 ... with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on to a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle. As he came forward, he beat his tune with the rattle, and danced with all his might, but did not suffer any part of his body, not so much as...  The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Madoc - Page 397by Robert Southey - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Edwards - Religion - 1807 - 604 pages
...to a bear-skin cap, wluch was drawn over his head. He advanced toward me with the instrument in bis hand that he used for music in his idolatrous worship,...his appearance and actions, that he could have been a human creature, if they had not had some intimation of it otherwise. When he came near me, I could... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1812 - 588 pages
...dry Tortoise-shell, w ith lome corn in it, and the neck of it dra.ia on to a piece of wood, v. hich made a very convenient handle. As he came forward,...his appearance and actions that he could have been a human creature, if they had not had some intimation of it otherwise. When he came near me, I could... | |
 | John Styles - Indians of North America - 1812 - 322 pages
...idolatrous worship, which was a dry tortoiseshell, with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle....seen; and no man would have guessed by his appearance, that he could have been a human creature. When he came n'ear me, I could not but shrink away from him,... | |
 | David Brainerd, John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards - Diaries, Methodist - 1815 - 316 pages
...idolatrous worship, which was a dry tortoiseshell, with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle,...not so much as his fingers, to be seen ; and no man wpuld have guessed, by his appearance, that he could have been a human creature. When he came near... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 590 pages
...very convenient handle. As he came forward, he beat his tune with the rattle, and danced with all'his might, but did not suffer any part of his body, not...his appearance and actions, that he could have been a human creature, if they had not had some intimation ' of it otherwise. When he came near me, I could... | |
 | John Styles - Indians of North America - 1820 - 310 pages
...idolatrous worship, which was a dry tortoise-shell, with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle....body, not so much as his .fingers, to be seen : and DO man would have. guessed, by his appearance, that he could have been a human creature. When he came... | |
 | John Styles - Indians - 1821 - 308 pages
...idolatrous worship, which was a dry tortoise-shell, with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle....seen; and no man would have guessed by his appearance, that he could have been a human creature. When he came near me, I could not but shrink away from him,... | |
 | John Styles - Indians - 1821 - 298 pages
...idolatrous "worship, which was a dry tortoise-shell, with some corn in it» and the neck of it drawn on a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle....seen; and no man would have guessed by his appearance, that he could have been a human creature. When he came near me, I could not but shrink away from him,... | |
 | David Brainerd - Indians of North America - 1822 - 528 pages
...instrument in his hand, which he used for music in his idolatrous worship; which was a dry tortoise shell with some corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on...his body, not so much as his fingers, to be seen. No one would have imagined from his appearance or actions, that he could have been a human creature,... | |
 | David Brainerd - Indians of North America - 1822 - 616 pages
...corn in it, and the neck of it drawn on to a piece of wood, which made a very convenient handle. As be came forward, he beat his tune with the rattle, and...his body, not so much as his fingers, to be seen. No one would have imagined from his appearance or actions, that he could have been a human creature,... | |
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