 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,...  A Tour on the Prairies - Page 32by Washington Irving - 1835 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1835 - 878 pages
...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 pages
...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...noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most lively and animated conversation ; and at times making... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1838 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...generally imagined. In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life, ate quite different from those described in poetry. They...noticed a group of Osag'es sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation ; and at times making... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...without a tear or a smile. Taciturn they are, it is true, when in company with white men, whose good-will they distrust, and whose language they do not understand...noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation ; and at times making... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...without a tear or a smile. Taciturn they are, it is true, when in company with white men, whose good-will they distrust, and whose language they do not understand...noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation; and at times making the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 276 pages
...circumstances. When the Indians are among themselves, however, there cannot be greater gossips. Haff their time is taken up in talking over their adventures...noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation ; and at times making... | |
 | 1835 - 592 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 398 pages
...without a tear or a smile. Taciturn they are, it is true, when in company with white men, whose good-will they distrust, and whose language they do not understand...noticed a group of Osages sitting round a fire until a late hour of the night, engaged in the most animated and lively conversation ; and at times making... | |
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