[S]he cursed him with the bitterest imprecations, and raved like a Bedlamite at the door, which she attempted to burst open.

Slowly but surely, the Choctaw people are developing a new dignity and an enhanced pride in their Indianhood.

to tame a rebellion

1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene.[…], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book But still the tyrant sternely at him layd, / And did his yron axe so nimbly wield, / That many wounds into his flesh it made, / And with his burdenous blowes him sore did ouerlade., canto 5, page 12: