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Definition of Palefaces
1. paleface [n] - See also: paleface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palefaces
Literary usage of Palefaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1886)
"His plan is to attack the fon by night, kill the palefaces, and carry off the
goods." "Attick is a fool," said Muskrat, contemptuously. " Does he not know, ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"He continued : "The forests and streams belong to the red- men. The Great Spirit
gave them to his wild children. The palefaces have stolen our lands. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"But them Mohawks aro on sartin devils—that's fact The Chippeway met the Mohawk
in the lodge of the palefaces, and the young warrior ..."
4. Prisoners of Hope, a Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston (1898)
"The palefaces made him to work like a squaw in their fields of tobacco and maize.
... The palefaces are his enemies. He thinks of the village beside the ..."
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