Example Sentences

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As Bob Scott had predicted, the Brulés had burned the ranch and craftily scattered the moment they reached the sand-hills.

From The Mountain Divide by Both, Armand

They would lay the matter before the council fire of Sintogaliska,—he who had ruled the Brulés since first the white tents of the soldiers gleamed along the Platte—Sintogaliska who never lied.

From Under Fire by Cox, C. B.

A few of the Indian warriors and chiefs always would hate the whites, but the rank and file of the Brulés were enjoying the strange new life about them.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.

When the Brulés attacked the Ponkas, in 1872, they stood on the bluff and threw up dust.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

Joe Two-Hawk had come as a sort of emissary from the Brulés.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.