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Usage examples of seneca.

Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.

The Seneca had made their canoes from the bark of a red elm or a bitternut hickory, stripped from the tree in one piece, stretched over a frame of white ash, and sewn at the bow and stern.

Seneca chuckled briefly, then returned to their task of consoling Sabinus over the loss of his position.

His two preceptors, Seneca and Burrus, controlled his mind, and restrained for a time the constitutional insanity of the Claudian race.

Her words betrayed her intimacy with the Dakotan leader, and too much scrutiny of Seneca.

For this help, Seneca knew his enemies would call him a pander, but, given a lusty young emperor whose passion would not be bridled, it was better to let him indulge in an affair with a harmless freedwoman than risk worse scandals with some of the powerful and ambitious women of Rome.

Senator Lucius Junius Gallio, the brother of our esteemed Annaeus Seneca.

Seneca did, in fact, serve frequently as assessor, and it was his brother Gallio who judged Paul in Corinth.

He is a mild and decent man, who, unlike his brothers Seneca and Gallio, is totally without ambition.

Three lemonwood tables were covered with open scrolls, while the fourth, with inkstand, contained pages of papyrus on which Seneca had been working.

Divine or human, inspired or only a reforming Essene, it must be agreed that His teachings are far nobler, far purer, far less alloyed with error and imperfection, far less of the earth earthly, than those of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, or Mahomet, or any other of the great moralists and Reformers of the world.

The chests of the Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca head chiefs were also bared to the glow.

Old Skanawati, the Onondaga, old Atotarho, Onondaga, too, Satekariwate, the Mohawk, Kanokarih, the Seneca, and others, head chiefs though they were of the three senior tribes, did not hesitate to eat as the rich Romans of the Empire ate, swallowing immense quantities of all kinds of meat, and drinking a sort of cider that the women made.

Seneca women met at Tonawanda one evening at dusk to sing the Ohgiwe, the Dance for the Dead.

Meanwhile, the philosopher Seneca was giving Nero the best education available in Rome, while Agrippina launched rumors that Britannicus was an epileptic and slowly going insane.