Use canoe in a sentence
Sentences ending with canoe
- If you like, you can give him the canoe. [11]
- Low water, too, when every rock's got its chance at the canoe. [11]
- I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe. [5]
- Down the steel-blue lane of water between the ice came a canoe. [9]
- I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I would sleep in the canoe. [5]
- I was put in a canoe. [9]
Sentences containing canoe two or more times
- For a moment so, and then as the canoe shot forward on a fresh current, the lithe body sank backwards in the canoe, and lay face upward to the evening sky. [11]
- I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside. [5]
- He found a canoe and paddled down downstream, setting the canoe adrift as dawn approached, and making his way by land to the next village, where he kept out of sight till a transient steamer came along, and then took deck passage for St. Louis. [5]
More example sentences with the word canoe in them
- I know that you have felt hard towards me for turning over the canoe, and for knowing too much and leading you round and round in the snow--but I meant well; forgive me. [5]
- Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
- Two of them were expert swimmers and were able to catch the stern of another canoe as it ran by, and reached safe water, bruised but alive. [11]
- Upon the shore were bustle, cheerfulness, and song, until every canoe was launched, and then the band of warriors got in, and presently were away in the haze. [11]
- By and by we talked about what we better do, and found there warn't no way but just to go along down with the raft till we got a chance to buy a canoe to go back in. [5]
- Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without dogs. [5]
- There warn't no way but to wait for dark, and start back in the canoe and take the chances. [5]
- She knew he was thinking what all the North knew, that she was the first person to take the Dog Nose Rapids in a canoe, down the great river scarce a stone's-throw from her door; and that she had done it in safety many times. [11]
- And Dragging Canoe was their chief. [9]
- I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
- The sudden appearance was even more startling than the strange canoe that crossed their track on Lake of the Winds. [11]
- The canoe had upset and he had come near drowning. [9]
- Gering, his arms upon the side of the canoe, was looking into the water idly. [11]
- You are lifted up, canoe and all, and you rush on down rapids, over falls, on the Kimash River in the air. [11]
- Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again. [5]
- Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. [5]
- A quarter to twelve, and they had run their canoe into the bank beyond which were the smokestacks and chimneys of the mine. [11]
- It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
- He did not try to draw the canoe up, but began this journey of a mile back to the tent he had left so recently. [11]
- One morning Miss Trevor and I were about stepping into the canoe for our customary excursion when one of Mr. Cooke's footmen arrived with a note for each of us. [9]
- I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. [5]
- But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight. [5]
- Then he called to them to return, but Jenny only bent a little lower and paddled on, guiding the canoe towards the safe channel through the first small rapids leading to the great Dog Nose Rapids. [11]
- Then both clinging to the upturned canoe as it is driven nearer and nearer shore.... [11]
- We warned Ollendorff to keep his wits about him and handle himself carefully, but it was useless; the moment the bow touched the bank, he made a spring and the canoe whirled upside down in ten-foot water. [5]
- A canoe was to be built out of a cotton-tree large enough to carry eight or ten oars. [11]
- I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan. [5]
- You're not going through that sewer in a canoe without an escort! [9]
- I'll take canoe through bayou to Hill's and hurry reenforcements. [9]
- Asked them if they had a canoe they wanted to sell.--Eyes like hers (pointing to a squaw with a man's hat on). [6]
- The smell of the wood came to them, and a little trail of sweet smoke was left behind as the canoe swiftly passed into the mist on the other side and was gone. [11]
- Not in all the West and North were there a half-dozen people who could take a canoe to Bindon, and they were not here. [11]
- It drifted towards the shore, and Maurice Joval went out in a canoe under a galling fire and brought it up to Frontenac. [11]
- I started up the Illinois shore in the canoe just after dark. [5]
- Jim cleaned up the canoe, and I got my paddle ready. [5]
- More than once the canoe half jammed between the rocks, and the stern lifted up by the force of the wild current, but again the paddle made swift play, and again the cockle-shell swung clear. [11]
- Our guides shot the canoe deftly between two of these, the prow grounded in the yellow mud, and we landed on Spanish territory. [9]
- I jumped into the canoe and run back to the stern, and grabbed the paddle and set her back a stroke. [5]
- We baled out the canoe and ferried over some food and blankets for them, but we slept one more night in the inn before making another venture on our journey. [5]
- The canoe and tender went up the stream a distance, and began to work down from the farthest point indicated in the chart. [11]
- The canoe might strike against the piers of the bridge at Carillon and overturn, or it might be carried to the second cataract below the town. [11]
- The two refugees stole near, and in the very first canoe found three muskets, and there were also bags filled with food. [11]
- The white canoe still wandered over the lake, alone, ghostly, always avoiding the near approach of the boats which seemed to be coming in its direction. [6]
- A canoe was softly and hastily pushed out from its hidden shelter under the overhanging bank, and was noiselessly paddled out to midstream, dropping down the current meanwhile. [11]
- Farrar used to smile when I spoke of this, and I never could induce him to go out with us in the canoe, which we did frequently,--in fact, every day I was at Asquith, except of course Sundays. [9]
- Suddenly, upon the silver path upon the lake there shot a silent canoe, with a figure as silently paddling towards him. [11]
- But when he sees the canoe he didn't like the look of her--said she was big enough for one, but didn't look pretty safe for two. [5]
- So when he sees me getting the canoe ready, he says: "Well, then, if you re bound to go, I'll tell you the way to do when you get to the village. [5]
