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  • "Aht pipes, straighten up - orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

    Fiancée 2010

  • "Aht pipes, straighten up — orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • "Aht pipes, straighten up - orficer comin '," cries one of the troopers, and they scrambled up hastily, adjusting their kepis, doing up their shirt-buttons, as two officers came strolling across from the tents a couple of hundred yards away.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • Bilhoola, Aht, {403} or Nootka, and Kawitshin, the latter including several names, probably of Salish affinity, living around the Gulf of

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Amongst the Aht or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, when girls reach puberty they are placed in a sort of gallery in the house “and are there surrounded completely with mats, so that neither the sun nor any fire can be seen.

    Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 1922

  • 'Aht!' shouted a dozen voices as the ball went past Liza's bat and landed in the pile of coats which formed the wicket.

    Liza of Lambeth 1919

  • Malcolm Sproat called "the Aht tribes" inhabiting the west coast of Vancouver Island.

    Indian Legends of Vancouver Island Alfred Carmichael 1918

  • Suddenly Aht, brother of Nat-ul, sprang to his feet and stood beside the defiant warrior.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • Nat-ul had scarce entered and hung up the bladder ere Tha and Aht returned -- one with the carcass of an antelope, the other with an armful of fruits.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • Aht joked with Nat-ul about Nu, the son of Nu, telling her that doubtless a hyena had devoured the mighty hunter before ever he had had a chance to slay Oo.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

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