What is "scalpe"

Usage examples of "scalpe".

In these heaps were rifles, tomahawks, scalping knives, wampum, strips of colored beads, blankets, swords, belts, moccasins, leggins, and a great many things taken as spoil in forays on the white settlements, such is small mirrors, brushes of various kinds, boots, shoes, and other things, the whole making a vast assortment.

The Indians, wild with the excitement of a great triumph and thirsting for blood, were running over the field scalping the dead, killing some of the wounded, and saving others for the worst of tortures.

They could see the houses in flames, and they knew that the Indian war parties were killing and scalping everywhere.

They beheld a dead warrior at every step, and at intervals were rifles, tomahawks, scalping knives, blankets, and an occasional shot pouch or powder horn.

Men had been shot and scalped in the fields, houses were burning, women and children were captives for a fate that no one could foretell.

They were the surviving prisoners, and the black caps meant that they were to be killed and scalped on the morrow.

There must have been at least thirty of the wolves, and the five figures that they saw reclining, silent and motionless, against the unburned portion of the house might well have been those of the dead and scalped, whom they had found in such numbers everywhere.

The men whose brethren were scalped or burned alive at Wyoming will not now spare the town of those who did it.

Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero.

Their children were crying at visions of the tomahawk and scalping knife now so near.

As they jumped to and fro, hundreds of them, waving aloft tomahawks and scalping knives, both of which dripped red, they sang their wild chant of war and triumph.

As the creature jerked, she sliced sideways, fearful of scalping Sunbright.