nose-jeweled

Updated: July 1, 2025

I have the honor to be one, I assure you, sir." "Nay, I beg that I may be understood I mean the Indians; they who do nothing but rob, and murder, and destroy." "And scalp!" "Yes, sir, and scalp too," continued the clergyman, eying his companion a little suspiciously; "the copper-colored, savage Indians." "And did you expect to meet those nose-jeweled gentry in the neutral ground?"

James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy