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  • Opothleyahola, Osceola, Menawa, Billy Bowlegs, Tecumseh and remember thinking "what would it have been like to ride with them, to fight with them to protect your people and the old ways?"

    JOSE ARNALDO RIVERA AKA RIVERWIND 2010

  • Each chicken ring is breaded with a special mixture, the ingredients of which were passed down from his grandfather, Claude "Pappy Bowlegs" Yoakam, who handed over the recipe after a team of former Abu Ghraib prison guards paid Pappy a visit and convinced him that it was not in his best interest to keep the recipe a secret.

    Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • He slashed and burned his way down to the Suwannee, harrying the Seminole chief Bowlegs.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • The last of thecimarrones , led by chiefs Sam Jones and Billy Bowlegs, holed up in the Big Cypress Swamp, a thick-aired, gator-plagued bog in the southwest of the territory, or else over by the Atlantic, where the soil was useless, nothing but sand, and so far down the peninsula that Christians would never covet an inch of it.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • Should Slapout or Bowlegs, Oklahoma think about closing their schools because of NCLB.

    Ms. Bell's Curves 2007

  • This was after the infamous plotter had consigned Detective Keene to a horrible doom at the bottom of the old well under Billy Bowlegs 'saloon.

    Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

  • The presiding genius of these luxuries, who safely guided the richly laden vessel into port, was a grinning, half grown cuffy, whom they called “Bowlegs.

    A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

  • _Bowlegs_ are caused by children standing on their feet before the bones of the lower limbs are strong enough to bear their weight.

    Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

  • Bowlegs, prominent square brow, enlarged perspiring head, weakness, and often tenderness of the flesh, are notable signs of the disease.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • Bowlegs touched a spring with his foot, and the chair containing the stunned detective sank from sight.

    Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

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