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A prickly sensation traverses my spine, and seems to creep across my scalp.
He had expressionless light gray eyes and sandy hair cropped close to his scalp.
The wounds in my head are mere abrasions of the scalp, and not serious.
And, I don't think the fellows are blackguards enough to scalp a parson.
If the head be washed too often with soap its natural secretion is checked, and the scalp becomes dry and scaly.
Pertaining to the temples; so called because the hair begins to turn white with age in that portion of the scalp.
The skin of his scalp tickled as if a ghost had risen before him.
Entering a cabin, they tomahawked and scalped a woman and her two daughters.
They could see the houses in flames, and they knew that the Indian war parties were killing and scalping everywhere.
Henry looked more closely, and saw that he was stretching a blonde-haired scalp over a small hoop.
The hair was usually blonde, and most of the scalps had been stretched tight over little hoops.
The scalps were stretched upon hoops, and covered with vermilion, ornamented with feathers, ribbons and trinkets.
The scalp is stretched on a hoop, and the pole to which it is attached is several feet long.
Another seized her maid in the same way; but she, poor girl, made such a desperate resistance that the savage brutally plunged a knife into her heart, and then, with the rapidity of lightning, scalped her and flung her body to the ground.
The adventurer was stuffing his pipe with rank Indian tobacco, which he pared from a plug with a scalping knife.
Exclaimed his wife, sensibly affected at the thought of her being scalped.
Small bunches of owl or grouse feathers were sometimes tied to the scalp locks.
It had, however, fallen somewhat on one side, and had shorn off the scalp, ear, and part of the cheek.
We three have been up that way before, although not so far as we are going now, and we know what we have got to expect, and that, if we are going to bring our scalps out again, we have got to sleep with our eyes open.
These I knew were Indian scalps, and the sight of them always thrilled me.
When Laban heard this he came to me, untied the scalps from his belt, and fastened them to my waist.
He felt his heart in an empty rapid activity, and his scalp prickled.
Ten scalps were taken and seven prisoners, besides two whites being recaptured.
They had taken five scalps and a number of horses; but they had failed in their main object, and the whites had taken two scalps, besides killing and wounding others of the red men, who were carried off by their comrades.
It sounded like the whoop over the taking of a scalp or the capture of a prisoner, and his curiosity was aroused.
Under my direction he washed out my scalp wounds and sewed them up.
I saw the blood spurting from one or two cuts in his scalp.
It seemed as if it would strip the scalps from our heads, in spite of all our capes and comforters and veils.
The scalps are stretched on little hoops, or frames, and carried on the end of slender poles.
All had been scalped; even the watch-dog lay dead near the bloody cradle.
One, a poor scalp, the hair gray and thin; the hoop painted brown.
It was a crease through his scalp where the second bullet had plowed.
I can still see the fiendish savages running about with the reeking scalps of their own people.
They had long yearned for his scalp, and it was slightly irritating to find it so near and yet so far.
He had a rare scalp, one for which the Indians would have bartered anything.
Foregoing his usual custom of taking the scalps, Wetzel hurriedly left the glade.
Think of the fun of having Annapolis strutting around with the Army scalp tied to an anchor!
They advanced, singing their war song, and bearing the scalps on a verdant branch of evergreen.
Well, well, I'll wait till she has had this interview with her father, and then she must either decide for me and against such tactics forever, or else she can wear my scalp in her belt with those of the other unfortunates.
We tied them all together, and I left them in charge of two men, and the rest of us went to take the scalps of the Indians, and I was surprised to find when I said, "We will take the scalps of these Indians," that the men did not know what I meant.
I hung them up for the Indians that are alive to look at, and I will tell you this, the Indians will never attack the train as long as they see those same bloody things hanging there, for they will think they will lose their own scalps, if they do.
He said, "Well, I will bet my old hat that we won't have any more trouble with them, for when they come back to get their dead warriors in the morning and find them without their scalps, they won't follow us any farther."
There were forty-two dead Indians left on the ground, and as the report of the last gun died away, the Indians turned their horses and fled in the opposite direction, and I ran to the old Chief to get his scalp.
I told Jim that he was too selfish, and that I would not share the kisses with him, that I would give the scalp to him and the feathers to the elder lady, and she could divide the feathers among the girls.
He pictured the king covered with the blood of his enemies and riding in the middle of his cavalry, and ordering so many of his enemies to be slain that no account could be kept of the number of their scalps, whilst their blood flowed in rivers.
"War party escaped and saved their scalps," and Sam placidly laid the axe in its usual place.
They were armed with bows and arrows, tomahawks and scalping knives, and some few with guns.
The ball had just grazed his scalp, and the merest fraction of an inch lower would have killed him.
The wound was not serious; the bullet had plowed its way through the scalp and considerable blood had flowed.
Strange to hear words of love from the lips of such a weird-looking couple; yet Muriel in her quaint disguise with her silky hair cropped to the scalp was as beautiful in her lover's eyes as when he had seen her in her prettiest frocks.
The Resident was mopping his bald scalp and lifted his hat to let the gusty wind cool his head.
