Lexicographical Neighbors of Manitus
Literary usage of Manitus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazil: Its History, People, Natural Productions, Etc by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1860)
"Lest, however, my story that the hide of the manitus is an inch thick and as
tough as whalebone should not be credited, I had a strip of it cut off, which, ..."
2. Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags by William Henry Milburn, Thomas Binney (1860)
"Suddenly the manitus, for t was one, left his hold on the bottom, and started
diagonally ... The manitus, after receiving the second harpoon, became nearly ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1886)
"They bring forth two young ones at a birth; in defense of which, the manitus,
though a peaceable and harmless animal, is insensible to pain or fear. ..."
4. Vestiges of the Spirit-history of Man by Samuel Fales Dunlap (1858)
"Into this circle twelve burning-hot stones are rolled, sacred to twelve manitus.
The greatest stone to the Great Spirit of Heaven, ..."
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