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Example sentences for "small canoe"

  • As we were standing over toward the island, we met two men in a small canoe, paddling from it to the main.

  • I took 2 men and Set out in a Small Canoe with a view to go as high up the Columbia river as the 1st forks which the Indians made Signs was but a Short distance, I set out at 2 oClock firs course was N.

  • Small Canoe & three Indians in another was out of Sight at the time our missfortune hapined, and did not join us.

  • Covered & inaxcessable) I Saw one which would make a Small Canoe.

  • She appeared in alarm, and soon after I saw her paddle away in a small canoe, leaving her lodge with a fire burning.

  • While the men were sent back to the other end of the portage after the canoes, I embarked on the lake in a small canoe found in the bushes, with Mr. Johnston, to search out the proper channel.

  • On the next morning I sent a small canoe (Clary's) to aid Johnston.

  • Late in the evening, I embarked in a small canoe, with two men, and reached the Fort at early dawn; and rousing Mr. S.

  • Thibaud found two men with a small canoe, who had been sent by the Bishop of Red River to convey him to his destination, waiting his arrival.

  • I was accompanied by one man in a small canoe; and as it was necessary that one of us should carry the canoe over the portages, and the other the property, I chose the former, being the lightest though by far the most inconvenient load.

  • We found the frame of a small canoe, with various dishes, troughs, and other utensils, which had been the living property of those who could now use them no more, and form the ordinary accompaniments of their last abodes.

  • I found a small canoe at the edge of the woods, which contained a paddle and a bow: it had been repaired this spring, and the workmanship of the bark excelled any that I had yet seen.

  • As we were nearing the eastern point, we met a small canoe, having on board Captain M'Cargo, and the crew of one of the schooners owned by the company.

  • We met, about the middle of it, a small canoe conducted by two young women.

  • After pulling with the stream six or eight miles, they discovered a small canoe, which, on their approach, retreated up the river with great speed.

  • Mr. Stewart, pulling in advance in a small canoe, with some of the natives belonging to Kuchin, was suddenly pounced upon by three or four of the enemy's prahus full of men.

  • Late in the fall, accompanied by two Indian boys in a small canoe, Mr. E.

  • Immediately on the opening of the navigation I started for Esquimaux Bay, with two Indians, in a small canoe, and without any of the usual conveniences.

  • The lake just referred to proved to be the source of the lower stream; the rivulet that flowed into it from above being so shallow as scarcely to admit of the passage of a small canoe.

  • How it came to pass that Babalatchi, fleeing for his life in a small canoe, managed to end his hazardous journey in a vessel full of a valuable commodity, is one of those secrets of the sea that baffle the most searching inquiry.

  • Whale-boat no can catch, same as small canoe.

  • Being a small canoe, it did not afford protection to their legs and feet; but in fine weather this was of no consequence, and for the morrow they cared not.

  • Next day they started in a small canoe on their return voyage to Ungava, and the day following I left for Lake Superior.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small canoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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