He was a small, withered man with a big head, great, luminous eyes, and a bald scalp.
Johnny shouted back, ready to die rather than own the tingling of his scalp for fear.
And he would have been more conspicuous with a cocked hat on his bare red scalp, and knee breeches instead of buckskins.
On his scalp were two deep scars extending from his forehead almost to the nape of his neck.
Around their waists were belts, for the tomahawk and scalping knife, at three of which now hung freshly taken scalps.
A few tufts of hair, the texture of which showed they had belonged to a female, still adhered to the scalp.
The hair of my head rose, too, I thought, and my scalp tingled.
Being cut rather short it stood out all over his scalp like the spines on a porcupine.
Miss Rose dutifully considered the matter while she continued the scalp massage.
Let him be tarred and feathered like an Indian, since he loves the scalping savages so well.
Some said it was on account of his terrible language; others accounted for it in a more philosophical way, and said it was caused by the expansion of his scalp, as violent passion, we know, will swell the veins and expand the head.
As a general rule, no matter what the profit or urgent necessity which chance offers, these Indians will not hazard a contest when, to a certainty, they must expect their own killed will equal the number of scalps which they can obtain.
They fled toward the fort, the Indians after them, and one of them was overtaken and killed and was being scalped, when Kenton and his companions ran up, killed one of the Indians and pursued the others to the edge of the clearing.
"See that watch is kept on the bags of scalps for European hair."
Out of a hundred and seventy scalps three-fourths were those of Women and Children.
He shall slay none but men in rightful combat, and no scalp shall ever adorn his lodge.
Bull, at whom the bullets had been fired, just missing his scalp, stood quite still in the middle of the road without a sign of fear, and then turned very slowly and crawled back to the car, and climbed in with two holes through his hat.
I've just set some plows tearing up the scalp on another two hundred yards.
His head crashed violently on the cobbles, and the old cut on his scalp broke out afresh.
In the rheumatic variety the scalp is sore and tender, tearing throbbing pains or hard aching pains.
It is no question now of our scouting round the French fort, it is one of saving our scalps.
When I overtake him I will take his scalp and string it on a long pole, and I will stick it in the ground, and my warriors will dance around it for many days; then I will sing my song for the victory over my enemy.
Ben staggered back with a great oath, vowing he would have the scalp of the traitor who lost that letter.
Perhaps you will think he did this on the argument by which an Indian takes a scalp.
I am told that the gentry at Frontenac will care more for the capture of the Scud, with Sergeant Dunham and a party of men, together with the defeat of our favorite plan, than for the capture of a girl and the scalp of her uncle.
One darted upon one of the puppets, caught him from behind, and stole him off; another grasped another puppet by the waist, flung him in the air, tumbled on him as he fell, ripped him with his knife, tore off the scalp, and broke away in triumph.
Without avail old Jasper had argued with him, with fresh scalps dangling at his own belt.
Brent's hat went spinning from his head and he felt the light sting of a grazing wound along his scalp.
His turban was awry, and betrayed the premature baldness of his scalp.
The elevator man looked after it, and tickled another section of his scalp.
In a second every savage had scuttled over decks; but the scalp of Kendrick's son Solomon was found on the beach.
Not once or twice in the Great War, have I longed to be a combatant officer with enemy scalps to my credit.
Every knife in all his band was whetted for that particular scalp.
From the pickets hung the scalps of dead Indians and on the sands lay the charred remains of white men.
At all events, word went out that an American scalp had been found above the Speaker's chair.
It brings back lost hair by giving life and vigor to the torpid or paralyzed scalp nerves.
Wire brushes should not be used, as the wires scratch and irritate the delicate scalp and do more harm than good.
Already the Choctaws were busy tearing the reeking scalps from the living and the dead.
The scalping scene is no more the true picture of savagery than the bayonet charge of civilization.
There were stories of war parties and of scalping scenes, as well as of thrilling horse-stealing escapades.
Polybius says that the Carthaginians (Africans, by the way) scalped their enemies.
I never saw a case in which the skull escaped injury when the bullet struck the scalp at right angles, but the frequency with which Mauser bullets were found within the helmets of men would suggest that this must have sometimes occurred.
His face was painted afresh, and his scalp lock tied up with red feathers; he was given a pipe and tobacco pouch and seated upon a bear skin, while one of the chiefs addressed him in the presence of the assembled warriors.
They were neither of them likely to fight for honor and glory; at the same time, I had little doubt, but they would blaze away at an enemy, when they knew that by failing to do so they would lose their scalps.
In the first place he thought that the skins would probably have been carried off by the Indians, who were sure to have visited our camp; and they might be in the neighborhood, and seeing me alone, might take my scalp as a trophy of their prowess.
His faded hair, scanty and slight, like the down on a young duck, allowed his scalp to be plainly seen.
True it is, scarce a family he knows but some member of it, or connection, has been by Indians maimed or scalped.
They had been in a scrimmage with the Chippewas and had their wounded with them and many gory scalps, too.
Then my scalp tingled, and the blood seemed to freeze in my veins.