185 Verbs to Use for the Word canoe

He leaped into it, leaving the natives on the shore, and paddled the canoe swiftly down the creek, to the spot where Edith stood waiting to receive him, trembling with agitation and joy.

" He brought his own canoe to Mary and said, "The canoe is yours to use as long as you wish.

When the wind was favorable, our mode of hunting was to leave camp before daylight, and paddle in our baidarka up to the head of one of these long bays, and, leaving our canoe here, trudge over the snow to some commanding elevation, where we constantly used the glasses upon the surrounding hillsides, hoping to see bear.

The rowers rowed swiftly and sent the canoe shooting up the river toward the wild country.

Sometimes they came in sight of the river; and again they saw the little canoe, either standing motionless on the smooth surface of the water where the stream was wide and unbroken, or else passing, under the skilful guidance of Coubitant, between the rocks that occasionally disturbed its course, and formed foaming rapids, down which the little bark darted with fearful velocity.

Many of those who were not of the nutting party went to Edentown, some took canoes and went paddling, others "puttered" around the school grounds, enjoying the beautiful autumn weather and the luxury of a holiday.

They built the canoes, made the nets, and did the fishing.

Among other things, they would carry my canoe till we came to the big river, rapid with bad water.

I took hold of the ears of the moose, while Joe pushed his canoe down stream toward a favorable shore, and so we made out, though with some difficulty, its long nose frequently sticking in the bottom, to drag it into still shallower water.

His face got dark with effort and his hands bled, but in a few minutes he ran the canoe aground.

After that he pulled his canoe higher up on the sand, and began to prepare camp for the night.

" Pretty soon he came alongside the landing and turned his canoe over to let the water out, and then came up to the pavilion.

I shall find my own canoe and crew.

" Lister got up presently and launched the canoe.

We had designed to go on at evening up the Caucomgomoc, whose mouth was a mile or two distant, to the lake of the same name, about ten miles off; but some Indians of Joe's acquaintance, who were making canoes on the Caucomgomoc, came over from that side, and gave so poor an account of the moose-hunting, so many had been killed there lately, that my companions concluded not to go there.

But they seized a native canoe which bore sufficient evidence that the men had been murdered.

First of all, she dragged the canoe into the woods, then rapidly undressed and drew on the mermaid's scaly suit, which fitted her to the throat as beautifully as her own skin.

We hid our canoes, and struck across the country, and travelled about explorin' for six weeks, and when we got back to our shantyin' ground, we were tuckered out you may believe.

How they got a cat up there I do not know, for they are as shy as my aunt about entering a canoe.

Agony asked wonderingly as they drew their canoe up on the dock and went up the hill path.

They then abandoned the canoe, after having concealed it under some low bushes, and entered the grove in a stooping and watchful posture.

" We met several canoes of Menomonies.

But he was not a philosopher, and dipping the paddle, he drove the canoe across the tranquil lake.

In passing Malicolo canoes put off for the ship, but the wind being favourable, Cook would not delay, and gave Forster the opportunity to remark that the main object of the voyage, i.e. the obtaining a knowledge of the natural history of the islands, was made subservient to the production of a new track on the chart of the Southern Hemisphere.

Cook said he was going ashore to try to gain possession of some of the principal chiefs in order to keep them prisoners till the boat was returned, and that he had already sent out boats to prevent any one leaving the bay, with the intention of destroying their canoes if he could not recover the cutter by more peaceable means.

185 Verbs to Use for the Word  canoe