129 examples of pontiac in sentences

And just at this particular time the 'Conspiracy of Pontiac' had brought about something like a real war.

When the 20,800 miles were finished, just to show that it still felt its oats, the car which had already covered 6,000 miles of roads through Western States before the test began, ran over to Pontiac, Michigan, and hauled the Mayor 26 miles to Detroit.

Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief, shrewd, crafty and intrepid, endeavored to emulate Pontiac, the great Ottowa chief, in the formation of an Indian confederacy in the Northwest, for making war upon the United States.

Like his great prototype, Pontiac, humanity was a prominent trait in his character.

On the third of April, 1764, Sir William Johnson concluded preliminary articles of peace and friendship with eight deputies of the Seneca nation, which was the only one of the Iroquois who joined Pontiac.

[Footnote 1: Read Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Vol.

[Footnote 1: A fine account of the Indians, and the French and English ways of treating them, is given in Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Vol.

[Footnote 1: Read Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Vol.

BUNCE, WILLIAM H. War belts of Pontiac.

War belts of Pontiac.

White brother; a story of the Pontiac uprising told by Alan Davidson, called Nekah by the Ojibwas.

When Cornstalk's party perpetrated the massacre of the Clendennins during Pontiac's war (see Stewart's Narrative), Mrs. Clendennin likewise left her baby to its death, and made her escape; her husband had previously been killed and his bloody scalp tied across her jaws as a gag.]

She climbed on, to keep the schooner in sight, and made for Pontiac's Lookout, reckless of what she had seen there.

Instead of running she seemed to move sidewise out of herself, and saw Pontiac standing on the edge of the cliff.

Jenieve felt as if she were choking, but again she asked out of her heart to his, "Monsieur the chief Pontiac, what ails the French and Indians?

But she need not have feared that Pontiac would show himself, or his long and savage mourning for the destruction of the red man, to any descendant of the English.

Meanwhile Renshaw was making his way back to the Pontiac with that light-hearted optimism that had characterized his parting with Sleight.

I began to think the Pontiac was haunted.

Between three and four in the morning the clouds broke over the Pontiac, and the moon, riding high, picked out in black and silver the long hulk that lay cradled between the iron shells and warehouses and the wooden frames and tenements on either side.

The story of the Pontiac was truethe treasure was there!

" In a few words Mr. Renshaw briefly but plainly related the details of the attempt upon the Pontiac, from the moment that he had been awakened by Nott, to his discovery of the unknown trespasser's flight by the open door to the loft.

I never was an honest lodger in the Pontiac.

"Do you remember," he continued, "one evening when I told you some sea tales, you said you always thought there must be some story about the Pontiac?

You were right, too, in saying that you thought I had known the Pontiac before I stepped first on her deck that day.

"I don't believe it ever was hidden inside the Pontiac.

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