Example Sentences

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The renegades of northern Arizona in the earliest of the seventies were mainly Tontos, but many a young brave of the Apache Mohave tribe had cast his lot with them.

From Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War by Post, Charles J.

And now, through the glasses, Pike could see the Tontos gathered on the low hillock which had been the western limit of his morning ride.

From Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land by King, Charles

Yet some few bucks drifted off to the Tontos, and the agent's been raising a row because so many of them roost down here instead of staying on the reservation, bringing in game.

From Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War by Post, Charles J.

Kwonahelka and some of his ilk had managed to keep going between them, slipping through or skipping round the Tontos like so many "ghost goats."

From Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War by Post, Charles J.

Here was Saunders Colorado and Colin Hiccup Grunt, fortified by—say six, drops of Scotch whiskey, a Scotch sword and a Scotch bagpipe, up against ten Tontos armed with rifles.

From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace