open-war

Updated: May 16, 2025

I care as little for the Muskrat, as one pale-face ought to care for another, but I care too much for him to ambush him in the way you wished. In short, according to my idees, any sarcumventions, except open-war sarcumventions, are ag'in both law, and what we whites call 'gospel', too." "My pale-face brother is right; he is no Indian, to forget his Manitou and his colour.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Deerslayer