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MacVintie found himself unbound, ungagged, and the society of the ada-wehi as pleasant as that of a savage ghost can well be.

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Attusah of Kanootare, the Northward Warrior, rose to reply in defense of himself and his captive, and Atta-Kulla-Kulla listened as courteously as the rest, although the speech of the ada-wehi depended, like the oratory of many young men, chiefly on a magical assurance.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

With a violent effort he shook himself free from their grasp for one moment; yet as the blade came glittering forth from the scabbard, a sharp blow scientifically administered upon the wrist by the ada-wehi almost broke the bone and sent the weapon flying from his hand and clattering to the floor of the niche.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

So critical indeed was the situation that it seemed to MacVintie that they might well dispense with notice of two factors so inconsiderable in the scale of national importance as the ada-wehi and his captive.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

And abruptly said the ada-wehi, as he still lay at length on the floor of the niche, --

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

The council was obviously steeled against this proposition, as MacVintie shortly perceived, and equally determined that the ada-wehi must needs exert phenomenal and magical powers indeed to avoid yet making good the nation's pledge of his death to the British government, and becoming a ghost in serious earnest.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

There was a long pause while the mockingbird sang with an exuberant magic which might baffle the emulation of any ada-wehi of them all.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

This evidence of the importance of the Cherokee magnate in the opinion of the British colonists did not please the ada-wehi.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Despite the curling contempt on the lip of Atta-Kulla-Kulla the council did not immediately acquiesce in his view, and thus for a time flattered the hope of the ada-wehi that they were resting in suspension on the details of this choice argument.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Warrior, was a great ada-wehi, a being of magical power, or a ghost as it might be said, of special spectral distinctions.

The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886