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A gloomy frown came over the sachem's brow, and he remained silent.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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The judge, filled with anxious doubts and fears, looked through the opening in the forest towards the sachem's abode.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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Indians having for some reason left him alone for a moment, the sachem's wife, Wincumbone, came back and made signs to him secretly that the men were planning to kill him.
Once Upon a Time in Connecticut Caroline Clifford Newton
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He stepped into the sachem's wigwam to inquire about some stolen horses.
Once Upon a Time in Connecticut Caroline Clifford Newton
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The planters of Plymouth had defaced the monuments of the dead at Passonagessit, and had plundered the grave of the sachem's mother of some skins with which it had been decorated.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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Arms were stretched to pull him out, but the sachem's voice caused them to fall by the sides of the officious forms to which they belonged.
Birch Bark Legends of Niagara Owahyah
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See now the sachem's grave lies like the common people, defaced by an ignoble race.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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Three days later came coureurs from the "King of the Indians" -- the chief -- bidding the strangers prepare for the great sachem's visit.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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The women of the community were gathered in front of the sachem's house.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900
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In front of the sachem's house hung a broad disk of tanned moosehide in
Joan of Arc of the North Woods Holman Day 1900
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