What is "comanches"

Usage examples of "comanches".

These horses will need smooth use of their eyelids tomorrow, when the sun comes out and we run these thieving Comanches to ground.

On the errant Santa Fe expedition, when Call and Augustus had been green rangers, not yet twenty years old, Kicking Wolf had stolen a sizable number of horses from them, just before the Comanches set the grass fire that had trapped the whole troop and forced them into the very canyon they were skirting now.

If there was evidence of a sizable camp of Comanches, perhaps Captain Scull could be persuaded to make camp and wait for a chance to attack.

So far the Comanches were still a free people, but Buffalo Hump knew, and the elders knew as well, that they could not simply scare the whites away by tortures and killings, or by taking a few captives now and then.

His father would at last have his vengeance and they could all boast that they had finished Big Horse Scull, a ranger who had been killing Comanches almost as long as Buffalo Hump, his father, had been killing whites.

A man lost on the llano would wander until he starved-- or until the Comanches got him.

Call himself knew little about the Kickapoo tribe--they were supposed to be enemies of the Comanches, but what if they weren't?

The Comanches had gauged the distance nicely--they were already just out of rifle range.

All the rangers stood by their horses, waiting for the order to pursue the Comanches, but Captain Scull merely stood watching the five young warriors race away, as casual as if he had been watching a Sunday horse race.

He was prepared to go fight the Comanches who had just killed Jimmy Watson-- if the rangers had pressed the pursuit at once, they might have got close enough to bring down a Comanche or two.

The Comanches did not burn human turds for fuel, not in a wooded canyon where there were many buffalo chips to be gathered.

He would have liked a closer look at the great horse--all the Comanches would have liked a closer look.

Call had fought the Comanches as hard as any ranger, and yet, when he had looked down at them through Captain Scull's glass, saw the women scraping hides and the young men racing their ponies, he felt the same contradictory itch of admiration he had felt the first time he fought against Buffalo Hump.

The tired Comanches, badly disappointed, made it into the brush before the disorganized rangers could think to shoot them.

Soon the buffalo fanned out, each with four or five Comanches at tail and side.