Canonchet
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Chief Canonchet, great leader of the Narragansetts, was captured and executed.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Canonchet was not that kind of a man.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
That Indian was a Pequot named Monopoide—the best runner of all, and better than Canonchet himself.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Philip was sachem of the Pokanokets and Canonchet of the Narragansets.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.
With only a single pursuer to be feared, Canonchet turned sharply and leaped into the river, to cross by a strange trail.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
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