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- noun Plural form of
Canarian .
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Examples
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During their cruise from Cadiz their officers, hoping to make them fight the better, told them that the Canarians were a ferocious race who never gave quarter to the conquered.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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The Canarians are a moral, sober, and religious people, of a less industrious character at home than in foreign countries.
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The Canarians are a moral, sober, and religious people, of a less industrious character at home than in foreign countries.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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And heere by the way; by the name of the Iland Canaria, the Spaniards may rightly bee called Canarians or Canes, for Canaria is by interpretation, dogs kinde, for they ran as swift as dogs, and were as tyrannicall and bloud thirsty as the rauening Wolfe, or any other wild beast, which they sufficiently manifested, for as soon as they could lay handes on any of our people (like vnto mad curs, agreeing with their name Canarians) they would presently woary them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And heere by the way; by the name of the Iland Canaria, the Spaniards may rightly bee called Canarians or Canes, for Canaria is by interpretation, dogs kinde, for they ran as swift as dogs, and were as tyrannicall and bloud thirsty as the rauening Wolfe, or any other wild beast, which they sufficiently manifested, for as soon as they could lay handes on any of our people (like vnto mad curs, agreeing with their name Canarians) they would presently woary them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The main population is a strange mixture of "full blood and half-caste Arabs, Indian 'Canarians' (that is, half-caste
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 Various
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Some of them paint themselves with black, and they are of the color of the Canarians, neither black nor white; and some of them paint themselves with white, and some of them with red, and some of them with whatever they find.
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These people were called Guanches, naturally they spake another language cleane contrary to the Canarians, and so consequently euery Iland spake a seuerall language.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I mean, there is no one single millimeter of differentiation between the rights and obligations of the Canary Islands and the Canarians (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of the Spaniards.
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About the end of the fifth year, Grangousier returning from the conquest of the Canarians, went by the way to see his son
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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