The piroguewas likewise quickly made; the canoe was paddled, the pirogue pushed by oars or setting-poles.
The canoe easily glided up stream; the pirogue ran easily with the current but could not ascend the stream without the expenditure of much labor.
In fact, a pirogue soon after approaching the Saint-Jean Baptiste, the men who were in it, seeing what they took to be two of their own people trafficking with the strangers, drew nearer.
Whilst coasting along this shore no sign of habitation had been perceived--not a pirogue left the shore.
A well-directed shot cut this double pirogue in two.
Famine and fatigue had reduced their number to four men, all of them half dead, when the pirogue capsized.
He ordered two negro sailors to be placed on board the pirogue he had seized, had their heads powdered, and disguised them so cleverly that the natives were likely to be deceived.
He accordingly sent a detachment on shore at once with his carpenters, ordering them to destroy every pirogue which was hauled up on the beach.
Under these circumstances, a pirogue was fired into, and it was soon apparent that a robbery had been committed by its crew.
In the centre of the same pirogue stood a young man, resting upon a spear, who gravely watched all that went on.
These Tahitans had started in a pirogue to reach Ulitea Island, and had been driven out of their course by contrary winds.
Upon an island to the left of the bay, the English saw the largest pirogue they had yet met with.
Probably the news of the massacre of the French had already reached this people, for nopirogue approached the vessels.
Just as the French were re-embarking, after leaving some presents for the natives, a pirogue landed seven natives, who showed no signs of fear.
Lova's confused replies, and the half-broiled head of a man, found by Bougainville in a pirogue in Choiseul Island, placed the existence of this barbarous practice beyond the possibility of doubt.
As but few could work at the pirogue at a time, pains were taken to find diversion for the rest to keep them in high spirits.
A pirogue furnished the ordinary means of communication with the Fort, and two or three were fastened to a sapling on the other side of the stream.
Ronald was untying a pirogue at the landing, when he looked back and saw the inspiring tableau.
He untied the pirogue for her and helped her into it, his senses reeling at the momentary touch of her hand; and when she crossed the path of gold that lay upon the water, the light shone full upon her flower-like face.
Together they climbed into the pirogue in which Captain Wells had crossed the river, and with some difficulty reached the opposite shore.
A pirogue was tied to a sapling on the river bank and the oars lay near it.
Across the river there were signs of life, and she got into a pirogue with the laudable desire to say good-bye to Mrs. Burns.
Shortly after nightfall of the same day, on one of the little inner islands, Marcel Lefort stood leaning upon his long boat paddle, awaiting orders; his pirogue was drawn up among the reeds hard by.
The pirogue slipped into another bayou at the upper end of the lagoon.
Here a few strokes of the paddle swept pirogue and paddler into a strange and lonely world.
He sank, but rose in a flash and reached out, swimming, after pirogue and paddle.
Early the following day the captain caused the pirogue to be lowered in order to reconnoitre the icebergs in the vicinity, the breadth of which did not exceed 200 yards.
I shall land in thepirogue with the doctor and the boatswain.
A few minutes later the doctor, armed as a sportsman and a savant, took his place in the pirogue along with his companions; in ten minutes they landed on a low and rocky coast.
Jack paddled the pirogue up the creek and soon found a safe ambuscade, a stagnant cove in among the dense growth, where he tied up to a gnarled root.
In a race of it, the handy cock-boat could pull away from the clumsier pirogue manned by two paddles only, for Trimble Rogers was needed to steer and be ready with the musket.
The boat passed abreast of the pirogue so artfully concealed in the pocket of a tiny cove.
And he bade us leg it for the pirogue and carry word to you.
Before he could aim at the savage, bushy figure of Blackbeard, the prow of the pirogue crashed into the side of the cock-boat, striking it well toward the stern.
The unseen spectators in the pirogue scanned also the two seamen at the oars and felt a vague pity for them.
Where the two streams joined, the pirogue turned and shot into the smaller one.
Along the edge of this pretty pond skimmed the pirogue while Trimble Rogers keenly scanned every inch of it for the imprint of a boat's keel.
The pirogue ceased to lag purposely but had to be urged in order to keep within striking distance.
And I helped to chase him through the swamp after we rammed the pirogueinto his wherry and capsized the treasure chest.
They reached the edge of the creek and then turned down to halt where the pirogue had been left.
