 | Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner and felt for his tomahawk, in order to turn upon him. 11. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1841 - 550 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, rinding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from his sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 788 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined to try the mettle of his pursuer in a different masner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from his sheath, however,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1847 - 630 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1847 - 636 pages
...hand, he determined to try the mettle of his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the grass, and his hair had almost lifted the cap from his head, when he saw himself totally disarmed. As he had slackened... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had'escaped from his sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1849 - 646 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 742 pages
...should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined...mettle of his pursuer in a different manner, and felt lor his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 774 pages
...attitude, and at length, finding that no other Indian was immediately at hand, he determined to try ihe mettle of his pursuer in a different manner, and felt for his tomahawk in order to turn at bay. It had escaped from its sheath, however, while he lay in the grass,... | |
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Kennan could not increase nor his adversary diminish. Each for the time put his whole soul into the race. Kennan, as far as he was able, kept • his eye upon the motions of his pursuer, lest he should throw the tomahawk, which he held aloft in a menacing... 
