Indians

Examples

• Are the Indians then gypsies? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As the Indians had no letters, they had no orthography. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Commend me to Fennimore Cooper to find beauty in the Indians, and to Grimes to find it in the Arabs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I left the steamer at Gravesend, and discovered that the Indians had gone from that place to London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Quito, which had been but a miserable hamlet of Indians, is represented by the same author as in his time equally populous. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Indians won't risk coming back to-night, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is Indian, and suggestive of Indians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Then I mentioned Peepy's coming to stay with me, and then Pa began to cry again and said the children were Indians. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The poor ill-used Indians have been most unjustly put in prison, says Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In a year from the time when the Moonstone was pledged, the Indians will be on the watch for their third chance. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Probably each of these original tribes was not more numerous altogether than the Indians in Hudson Bay Territory to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But a fresh war breaking out with the Indians, a fresh load of debt was incurred; and the taxes, of course, continued longer by a new law. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If our suspicions were right, there she stood, innocent of all knowledge of the truth, showing the Indians the Diamond in the bosom of her dress! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The worthy magistrate was an old friend of my lady's, and the Indians were committed for a week, as soon as the court opened that morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now, let us see what the Indians did, after the prison authorities had allowed them to receive their letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The people of America are chiefly farmers and planters; scarce anything that they raise or produce is an article of commerce with the Indians. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There he at once became interested in teaching his father’s system of Visible Speech to a tribe of Mohawk Indians in the neighborhood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We met with no Indians, but we found the places on the neighbouring hills where they had lain to watch our proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The South American Indians called it _cahuchu_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Cass was pursuing the Indians so closely that the first thing he knew he found himself in front, and the Indians pursuing him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I got to an open door, and saw the bodies of two Indians (by their dress, as I guessed, officers of the palace) lying across the entrance, dead. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In the meanwhile, Mr. Bruff, we must get back again to the Indians, on your account. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I looked round among the people about me for the three Indians. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The two girls had seen the Indians pass out, after I had warned them off, followed by their little boy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Suppose the Indians come back? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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