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Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous: And Monthly Literary Journal - Page 141
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The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1859 - 794 pages
...proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near ns much time as any of the gently of the land — powdering her hair and painting her...going with her necklaces, with jewels in her ears, and bracrlets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and...
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The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of ...

Samuel G. Drake - Clergy - 1860 - 754 pages
...with whom I had lived and served all this while. A severe and proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of...powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her ncckhices, with jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her...
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Civilization and Barbarism: Illustrated by Especial Reference to Metacomet ...

Frederick Freeman - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - 1878 - 204 pages
...Mrs. Kownaldson says of her, "A proud and severe dame she was, bestowing each day in dressing, nearly as much time as any of the gentry of the land, —...hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, jewels in her ears, and bracelets on her hands. When she had dressed herself her work was to make girdles...
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The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1880 - 800 pages
...with whom I had lived and served all this while. A severe and proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of...jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads. The third squaw [or...
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A Narrative History of King Philip's War and the Indian Troubles in New England

Richard Markham - Indians of North America - 1883 - 340 pages
...proud dame she was," says Mrs. Rowlandson, who was her servant during her captivity, "bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of...jewels in her ears and bracelets upon her hands." Her untimely end might well arouse a sensation of pity in the breast of the listener. The vindictive...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 560 pages
...with whom I had lived and served all this while. A severe and proud dame she was ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of...jewels in her ears, and bracelets upon her hands. When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads. The third squaw was...
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The Wigwam and the War-path; Or, Tales of the Red Indians

Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Indian captivities - 1892 - 404 pages
...Wettimore by name, is described in curious language. "A severe and proud dame she was, bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of...painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels m her ears and bracelets upon her hands." Her husband clearly did not idolize her, for all these attractions,...
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Field-day of the Worcester Society of Antiquity in Medfield, June 20th, 1891

Medfield (Mass. : Town) - 1892 - 60 pages
...saw much of Weetamoo, and thus describes her : " A severe and proud dame was she ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of the gentry in the land, powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels in her...
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Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 13

Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - Massachusetts - 1894 - 560 pages
...captivity, saw much of Weetamoo, and thus describes her: " A severe and proud dame was she ; bestowing every day in dressing herself near as much time as any of the gentry in the land, powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels in her...
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Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 13

Massachusetts - 1894 - 532 pages
...saw much of Weetamoo, and thus describes her: "A severe and proud dame was she; bestowing every clay in dressing herself near as much time as any of the gentry in the land, powdering her hair and painting her face, going with her necklaces, with jewels in her...
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