"Osage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Osage he fell in with two other young amen in as bad a plight as himself. They travelled together, until one day some rough farmers with shotguns leaped out of a bunch of willows on the borders of a creek and arrested all three for Union spies. ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... noticing the beauty and fruitfulness of the outlying fields. There was something individual about the great farm, a most unusual trimness and care for detail. On either side of the road, for a mile before you reached the foot of the hill, stood tall osage orange hedges, their glossy green marking off the yellow fields. South of the hill, in a low, sheltered swale, surrounded by a mulberry hedge, was the orchard, its fruit trees knee-deep in timothy grass. Any one thereabouts would have told you that this was ...
— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather
... gratitude is wholly mine. I am Pierre Montigny, and, as you perhaps surmise, a Frenchman and priest of the Holy Church, sent to the New World to convert and save the heathen. I belong to the mission at New Orleans, but I have been on a trip, to a tribe called the Osage, west of the Great River. Last night my canoe was damaged by the fierce storm and I started forth rather rashly this morning, not realizing the extent to which the canoe had suffered. You have seen and taken ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler
... father an' me concluded it was about time to start on our usual tradin' expedition; so we went to work an' got all our goods—which consisted of beads, hatchets, lookin'-glasses, blankets, an' such like—into the big canoe, an' were goin' to start 'arly in the mornin' to pay a visit to the Osage Injuns, an' trade our things for their furs. That night, while we were eatin' our supper, a party of horsemen came gallopin' an' yellin' down the bank of the river, an', ridin' up to the door of the cabin, dismounted, an', leavin' ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon
... Rob," he called. "Hard a-lee! Get across. That creek on the right is the Femme Osage. There were forty families settled there, six miles up the river, and one of those farmers was—who ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Missouri • Emerson Hough
... find that not only are the pistils and stamens in separate flowers but the staminate and pistilate flowers are placed on different plants. This will be found true of the osage ...
— The First Book of Farming • Charles L. Goodrich
... is filled with speculations as to our future course. Shall we follow Price, who is crossing the Osage now, or are we to garrison the important positions upon this line and return to St. Louis and prepare for the expedition down the river? The General is silent, his reserve is never broken, and no one knows what his plans are, except those whose business it is to know. I will ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... borers attacking the wood of the trunk of the hickory, but one of the commonest is the painted hickory borer. It also occasionally attacks black walnut, butternut, mulberry and osage orange. In hickory especially the larval tunnels are often found in the wood when trees are felled. There is probably one brood annually and the winter passed in the pupa stage, though it may possibly hibernate as a larva. Its life history is not fully understood. It is a common ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Sixth Annual Meeting. Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915 • Various
... and Arapahoe Chickasaw Chocktaw Creek Iowa Kansa or Kaw Kickapoo Kiowa and Comanche Modoc Oakland Osage Otoe Ottawa Pawnee Peoria Ponca Potawatomie Quapaw Sauk and Fox Seminole ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman
... St. Ann's School at the Osage Mission down on the Neosho River for two or three years, and now she is going to St. Louis. In these troublesome times on the border, if I have a personal interest, I feel safer if some big six-footer whom I ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter |
