outsmoked

Updated: June 1, 2025

For the father, with that devotion to his people's interests presumably common to rulers, had ten moons before ventured northward into the territory of the proud and exclusive Natchez nation, and had so prevailed with so outsmoked their "Great Sun," as to find himself, as he finally knocked the ashes from his successful calumet, possessor of a wife whose pedigree included a long line of royal mothers fathers being of little account in Natchez heraldry extending back beyond the Mexican origin of her nation, and disappearing only in the effulgence of her great original, the orb of day himself.

George Washington Cable - The Grandissimes