They came to the tiny lagoon and rounded the bend beyond which the pirogue had capsized Blackbeard's cock-boat.
It traced the smaller stream from the fork where it had branched off, the stretch in which it widened like a tiny lagoon or bayou, and the point of shore just beyond which the pirogue had unexpectedly rammed Blackbeard's boat.
An old man in a pirogue was asked how the willow leaves agreed with his cattle.
She had been raised in a pirogue and could go anywhere.
A pirogue sometimes flits from the bushes and crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sad- faced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat.
The smaller forms of boats, the skiffs, and the pirogue were still in use on the Ohio.
The canoe and pirogue were succeeded by the barge, the keel, and the flat-boat.
But a half-breed and some Indians jumping into a pirogue paddled out to meet the two messengers and advised them to return to their comrades, which they did.
Our weakness gradually increased, and finally we swooned away, the pirogue all the while dashing heedlessly on with the waves.
Methought I was inspired by the grand master-spirit; my pirogue bounded along the troubled waters of the ocean as if it possessed wings.
The following day my friends prepared a smallpirogue to convey me on board the Cultivateur, where, apparently, I should be in greater security than on shore.
The red pirogue was drawn up into the middle of a small island at the mouth of Maria's River and secured in a copse.
The white piroguewas hidden in a copse and its mast was taken for an axletree.
In the summer evening Lewis and Clark in their pirogue paddled up the Platte.
A signal was agreed upon, so that when I should return to visit him, he could bring the pirogue to ferry me across; and this being arranged, we once more entered the canoe, and set out for the plantations.
He did not stay to look at it, but, lightly dipping his paddle, pressed the pirogue on in the direction of the island.
I sat with my eyes bent gloomily upon the water; and it was a sort of relict to me when the pirogue again passed in among the trunks of the cypress-trees, and their dark shadow half concealed my face from the view of my captors.
The bow of the pirogue was directed into one of the bays, and soon struck against the tree.
The latter had shot the pirogue among the tree-tops close to where we stood, and with voice and gesture now urged us to get aboard.
Then the reflection followed--if such were the case, I should have found the pirogue by the tree?
With fresh hope I turned once more towards the water, and gazed in the direction in which I expected the pirogue to come.
A few more strokes of the paddle, and the pirogue shot out into the bright sunlight.
There was no trace left where the pirogue was moored--no mark upon the tree.
The sight of the pirogue led me to conjecture that we had farther to go.
I was pleased with it, and could have applauded; but my mortified captors gave me no time to reply; for the next moment the pirogue in which I had been placed shot out through the branches, and floated on the open water of the lake.
I had made this reconnoissance while my companion was engaged in fastening hispirogue to the tree.
The cypress knees, and huge "buttocks" of the trees, stood thickly in the way, and it was necessary to observe some caution in working the pirogue through among them.
The pirogue floated in an element that more resembled ink than water.
The strongest pirogue would not resist a well-given blow.
In fact, the working of a fishing pirogue requires very well trained seamen.
One morning, when Thorn, and MacKay were yet asleep, a pirogue with twenty Indians approached the ship.
It was a service of danger to go out even at all in a pirogue on such a rough night: much more to go and seek for five drowning men three miles at sea.
I jumped at the offer, of course, and we immediately walked down to where his pirogue was moored, and started, myself at the bottom to serve as guide.
Holguin was greatly rejoiced when he heard these words, and on coming up to the pirogue he embraced the monarch, and assisted him most courteously into his brigantine, with his wife and twenty of his grandees.
In fact the man in the pirogue came to grief, as a man in a pirogue is very apt to do, and fairly somersaulted overboard into the water.
Alice and Jean went over in a pirogue to see if the water lilies, haunting a pond there, were yet beginning to bloom.
In the captured pirogue he crossed the river, and, to make his trail hard to find, sent the little craft adrift down the current.
A pirogue sometimes flits from the bushes and crosses the Red River on its way out to the Mississippi, but the sad-faced paddlers never turn their heads to look at our boat.
The piroguewas filled with the weak, and in the end of it I was curled up with my drum.
When I leave you I step into a pirogue which is tied to the river bank.
Then I'll take you some night in the pirogue when the moon shines.
She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back.
In 1882 a pirogue was taken out of the bed of the Rhone at Cordon (Ain), which had been half buried in the mud of the river.
Towards the close of last century a pirogue was taken from the ancient bed of the Clyde at Glasgow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pirogue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
