Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Hurons? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Soon, Montagnais, Algonquins, Hurons, and French, and how many more, would form a single people.
Montagnais, Algonkins and Hurons engaged in exchange involving goods, people, and ideas with both kinds of French.
The Condolence ceremony for mourning is an important event in Iroquois society and is influenced by the Hurons ' Feast of the Dead.
In one of the more poignant scenes in the movie, the Hurons are brought to the mission chapel where they sit down patiently, turn away from the altar, and face the clock.
Examples from Classical Literature
For every whoop of the Hurons, the Iroquois give an angry yell of defiance.
But the wary and vigilant leader of the Hurons was not so easily disconcerted.
At first the Hurons believed the Delaware had been thus deformed by witchcraft.
The Hurons drove him from the graves of his fathers, as they would chase the hunted buffalo.
The Hurons stood aghast at this sudden visitation of death on one of their band.
Here they paused to make sure that the Hurons had not quitted the water.
But the impetuous young man were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.
Luckily the Hurons had already fallen back, and he was safe from their fire.
Pontiac's rebellion began at Detroit when the Ottawas, Pottawatomies, Hurons and a band of Chippewas attacked soldiers and settlers outside its walls.
The Hurons staggered, deserting the center of their line, and Uncas issued from the forest through the opening they left, at the head of a hundred warriors.
Interrupting the dialogue by this abrupt transition, the scout had instant recourse to the fragments of food which had escaped the voracity of the Hurons.
The war now divided, both wings of the broken Hurons seeking protection in the woods again, hotly pressed by the victorious warriors of the Lenape.
Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
And when he saw what he wished to do, did we not aid him, by making a false face, that the Hurons might think the white man believed that his friend was his enemy?
