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Ain't seen no sich fancy dressin 'sence las' quah'tly meetin 'day;

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

Blushing and trembling she saw "Kah-quah" (the Indian name for the sun) wheeling down into the crimson west, and now his light was hidden.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

The original Chief of the Portage band was Pee-quah-kee-quah, who was a party to the treaty with Lord Selkirk.

The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto Alexander Morris 1857

Pee-quah-kee-quah's King George medal, and said the chief had placed it in his keeping and charged him to deliver it to his son, when he was old enough to be a chief, and then placed it round the neck of Kes-kee-maquah, or the Short Bear.

The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto Alexander Morris 1857

As soon as they reached within fifty paces, quite out of breath with their haste, they were saluted with the quah, quah, of a herd of baboons, which were perched at the edge of the rocks, and which threatened them in their usual way, standing on their fore-legs, and making as if they would fly at them.

The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Frederick Marryat 1820

They then proceeded to the rock which had been their place of refuge when the herd of elephants had charged upon them; and as they stood under it, they were suddenly saluted with a loud noise over their heads, sounding like quah, quah!

The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820

As soon as they reached within fifty paces, quite out of breath with their haste, they were saluted with the quah, quah, of a herd of baboons, which were perched at the edge of the rocks, and which threatened them in their usual way, standing on their fore-legs, and making as if they would fly at them.

The Mission Frederick Marryat 1820

They then proceeded to the rock which had been their place of refuge when the herd of elephants had charged upon them; and as they stood under it, they were suddenly saluted with a loud noise over their heads, sounding like quah, quah!

The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Frederick Marryat 1820

Clan-nah quah village. here we were also joined by Several Canoes loaded with the natives from the Island who Continued to accompany us untill about 4 oClock when they all returned and we proceeded on to the place the Indians Stole my Tomahawk 4th Novr. last and Encamped in a

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

.... thought, a concept that is not conceivable in this case anyone want to place a bet that their first names ended in sha or quah?

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