scalping-knife

As he straightened his coat I saw with alarm that he had a revolver in his arm-pit and a scalping-knife in an embroidered scabbard thrust in his pants waistband.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Illinois, and felt his own hair rise as he touched a Cherokee scalping-knife.

The Magic Skin 2007

London which is concerned with the lancet and the scalping-knife, were well aware of this: they were continually writing against each other; continually speaking against each other; but yet they had never hitherto come to that positive personal collision which is held to justify a cut direct.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Lord Chatham later wrote, “We had sullied and tarnished the arms of Britain for ever by employing savages in our service, by drawing them up in a British line, and mixing the scalping-knife and the tomahawk with the sword and the fire-lock.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Lord Chatham later wrote, “We had sullied and tarnished the arms of Britain for ever by employing savages in our service, by drawing them up in a British line, and mixing the scalping-knife and the tomahawk with the sword and the fire-lock.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

As he straightened his coat I saw with alarm that he had a revolver in his arm-pit and a scalping-knife in an embroidered scabbard thrust in his pants waistband.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

As he straightened his coat I saw with alarm that he had a revolver in his arm-pit and a scalping-knife in an embroidered scabbard thrust in his pants waistband.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

She loaded the flint-lock in the block-house while it was surrounded by yelling savages; she exposed herself to the scalping-knife to save her babe; in her forest-home she worked and watched, far from the loved ones in Old England; and by discharging a thousand duties in the household and the field, did her share in a silent way towards building up the young Republic of the West.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Mary, flying to her father's rescue, has been overtaken by a huge Indian, who throws his lasso over her shoulders and drags her to the earth, then drawing his scalping-knife he is about to tear the gory trophy from her head.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

Besides these a war bow, a quiver of arrows, their points dipped in the subtle poison used by the Camanches, and a tomahawk and scalping-knife were given me.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman