About half-past ten a servant from Le Bateau brought her a note from Ann Eliza, who wrote as follows.
That night he dreamed of Ann Eliza, and how light she was in his arms, and how patient through it all, and that the magnificent rooms at Le Bateau were all frescoed with diamonds and the floors inlaid with gold.
The bateau was again almost half filled with water, and the ferrymen were obliged to empty it before returning.
The current was quite strong, and so deep, that the poles, by which the bateau was impelled, were sometimes too short for use.
In the cook's bateau Connie and Steve worked like Trojans to serve the men with hot coffee and handouts that were kept on tap every minute of the day and night.
Connie stood beside the big bateau with the cook and John Grey and watched Camp Two's drive rush past--a floating floor of logs that spanned the river from bank to bank.
Next morning water was flowing on top of the ice on Dogfish, and the big bateau was man-hauled to the bank and loaded with supplies and a portable stove.
So busy were all hands watching the logs that nobody noticed the manacled Slue Foot crawl stealthily from the bateau and slip to the river's brink.
Anywhere west from Montreal the unit of measurement for all freight was a barrel of rum, the transport charge for which was over three dollars as far as Kingston, where it was trans-shipped from the bateau to a schooner.
Arriving at length upon or near the territory to be explored, we haul our bateau safely on shore, and turn it bottom upward.
Hemlock Island, and away the Blaze Belt bateau rows with its merry-making crew.
Jackson, who had an opportunity to witness their skill: "Those who have never been on such a journey would be surprised at the dexterity of the Penobscot boatmen as they drive their frail bateau through the rapids and among dangerous rocks.
Under the impulses of this peculiar appetite, they sometimes tear even our bateau to pieces for the tar with which it is besmeared.
And now, leaving thebateau to follow, the party started once more on their journey into the wilderness.
A bateau was purchased, together with more traps and supplies, and after Ray had written Chip his plan, the party started for Martin's camp.
He could see St. Pierre clearly, for thebateau had worked its way nearer.
The crew of the bateau had joined in the evening song of the rivermen on the raft, and over the ridges and hollows of the forest tops, red and green and gold in the last warm glory of the sun, echoed that chanting voice of men.
She disappeared from the bateau that day with a rifle.
Bateese, with his sleeves up, was scrubbing the deck of the bateau when David came over the plank.
Now it would still travel north, but the water of the Yellow-knife flowed south into Great Slave Lake, and the bateau must be towed.
A dozen steps carried him round a projecting thumb of brush, and he could see the open shore where the bateau was tied.
He held out his hand as he had held it out once before in the bateau cabin, and his big voice boomed out a greeting.
On the fifth, the bateau crossed the narrow western neck of Lake Athabasca, slipping past Chipewyan in the night, and on the sixth it entered the Slave River.
He was disappointed that the bateau had not tied up with the raft.
The bateau was beginning to swing out into the stream when he leaped aboard.
He spoke of this to the bateau man, who shrugged his shoulders and grinned.
It was eight o'clock when one of the bateau men appeared at the door and asked if he was ready.
That night the rejoicing of the bateau men ashore was that of men who had come out from under a strain and were throwing off its tension for the first time in many days.
Only the lapping of water under the bateau broke the strange stillness of the evening.
In it was Mrs. Rachel Parsons, and with her was the negro from the warehouse who had been swept down the river on the log when Mr. Jimson's bateau made its landing at the island.
The six members of the crew, including the boss and Curly Smith, leaped overboard as the bateau sank.
Bet it's the old bateau from the cotton warehouse across there," said another of the men.
Had you in mind, senor, to take a bateau or a flat?
Wade's hand as the bateau swung broadside to the sorting-gap platform.
We roofless go, with the cook's bateau to follow our hungry crew-- A billion of spruce and hell turned loose when the Allegash drive goes through.
The current was very swift, and once in a while the bateau bumped upon a concealed rock, or bar of sand.
The bateau approached the point not more than a rod from the waiting arms of the sympathizing grayback.
Jumping into the bateau again, he waited till he was satisfied no carriage or body of troops was in the vicinity; and then plying the paddle with the utmost vigor, he passed the ford.
When he looked up again, his bateau had passed round a bend, and he was no longer exposed to the fire of the enemy.
The bateau passed them both, and Tom began to breathe easier.
I tell you I can't halt," replied Tom, using his paddle vigorously, as though he was trying to urge the bateau to the shore.
For a moment he pulled so hard that it was doubtful whether the bateau would be hauled ashore, or Secesh drawn into the deep water.
He paddled the bateau with all his vigor, until he had obtained the desired position.
Instead of a single bateau there were some half dozen, drifting light down the river, with a score of coureurs de bois and voyageurs under the command of a bronzed lieutenant, Du Peron, a sergeant, and a corporal.
In the other channel they could see a bateaujust disappearing behind a clump of trees.
The bateau which supplemented the birch bark canoe was a large, flat-bottomed skiff, sharp at both ends, about forty feet long and six to eight feet wide in the middle, and capable of carrying about five tons.
At the mouth of the river a Pottawattomie chief crept up behind the column and signalled to the Indian in the bateau to stop rowing.
