How To Use Algonquin In A Sentence
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That Algonquin word "sachem," so seldom used, so difficult of pronunciation by the Iroquois, was never employed to designate a councilor in council; there they used the title, Roy-a-neh, and to that title had I answered the belt of the Iroquois, in the name of Kayanehenh-Kowa, the Great Peace.
The Reckoning
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Unless I see Clooney checking into the Algonquin and manage to sneak a quicky with him behind the large fern next to the checkout desk YOU WILL NEVER KNOW I WAS THERE!
What the hell is wrong with you?
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Early on it does seem like they get it, introducing her as she reads an interminably precious essay on the fictitious high-living toddler Eloise, as if to say this privileged sophisticate is about to be schooled in the fact that the history of New York is written not in the ink of The Algonquin Roundtable but in the blood of the innocent; by the second act, however, as Erica is released from the hospital to the sanctity of her condo (where memories of her dead boyfriend center solely on their sex life) the film loses the courage of this conviction and becomes a 9mm REGARDING HENRY (1991), with Erica coltishly adjusting to a new world of pain depicted as a labyrinth of angles so canted I kept expecting Erica to walk into The Penguin's lair.
Why ugly things happen to beautiful people
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The station was loaded up with apprentice bingo callers and Algonquin grads who were grateful to have a job.
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After the Algonquin women finished their dance, a sagamore of the Algonquin, who was called Bessouat or Tessouat, rose and said: See how we rejoice in the victory we have won over our enemies.
Champlain's Dream
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One historian of the Iroquois observes that by the start of the seventeenth century they were “at odds with all their neighbors—Algonquin and Huron to the north, Mahican on the east, and Susquehannock to the south.”
Champlain's Dream
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If The West Wing (also a John Wells-executive produced series like ER) was the fantasy of the workplace as perfect gemeinschaft full of Algonquin roundtable-ready wits and Nobel-level brains, and The Office is Studs Terkel's Working re-imagined as a comedy, ER is the only show that captures the fluid nature of office politics, the way today's annoyingly ambitious intern can become tomorrow's wizened elder statesman.
10.4 Million 'ER' Fans Can't Be Wrong: A Longtime Fan's Notes on a Beloved Show
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In The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating Algonquin, $18.95, Bailey explains how she became fascinated with the creature, studying its habits, taking comfort in its routines and poring over gastropod literature for snail-related arcana.
3 books about nature
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Algonquins returning from the land of the Abenaki reported a variole that was very dangerous, and many thousands of Indians died.41
Champlain's Dream
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And that's in Cree, which comes from the Algonquin language.
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The term deduced from the old journals appear to belong to the Esquimaux proper, rather than to the New England class of the Algonquins.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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In 1937, cottages expropriated to make way for the airport were floated across to Algonquin Island, and after WWII, the remainder of Algonquin was parcelled out to vets and their families to deal with a housing shortage.
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I Thought You Were Dead (Algonquin, $23.95) has a low-key, indie-movie vibe, with Stella sounding like Juno's older, world-weary aunt and demonstrating perhaps the most complete lack of dogginess since Scrappy-Doo.
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_Oui-a-ra - lih-to_, with about thirty-five warriors of the Indian village of Lorette in conjunction with the Iroquois and Algonquins, was actually engaged in the army of Burgoyne, a name unworthy to be associated with the noble spirit of Indian heroism.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
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The musk-rat, _Fiber zibethecus_, sometimes called musquash from the Algonquin word, _m8sk8éss8_, is found in three varieties, the black, and rarely the pied and white.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
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Pocosins, an ancient Algonquin term for swamp-on-a-hill are characterized as extensive flat damp, sandy or peaty areas far from streams with a scattered growth of pond pine (Pinus serotina) and a dense growth of mostly evergreen shrubs (often gallberry, Ilex glabra), that taken together, resemble a heath scrub community.
Middle Atlantic coastal forests
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Algonquin Gas Transmission was listed as the gas supplier, and the plant’s turbines were manufactured by Siemens Power Generation.
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The station was loaded up with apprentice bingo callers and Algonquin grads who were grateful to have a job.
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The word pocosin comes from the Algonquin Native American word for "swamp on a hill".
Pocosins
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As one of the Algonquin wags might put it when too drunk for fresher bon mots, the dame was STACKED.
The Favored Five
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Archive 2006-01-01
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A love affair By the 1960s, when my own association with the hotel began, the Algonquin was all legend.
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A love affair By the 1960s, when my own association with the hotel began, the Algonquin was all legend.
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They argue that gray wolves only live in western North America. The wolves of Algonquin Provincial Park belong to a separate species, which they want to call C. lycaon once more.
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Eschewing the party-hard atmosphere of most hard rock bands, Alice engages them in a discussion of French missionaries and explorers from the late 16th century and Algonquin word origins.
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As for the Manitou Stone--it's probably not this one--"Manitou stones" are in fact a generic name for certain kinds of headstones in New England; as this page puts it, "manitou" is "a word used by the Algonquin speaking peoples of New England to mean 'spirit,' as in having spiritual power.
Week 22: Fried
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The term caucus apparently comes from an Algonquin word meaning "gathering of tribal chiefs," and the main crux of the caucus system today is indeed a series of meetings.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The extent of Lpr recovery and the photosynthetic parameters suggested that the tolerance of water stress in alfalfa was weak, while that of Longdong was stronger than Algonquin.Sentencedict
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And I can assure you that the Algonquin still vibrates with whatever turned on Mrs Parker and her vicious circle.
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Stone read the message: Please meet me in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel at four o'clock this afternoon.
NEW YORK DEAD
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On the other hand, the archers of the Algonquins in their wars with the Iroquois, about 1610, used clubs and tomahawks but no spears, no missiles but arrows, and their leather shield was precisely the [Greek: amphibrotae aspis] of Homer, "covering the whole of a man.
Homer and His Age
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Algonquin, or Algonkin, denotes some of the nations who spoke Algonquian languages.
Champlain's Dream
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The Algonquin Club would serve lobster bisque and Oysters Rockefeller and dust-dry martinis.
THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
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You could dream of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.
MOON PASSAGE
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Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric.
Homer and His Age
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This interview was first published in the The Algonkian, Algonquin's Literary
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