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  • Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Most of them were naked, and as their persons were painted in gaudy colors and decorated with strips of red flannel, red blankets and gay war-bonnets, their appearance presented a scene of picturesque barbarism, fascinating but repulsive.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Lot of war-bonnets and lance-heads, and how hot the sun is, and me with no hat.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Every Sioux in the world seemed to be there; beyond the tarpaulin canopy where we were to sit they squatted in row on endless row, brown painted faces grim and unmoving, war-bonnets and eagle feathers stirring in the breeze; every knoll and slope for a quarter of a mile was covered with them.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Most of them were naked, and as their persons were painted in gaudy colors and decorated with strips of red flannel, red blankets and gay war-bonnets, their appearance presented a scene of picturesque barbarism, fascinating but repulsive.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • All we could see of them were the brilliant feathers of their war-bonnets, but we got the full effect of their reception in the music and the cheers.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • All we could see of them were the brilliant feathers of their war-bonnets, but we got the full effect of their reception in the music and the cheers.

    The Story of a Pioneer 1915

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