 They are great mimics and buffoons, also, and entertain themselves excessively at the expense of the whites with whom they have associated, and who have supposed them impressed with profound respect for their grandeur and dignity. They are curious observers,...  Crayon miscellany - Página 45por Washington Irving - 1849Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1835 - 878 páginas
...watchful eye, occasionally exchanging a glance or a grunt with each other, when any thing particular strikes them, but reserving all comments until they...full scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth." * • • " The conversation, this evening, among the old huntsmen, turned upon the Delaware tribe,... | |
 | 1838 - 514 páginas
...glance or a grunt with each other, when any thing particularly strikes them ; but reserving all comment until they are alone. Then it is that they give full...until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most lively and animated conversation ; and at times making the woods resound with peals of laughter. As... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 524 páginas
...glance or a grunt with each other, when any thing particularly strikes them ; but reserving all comment until they are alone. Then it is that they give full..." In the course of my journey along the frontier, 1 have had repeated opportunities of noticing their excitability and boisterous merriment at their... | |
 | 1835 - 592 páginas
...grandeur and dignity. They are curious observers, noting every thing in silence, but with a keen ana watchful eye, occasionally exchanging a glance or...scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth.'' We are now going to obtrude a remark of our own upon the reader, and we do it the more willingly, as... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 páginas
...a keen and watchful eye; occasionally exchanging a glance or a grunt with each other, when anything particularly strikes them ; but reserving all comments until they are alone. Then ili is that they give full scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth. — Washington Irvwy. FEMALE... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 páginas
...they are alone. Then it is that they give full scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth. 6.- In the course of my journey along the frontier, I...their games ; and have occasionally noticed a group of Usages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated conversation,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 páginas
...keen and watchful eye ; occasionally exchanging a glance or a grunt with each other, when anything particularly strikes them, but reserving all comments...full scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth. 6. In the course of my journey along the frontier, I have had repeated opportunities of noticing their... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 páginas
...respect for their grandeur and dignity. They are curious observers, noting every thing in silence, hut with a keen and watchful eye ; occasionally exchanging...full scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth. 6. In the course of my journey along the fron'tier, I have had repeated opportunities of noticing their... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 996 páginas
...keen and watchful eye ; occasionally exchanging a glance or a grunt with each other, when anything particularly strikes them ; but reserving all comments...occasionally noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire A TO US ON THE PRAIRIES. 53 until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1878 - 204 páginas
...exchanging with each other a glance or a grunt when anything particularly strikes them. They reserve all comments until they are alone; then it is that they give free scope to criticism, satire, mimicry, and mirth. In the course of my journey along the frontier,... | |
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