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Sentences starting with indian

Indian camps, trappers' huts, and Company's posts had given him hospitality, and had heard him with patience and consideration. [11]
Indian and French blood is a sad tincture. [11]

Sentences ending with indian

She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
Slowly it came to him that Little Hammer was keeping him alive against the will of the spirits--but why should they strike him instead of the Indian? [11]
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]
Have you got this Indian? [5]
Well, you take the North American Indian. [4]
Without more ado the Colonel broke the skim of ice, and, taking some of the water in his hand, poured powder from his flask into it and rubbed it on his face until he was the color of an Indian. [9]
Bunches of scattered sage covered the center of the canyon, and among these Venters threaded his way with the step of an Indian. [13]
But the story rests only upon a romancing Indian. [4]
He heard voices--those of Adventus and the Indian. [10]
If there was no war-whoop, the killing did n't count; the artillery man got up and killed the Indian. [4]

Short sentences using indian

An Indian does that. [13]
An Indian, was it? [5]
Who criticize the Indian campaigns? [5]
So everywhere Indian arrowheads. [6]
Indian? [11]

Sentences containing indian two or more times

One could pick out the Indian section of the village, because not far from it was the Indian graveyard, with its scaffolding of poles and brush and its offerings for the dead. [11]
In the matter of intellect, the difference between a Cooper Indian and the Indian that stands in front of the cigarshop is not spacious. [5]
Whenever I read of Indian resignation, Indian patience under wrongs, hardships, and misfortunes, he comes before me. [5]
Why must the Indian always give way--Indian habits, Indian desires, the Indian way of doing things, the Indian point of view, Indian food, Indian medicine? [11]
There is Indian fighting; there are Indian depredations; and not a dozen miles from where I sit men have been shot for crimes committed. [11]
She might have been Spanish, or Italian, or Roumanian, or Slav, though nothing of her Indian blood showed in purely Indian characteristics, and something sparkled in her, gave a radiance to her face and figure which the storm and struggle in her did not smother. [11]

