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These versions are described in William G.
She who sat on the door step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress, though
This huge, white sheet, glancing back a kind of impudent defiance to the sun, which shone sharply the
There stands a little white stone at the head, and the grass In Collect , "the grass" is replaced by
I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.
They had heard of the tricks of the cunning savages to lure the whites to destruction; and were somewhat
Sometimes I think that my tribe might have been destroyed in war, either with the whites or with people
themselves might well be drunken to gaze thereon—with fleecy robes that but half apparel a maddening whiteness
The delicate ones bent their necks, and shook as if a chill blast had swept by—and white robes were drawn