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Example sentences for "birch canoe"

  • Dickson, and, while with him, made a trip from Detroit by way of Mackinaw, Green Bay, Fox and Wisconsin rivers to Prairie du Chien in a birch canoe.

  • A steamer once in two months was the only mode of travel, excepting by birch canoe.

  • In the fall of 1839 he made a trip to Fort Snelling and returned to the Falls, carrying the mail in a birch canoe to Catfish bar, and then across by Indian trail to the Fort.

  • His mode of travel was by birch canoe, on horseback, on skates and on foot.

  • Leap forward swiftly, O my Birch Canoe, while I sing my war-song," and the canoe darted forward like a live thing until it reached the spot where the fiery serpents were sporting in the water.

  • At last he saw that it was a birch canoe, with paddles flashing as they rose and fell; and in it came the white-faced people from the Land of Sunrise, led by a bearded chief in a black robe, who wore a cross upon his breast.

  • Having placed all my belongings in my birch canoe, I pushed out into the lake without the dog, who tried hard to follow, and, as the canoe went farther from the shore, the homesick animal commenced to whine at his loss of companionship.

  • In this manner we sailed and paddled at a much accelerated speed, but all of the time we were in imminent danger of being capsized, it being my first experience of riding in a birch canoe carrying a sail.

  • Across the distance we made out a moving object which shortly resolved itself into a birch canoe.

  • When returning from the visit, which was a very successful one, we had to experience some of the inconveniences of travelling in such a frail bark as a birch canoe on such a stormy lake as Winnipeg.

  • Nearly ten years before, Father Marquette, inspired by apostolic zeal, had traversed this whole distance in a birch canoe.

  • The voyage was made in a birch canoe, with three boatmen to aid him in paddling it against the stream.

  • Landing with so much force would have ground the bottom out of a birch canoe, but the heavy planks of the bateau would stand far worse battering.

  • He made himself a dugout or birch canoe to cross in when the weather cleared.

  • There is the end of a boat in that hole, M'sieu, no birch canoe either.

  • It was not Jean Beaupre's boat, but a birch canoe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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