So strong was the feeling against the treacherous voyageur that if he had been in Pembina when the Periers arrived, he would scarcely have escaped with his life.
The other one is a bois brule voyageur called Murray.
Following the usualvoyageur custom, the boats got off at once, without delaying for breakfast.
The spring after the killing of Governor Semple, the tall voyageurhad come down the Assiniboine from the west with a brigade transporting furs to York Factory, and had remained in Hudson Bay service.
All alone, the plucky voyageur faced the perils and hardships of the long wilderness journey.
After supper the tanner asked Walter to go with him to talk to the voyageur in charge of the entire brigade.
You will make a good voyageur when you have gone two or three voyages," said the young Canadian.
He was willing to do farming, tinkering, repair work, even to act as a voyageur for the Company.
How long have you been a voyageur for the Company?
The newcomer pushed back his hood, and the boy found himself gazing into the face of the half-breed voyageur Murray.
Louis turned back to reply, and Walter followed him to listen to the exchange of news between the newly arrived voyageur and these two employees of the post.
Then the old man told them that he was the owner of the hut, by name Joe Picquet, an old voyageur of the wilderness.
While the old voyageur unharnessed his ravenous dogs and fed them, the boys looked about them.
A quick-witted voyageurcaused the slings to be stripped from the men's packs and sent out the line toward Belanger, but just as he was about to catch it the line broke and the slings were carried away.
As an incitement to exertion, Franklin offered to the voyageur who should take a line across the sum of three hundred livres (sixty dollars), a large amount for any of these men.
For instance, in some parts of the Hudson's Bay territory, the voyageur is allowed eight pounds of buffalo-meat per diem!
The voyageur smiles as he listens To the sound that grows apace; Well he knows the vesper ringing Of the bells of St. Boniface.
It had surprised the Indian widow, who betrothed her own daughter to the commandant of the fort, that her husband's niece would have nobody but that big voyageur Charle' Charette.
Madame knew a voyageur was allowed to carry scarce twenty pounds of baggage in the boats.
He promised to break the head of every voyageur in the yard with a board if another quarrel occurred.
Humbled as he was by her tongue, the young voyageur felt delighted at giving his wife so trivial a rival.
In the wilderness the will of a brigade commander was law; but when the voyageur was out of the Fur Company's yard in Mackinac his own will was law.
There is an aristocracy in the voyageur service which is quite amusing.
For the first time the boat of a Canadian voyageur glided down its waters.
But the governor, although he had ceased to scold, became very glum and distant, and the voyageur began to think that perhaps it would go badly with him and he would have to suffer for his doings.
Our guide, the voyageur Baptiste Champagne, took us to the nearest point of Sun River, hoping to get in before dark, but we did not reach camp till some time after.
It was a beautiful ride all the way, and I had a most interesting companion in Pierre Boutineau, the great guide and voyageur of Minnesota.
They had not been long there when the Canadians were cheered by the sight of a companion in misfortune, Dubreull, the poor voyageur who had left Mr. Crooks in March, being too much exhausted to keep on with him.
The traditional picture of the fur-trade voyageur as a happy, carefree adventurer was hardly a true one, at least in the 19th century.
The voyageur was particular about his paddle; no man in his right mind would use a blade wider than between 4½ and 5 inches, for anything wider would exhaust him in a short distance.
No self-respecting voyageur would carry less, as it would be disgraceful to be so weak.
In the governor's or chief factor's brigade each voyageurwore a feather in his cap, and if the wind permitted it a British ensign was hoisted on each light canoe.
The bustle of voyageur and trader and Indian is no more; and the reflection made by Irving comes back, "The lords of the lakes and forests have passed away.
Anne" the voyageur made his vow of devotion, asked for protection on his voyage, and left such gift as he could to the patron saint.
The brigandage had scarcely any limit; combats of clerk with clerk, trapper with trapper, voyageur with voyageur, were common.
A collection of the voyageur songs made by him is in existence, but they are somewhat gross.
This failed, and the unfortunate voyageur attempting to cross in it was drowned.
I had also engaged a Canadian voyageur named Gode, as a sort of attendant or compagnon.
How unlike the denizen of the desert, the voyageur of the prairie sea!
And the ever-thirsty voyageur quaffed off the nectar of El Paso, like so much fresh milk.
For days I lay tossing and fretting, despite the consolatory influence of the champagne, and the rude but kindly attentions of my voyageur valet.
In imagination I pierce the distance and see the red panting throat of that long-necked voyageur as he turns to shout back raucous encouragement to his long, sky-clinging V.
Naught was familiar but the heavens, from under whose roof the voyageur never passes; but with their countenance, and the acquaintance we had with river and wood, we trusted to fare well under any circumstances.
Thus did one voyageur waking dream, while his companion slumbered on the bank.
So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voyageur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