More example sentences with the word indian in them

I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard,--to take everything coolly,--nil admirari,--if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing. [6]
I said: "Manuel, you are evidently Indian, but you seem to have a Spanish name when you put it all together. [5]
It was a wonderful Indian summer day, the sunlight soft and melting; and the smoke which continually harassed this district had lifted a little, as though in deference to the Sabbath. [9]
The great cliffs with their clinging, gnarled trees, the vast mountains clothed in the motley colors of the autumn, the sweet and smoky smell of the Indian summer,--all were dear to me. [9]
The ceremonies began with the kindling of the council fire,--a rite handed down through unknown centuries of Indian usage. [9]
They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
An ancestry of wild riders naturally enough bequeaths also those other tendencies which we see in the Tartars, the Cossacks, and our own Indian Centaurs, and as well, perhaps, in the old-fashioned fox-hunting squire as in any of these. [6]
They expected other whites to join them, and those not coming, they sent Francis, their companion, disguised as an Indian, to find out the cause. [4]
I had one white man, two half-breeds, and an Indian with me. [11]
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]
Strange, isn't it, when Lady Harriet over there aches for him, Indian blood and all? [11]
At a time when an Indian attack had been expected, the citizens hid their gunpowder where it would be safe and yet convenient to hand when wanted. [5]
You never know what that Indian blood of hers will make her do. [6]
The Baltic and West Indian fleets are to be intercepted. [9]
The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. [5]
If my mother were not an Indian woman, you would not have taken it all as a matter of course. [11]
And thence we went to Mr. Premchand Roychand's bungalow, in Lovelane, Byculla, where an Indian prince was to receive a deputation of the Jain community who desired to congratulate him upon a high honor lately conferred upon him by his sovereign, Victoria, Empress of India. [5]
Still wandering along, we were at last pointed to a hill in the distance, a part of the summit of which was covered with Indian corn. [6]
In our house we have a Japan room, and an Indian room, and a Chinese room, and an Otaheite, and I don't know what--Egyptian, Greek, and not one American, not a really American. [4]
Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
She poured some water on the wheel and began to turn it, nodding at the now impassive Indian to begin. [11]
Intensely Indian, it was, and crumbly, and mouldering, and immemorially old, to all appearance. [5]
But here she was, an Indian, with few signs of civilisation or of that breeding which seems to white people the only breeding fit for earth or heaven. [11]
But their wiliness was useless, for Macavoy's double-and-twist came near to lessening the Indian population of Fort O'Angel. [11]
Behind the chief was the champion, then, a little distance away, on either side, the Indian councillors. [11]
The other Indian was promptly handled by Pierre himself. [11]
More likely she was only making a common friendly visit, though Hamor says she went to trade at an Indian fair. [4]
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. [5]
What there was, was for Mr. Pugh, inspector of a division of the Indian police, in whose company and protection we had come from Calcutta. [5]
A mutual agreement was entered into between the Governor and the old Indian fighter in command of the Western Department, to respect each other. [9]
But the captain was describing West Indian life to Mrs. [9]
But my father was a white man, and I am a white man's daughter, and I would rather marry an Indian, who would think me the best thing there was in the light of the sun, than marry you. [11]
On hearing his voice, Adventus and the Indian hurried in, with Epagathos, who had even heard his shriek in the farther room. [10]
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
He was a vagabond Indian, abandoned yet self-contained, outcast yet gregarious. [11]
He dragged himself upstairs, and brooded in his room a long time, disconsolate and forlorn, with Luigi's Indian knife for a text. [5]
I had lived up there on the Warais among the lodges, and I had not seen things--only from my father, and he did so much in an Indian way. [11]
The incident lights up the Indian situation electrically, and gives one a vivid sense of the strides which the English had made and the mastership they had acquired in the land since the date of Clive's great victory. [5]
She 173 looked under the chair over which hung her clothes, even behind the dresses and the Indian deerskin cape hanging on the door. [11]
Next the Indian turned, and spoke to his brethren in measured, sonorous tones. [9]
Let the government turn all the hostiles on the frontier into brass bands, and we shall hear no more of the Indian question. [4]
Half-breed and Indian troubles came-- The same old story--land and game; And Dubois' Men were the first to feel The bullet-sting and the clip of steel; And last in battle 'gainst thousands sent, With Gatling guns for our punishment. [11]
All day they travelled, scarcely halting, Lepage's Indian marching well. [11]
When my father took you from the lodges and brought you here, it was the end of the Indian life. [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 can go to the West Indian Islands, to the British fleet there. [11]
I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which is herewith laid before you, for useful and varied information in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining to his Department. [7]
What had happened to The Man when he lived in the village became almost as great a legend as the Indian fable concerning The Stone. [11]
Hume then turned to the Indian, and said "Cloud-in- the-Sky, I want you to go a long journey hereaway to the Barren Grounds. [11]
They reverted first to the events of the day; but as the Indian removed the warm surcoat, the night breeze blew coldly into the room, and he shivered. [10]
