Narraganset

[ nar-uh-gan-sit ]

noun

, plural Nar·ra·gan·sets, (especially collectively) Nar·ra·gan·set.

1. Narragansett.

Example Sentences

Having occasion, on a pleasant August morning, to visit her neighbor, Mrs. Powers mounted a Narraganset, hastened away, and reached the place of destination long before noon.

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After its burial, Mrs. Rowlandson was sold by her Narraganset captor to a Sagamore named Quanopin, by which transfer she found in her new master's wife "a most uncomfortable mistress."

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Narraganset Bay, Verrazani's supposed sojourn in, 359.

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Subsequent to the Pequot war hostilities broke out between Uncas, chief of the Mohegans, and Miantonimo, the Narraganset sachem.

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To the memory of William Coddington, Esq., that illustrious man who first purchased this island from the Narraganset sachems, Canonicus and Miantonimo, for and on account of himself and seventeen others, his associates in the purchase and settlement.

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