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Canonchet

American  
[kuh-non-chet, -chit] / kəˈnɒn tʃɛt, -tʃɪt /

noun

  1. Nanuntenoo, died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.


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By this chief's belt they knew that he was the great Canonchet, and faster still they ran.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

They vainly imagined that some disembodied spirit of Greece or Rome had revisited the earth in the vast physical and mental proportions of Canonchet.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.

Canonchet was not that kind of a man.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

I will speak nothing which Canonchet should be ashamed to speak.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.

Presently Canonchet stripped off his lacy coat, and dropped it.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

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