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  • Akoon held the Seattle on the edge of the shoal water and waited till he saw the squaw's fingers clutch the forward rail.

    The Wit of Porportuk 2010

  • "Looks as though my number-one squaw's going to have to pay for her disrespectful nature."

    Honorbound Taylor, Laura 1988

  • Caught short only two hundred lousy miles shy of Fort Laramie and not a goddamn thing he could do ... drifts higher-n a tall squaw's ass and the mercury lower-n a skunk in a hole.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • This was no squaw's game, for each cast was made with force and method.

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • She did not stir, and I laid my hand on her shoulder where it rose slim and sinewy as a boy's from the low neck of her squaw's dress.

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • "Don't you realize that a squaw's place is three steps to the rear!"

    Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

  • Indians called these two the 'Old Squaw and the Papoose on her back, 'and the young men would say to the little fellow:' Do you see the papoose on the old squaw's back? '

    How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl Irene Elliott Benson

  • I understand that you have worn the squaw's dress to help us.

    Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

  • With one bound the factor was on his feet and had dealt the stripling a blow which sent him sprawling with his oiled head in a squaw's fire.

    The Maid of the Whispering Hills

  • Yon skulking thieves that destroyed our game, and tore the white squaw's papoose from her arms, and bore it over the high hills to where the Susquehanna winds her course among the alder groves, there the pale chief left them in their leafy bed of gore, and returned the white papoose to the embrace of her mother.

    The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca Hervey Keyes

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