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Boone looked down upon their up-turned faces, saw their loaded guns pointed at his breast, and recognizing some of his old friends, the Shawanees, who had made him prisoner near the Blue Licks in 1778, coolly and pleasantly responded,
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees that I knew so well echoed around the log walls, and the door trembled with a blow.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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That very evening Polly Ann had frightened him into obedience by telling him that the Shawanees would get him.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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That very evening Polly Ann had frightened him into obedience by telling him that the Shawanees would get him.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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That very evening Polly Ann had frightened him into obedience by telling him that the Shawanees would get him.
The Crossing 1904
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Without, the fierce war-cry of the Shawanees that I knew so well echoed around the log walls, and the door trembled with a blow.
The Crossing 1904
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Muskingum; and whose towns contained about six hundred inhabitants — The Shawanees, who to the number of
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Roanoke settlement was destroyed by a party of Shawanees, who had thus made their way to it.
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Ohio, the spot which had been selected by the Ohio company, as the site for a fort, was occupied by Shingess, king of the Delawares; and other parts of the proximate country, were inhabited by Mingoes and Shawanees. 1
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We had had several encounters with bears and wolves, and now and then we met with more formidable enemies in the shape of a party of Shawanees who had ventured back to their old hunting-ground in search of game, or in the hopes of stealing the sheep or hogs of some solitary settler.
With Axe and Rifle William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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