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  • In 1997, they bought a weathered, gray cottage, built in 1902, in the Sachem's Head area of Guilford; the next year, they began spending weekends there.

    Beauty and the Beach Riva Richmond 2009

  • Havig forced himself to remember that that basic attitude was common, even respectable in the Sachem's birth-century.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Among the Indians genealogy is reckoned on the mother's side alone; and, therefore, the important business of selecting a candidate to fill the place of War Eagle, who left no near relative, devolved upon the women, who decided the successful combatant was to be the future War Chief of the tribe and claim the wampum with the old Sachem's dark-eyed daughter.

    Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah

  • Their noble bearing had attracted the eye of the Sachem's daughter, the Gentle Fawn; she, with a few young

    Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah

  • While turning thus, one of the Sachem's boats and the Clifton's gig were smashed in the floating logs, and the flagstaff was carried away by hanging branches of the forest.

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • On Sachem's Plain a great heap of stones soon marked the spot where Miantonomo had been overtaken, for each Mohegan warrior who passed the place cast a stone on the pile with a shout of triumph, and each Narragansett added to it with cries of sorrow and lamentation for the loss of a noble leader.

    Once Upon a Time in Connecticut Caroline Clifford Newton

  • His constitution seemed to promise him a vigorous manhood, however, and an old age of undiminished fire, and when he left his mercantile pursuits, and retired to the beautiful and poetic home of "Sachem's Wood," his friends looked upon it as the commencement of a ripe and long enduring career of literature.

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • To know that, like a Sachem's child, my daughter goes to die!

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • I can only quote the 'Sachem's' motto, 'If it's in the "Sachem," the brand's registered.'

    'The Quality of Mercy': A Story of the Indian Territory 1904

  • I can only quote the 'Sachem's' motto, 'If it's in the "Sachem," the brand's registered.'

    'The Quality of Mercy': A Story of the Indian Territory 1904

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