 | James Handasyd Perkins, John Mason Peck - History - 1850 - 818 pages
...arrived to detain them where they were. We leave the reader to imagine the feelings of the matter. " She was a woman of uncommon energy, and strength of...folded her arms around her helpless infants." And when she heard the discharge of the guns, and the shrill, terrific warwhoop of the infuriated savages,... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - Frontier and pioneer life - 1852 - 488 pages
...scarcely reached the mouth of the river, when another messenger from the chief arrived to detain them. " In breathless expectation sat the wife and mother....infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest son to almost certain destruction. " As the troops left the fort the band struck up the dead... | |
 | Mrs. John H. Kinzie - Chicago (Ill.) - 1856 - 514 pages
...recollected was here half a mile below the fort, when another messenger from To-pee-nee-bee arrived to detain them where they were. In breathless expectation...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March.... | |
 | Mrs. John H. Kinzie - Chicago (Ill.) - 1857 - 522 pages
...recollected was here half a mile below the fort, when another messenger from To-pee-nee-bee arrived to detain them where they were. In breathless expectation...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March.... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...friendly chief arrived to detain them where they were. The reader is left to imagine the feelings of the mother. " She was a woman of uncommon energy and strength...folded her arms around her helpless infants." And when she heard the discharge of the guns, and the shrill, terrific warwhoop of the infuriated savages,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 748 pages
...recollected, was here half a mile below the fort, when another messenger from To-pee-nee-bee arrived, to detain them where they were. In breathless expectation...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March.... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1865 - 778 pages
...recollected, was here half a mile below the fort, when another messenger from To-pee-nee-bee arrived, to detain them where they were. In breathless expectation...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March... | |
 | Elizabeth Fries Ellet - United States - 1867 - 532 pages
...detachment. Mrs. Kinzie was a woman of uncommon strength and presence of mind, with rare energy; but her heart died within her as she folded her arms around her infant children, and saw her husband and eldest son marching to almost certain destruction. Mrs. Heald... | |
 | Mrs. John H. Kinzie - Chicago (Ill.) - 1873 - 410 pages
...detain them where they were. There was no mistaking the reason of this detention. In breathless anxiety sat the wife and mother. She was a woman of uncommon...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March.... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1880 - 580 pages
...recollected was here half a mile below the fort, when another messenger from To-pee-nee-bee arrived to detain them where they were. In breathless expectation...infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child to certain destruction. As the troops left the fort, the band struck up the Dead March.... | |
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In breathless expectation sat the wife and mother. She was a woman of uncommon energy and strength of character, yet her heart died within her as she folded her arms around her helpless infants, and gazed upon the march of her husband and eldest child... 
