Lexicographical Neighbors of Pawaws
Literary usage of Pawaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Collections Relating to Remarkable Periods of the Success of the by John Gillies, Horatius Bonar (1845)
"the pardon of them, and renounce their own gods and pawaws, and promise to serve the
... The pawaws, and those that adhered to them, observing those things, ..."
2. The Glacier's Gift by Eva Celine Grear Folger (1911)
"though the pawaws might hurt those who feared them, yet he believed and trusted
in the great God of Heaven and earth, and therefore all the ..."
3. An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary: Containing an Account of by William Allen (1832)
"The sachems and pawaws, or priests, did not observe this progress of Christianity
with indifference. While tlie latter threatened to destroy all the praying ..."
4. Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the by James Wimer (1841)
"They accordingly prepared many hot stones, and laying them in a heap, made a
small hut covered with skins and mats ; then in a dark night two of the pawaws ..."
5. Christian Records: Or, a Short and Plain History of the Church of Christ by Thomas Sims (1828)
"Once, when the pawaws were boasting that they could kill all the praying ...
Let all the pawaws in the island come together, I'll venture myself in the ..."
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