Arbeau says that some consider the name Canaries to be that of a dance in use in those islands. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
If anything, Gunnoe had to resist pressure to speed up "Canaries" -- to make it, in her words, more danceable. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
The archil of the Canaries is a very ancient branch of commerce; this lichen is however found in less abundance in the island of. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
The people which first inhabited this land were called Canaries by the conquerors, they were clothed in goat skinnes made like vnto. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
The LoneTones spread their wings for complexities of 'Canaries'. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
"Canaries," as we called the staff, while I was only a subaltern in the "Blues," as they dubbed. From Wordnik.com. [The end of an era,] Reference
Which makes it even more surprising to hear on "Canaries" something so ... mechanical, for lack of a better word. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
When listening to "Canaries," the new album by local roots-music band The LoneTones, do not attempt to adjust your CD player. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
That dissonance may seem out-of-place on an initial listen to "Canaries," but repeated plays find McCollough and Gunnoe at a creative peak. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
"I think 'Canaries' has evolved out of who we are. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend Mixtape] Reference
Canaries, and prisoners shall be given up on both sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1] Reference
He tried the password one more time, soft and low: Canaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Way]
The Canaries are sometimes called the Islands of Lost Souls. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
Canaries and New Spain, but likewise into Cathay, Muscovy, and. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
“Thus too they burnt unjustly Chapera lord of the Canaries.”. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Canaries, and came upon North America in the neighborhood of Pamlico. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
We then had passed the Canaries and the Cape Verdes, and had crossed the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
Canaries, the Salvages, and Trinidad must have been parts of the absorbed land. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
After leaving the Canaries von Buch proceeded to the Hebrides and the coasts of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Each of the habitats recognized in the Canaries grows on a specific kind of soil. From Wordnik.com. [Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests] Reference
MAKGABO: Pedro Santana coordinates a group of human rights lawyers in the Canaries. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2003] Reference
In Spain, Sicily, the Canaries, Azores and Madeira, two crops are produced in a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Never talk to me of the wonderful little birds of the Canaries, unless to call thyself one. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Islands, the groups of the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries, and numerous other oceanic isles. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Most comes from the Canaries and the Mediterranean area, a very small quantity from the Caribbean. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 30] Reference
Likewise, we support the struggle of the island peoples of the Canaries and Mayotte and of Belize. From Wordnik.com. [STATEMENT AT THE SIXTH CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT OF NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES, HAVANA, CUBA, SEPTEMBER 3-9, 1979(1)] Reference
However, just at present, it does look reasonable that dust had come from Africa, via the Canaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Canaries gasped at the bottom of their cages, while the water in their little glass fountains ran red. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
The same may be said of those grown at Bermuda, Madeira, the Canaries, and numerous other ocean isles. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
He was outward bound from Liverpool to the Canaries when he saw the Spanish fleet in the distance, sailing north. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Mediterranean and the coast, the sailing vessels ranged into the Atlantic as far as the Canaries or even to Iceland. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
Canaries ceased their songs in the windows; urchins stopped their hoops and stood on the curbstones, eyeing the gloomy man askance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
About this time, a Spanish vessel from the Canaries, laden with fruit, the greater part of which had been sold at Goree, Sierra Leone. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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