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Red Cloud   /rɛd klaʊd/   Listen
Red Cloud

noun
1.
Leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909).






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"Red Cloud" Quotes from Famous Books



... dart of the great body, followed by an equally sudden writhing movement; then in an instant the great fish appeared to be enveloped in a cloud of red, in which it almost disappeared; and the next thing I distinctly realised was that it was gone, while, the red cloud slowly dissipating, Cunningham was presently revealed in the very act of recovering his shovel for the purpose of resuming work. I signalled to him to come up at once, but he replied with a vigorous negative, and the next moment he was ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood

... put boots upon me which I hope never to see upon thy feet, and I spake not; my bones cracked, and I spake not; I saw my blood gush out, and I did not speak. At length a supreme anguish seized me, a red cloud passed over my eyes, I felt my heart freezing, and I thought myself dying. Then I spoke and said: 'Count Leminof, thou canst kill me, but thou shalt not tear from me the secrets of the confessional.'" And at these words, the priest stooping, laid bare his ...
— Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne

... plump—went the other. The old chains rattled out, and a little red cloud of rust rose up on ...
— Norse Tales and Sketches • Alexander Lange Kielland

... sun rose on Bart through the mellow, smoke-dimmed atmosphere. Each night it lay in a red cloud for an hour in the west, tingeing and dyeing all the mirror below the trees with red. No one was there in the desolate lake to see the twice-told glory of that rosy flood and firmament, unless it was this wondrous light that ...
— The Zeit-Geist • Lily Dougall



Words linked to "Red Cloud" :   Oglala, Indian chief, Indian chieftain, Ogalala



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