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| 54 | 280 | The View more quotes about best">best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages. |
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| 54 | 277 | Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great deal of time in the "white-silk" category. |
| 54 | 278 | It is common not to dally in initiating a slave into the realities of her condition. |
| 54 | 279 | The translation "Red Corn Silk," too, does not seem felicitous. |
| 54 | 280 | The best translation is perhaps "Red Tassel," the tassel being understood as that of the maize plant, prized by the red savages. |
| 54 | 281 | The connotation in all these cases, with which the red savage, in the fluency and depth with which he understands his own language, is fully cognizant, and to which he responds, is that of something red which is pleasant to feel, something that is soft and smooth to the touch. |
| 54 | 282 | It was no mistake or coincidence that the red-haired, large-bosomed Natusa had come into the ownership of Mahpiyasapa. |
| 54 | 283 | Canka, as a portion of his loot from the Yellow Knives, had taken five hides of the yellow kailiauk. |