to work, and provision for three weeks' bread was laid up. [4]
The Indians never went that way, only when the seasons were the best. [11]
The word "plague" was used very vaguely, as in the description of the "great sickness" found among the Indians by the expedition of 1622. [3]
When the fleet was first espied, the President thought it was Spaniards, and prepared to defend himself, the Indians promptly coming to his assistance. [4]
They had been warned that the river Indians were as ferocious and pitiless as the river demon, and destroyed all comers without waiting for provocation; but no matter, Joliet and Marquette struck into the country to hunt up the proprietors of the tracks. [5]
But in his waistband there was what none of these Indians had ever seen--a small revolver that barked ever so softly. [11]
He talked about Utah, and the Indians, and Nevada, and general American matters and questions, with our secretary and certain government officials who came with us. [5]
Smith sent men up to their town, a display of force was made by firing four guns, and the Indians kindly traded, giving fish, oysters, bread, and deer. [4]
The Indians opened up a path for them to pass through, and they came as men go to the grave. [9]
The Indians were true prophets, but how did they get their information? [5]
I guess I've told you you've always put me in mind of Eliza Bumpus--the one that held out against the Indians till her husband came back with the neighbours. [9]
The Indians ran to their lodges for spears and hatchets, though the weapons of many were within the Fort, and soon they were about the place, shouting in impotent rage. [11]
In one expedition to Nansemond, when the Indians refused to trade, Smith fired upon them, and then landed and burned one of their houses; whereupon they submitted and loaded his three boats with corn. [4]
The Indians used to hold their "powwows," or magical incantations, upon a broad mound which rose out of the common level, and where some old hemlocks and beeches formed a dark grove, which served them as a temple for their demon-worship. [6]
In fact, according to his history-book there had been little but wars in this peaceful nation: the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the incessant frontier wars with the Indians, the Kansas War, the Mormon War, the War for the Union. [4]
Much yet remains to be done to provide for the proper government of the Indians in other parts of the country, to render it secure for the advancing settler, and to provide for the welfare of the Indian. [7]
In 1616 Sir Thomas Dale returned to England with his company and John Rolfe and Pocahontas, and several other Indians. [4]
The Indians received this with bravado and flights of arrows, reminding them of the fate of Captain Ratcliffe. [4]
The messengers for this purpose reported that the Dutchmen, though not detained by Powhatan, would not come, and the Indians said they could not bring them on their backs fifty miles through the woods. [4]
The Indians knew this because two men lately dead had revived and come back to tell them of the other world. [4]
The common people think the Indians are in New Jersey. [5]
It was too thick for game, there was no roadway leading anywhere, but only an overgrown path, used in the old days by Indians. [11]
By this desertion they weakened the colony, which waited for their return with the provisions, and they made implacable enemies of the Indians by their violence. [4]
For a half-hour they played in silence, the slight, delicate-featured half-breed, and the mysterious man who had for so long been a thing of wonder in the North, a weird influence among the Indians. [11]
As long as they had life enough left in them they had to stick to the horse and ride, even if the Indians had been waiting for them a week, and were entirely out of patience. [5]
The day before, they had fired upon three hundred or four hundred Indians, whom they supposed gathered together for no good purpose. [5]
I cannot think, therefore, that either the scourge of the East or our Southern malarial pestilence was the disease that wasted the Indians. [3]
If Indians were there, they could determine our position well enough by the occasional stamping and snorting of the horses. [9]
The Indians killed them, the rivers and the storms, the plague and the fire, the sickness and the cold wiped them out. [11]
These Indians kept them company for some time, meeting them here and there with presents of strawberries, mulberries, bread, and fish, for which they received pins, needles, and beads. [4]
The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in the bushes and then scalping them. [5]
All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature's economy: the ducks eat the flies--the flies eat the worms--the Indians eat all three--the wild cats eat the Indians--the white folks eat the wild cats--and thus all things are lovely. [5]
On the left their Indians and burghers overlapped our second line, where Townsend with Amherst's and the Light Infantry, and Colonel Burton with the Royal Americans and Light Infantry, guarded our flank, prepared to meet Bougainville. [11]
In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
The shutters of the window were not open; light only entered through narrow openings in them, made for the needs of possible attacks by Indians in the far past. [11]
The Indians know the trail across Labrador to Fort Ungava. [11]
This was about the time that the Indians were making ready for the buffalo, and when their chief took to his lodge, and refused to leave it, they came to ask him why. [11]
The Auditor said the testimony showed that at least half the destruction was done by the Indians "before the troops started in pursuit," and of course the government was not responsible for that half. [5]
I sped through the streets on the errand, spied a Creole company waiting in reserve, and near them, behind a warehouse, a knot of backwoodsmen, French, and Indians, lighted up by a smoking torch. [9]
