Carolina tribe that allied with the colonists in the American Revolution

Usage examples of catawba.

After all, it is not so different from our tongue, not nearly as hard as Catawba or Maskogi or Shawano.

Without hesitating, he grabbed a long pole from the meat-drying racks and went after the nearest Catawba with it, jabbing him hard in the guts with the end, exactly as you would use a spear, and then clubbing him over the head.

His head was slightly elongated from an ancient Catawba custom of binding the heads of their infants.

From a branch of the dreaded Sioux, this Catawba was one of the fast-dwindling warlike tribe that hunted game and enemies up and down the length of the sprawling Catawba River.

It was not the single native quality of the usual crowd that one saw on the station platforms of the typical Catawba town as the trains passed through.

New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.

Old Catawba, he had known and felt these things and, in spite of his frequent bitter attacks on the people, the climate, the life, New England was the place to which he had returned to live, and for which he felt the most affection.

Cowans Ford had been a river crossing used by the Catawba tribe in the 1600s, and later by the Cherokee.

In the early 1960s the Duke Power Company had dammed the Catawba River at Cowans Ford and created Lake Norman, which stretches almost thirty-four miles.

Stanly County, the best county in all the Carolinas even though my dear wife does come from Catawba County, God bless her, and how are you?

We had forded the Catawba River and were skirting the northwestern flank of an odd rectangular plateaumaking as rapid a progress as we could, since we were expecting a pursuit of some kind in the absence of an eruptionwhen a terrible earthquake occurred.

Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, was not a lawyer, but he was the squire of lands totaling twenty thousand acres, stretching all the way from the Catawba River.

John Hennessee, who had substantial land grants along the Catawba River and elsewhere.

I remember that the Eastern Creeks used to often war against the Santee, the Pedee, the Wateree, the Congaree, the Cheraw, the Lumbee, the Sugaree, and the Waccamaw, all of which were allies of the mighty Catawba, but not even they were able to stand for long against the steel-breasts and their fire-sticks, fire-logs, and such deadly wonders.

New Orleans, or eaten himself ill, as we nearly did ourselves, on a generous mixture of clam-chowder, terrapin, soft-shelled crabs, Jersey peaches, canvas-backed ducks, Catawba wine, winter cherries, brandy cocktails, strawberry-shortcake, ice-creams, corn-dodger, and a judicious brew commonly known as a Colorado corpse-reviver.