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We played for some time, and it was all I could do to keep even by playing on the square with big "injins," as I found them very good card players.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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When he heard the phrase wild as red injins in her low ruminations Cassidy knew that this serial abandonment was her topic and that if she stayed at it she could work herself into a real tizzy.
Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007
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Any one who has a desire to play poker with "big injins" has my consent; but I would advise them to play a square game, and keep their eye skinned for the big "buck" that talks to the chief.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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Many of the more important "big injins" owned also a buffalo robe.
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"There will be no room in the country any more, and no sleeping at night for the noise of them injins."
The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan Ralph Connor 1898
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It would have been better for us of the present day if the injins had given him a warm meal and sent him home ore the ragin 'billers.
Artemus Ward 1865
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You played the stowaway once, and you must say you did so again, 'cos you didn't want to go ashore and live among the injins.
Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Central American independent flapdoodle -- long enough for those nigger injins to have had half a dozen revolutions.
The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte 1869
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