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Example sentences for "canoeing"

Lexicographically close words:
cannula; canny; canoa; canoas; canoe; canoeist; canoeists; canoeman; canoemen; canoes
  1. Canoeing will seem kind of tame after flying, I guess," remarked Dot Crowley, as the young people walked over to the lake.

  2. He tried almost immediately to make her promise to play tennis with him, to go canoeing and swimming.

  3. They can still practice canoeing under the rules.

  4. I shouldn't wonder if Hessie and Lily were intending to try for the honor of representing Central High in the girls' canoeing contest next month.

  5. Fellows, I don't believe there is any fun in the world equal to canoeing in a real canoe.

  6. Dick, don't you think this canoeing is going to prove too dangerous a sport for you boys?

  7. I am almost beginning to think," announced Danny Grin, "that I'd rather go on canoeing than go home for my dinner.

  8. The greater part of his boyhood had been spent in canoeing and hunting expeditions with his father, from whom he inherited the French tongue and manners which showed so much more powerfully than the Scotch element in his composition.

  9. Illustration: In Canoeing Against the Current in Swift Steams a Pole is Used in Place of the Paddle (Photographs by A.

  10. I have placed canoeing and swimming in the same chapter because the first word in canoeing is never go until you can swim.

  11. There are three ramps: the outermost is fit only for unshod feet; the central is better for those who can squeeze through the rocky crevices, and the furthest is tolerably easy; but it can be reached only by canoeing across the stream.

  12. FN#32] Above it the Nzadi widens, and canoeing is practicable with portages at the two Sangallas.

  13. Mavunda, that ten days of canoeing would take him beyond all the rapids to a large sandy islet which makes two channels, one to the north-west, the other to the north-east.

  14. Excursions to the woods, canoeing on the creek, with daily swims in the cool waters, served to make the time pass quickly.

  15. Canoeing was a pleasure now, as the weather was cooler, and a fine breeze from the south tempered the heat, and fairly pushed the canoes to the northward with its power.

  16. Nobody ever went canoeing that didn't get upset, and you'll get yours sooner or later.

  17. When there is canoeing it is not uncommon for people to get drowned.

  18. At flood-time, when the people are all canoeing on the flood, he rides along in the women's canoe, and not with the men.

  19. Juan and his friend Pedro were canoeing on the river toward the town Baliwag.

  20. This canoeing touches your gifts rather than mine, boy, though I will handle a paddle with the best Mingo that ever struck a salmon.

  21. I call all hands to witness," said he, as those who had landed moved away, "that I do not look on this affair as anything more than canoeing in the woods.

  22. Therefore "canoeing and carrying" is the method of transportation.

  23. For the first time there was a breeze, so the Skipper went out fishing, and John to practise canoeing in a wind, which is an art requiring considerable dexterity in these Canadian canoes.

  24. When the ice went out of the Don and Humber Rivers, the boys began to practice canoeing assiduously.

  25. By herculean efforts Annie and I have got over this week without serious scandal; and at the last moment you endeavour to wreck our plans by canoeing down the open river by yourself before the eyes of the whole University.

  26. But I must fulfil my social duties here; no canoeing on the Isis at Saratoga.

  27. And after roaming the woods and canoeing with M.

  28. The splendid canoeing and the races we run, and I may be big enough next summer to go to Lachine.

  29. A few parties were out canoeing or rowing on the river.

  30. Genevieve at the urgent request of the chief citizens, but it being a holiday they were away, some canoeing down the river or fishing, and of the few to be found most of them were panic stricken.

  31. She was gay and bright, joining the pleasure parties and dancing, ready for canoeing or rowing about on the old mill-pond in the races.

  32. And I never have any one to take me canoeing any more.

  33. Now, Edith, do tell Jack instead of playing tennis and canoeing all day he ought to help.

  34. I hear decidedly queer tales of you; canoeing every day that business does not prevent, and whole evenings spent at the dark end of a veranda.

  35. Six weeks in the Bodleian Library, in spite of canoeing every afternoon, sufficed to go through a collection of contemporary pamphlets about the Guises.

  36. On Monday afternoon we were canoeing on the Cherwell, with no other thought than the very pleasant one of doing the same thing on the morrow.

  37. How fortunate I am--that is, if you will graciously permit me to go canoeing with you often while you are here.

  38. Rowing and canoeing on the Pawtuxet were mysteries of outdoor craft into which he initiated her as soon as her little hands could pull an oar or swing a paddle.

  39. Don't you know that canoeing in Penetang should be poetic?

  40. Coming over made me dream of canoeing with you in the long evenings over this very bay.

  41. One of the girls of Keewaydin had been out canoeing on the sly with some boy from Camp Alamont--a thing forbidden in the Keewaydin code--and was being brought back in this surreptitious manner.

  42. I have a friend over at Camp Altamont that I've known for years and if I choose to go canoeing with him on such a gorgeous night instead of going to bed at nine o'clock like a baby it's nobody's business.

  43. I'd rather go canoeing up the river, as we had first planned.

  44. Just above this rapid the river opened into long, narrow lakes, and the canoeing was superb.

  45. We had been somewhat delayed by wind squalls that made canoeing dangerous, and before we made camp rain began to fall.

  46. About noon, when Hubbard had gone ahead with a pack, George and I sighted two small black ducks while we were canoeing across a pond.

  47. While waiting for my meal to cook, I read a letter that a friend had given me in New York, "to be opened after one week's canoeing in Labrador.

  48. Now that the canoeing party had arrived, there were no extra horses for them to ride.

  49. The second day of the canoeing there was no fear felt by any one, as the Indians had proved to be adequate for any emergency, and the canoes were splendidly constructed craft.

  50. So Mr. Kenmore and his friend, Mr. Neil, spent a pleasant day with the scouts, and at night the subject of canoeing was again debated.

  51. Of course 'twas mighty nice of Tom and Bob to ask us to spend the summer in Benton with them; but I don't know as canoeing and fishing and that sort of thing will do for us.

  52. He did not jump up and down, because he had not been waiting for the canoeing party.

  53. Then I got desperate, and used up Politics and Canoeing and the California Fair, and all the rest.

  54. Hot housekeeping all August and half September, with every single girl I know well up here, canoeing and swimming and folk-dancing and all sorts of splendid things!


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    Other words:
    boating; canoeing; cruising; navigation; rowing; sailing; seafaring; steaming; yachting