This belief in the sometime survival of the Roanoke colonists, and their amalgamation with the Indians, lingered long in colonial gossip. [4]
But of late the rumor had grown persistently that Nollichucky Jack was now a kind of fugitive, and that he had passed the summer pleasantly enough fighting Indians in the vicinity of Nick-a-jack Cave. [9]
Smith says that the President and Council greatly envied his reputation with the Indians, and wrought upon them to believe, by giving in trade four times as much as the price set by Smith, that their authority exceeded his as much as their bounty. [4]
This was in the presence of several petty officers and Indians and woodsmen at the Fort. [11]
Unaccustomed to associate the North American Indian with music, the traveler at once sees the natural relation of the Indians with the brass band. [4]
The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a 'religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire. [5]
There was not the name of a single American attached to the Declaration of Independence--in fact, there was not an American in the country in that day except the Indians out on the plains. [5]
Nothing could exceed the kindness and trustfulness the Indians exhibited towards their visitors. [4]
We bitterly execrated the Indians, the hunters and the books that had betrayed us with the silly device, and wondered dismally what was next to be done. [5]
Macavoy turned to the Indians, stretched out his hands and tried to speak, but could not. [11]
I signalled to the Indians, and, coming near, addressed them in French. [11]
The next day the Indians were anxious to trade. [4]
He conspired with the Indians to seize the Fort and stores, and kill me if I resisted. [11]
The idea of the Indians is to drop softly and secretly from the arched sapling to the dwelling as the ark creeps along under it at the rate of a mile an hour, and butcher the family. [5]
They hear that the Indians believe easily, and that they have a natural trust in miracles and give them a hospitable reception. [5]
Smith, who knew the Indians and their ostentation, told Newport that the intention was to cheat him, but his interference was resented. [4]
The friendship of the Indians and the temporary subordination of the settlers we must attribute to Smith's vigor, shrewdness, and spirit of industry. [4]
To think that the hiding-place for his liquor was the unused, almost unknown, cellar of that very church, built a hundred years before as a refuge from the Indians, which he had reached by digging a tunnel from the shore to its secret passage! [11]
I refer to the Goshoot Indians. [5]
The Indians and the French were both so dumfounded that for a moment no one stirred, and Iberville went back and quietly put on his clothes. [11]
He heard that the fifty had been set upon by three hundred Indians, and, after a sharp skirmish and the loss of one man, had taken boats and gone to a small island near Hatorask, and afterwards had departed no one knew whither. [4]
None stirred save the few Indians left in the place, and these were brought before Clark in the fort, sullen and defiant, and put in the guard-house there. [9]
The history of the colony all this spring of 1608 is one of labor and discontent, of constant annoyance from the Indians, and expectations of attacks. [4]
The Indians robbed the coach of everything it contained, including quite an amount of treasure. [5]
The Indians ransacked the cellar, but missed the prey. [6]
On or about the 1st day of September, 1813, the Creek war being then in progress in Florida, the crops, herds, and houses of Mr. George Fisher, a citizen, were destroyed, either by the Indians or by the United States troops in pursuit of them. [5]
My Indians did that, and so inconstant is the human heart that I ate heartily of the meat. [11]
Travellers are few that way, and you can't get the Indians within miles of them. [11]
It is believed that upon the repossession of the country by the Federal forces the Indians will readily cease all hostile demonstrations and resume their former relations to the government. [7]
It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. [5]
It is estimated that not less than 800 persons were killed by the Indians, and a large amount of property was destroyed. [7]
It is said that its face shows painting done by the Indians, and hieroglyphics which nobody can read. [4]
In the fight that had ensued, four Indians were captured, and the main body chased four miles, but nobody killed. [5]
He told us that a man named Maisonville, with a party of Indians, was in pursuit of him, and the next piece of news he had was in the way of raising our despair a little. [9]
The Indians never thanked him, for one party. [4]
Strachey and others testify to his energy in procuring supplies for the colony, and his success in dealing with the Indians, and it seems likely that the colony would have famished but for his exertions. [4]
Smith apologizes for temporizing with the Indians at this time, by explaining that his purpose was to surprise Powhatan and his store of provisions. [4]
Therefore, I will tell you what the Indians did. [5]
The Federal government takes sides with the Indians against us. [9]
The Indians have swarmed into Kentucky like red ants, I tell you. [9]
We canvassed the subject awhile and then concluded it was a ruse, and that the Indians had some better reason for leaving in a hurry than fears of a flood in such an exceedingly dry time. [5]
I tried to stop it, but the Indians could not understand why I should object to so manifest a compliment. [5]
The Indians were still abroad, and in small war parties darted hither and thither with incredible swiftness. [9]
She kept turning steadily, singing to herself the while, as with anxiety she saw the Indians drawing closer and closer in from the gate. [11]
It has been stated in the public press that a portion of those Indians have been organized as a military force and are attached to the army of the insurgents. [7]
We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]

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