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Examples
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The Chalcan took down the pipe, and looked at him earnestly.
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XOLI, the Chalcan, was supposed to be the richest citizen, exclusive of the nobles, in Tenochtitlan.
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“Welcome, Chalcan!” said a citizen, saluting the broker.
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Chalcan, in his full, round voice, as, comfortably seated under the curtains of his portico, he smoked his pipe, and talked with our young friend, the Tihuancan.
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The Chalcan was as exultant as if the achievement had been his own.
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Like the Chalcan, he seemed to regard it as play; and the populace after a while fell into the same opinion: there was not enough danger to fully interest them.
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The Chalcan, even as he whispered, touched the pavement, but Hualpa remained erect: not only that; he looked boldly into the eyes of the occupants of the palanquin, — two women, whose beauty shone upon him like a sudden light.
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For a short distance, the army kept along the narrow tongue of land that divides the Tezcucan from the Chalcan waters, when it entered the great dike which, with the exception of an angle near the commencement, stretches in a perfectly straight line across the salt floods of Tezcuco to the gates of the capital.
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Hualpa met the sharp gaze of the Chalcan steadily, and answered, “I am thought to have some skill with the bow and maquahuitl.
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In the confusion, the Chalcan whispered to his friend, “Let us go back.
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