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"Paleface" Quotes from Famous Books

... often as it was rebuilt, just so often it tottered to ruin. There was a tradition that this singular freak was caused by the spirit of an Indian chief whose grave lay in the garden, and whose resentment toward the village improvements of a paleface civilization found vigorous expression in kicking down the wall. It was at last decided to replace the retaining wall with one of heavier proportions and more solid masonry. On tearing down the wall the tradition of former years ...

— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

... day of sunshine in a land of snow, And a soft-curtained room, where ruddy flakes Of fame fall free, in liquid light that slakes The soft desire of one cold, paleface: lo, ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... said angrily, in broken English, which he mastered much better indeed than the half-breed did in his half-Spanish patter. "Rising Cloud was hunting on the lands of his tribe when tall paleface hunter shoot him as if he were a beast of the forest. The red man isn't a dog to be trodden on, so he gave the paleface a lesson, to remind him Rising Cloud could have killed him if he ...

— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson

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