A candidate falls after an errant war-whoop; another teeters over his pastor's statements. ❋ Charles Redfern (2012)
So when I'd drawn back her chair, and she had made for the lobby without a glance at me, I navigated carefully in her wake, turned in the door-way, surveyed the glittering splendour of the dining-room and its chattering gluttons, drew a deep breath and let out a Lakota war-whoop at the top of my voice. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Vale barely restrained herself from letting fly an exuberant war-whoop. ❋ Michael A. Martin (2010)
What's being overlooked is that the guy in the red shirt is apparently doing the "indian war-whoop". ❋ Unknown (2009)
The silence of the forest was so solemn, that, remembering the last of the Mohicans, we should not have been the least surprised if an Indian war-whoop had burst upon our startled ears. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With a whoop like an Indian war-whoop the cars ran into a shed — they stopped — the pickpocket got up — I got up too — the baggage-master came to the door: “This gentleman has the checks for my baggage,” said I, pointing to the thief. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A war-whoop thrown triumphantly at a beaten George Foreman by that Zaire boxing match's victor: Muhammad Ali. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Yet if my rendering wins more approving laughter from Franco, and a wan smile from Dieudonne, the best Haj can offer is a war-whoop of derision. ❋ Le Carre, John, 1931- (2006)
Bush "war-whoop" has lost its resonance; its allure. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The sable plunderers instantly took to flight on the appearance of the horsemen, who proceeded to drive the flock homewards; but as they passed a dense thicket, the native war-whoop sounded as the prelude to a volley of spears, seven of which piercing the unfortunate Rashleigh, he fell from his horse and could only urge his friend to fly and save his life ere he died. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He will prance into this political ring with his tomahawk and his war-whoop, and then you will hear a crash and see the scalps fly. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc. ❋ Unknown (2003)
No — better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, bristling with feathers, hideous with paint, and prance into Sunday-school, some drowsy summer morning, with a bloodcurdling war-whoop, and sear the eyeballs of all his companions with unappeasable envy. ❋ Unknown (2003)