 | 1823 - 328 pages
...nation taken in war was destined. The fatal hour had arrived: the trembling victim, far from home and friends, was fastened to the stake: the whole tribe...witness the awful scene. Just when the funeral pile was about to be kindled, and the whole multitude of spectators were on the tiptoe of expectation, this... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1822 - 512 pages
...Paduca nation, was destined to this horrid death. The fatal hour had arrived; the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the...horses, with the necessary provisions, sprang from his serit, rushed through the crowd, liberated the victim, seized her in his arms, placed her on one of... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1822 - 520 pages
...Paduca nation, was destined to this horrid death. The fatal hour had arrived; the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the...having, unnoticed, prepared two fleet horses, with the necessiiry provisions, sprang from his seat, rushed through the crowd, liberated the victim, seized... | |
 | 1823 - 466 pages
...nation taken in war was destined. The fatal hour had arrived: the trembling victim, far from home and friends, was fastened to the stake: the whole tribe...witness the awful scene. Just when the funeral pile was about to be kindled, and the whole multitude of spectators were on the tiptoe of expectation, this... | |
 | 1822 - 538 pages
...Padnea nation, was destined to this horrid death. The fatal hour had arrived ; the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the...assembled on the surrounding plain to witness the awjul scene. Just when the funeral pile was to be kindled and the whole multitude of spectators were... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 614 pages
...home and friends, was fastened to the itake — the whole tribe wai assembled on the sur. rounding plain to witness the awful scene. Just when the funeral pile was to be kindled, and the «hole multitude of spectators were on the tiptoe of expectation, this young warrior having:, unnoticed.... | |
 | George Turner - 1836 - 220 pages
...nation, was destined to this horrible death. The fatal hour had arrived — the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the...the surrounding plain, to witness the awful scene. But, when the faggots were about to be kindled, and the spectators were on the tip-toe of expectation,... | |
 | Henry White - 1841 - 440 pages
...arrived—the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the stake—the whole tribe was assembled on the surrounding plain, to witness the awful scene. But, when the fagots were about to be kindled, and the spectators were in the height of expectation,... | |
 | Henry White - 1842 - 432 pages
...war, was destined to this horrible death. Her fatal hour had arrived — the trembling victim, far from her home and her friends, was fastened to the...the surrounding plain, to witness the awful scene. But, when the fagots were about to be kindled, and the spectators were in the height of expectation,... | |
 | Henry White - 1842 - 454 pages
...the height of expectation, this young warrior, who sat composed among the chiefs — hav21 ing before prepared two fleet horses, with the necessary provisions...— sprang from his seat, rushed through the crowd, loosened the victim, seized her arms, placed her on one of the horses, mounted the other himself, and... | |
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The savage practice of torturing and burning to death their prisoners existed in this nation. An unfortunate female, taken in war, of the Paduca nation, was destined to this horrible death. The fatal hour had arrived : the trembling victim, far from her... 
