 | David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - History - 1998 - 532 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. The wild triumph did not long endure. Strong British forces hurried to help besieged Pittsburgh and... | |
 | David Dixon - History - 2005 - 384 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory."38 When the cries of the dying and wounded subsided, the Sauk and Chippewa warriors took stock... | |
 | Germaine Warkentin - Literary Collections - 2007 - 606 pages
...were writhing and shrieking, under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and, from the bodies of some ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...every one being destroyed, who could be found, there was a general cry, of "All is finished!" At the same instant, I heard some of the Indians enter the... | |
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... a view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled ; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and... 