- I wheeled, to see the Indian in his canoe making for the shore. [11]
- As Iberville, with Sainte-Helene and Perrot, sat watching the canoes that followed, with voyageurs erect in bow and stern, a voice in the next canoe, with a half-chanting modulation, began a song of the wild-life. [11]
- I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. [5]
- The most poetical reputation of the North American Indian floats in a canoe made of it; his picture-writing was inscribed on it. [4]
- It was my purpose, if not discovered, to stay where I was two days, and then to make for the point below the Falls of Montmorenci where I hoped to find a canoe of Voban's placing. [11]
- A rifle-shot rang out, and a bullet "pinged" over the water and splintered the side of the canoe where Dingley sat. [11]
- They hastily pushed out a canoe, got in, and were miles away before their escape was discovered. [11]
- Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimau seal-hunter, for the Kamchatcan in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter? [6]
- She was not only forbidden, by ancient law, and under penalty of death, to eat with her husband or enter a canoe, but was debarred, under the same penalty, from eating bananas, pine-apples, oranges and other choice fruits at any time or in any place. [5]
- The canoe sped on, but presently it swung round and lay athwart the current, dipping and rolling. [11]
- But we held on to the canoe, and although we were washed down nearly to the Carson, we managed to push the boat ashore and make a safe landing. [5]
- In the canoe on the river, in an almost speechless apathy, he heard Dupont's voice giving him instructions. [11]
- But far away, on the other side of the lake, a birchbark canoe was to be seen, in which sat a young man, who paddled it skillfully and swiftly. [6]
- The keen eyes on the bank watched the canoe till it was lost in the half-gloom below the first rapids, and then they went slowly back to Tom Sanger's house. [11]
- In the centre of the canoe was what seemed a body under a pall, at its head and feet small censers. [11]
- We had several of his chromos; one was his "Miraculous Draught of Fishes," where he puts in a miracle of his own--puts three men into a canoe which wouldn't have held a dog without upsetting. [5]
- Sometimes I've sort of hinted that his canoe was carrying a lot of sail; but my! [11]
- We was out of coffee, so Jim said I better go along with them in the canoe and get some. [5]
- In the midst of a heavy snow-storm we embarked in a canoe, taking our saddles aboard and towing our horses after us by their halters. [5]
- His canoe was not far behind when the other ran on the rocks. [11]
- I slept the night through, and got up before it was light, and had my breakfast, and put on my store clothes, and tied up some others and one thing or another in a bundle, and took the canoe and cleared for shore. [5]
- So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows. [5]
- Then get up my canoe to-morrow night, and fetch my raft over from the island. [5]
- Sometimes on a moonlight night, when a party of the young ladies were out upon the lake, they would see the white canoe gliding ghost-like in the distance. [6]
- Well, you answer me dis: Didn't you tote out de line in de canoe fer to make fas' to de tow-head? [5]
- It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other. [5]
- I was much loath to cut our good canoe adrift, but she stopped the shallop's way, and she was left behind. [11]
- With an exulting laugh and an obscene oath, Dupont pushed out the canoe, and they got away into the moonlight. [11]
- Coming to the lake, they saw the canoe with ten paddles, and immediately they embarked. [5]
- I do not know why I did not go alone; but the Indian was near me, his canoe was at his hand, and I did the thing almost mechanically. [11]
- Well, well, well, it's easier to get a birch-bark canoe off the shallows than a big ship off the rocks. [6]
- The favorite boat is a canoe with a small sail stepped forward, which is steered without centre-board or rudder, merely by a change of position in the boat of the man who holds the sheet. [4]
- I got everything into the canoe as quick as I could, and then went creeping through the woods to see what I could find out. [5]
- Watchful, but not interfering, the master of the troopers saw him set adrift in a canoe without a paddle, while he was pelted with mud from the shore. [11]
- I asked an Indian on the bank to take his canoe and paddle me over to the island. [11]
- As he sat in the shade of the trees, he had seen the plunge of the canoe into the chasm, and had held his breath in wonder and admiration. [11]
- I went off in the canoe to ask about it. [5]
- Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go. [5]
- At Canoe Meadow, in the Berkshire Mountains, I have found Indian arrowheads. [6]
- More than one horse and canoe and cow and ox, and acre of land, in the days when land was cheap, had come to him across the bar-counter. [11]
- A canoe was hollowed out by a dozen men in a few hours, the tender was got ready, the men and divers told off, and Gering took command of the searching-party, while Phips remained on the ship. [11]
- Lygon, weapon in hand, and bleeding freely, waited for him to rise and make for the canoe again. [11]
- A slight wind had risen, and, as he turned the boat in to face the Forks again, it helped to carry the canoe to the landing-place. [11]
- Yet, since they had left the Ottawa River, they had seen no human being, save in that strange canoe on Lake of the Winds. [11]
- I knew he had in mind that abominable twaddle about the canoe excursions. [9]
- It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn't left a track. [5]
- As the canoe glided into the smooth surface behind the breakwater, she broke the silence. [9]
- Accompanied by only four men he crossed by land to Werowocomoco, passed the Pamaunkee (York) River in a canoe, and sent for Powhatan, who was thirty miles off. [4]
- The canoe quivered for an instant at the last cataract, then responding to Memory and Will, sped through the hidden chasm, tossed by spray and water, and swept into the swift current of smooth water below. [11]
- Then there suddenly emerged from the haze on their left, ahead of them, a long canoe with tall figures in bow and stern, using paddles. [11]
- And before the early sun had set we were gliding down the Wabash in a canoe, past places forever dedicated to our agonies, towards Kentucky and Polly Ann. [9]
- Looky here, didn't de line pull loose en de raf' go a-hummin' down de river, en leave you en de canoe behine in de fog? [5]
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