"Redskin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be sent for with a packhorse. One afternoon Boone was making his way toward the salt works after a day of successful hunting, when he suddenly found himself surrounded by a company of Indians. Not having seen a redskin for months, and believing it unlikely that they could be present in large numbers at that time of the year, Boone was not as keenly on the alert as usual. The savages had found Boone's trail while wandering through the woods. He was taken captive, adopted into the tribe, his hair picked ...
— The story of Kentucky • Rice S. Eubank
... eat it, but I can stab a hole in the top of the box and keep Redskin in it. Come on, hurry! He's getting tired in ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville
... bowlders, and he was in sore peril of his life from a monstrous grizzly that was striving to tear him out. The bear—I had never seen a larger one—was dealing blow after blow with his heavy paws, and the redskin was making the best use of his knife that his cramped position would allow. The clamor of beast and man made ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... could fairly see what had happened, he was running toward the hut with two captured muskets and a knife. In front of the hut the three other Indians were struggling with Father Claude, who was fighting in a frenzy, and the maid. She was hanging back, and one redskin had crushed her two wrists together in his hand and ...
— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin
... equally applicable to aggregates of men is less familiar, but equally true. Do not the members of the fighting professions, even to this day, deck themselves in feathers, in gaudy colours and gilded ornaments, after the manner of the African war-chief or the "Redskin brave," and thereby indicate the place of war in modern civilisation? Does not the Church of Rome send her priests to the altar in habiliments that were fashionable before the fall of the Roman Empire, in token of her immovable conservatism? ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... your door and go up and try it," I replied. "A redskin with a broken leg can do us as little injury as one with ...
— Captured by the Navajos • Charles A. Curtis
... showed his true character. "Them's my furs and my canoe," he said to one of the mill hands, and turning to the two who had saved him, he said: "An' you two dirty, cutthroat, redskin thieves, you can get out of town as fast as ye know how, or I'll have ye jugged," and all the pent-up hate of his hateful nature frothed out in words ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton |
