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... an aversion they have to use any thing that belonged to their relations who have died. Some of the graves are very neatly covered over with short sticks and bark as a kind of canopy, and a few scalps are affixed to poles that are stuck in the ground at the head of several of them. You see also occasionally at the grave, a piece of wood on which is either carved or painted the symbols of the tribe the deceased belonged to, and which are taken from the different ...

— The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America • John West

... to be drawn and engraved, for the illustration of his work. The names attached to each subject are those of persons whom he thought likely to incur the expence of the plates, for publication; and his own name being affixed to two of them shews that he was willing to contribute. It is impossible not to concur in his closing observations on this subject, or to avoid an expression of regret that he was not enabled to publish such a "glorious volume" ...

— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... wonder the Holy Spirit who is the finger of God has written over against the word "hope," that qualification, "blessed," and affixed to it the demonstrative, "that," so it doth read: ...

— Why I Preach the Second Coming • Isaac Massey Haldeman

... ever lived who did not, at some stage of his career, dream of putting on some simple disguise and appearing before his friends and family as "the mysterious stranger." Marty was not exempt from the usual kinds of boyish folly. He bought and affixed to his upper lip a ...

— The Mission of Janice Day • Helen Beecher Long

... whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ...

— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

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