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Paleface   Listen
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Paleface  n.  A white person; an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.






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"Paleface" Quotes from Famous Books



... had hitherto said nothing about Juanita or Rochford. He hoped apparently that, should the Indian know anything of them, he would himself introduce the subject. At last he was obliged to ask Spotted Wolf whether he had seen a Paleface girl and a young man in company with the Indians, either together, or separately, or had ...
— In the Wilds of Florida - A Tale of Warfare and Hunting • W.H.G. Kingston

... "Silvertip scalp paleface. Ugh!" growled the savage, giving Loorey another blow on the side. This time he bent over in pain. The bystanders were divided in feeling; the men laughed, ...
— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey

... mere, and the streams talk no more with the same tongue. I hear the flags and water-lilies muttering as I pass, and the world opens on me with a new, strange light. They talked to me once; now they laugh at me as I pass. Hear the trees, yonder! Don't you hear them? They are saying, 'The Delaware paleface! look ...
— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke

... be tortured to death, so he fought on, clubbing his revolver until a well-directed blow from a war club caught the gun, sent it whirling through the top of a nearby cedar, and left the pathfinder empty-handed. The chief sprang forward and lifted his hatchet that had caused more than one paleface to bite the dust. For the faintest fraction of a second it stood poised above Bradford's head, then out shot the engineer's strong right arm, and the Indian lay flat six ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... um little paleface buck. Me help um two," she added, holding up two fingers. Without another word, she slipped from the tepee as ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin



Words linked to "Paleface" :   US, argot, the States, slang, jargon, Caucasian, America, United States of America, White person, vernacular, white, U.S., cant, derogation, USA



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