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confusion and result in no good
But this I thought would produce confusion, and result in no good.
— from My First Mission by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

CENTIZPAC a river in New Galicia
CARTOGRAPHIC results of Coronado expedition … 403 CASA DE CONTRATACION, description of … 351 CASA GRANDE, attempts to identify with Chichilticalli … 387 CASTAÑEDA, ALONSO DE, death, of … 500 CASTAÑEDA, PEDRO DE, narrative of Coronado expedition by … 413 , 417 —, manuscript of, in Lenox library … 339 , 413 —, story of an indian trader … 345 —, explanation of troubles between Friar Marcos and Estevan … 355 —, story of Estevan's death … 360 —, says Friar Marcos' promotion was arranged by Mendoza … 364 —, accusations against Friar Marcos … 366 —, mistake regarding departure of Alarcon … 385 —, stories of revolt of Rio Grande indians … 393 —, credibility of his version of the Turk's stories of Quivira … 394 —, Spanish family name … 511 —, difficulties in manuscript of … 513 , 514 —, peculiarities of style of … 525 , 526 CASTILLO, ALONSO DEL, same as Maldonado … 348 CATTLE, imported into New Spain … 375 CAVALLOS, BAHIA DE LOS, site of Narvaez' camp … 347 CEDROS, ARROYO DE LOS, crossed by Coronado … 584 CENTIZPAC, a river in New Galicia … 382 CEREMONIAL meal, use of, on Moki trails … 488 CEREMONIES of pueblo indians … 544 , 550 , 573 —, pueblo, studied by Fewkes … 359 — of Tiguex indians … 595 CERECS THURBERH, see PITAHAYA.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

clod and rock is not good
To be forever unmoving, as the clod and rock, is not good.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

chamber and rose in nameless gases
But public safety and the demands of science had long ago decreed that they should be whisked off, as soon as dead, a score or two at a time, and swept on iron tram-cars into furnaces heated to such intense white heat that they dissolved, crackling, even as they entered the chamber, and rose in nameless gases through the high chimney.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

Chronic articular rheumatism is not generally
Chronic articular rheumatism is not generally fatal, but there is danger of permanent deformities.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce


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