The Indian stood to take it like a man; but Pierre loved that kind of courage, and shot the knife into its sheath instead. [11]
Then he began to rake the ashes, and, suddenly bending down, seized something in them,--the broken bowl of an Indian pipe. [9]
It surprised me to notice, that, though there was every mark of hard fighting having taken place here, the Indian corn was not generally trodden down. [6]
It was given to Luigi by a great Indian prince, the Gaikowar of Baroda, and it had been in his family two or three centuries. [5]
Two scenes remained to look upon,--the Shawshine River and the Indian Ridge. [6]
One must try to imagine those solid masses of splendid color, one above another, up and up, against the blue sky, and the Indian sun turning them all to beds of fire and flame. [5]
The Indian bowed to him courteously, then sat down again. [11]
She rose quickly to her feet, went to her wardrobe, and took out her Indian costume and blanket, with which she could never be induced to part. [11]
He listened breathlessly to hear what more the Indian might say; but Arjuna, who regarded it as sacrilege to waste the highest lore on one unworthy of it, went on reading to himself, and Adventus stretched himself out to sleep. [10]
Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
Suddenly brought face to face there was a pause, in which Iberville, who knew several Indian languages, called to them to make way. [11]
I was burning to climb the bank and ask him whether he had seen the Indian fall. [9]
He told me to ask old Throw Hard, the Indian helper, if he had spoken the truth. [11]
She was about to answer, when there came a sharp knock at the door leading from the backyard, and Lambton's Indian lad entered. [11]
But the next time the Indian sawed wood for us I taught him to make a cross at the bottom of the voucher--it looked like a cross that had been drunk a year--and then I "witnessed" it and it went through all right. [5]
It was a time of peace, but the young man's journey among Indian braves and English outlaws, to whom a French scalp was a thing of price, was hard and hazardous. [11]
Within a decent time (for the Indian is decorous) blanketed deputations filled the archways under the trees and waited there as the minutes ran into hours. [9]
We stay here till Sep. 10; then maybe a week at Indian Neck for sea air, then home. [5]
The Indian, Cloud-in-the-Sky, though by word never thanking his rescuer, could not be induced to leave the fort, except on some mission with which Jaspar Hume was connected. [11]
On their journeys those Britons were used to long fasts, and knew how to bear them; and also how to freight up against probable fasts before starting, after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. [5]
What a contrast, this frantic luxuriance of vegetation, with the arid plains of India; these architecturally picturesque crags and knobs and miniature mountains, with the monotony of the Indian dead-levels. [5]
For by these things is the Indian mind impressed. [9]
At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
On the 29th they set up a cross on Chesapeake Bay, on Cape Henry, and the next day coasted to the Indian town of Kecoughton, now Hampton, where they were kindly entertained. [4]
The devotion of these vassals has been purchased with daily largess of Indian meal, and so the Modoc, attended by her bodyguard, moves in state wherever she goes. [5]
Above this point there is an outward swell, and thence upward for six feet or more the cylinder is a bright, fresh green, and is formed of wrappings like those of an ear of green Indian corn. [5]
He had informed them that, whatever happened, they should not be in danger; that the ship should not join the West Indian fleet unless every man except himself received amnesty. [11]
First he told them of the causes of war, of the thirteen council fires with the English, and in terms that the Indian mind might grasp, and how their old father, the French King, had joined the Big Knives in this righteous fight. [9]
When we arrived, the usual immense turmoil and confusion of a great Indian station were in full blast. [5]
At last, when the sun was over the stream, rose such Indian war-whoops and shots from the ridge trail as made me think the redskins were upon us. [9]
Peace brooded in the silent and comforting forest, and Jim and Arrowhead, the Indian ever ahead, swung along, mile after mile, on their snow-shoes, emerging at last upon the wide white prairie. [11]
The condition of the several organized Territories is generally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. [7]
At Cantabridge, near the sea, I have once or twice picked up an Indian arrowhead in a fresh furrow. [6]
Many times in the pursuit of my affairs I journeyed over that country which I had known when it belonged to the Indian and the deer and the elk and the wolf and the buffalo. [9]
As he handed the pipe to Knife-in-the-Wind, an Indian called Silver Tassel, with a cruel face, said grimly: "Why does Oshondonto travel to us? [11]
Besides Indian corn, the parching of which amused me, I had dried ham and tongue, and bread and cheese, enough, by frugal use, to last me a month at least. [11]
The Indian grunted; the other nodded with the debating look again dominant in his eyes. [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]
A woman to the North American Indian is a simple affair, dealt with without circumlocution. [4]
The Indian met the look with satisfaction. [11]
The truth regarding the Indian wife had become known among the passengers, and most were very curious--some in a well-bred fashion, some intrusively, vulgarly. [11]
But look at the Indian Mutiny. [11]
They called it the Indian Maiden's Rock. [4]
He gave her the Indian equivalent for firebug, or fire-fly. [5]
My position in the Indian civil service was such that I was deemed peculiarly worthy of the honor of conveying the present to her Majesty. [5]
You must produce the Indian and the tomahawk. [5]
The conception of the fundamental Unity, he says, finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East, especially in the Indian Scriptures. [6]

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