The bateau was put into service, and Chandonnais was instructed to carry all the stores from the trading station to the esplanade, where two of the soldiers kept guard.
The bateau was used for carrying freight between the Fort, the Agency House, and Mackenzie's.
Canoes and a bateau from Milwaukee, in charge of Canadian engages.
The bateau lay at its moorings and they got into it with as little noise as possible.
The square sail at times aided the great bateau when the wind came upstream, but no sail could serve for long on so tortuous a water.
At last the great bateau lay ready, launched from the docks and moored alongside the wharf.
He did not even notice a long bateau which left the wharf just before his own and preceded him down the river, now loafing along aimlessly, sometimes ahead, sometimes behind that of the Governor and his party.
The two young men gripped hands as the great bateau swung inshore at the Point of Rocks on the Kentucky side of the Ohio.
Lawry hauled in the rowboat, ready to embark; but, before he did so, he made one more search in the bateau for the pocketbook.
A landing was effected under the lee of the land, and the cargo of the bateau removed to the shore.
The bateau grounded in the shallow water, and her grating upon the gravel roused Ethan from his slumber.
Fanny steered the bateau in silence, till she reached the shore of the island, which was about two miles from the point where the party had embarked.
Ethan and Rattleshag pushed off, and when the bateau began to move down the river, Wahena shouted to the Indians, and pointed down the river, indicating that they were to follow, as they had done before.
At sundown the bateau passed into the Minnesota, and at dark the party landed at Mankato, only three miles below the mouth of the Blue Earth, on which the last part of the voyage had been made.
The bateau was to be rolled up the acclivity about thirty feet, and turned bottom upward.
The bateau was approaching a clump of trees which grew on the bank of the river, when the crack of a rifle was heard, and a bullet whizzed over the water.
In a short time the bateau arrived at the outlet of the lake, and on the bank of the river the exiles discovered their Indian escort, which had been waiting since the middle of the forenoon for them.
The bateau was sixteen feet long and five feet wide, and the most difficult part of the work was getting it out of the water, and moving it up the hill.
The next morning the bateau was lowered from its position, rolled down to the lake, and launched.
As the bateau proceeded, Fanny became more skilful in its management.
The exiles, accompanied by their new-found friend, were to descend the river in the bateau to Mankato.
Fanny, assisted by Ethan, hoisted the sail, and the bateau darted out of the little cove where she had been moored.
They stopped on the bank of the river, where the bateau lay.
It was unjarred by the pitching of the fiercer rapids which the bateau presently encountered.
The rope, carelessly fastened by some impatient boy, had slipped its hold; and the bateau had been swept smoothly out into the hurrying current.
Then she stepped into the water, waded to the edge of the oldbateau and climbed aboard.
As the bateau swung in an occasional oily eddy she laughed gaily at the motion, and felt as proud as if she were doing it herself.
Observing that the bateau was afloat, Mandy Ann was delighted.
There was keen rivalry among the children as to both location and furnishing of these admired creations; and to Mandy Ann's daring imagination it had appeared that a "Chaney House" in the old bateau would be something surpassing dreams.
So quiet she was over it that every now and then a yellow-bird or a fly-catcher would alight upon the edge of the bateau to bounce away again with a startled and indignant twitter.
At last there sounded under the keel a strange gurgle, and the bateau gave a swinging lurch which sent half the treasures of the "Chaney House" clattering upon the bottom or into Mandy Ann's lap.
Half a mile below, the river rounded a woody point, and the drifting bateau was hidden from the sight of any one who might have hurried to recover it.
Meanwhile the bateau had swept down swiftly, and passed them at a distance of not more than a hundred yards.
As her weight reached the bow, putting it deeper into the grip of the current, the bateau slowly swung around till it headed the other way.
When the bateau plunged into the first of these, Mandy Ann's wailing and sobbing stopped abruptly.
Fallon and Stromberg, past masters both of the drive made ready while the other stood by to cast off the light line and allow the bateau to swing free on the main cable.
The bateau men, forty of them, lifted the heavy boat bodily, and working it out to the very forefront of the jam, lowered it into the water, while other men made the heavy cable fast to the trunk of a tree.
Over the side of the bateau tumbled Fallon and Stromberg, sprawling on the bottom at the feet of the boss, while the man in the bow cast off the light line.
His first thought was of the bateau, but a shoreward glance revealed only the swiftly gliding trunks of the forest wall with the bateau and the gesticulating crowd but a blur in the distance.
On Blood River the logs floated steadily millward, the bateau followed the drive, and the men of the logs passed noisily out of the North.
He was almost opposite the bateau now, and Stromberg, hastily coiling the light line, leaped into the bow.
The men in the bateau looked, and there, almost in the middle of the stream, was the greener leaping from log to log of the wildly pitching jam.
The strong, new line was singing taut to the pull of the heavy bateau which was being gradually crowded shoreward by the sweep of the down-rushing logs.
The bateau men were just gaining the shore and the attention of the others was engaged elsewhere, so that none noticed the accident, and, with a grin of relief, Bill clambered down to recover his peavey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bateau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
