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Pappoose

Pappoose \Pap*poose"\, n. Same as Papoose.

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pappoose

n. (alternative spelling of papoose English)

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pappoose

n. an American Indian infant [syn: papoose]

Usage examples of "pappoose".

He had escorted them out, Papa and Pappoose, to hear the band playing on the Plain.

No less than twelve pages did sixteen-year-old Pappoose take to tell it, and when a girl finds time to write a twelve-page letter from the Point she has more to tell than she can possibly contain.

Marshall graduated Jessie was to go and see that wonderful spot, and go she did with Pappoose, too, and though it was all as beautiful as Pappoose had described, and the scene and the music and the parades and all were splendid, there was no deliriously lovely hop, for in those days there could be no dancing in the midst of examinations.

Miss Brockway, about whom Marshall hovered altogether too much, but, like the little Indian the girls sometimes said she was, Pappoose looked on and said nothing.

Dean had had a glorious graduation summer of it, though Jessie saw too little of him, and Pappoose nothing at all after the breakup of the class.

That summer, too, Jessie spent at home, Pappoose with her most of the time, and one year more would finish them at the reliable old Ohio school.

He found himself negligent of her gentle little friend and guest, Jessie Dean, to whom he had vowed to be a second father, and such a friend as she had been to his Pappoose when, a homesick, sad-eyed child, she entered upon her schooldays.

Jessie and Pappoose considered odd under the circumstances, though neither said so and nobody thought to explain.

It was so much sweeter not to have any presiding genius other than Pappoose, not that he was forgetful of Mrs.

Old John Folsom lay with bandaged head and blinded eyes in a darkened room, assiduously nursed by Pappoose and Jessie, who in turn were devotedly attended by Mrs.

The girls had gone aloft only a moment before, but, dreading news of further evil, Pappoose came fluttering down.

He even sought an interview with Pappoose and asked her to describe the rakish traveler who had so unfavorably impressed her.

Folsom left Lieutenant Loring to attend to all the matters about the robbery and started at once for the ranch, and Pappoose, of course, insisted on going with him, and I would not be left behind.

She knew that for some better reason than that he was overpersuaded by Pappoose, Mr.

John Folsom found Pappoose, pale and determined, bending over her weakened brother and holding him down almost as she could have overpowered a child.