Two of the men hoisted the bidarka on their shoulders and carried it up to the fire.
The children ran down the beach in advance of her, and as the man in the bidarkadrew closer, nearly capsizing with one of his ill-directed strokes, the women followed.
He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvelous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders.
She debated a moment, while the bidarka drifted swiftly from her, then raised her voice to a quavering treble.
The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand.
That boy is all right, but he might not be strong enough to handle a bidarka in a high sea; and up here we never can tell when the wind is going to come up.
Mr. Jimmy puts on his kamelinka, and gets in the bidarka and ties the hood around his waist, and there he is, no matter how high the sea runs.
Now, a few fathoms at a time, the native edged the bidarka up toward his game, precisely as the Aleut chief had approached the whale.
He motioned that they should put the hide on the deck of the bidarka, and in time this was done, although the great weight of the green hide, a load for two strong men, sunk the bidarka so deeply that half its deck was covered.
The bidarka had disappeared from its resting-place.
With his own paddle in his left hand clinched against the rim of the bidarka hatch, the chief with his right hand slowly and deliberately raised the nogock and its slate-tipped harpoon.
He pointed to the bidarka at the edge of the lagoon.
There is every chance that he left the bidarkasomewhere in the creek.
They hurried the bidarka across the sea-wall to the open water of the bay.
If he wanted to leave here he could take the bidarka almost any night and escape, but I believe he is afraid to leave the bay lest he may be found by some of these villagers whom he has offended.
All this, of course, was more or less Greek to the boys who stood watching the thinning party, as one bidarka after another was skilfully run out through the surf and as skilfully put under way in the long swell of the sea.
None too happy, the boys now proceeded to paddle the bidarka up the creek to its old resting-place in the lagoon, after which they busied themselves rather half-heartedly about camp work, a part of which was further fleshing of the bear hides.
For instance, that hood around thebidarka is made out of this sort of thing, I believe.
When bidarka go, you take-um talk-talk paper, we give-um rifle.
Even as his bidarka shot forward with its own momentum, he drew out from the forward hatch this sacred instrument and fitted to it the short harpoon.
The bidarka is a frail, narrow framework over which is stretched walrus skin, and it is so fashioned that the crew sits, one behind the other, in circular openings with legs straight out in front.
He pulled from the bidarka a shawl, marvellous of texture and color, and flung it about his mother's shoulders.
There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.
Except when wide yaws took it off its course, a bidarka was heading in for the beach.
And it's frail looking, frail as an eggshell, yet I would stake a bidarka against a lifeboat in a surf.
The third, called a kayak, differs from the bidarka only in being longer and having two or three holes.
But the unlucky day comes; an accident occurs; and a dark-eyed woman watches and waits on the green slopes of Belkoffski for the bidarka that does not come.
My father alone was saved by the father of his slave, who gave him his bidarka when my father's own had been pierced by arrows and was sinking.
It was the 16th of July when he left Kadiak and the 3d of September when he finally reached Iliamna--having journeyed by barkentine to Pavlovsk, by bidarka from island to island and to Cook Inlet, and over the mountains on foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bidarka" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
