What is "sevier"

Usage examples of "sevier".

Cozby is even now picking five men to go to Morganton and steal Sevier, and he puts me off with a kind word.

But best I loved to hear Captain Sevier, whose talk lacked not force, but had a daring, a humor, a lightness of touch, that seemed more in keeping with that world I had left behind me in Charlestown.

Captain Sevier bowed over Polly Ann’s hand as if she were a great lady, and wished her a happy honeymoon, and me he patted on the head and called a brave lad.

He seemed a man of few words, for he did not add to his praise of Tom’s achievement by complimenting her as Captain Sevier had done.

After that he begins to talk about the great people he knows, Sevier and Shelby and Robertson and Boone and the like.

Yes, John Sevier, Nollichucky Jack, had been a king in all but name since I had seen him, the head of such a principality as stirred the blood to read about.

We cried out, all of us, his men, the widow, and myself,-- all save Sevier, who stood quietly, smiling.

What Tipton might have done when he swung to his new bearings is mere conjecture, for Colonel Sevier himself stepped up on the porch, laid his hand on Temple’s arm, and spoke to him in a low tone.

After that Colonel Sevier stooped down and picked up the pistol from the floor of the porch and handed it with a bow to Tipton, butt first.

But I know John Tipton, and he’ll have Colonel Sevier started for North Carolina before our boys can get to Jonesboro.

They jogged into the town, I say, through the crowds of white trash, and rode up to the court-house where Sevier was being tried for his life.

I told how I had found him again with Sevier, how he had come to New Orleans with me the first time, how he had loved Antoinette, and how he had disappeared after the dreadful scene in the garden at Les Îles, how I had not seen him again for five years.

What principality in the world has the story to rival that of John Sevier and the State of Franklin?

John Sevier, founder of the "lost state" of Franklin, which had later become Tennessee, had welcomed Burton and his party.

After permitting them to charge their grails and so feed themselves, Sevier had invited them to a party.