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  • He struggled to push what he had into this man he knew, a man who loved the Red-skins and NASCAR, who was always good for a bad, dirty joke and was a genius with engines.

    The Hollow Roberts, Nora 2008

  • They seem to be neither good nor bad; -- it would be a waste of time to cast about for the exact epithet that should characterise them; -- and in these tales we live much with the early settlers and the Red-skins.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • I reckon you come like the dickuns, like yellin thunder, with the skin'em alive Red-skins and the hot dogs!

    Deer Godchild Marguerite Bernard

  • Where this "Travelling Agent" goes, he often carries his merchandise through an Indian village, and often, I'll venture to say, has Buchanan been seen in his hand, as centre to a circle of fierce-visaged Red-skins, with tomahawks in their girdles, and any thing but brotherly love in their gestures.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • I see in my book of images English how the terrible Red-skins scalp the enemy, "skin 'em alive," like you say, and I see the image of the chef.

    Deer Godchild Marguerite Bernard

  • (He Is Crowned King) The birds of the air rejoiced; The Sea laughed and gambolled with her shores; All Red-skins wept for joy The day we crowned him King.

    The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

  • I had not fought with Red-skins all these years for nothing.

    Dream Days 1898

  • I had not fought with Red-skins all these years for nothing.

    Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • "Ah," said the old man, pointing to the Museum, "I have read books and papers in there, telling strange stories indeed of the dealings of civilisation (or organised misery) with ` non-civilisation '; from the time when the British Government deliberately sent blankets infected with small-pox as choice gifts to inconvenient tribes of Red-skins, to the time when Africa was infested by a man named Stanley, who --"

    News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

  • Volumes might be written on Yankee oppression of the poor Red-skins, and yet leave the disgraceful story but half told.

    A Trip to Manitoba Mary FitzGibbon 1883

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