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Examples
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“The chief of the French pale-faces speaks truth,”
Burlesques 2006
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“The chief of the French pale-faces speaks truth,”
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Old Suan said he was troubled in his mind, as the pale-faces do about young girls, instead of dragging them to their wigwams; and she would give him a spell to get over it.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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By one of the old squaws I am told that a large number of Onondagas believe that the statue is the petrified body of a gigantic Indian prophet, who flourished many centuries ago, and who foretold the coming of the pale-faces, though long before the foot of our forefathers had touched the western continent.
The American Goliah Anonymous
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Then the pale-faces came, and peopled the valley with a race of mixed blood, and vice-kings occupied the place that had been the sacred retreat of the Aztec chiefs.
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But the supe pale-faces were too muscular for the copper tinted braves whom Alfred led.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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"Ugh! chief don't forget; have knife here," and he showed a knife which he had doubtless often used upon the scalps of pale-faces.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood Prentiss Ingraham
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Paul drifted down stream a few miles, paddled to the shore, hauled the canoe upon dry land, turned it over and slept under it during the night, feeling satisfied that he had avenged the insult to the pale-faces.
Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Thomas Barlow Smith
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"Are you bringing a daughter of the pale-faces into my keeping?"
Timid Hare Mary Hazelton Wade
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With rhythmic lope, more beautiful than the stride of any civilized limbs, and with a sure divination of the best route, he chooses the trail which will ultimately be the highway of the vast army of pale-faces.
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery
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