Use canoes in a sentence
Sentences ending with canoes
- Because Radisson was a Frenchman, he might be able to impose upon the watch guarding the canoes. [11]
More example sentences with the word canoes in them
- They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wisconsin. [5]
- Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
- Early, too early, the sun fell down behind the serrated forest-edge of the western hill, a ball of orange fire.... One evening Delphin and Herve, followed by two other canoes, paddled up to the landing. [9]
- It was plain the man had come a long distance-- from the mountains in the east or south, no doubt, where horses were few, and dogs, canoes, and oxen the means of transportation. [11]
- He was watching the lights of a ship that slowly made its way down the river among the canoes, and his eyes never left it till it had passed beyond the island of Orleans and was lost in the night. [11]
- Accidents had befallen the canoes which carried the food, and the country through which they passed was almost devoid of game. [11]
- As they paddled slowly along this lake, keeping time to their songs with the paddles, there suddenly grew out of the distance a great flotilla of canoes with tall prows, and behind them a range of islands which they had not before seen. [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]
- He has made rafts or canoes for fishing or crossing over to neighbouring fertile islands. [1]
- There were long, quiet stretches, hemmed in by alders, where the canoes, dodging the fallen trees, glided through the still water... No such silent, exhilarating motion Janet had ever known. [9]
- They moved in procession down the surface of the frozen river, on foot, and dragging their canoes after them on sledges. [5]
- They crossed the lake in their canoes, at a point about five miles from the Fort, and, so far as they could tell, without being seen. [11]
- De Troyes and Iberville, thinking that a truce and parley were meant, returned the salute with their swords, and presently the canoes of both parties made over to the shore. [11]
- Iberville determined to go to Fort Rupert, and with a few followers, embarking in canoes, assembled before it two nights after. [11]
- One afternoon, when Gering was away with the canoes on the long search, the crisis came. [11]
- The canoes were filled with men--Indians, it would seem, by the tall feathers lifting from their heads. [11]
- At noon we crossed, piecemeal, a deep lake in the canoes, and marching awhile came to a timber-covered rise which our French prisoners named as the Warriors' Island. [9]
- He drew in carefully to the right of the rock known as L'Echiquelez, up through a passage scarce wide enough for canoes, and to Roque Platte, the south-eastern projection of the island. [11]
- The long bark canoes, with lofty prows, stained with powerful dyes, slid along this path swiftly, the paddles noiselessly cleaving the water with the precision of a pendulum. [11]
- Presently all the canoes were got to land, and without any hostile sign the Indians filed out on the centre of the plateau, where were pitched a number of tents. [11]
- At length the canoes were finished and we crossed the river, swimming over the few miserable skeletons of the French ponies we had brought along. [9]
- In their birch canoes they have run cloud-high, On the crest of a nor'land storm; They have soaked the sea, and have braved the sky, And laughed at the Conqueror Worm. [11]
- As the first canoe rounded the point it came full upon half a hundred canoes blocking the river, filled by Indians with bended bows. [11]
- The place to buy canoes is off of rafts laying up at shore. [5]
- Smith obtained fifteen bushels of it, and on his homeward way he met two canoes with Indians, whom he accompanied to their villages on the south side of the river, and got from them fifteen bushels more. [4]
- When the canoes bearing Oshondonto and his voyageurs shot the rapids to the song of the river, "En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule! [11]
- A quarter of a mile below there was smoother water, and soon the canoes were ashore, and Perrot, Sainte-Helene, and others were running to the rescue. [11]
- Suddenly there was a commotion in the canoes that still remained near the Wilderness. [11]
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